Meals were irregular and protracted, and there were midnight chafing-dish suppers and bursts of laughter at the most inappropriate hours. ❋ Unknown (2010)
On the other hand, chafing-dish suppers in the big living-room for their camping guests were a common happening, at which times Daylight allotted them their chores and saw that they were performed. ❋ Unknown (2010)
His gaze passed on from the Crouched Venus to a little tea-table with all its fragile and exquisite accessories, and to a shining copper kettle and copper chafing-dish. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Chicken a la King and Lobster Newburg were specialties of the hotel, and the chafing-dish, introduced by the hotel, became a very popular wedding gift in which the two dishes could be made. ❋ Unknown (2009)
And right there, in the kitchen, delicious things bubbled in the chafing-dish, our laughter bubbled, and my stomach was keen with a most delicious edge of appetite. ❋ Unknown (2010)
The servants had been dismissed for the day, and we returned late at night to a jolly chafing-dish supper. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Twice that morning had a disruption of the whole camp been imminent, only averted by immense concessions from one or the other of these knights of the chafing-dish. ❋ Unknown (2010)
He never saw the studio any more, nor entertained the local Bohemians with his famous chafing-dish suppers. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Daylight had thrown two rooms into one, and this was the big living-room where Dede's treasures were placed -- her books, and paintings and photographs, her piano, the Crouched Venus, the chafing-dish and all its glittering accessories. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Dozens of cookbooks devoted sections to chafing-dish recipes, and even more cookbooks were created specifically for the chafing dish. ❋ Unknown (2009)
He placed the two chairs on opposite sides of the table, turned the chisel in the brazier, set in front of the fireplace an old screen which masked the chafing-dish, then went to the corner where lay the pile of rope, and bent down as though to examine something. ❋ Unknown (2008)
The heat of the brazier was so great, that the candle on the table was melting on the side next the chafing-dish, and was drooping over. ❋ Unknown (2008)
He continued: — “Chenildieu, you who conferred on yourself the name of ‘Jenie – Dieu,’ your whole right shoulder bears a deep burn, because you one day laid your shoulder against the chafing-dish full of coals, in order to efface the three letters T.F. P., which are still visible, nevertheless; answer, is this true?” ❋ Unknown (2008)
This was an era when tableside service at a restaurant brought high prices and gave an air of class, and chafing-dish pyrotechnics brought distinction to a hostess. ❋ Unknown (2005)
In the midst of this congregation stood a chafing-dish with live coals, for the convenience of lighting their pipes, and every individual was accommodated with a spitting-box. ❋ Unknown (2004)
He seated me on a divan; and stalking off, for a moment, returned with a long pipe and a brass chafing-dish: he blew the coal for the pipe, which he motioned me to smoke, and left me there with a respectful bow. ❋ Unknown (2004)
She played tennis, gave chafing-dish parties, took a graduate seminar in the drama, went “twosing,” and joined half a dozen societies for the practise of the arts or the tense stalking of a thing called General Culture. ❋ Unknown (2004)
The Fairy ordered a gold chafing-dish to be set with a fire in it under the porch of her palace, with a box of the same metal, which was a present to her, out of which taking a perfume, and throwing it into the fire, there arose a thick cloud of smoke. ❋ Unknown (2003)
