As soon as he shewed signs of life, we wrapped him up in blankets, and placed him near the chimney of the kitchen-stove. ❋ Mary Shelley (2004)
They had only one room for kitchen, bed, sitting-room, &c.; and it is curious how little one now thinks of the bed standing in one corner, the washing-stand in another, whilst kitchen-stove, and scullery fill up a third. ❋ Cecil Hall (N/A)
But by realism, I do not mean the commonplace details of an uninteresting household, nor the hired man with mud on his cowhide boots, nor the whining farmer who sits with his feet on the kitchen-stove, but the glory that we find in nature and the grandeur that we find in man, his bravery, his honor, his self-sacrifice, his virtue. ❋ Various (N/A)
The air is full of latent fire, and the cold warms me -- after a different fashion from that of the kitchen-stove. ❋ Various (N/A)
What was the use of trying to educate a woman, who could see no farther than her own kitchen-stove? ❋ Upton Sinclair (1923)
But when night after night she heard the voices of the two as they sat about the kitchen-stove long after she had retired, she began to consider the matter seriously. ❋ Unknown (1921)
A tea-kettle on the kitchen-stove sang in a low murmur. ❋ Dorothy Canfield Fisher (1918)
Vauquier certainly did burn a letter in the kitchen-stove, and that after she had burned it she sat for a long time rocking herself in a chair, with a smile of great pleasure upon her face, and now and then moistening her lips with her tongue. ❋ Unknown (1906)
Returning home on the evening of his engagement he had bewildered Mrs. Tims by seizing her as she stood in front of the kitchen-stove, a frying-pan full of sausages in her hand, and waltzing her round the kitchen, frying-pan and all. ❋ Herbert George Jenkins (1899)
What was the heat of the kitchen-stove to her, now that Captain ❋ John Habberton (1881)
O tomb, thou art neither kitchen-stove nor sewer-pool for me! ❋ Anonymous (1879)
"Here are two nice new ones to remember us by," said Dick and Dolly, presenting fresh whistles, quite unconscious that seven old ones had been privately deposited in the kitchen-stove. ❋ Unknown (1871)
Nortek Inc., of Providence, a maker of bathroom fans, kitchen-stove hoods and other products, said on Thursday that it has voluntarily filed for protection from creditors under Chapter 11 of federal ❋ Unknown (2009)
We rolled all over the livin room an into the kitchen-stove in furniture, knocked shit over, pulled down drapes, mussed up the rug an even turned the tv set on by accident. ❋ Groom, Winston, 1944- (1986)
But it wasn't only the bathrooms that made the inn as planned by Mr. Twist and the architect seem to the twins the most perfect, the most wonderful magic little house in the world: the intelligent American spirit was in every corner, and it was full of clever, simple devices for saving labour -- so full that it almost seemed to the Annas as if it would get up quite unaided at six every morning and do itself; and they were sure that if the smallest encouragement were given to the kitchen-stove it would cook and dish up a dinner all alone. ❋ Elizabeth Von Arnim (1903)
"Or, since a Venerian can swallow anything one inch smaller than a kitchen-stove, he could have a whole analyzing station stashed away in his stomach. ❋ Smith, E. E. (1950)
The child is not in her room, and the fire is not even made in the kitchen-stove yet. " ❋ Harold Bell Wright (1908)
