But in retrospect I can see that our conversation was the journalistic equivalent of a tea-cosy. ❋ Kate Kellaway (2010)
That is, my feet are in it; the rest of me is on the draining board, which I have padded with the dog's blanket and the tea-cosy. ❋ Jaime Theler (2008)
Fraülein, still shaking with conflicting emotions, handed the tea-cosy to Captain Pratt. ❋ Unknown (2004)
She put the tea-cosy over the tea-pot, and rose to get a little glass for her violets. ❋ Unknown (2004)
It's not your Unitarian grandma's tea-cosy religion; for one thing, Christian forgiveness seems in short supply. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Rachel bought an expensive tea-cosy from Fraülein. ❋ Unknown (2004)
He looked like some kind of an Indian when he capered round the garden, an old tea-cosy on his head, beating a tin with his fist and yelling: ❋ Unknown (2003)
The teapot was on a tray now, a tea-cosy in the shape of a King Charles spaniel keeping in the heat. ❋ Rankin, Ian (1994)
Neither of them had any taste or much money, and except for a blue vase contributed by Pauline and a tea-cosy as plump as Alma herself given by Alma, the little study was as bare as in the holidays. ❋ Blyton, Enid, 1898?-1968 (1967)
There is no need to discuss what not to do, but, if the attraction to embroider a tea-cosy is too strong to resist, it should surely be of washable materials. ❋ Grace Christie (N/A)
But can one call this cosy -- this tea-cosy -- social visit to three accomplished women by the vulgar term "shopping"? ❋ Various (N/A)
Little Ellen was bending over the table, putting the tea-cosy over Richard's egg. ❋ Rebecca West (1937)
This much he took in as Claude glided across the room and snatched up something that looked like a sacramental tea-cosy. ❋ Marsh, Ngaio, 1895-1982 (1936)
If only the clock would come to her aid, forgetting the episode of the tea-cosy! ❋ Frank Swinnerton (1933)
It was not so much a terror of the unknown as a sense of oppression brooding over the house, a suffocated feeling as if he were set down inside a huge tea-cosy with something unclean. ❋ Allingham, Margery, 1904-1966 (1931)
Mrs. Bates had recovered from the shock of finding that her tea-cosy was the exact same shape and pattern as the one given by Mrs. Gain. ❋ Sheila Kaye-Smith (1921)
English Riviera, and had platitudes worked in worsted upon her tea-cosy, and in the end never died, but passed away in her residence. ❋ Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett Dunsany (1917)
Make enough for two, in case: pour it off into another pot, and have it under the tea-cosy. ❋ Laurence Housman (1912)
