If it had been the stokehole, instead-I did try stoking, one day, just to pass the time.
"Out of the Primitive"
Robert Ames Bennet
The next moment the Chief was in full flight, ignominious flight, his face, bleached with the heat of the engine room and the stokehole, set as no emergency of broken shaft or flying gear had ever seen it.
"Love Stories"
Mary Roberts Rinehart
It was after they had gone that the Chief emerged from the forward stokehole where the trouble was.
"Love Stories"
Mary Roberts Rinehart