They possessed no stove, managing their cooking on a single gas-ring in the fireplace. ❋ Unknown (2010)
“Play up, play up,” and after the match the smell of crumpets being toasted over a gas-ring in his study ... ❋ Waugh, Evelyn (1998)
Mr. Graves repeated the mistake a few minutes later when they had boiled the kettle and were making toast on the gas-ring. ❋ Waugh, Evelyn (1998)
"Soon be warm," he said, and dashed into the kitchen to make the coffee, filling the percolator with hot water for quickness and dumping it on the gas-ring. ❋ Wingfield, R. D. (1984)
I mentioned Nurse's gas-ring and a few other things, which he promised to fetch. ❋ Carr, John Dickson (1984)
She added, however, that in any decently-run household there would be a gas-ring in the patient's bedroom. ❋ Carr, John Dickson (1984)
Anna patiently passed him some butter for his burn and lit his cheroot at the gas-ring. ❋ Gash, Jonathan (1981)
The set-up was indeed modest enough: a desk of light-coloured wood, of a mass-produced model, a green-painted metal file, a small gas-ring on the right, with a teapot and some cups. ❋ Simenon, Georges, 1903- (1977)
Luckily we had a gas-ring, as it would have been an impossibility to run up and down the sixty-nine steps to the kitchen every time we wanted more hot water. ❋ Pat Beauchamp Washington (N/A)
All the guests visited the wards, and then adjourned for tea to the top room where the housekeeper had to perform miracles with the gas-ring. ❋ Pat Beauchamp Washington (N/A)
We had scrambled eggs to-night, which I made standing on a chair, because the gas-ring is so high, and Sister holding up a very small dim oil-lamp. ❋ Anonymous (N/A)
I have often wondered where he hid the ends, and I find now that he has made a _cache_ of them in the gas-ring of the geyser. ❋ Various (N/A)
He let himself softly into the house and proceeded to make some coffee with the aid of the gas-ring. ❋ Kathlyn Rhodes (N/A)
The gleam of the caddies along the mantelpiece, the handles that protruded like stiff tails over the saucepan-shelf above the sink, struck her as looking queer and amusing in this twilight, and then made her remember that she had had no lunch and was now very hungry, so she briskly set a light to the gas-ring and put on the kettle. ❋ Rebecca West (1937)
In one corner was a table covered with American cloth on which stood a gas-ring, protected by a tin plate, and a Bunsen burner. ❋ Sayers, Dorothy L.Lord Peter 05 (1928)
A gas-ring was in the hearth, together with a few cheap cooking utensils. ❋ Sax Rohmer (1921)
Benlian was pottering about with a taper at the end of a long rod; and suddenly the overhead gas-ring burst into light. ❋ Oliver [pseud.] Onions (1917)
Feeling amazingly light-hearted, almost light-headed, Bunting lit the gas-ring to make his wife her morning cup of tea. ❋ Marie Belloc Lowndes (1907)
Bunting turned round from the gas-ring, which he was watching to see the kettle boil. ❋ Marie Belloc Lowndes (1907)
She put out the flame of the gas-ring, unheedful of the fact that the cheese would stiffen and spoil in the cold air. ❋ Marie Belloc Lowndes (1907)
