The scaldino is a small pot of glazed earthen-ware, having an earthen bale: and with this handle passed over the arm, and the pot full of bristling charcoal, the Veneziana's defense against cold is complete. ❋ William Dean Howells (1878)
The _scaldino_ for the feet was generally sufficient, and this, replenished three times a day, was included in the rent. ❋ Various (N/A)
To avoid his grandmother's arm, Tuttu hastily scrambled under the stone seat, but his unfortunate rider thrown off his balance, fell head first against the earthen _scaldino_, which was broken, and its ashes scattered on the path in all directions. ❋ Fanny Barry (N/A)
Father Giacomo, and the entire sum for the _scaldino_ lay in small copper pieces in a crumpled scarlet pocket handkerchief. ❋ Fanny Barry (N/A)
She guessed that Tuttu was determined to replace the _scaldino_, as on several occasions he had not been able to resist a veiled hint on the subject; but she pretended perfect ignorance, and the two little boys might whisper and laugh to their heart's content -- it was quite certain she never heard anything! ❋ Fanny Barry (N/A)
The chintz curtains were drawn around the bay-window and a bright brass _scaldino_ stood in it, filled with the yellows and red-browns, the silvery pinks and mauves of chrysanthemums. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
Tutti walked in charge of Bianca, while Tuttu devoted all his attention to the _scaldino_ in its red handkerchief, and a large green cotton umbrella he had brought from home in case the day should turn out to be rainy. ❋ Fanny Barry (N/A)
Tuttu, his eyes blazing with wrath, placed the _scaldino_ by the side of the kerbstone, and darted at the boy, waving his umbrella; while ❋ Fanny Barry (N/A)
"Where's the _scaldino_, grandmother?" were Tuttu's first words, when he woke up to find himself lying on a little bed in a long room, with ❋ Fanny Barry (N/A)
The gig flew on, and Tuttu lay white and quiet, the _scaldino_ still grasped in his two little outstretched hands. ❋ Fanny Barry (N/A)
She had thrown her distaff on the ground, and was picking up the pieces of the yellow _scaldino_ to see if it could possibly be fitted together again. ❋ Fanny Barry (N/A)
The prete in question was merely a wooden frame, in the midst of which hangs a scaldino filled with burning ashes -- a most comforting ecclesiastic, I can assure you. ❋ W. G. Waters (N/A)
From his pack came a pair of earrings -- wagging, tinkling affairs of silver and coral; next some portentous pins, shining globes like prickly pears; a coral and bells for Master Niccolà, and a _scaldino_ of pierced brass for the adornment of the house. ❋ Maurice Henry Hewlett (N/A)
"You would never have allowed anyone to touch that _scaldino_, would you?" ❋ Fanny Barry (N/A)
The climate was as deplorable: either wet and cold, when the Italian _scaldino_ wasn't a patch on the German stove and ❋ Elizabeth Robins Pennell (1895)
The white mist from the Campagna pierced to the bone as they came out by the glass-covered hall, and an old woman with an earthenware scaldino, crouching by the marble pillars in the street, held out a chill, damp hand and cried: ❋ Hall Caine (1892)
At that moment the Sacristy was empty save for the custodian in black cassock and biretta, who was warming his hands over a large bronze scaldino; but in the Archpriest's room adjoining, with its gilt arm-chair and stools of red plush, Father Pifferi in his ordinary brown habit was waiting for the Pope. ❋ Hall Caine (1892)
But the only voluntary concession they make to his severity is the _scaldino_, and this is made chiefly by the yielding sex, who are denied the warmth of the caffè. ❋ William Dean Howells (1878)
Autumn; but Winter is nationally represented by a fine lady dressed in furred robes, with her feet upon a cushioned foot-stool, and a scaldino in her lap! ❋ William Dean Howells (1878)
The use of the scaldino is known to all ranks, but it is the women of the poorer orders who are most addicted to it. ❋ William Dean Howells (1878)
