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  • Meals were irregular and protracted, and there were midnight chafing-dish suppers and bursts of laughter at the most inappropriate hours.

    BY THE TURTLES OF TASMAN 2010

  • Twice that morning had a disruption of the whole camp been imminent, only averted by immense concessions from one or the other of these knights of the chafing-dish.

    THE PRIESTLY PREROGATIVE 2010

  • He never saw the studio any more, nor entertained the local Bohemians with his famous chafing-dish suppers.

    THE TASTE OF THE MEAT 2010

  • Chicken a la King and Lobster Newburg were specialties of the hotel, and the chafing-dish, introduced by the hotel, became a very popular wedding gift in which the two dishes could be made.

    The Waldorf-Astoria | Edwardian Promenade 2009

  • And right there, in the kitchen, delicious things bubbled in the chafing-dish, our laughter bubbled, and my stomach was keen with a most delicious edge of appetite.

    Chapter 30 2010

  • The servants had been dismissed for the day, and we returned late at night to a jolly chafing-dish supper.

    Chapter 30 2010

  • His gaze passed on from the Crouched Venus to a little tea-table with all its fragile and exquisite accessories, and to a shining copper kettle and copper chafing-dish.

    Chapter XVIII 2010

  • Daylight had thrown two rooms into one, and this was the big living-room where Dede's treasures were placed -- her books, and paintings and photographs, her piano, the Crouched Venus, the chafing-dish and all its glittering accessories.

    Chapter XXV 2010

  • Twice that morning had a disruption of the whole camp been imminent, only averted by immense concessions from one or the other of these knights of the chafing-dish.

    The Priestly Prerogative 2010

  • Dozens of cookbooks devoted sections to chafing-dish recipes, and even more cookbooks were created specifically for the chafing dish.

    The Bachelor Girl | Edwardian Promenade 2009

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