The men drilling stopped what they were doing at a barked order; a moment later, the officer in charge divided them into one group for each barracks, and marched them off to the piles of dung bricks, peat bricks, and wood to stockpile fuel beside each barracks furnace.

He shivered; the sullen glow of the peat bricks on the hearth did little to warm its vast spaces, particularly with the freezing wet air coming in at the window.

I shut the window, and paused to lift several of the light peat bricks from the basket by the hearth and feed them carefully to my fledgling fire, before shedding the shirt and crawling under the covers, numb toes tingling with delight at the luxurious warmth.

Puraflo, which is designed to supplement or replace septic-tank systems, uses peat fiber rather than the soft brown peat bricks sometimes seen blazing in Irish pubs.

This car, like all other ground cars on Kamata, was steam powered and the steam was generated by the combustion of a specie of peat bricks fed to the furnace by an ingenious and unnecessarily complicated device.

The settlement was founded in connection with the construction of a plant producing peat bricks in 1958.

For example, the Finnish marshes are an important natural resource, and peat bricks meet approximately 7% of Finland' s energy requirements.