But they must have been air-tight to judge from the fair preservation of some of their contents.
And at last, in one of the really air-tight cases, I found a box of matches.
In one place I suddenly found myself near the model of a tin-mine, and then by the merest accident I discovered, in an air-tight case, two dynamite cartridges!
In an
air-tight enclosure, then, after a certain time, all the oxygen of the air will be replaced by the carbonic acid-- a gas fatal to life.
These are then placed in the almost
air-tight incubators to be hatched by the sun's rays after a period of another five years.
A general revolution was evidently going on in the green-room, for the dark damask curtains were seen bundling away in Phebe's arms; the
air-tight stove retiring to the cellar on Ben's shoulder; and the great bedstead going up garret in a fragmentary state, escorted by three bearers.
It can't come through the stone door, for it's
air-tight, if ever a door was.
"It keeps finely, being preserved in my
air-tight chest."
He stepped into the sober, silent,
air-tight house--one might have fancied it to have been stifled by Mutes in the Eastern manner--and the door, closing again, seemed to shut out sound and motion.
I quite long to be among them, sometimes, of the winter evenings; for it is but dull business for a lonesome elderly man, like me, to be nodding, by the hour together, with no company but his
air-tight stove.
The hurricane boomed, shaking the little place, which seemed
air-tight; and the light of the binnacle flickered all the time.
"You know how all the garden was sealed up like an
air-tight chamber," went on the doctor.
air-tight - having no weak points; "an airtight defense"; "an airtight argument"
air-tight - not allowing air or gas to pass in or out