The spirit-stove was already assembled and lit, the tea-things laid out around it. ❋ Edghill, Rosemary (2002)
It would be pure bathos to suggest any of your wife's labour-saving devices, or introduce the subject of that circular bath-room with a circular bath hanging by chains from the ceiling and a spirit-stove under it -- your pet invention. ❋ Various (N/A)
He looked at her amusedly again, and then at the kettle boiling on the little spirit-stove. ❋ M. Leonora Eyles (1924)
Upon a little spirit-stove stood a covered vessel containing milk, which was placed there nightly by Rita's maid. ❋ Sax Rohmer (1921)
It wanted more than a quarter of an hour to supper time, Julia had been too quick; still it did not matter, the coffee would not hurt standing on the spirit-stove; it stood there half the day. ❋ Una Lucy Silberrad (1913)
There they drank pale tea, the pot kept simmering on a spirit-stove, and read the foreign papers which had just come. ❋ Una Lucy Silberrad (1913)
Persistence turned up a spirit-stove, a half-bottle of methylated, a packet of tea, a tin or two of biscuit, as many more of potted meats: left-overs from the artist's stock, dismally scant and uninviting in array. ❋ Louis Joseph Vance (1906)
Pending her appearance, he filled the spirit-stove, put the kettle on to boil, and lighting a cigarette, sat himself down to watch the pot and excogitate his several problems. ❋ Louis Joseph Vance (1906)
A kettle sang upon a spirit-stove, and there were tea things upon a tray on the table. ❋ Unknown (1894)
On the small spirit-stove the kettle had boiled and the cover was lifting and falling with a tinkling sound. ❋ Katherine Cecil Thurston (1893)
In the middle of the floor stood a smeared kettle on a spirit-stove, and a few odds and ends of glass and china were on the mantelpiece, together with a paraffin-lamp. ❋ Humphry Ward (1885)
'I remember once I cooked some chestnuts over a spirit-stove, and you refused to touch them, on the ground that they were alcoholic.' ❋ Henry Harland (1883)
You had better get a kettle on over the spirit-stove, so that we can have a cup of hot cocoa when we like. ❋ Unknown (1867)
The cook had been washed overboard in his caboose; but the skipper had kept his steward at work boiling water over a little spirit-stove he had aft, and kept a supply of hot coffee there at all hours for us; and with that and biscuits we had got on fairly well. ❋ Unknown (1867)
a small kettle over a spirit-stove, and a few cups and small cakes. ❋ Pierre Souvestre (1894)
a cup, a teapot, and the can of milk; farther off a kettle was set to boil upon a tiny spirit-stove. ❋ Katherine Cecil Thurston (1893)
It was seven o’clock in the evening, and Maigret had not worried about him, knowing the wound was not serious; and now he found him again in the same place as in the morning, in front of his glass plates, his candle and spirit-stove. ❋ Simenon, Georges, 1903- (1963)
