coffee-urn

As Mr.. O'Rourke set the coffee-urn in front of Mr.. Bilkins and flanked Mr. Bilkins with the broiled mackerel and buttered toast, Mr.. O'Rourke's conscience smote her.

Humorous Masterpieces from American Literature Various

I'll never be able to do any serious business again until I get her behind the coffee-urn.

The Man Thou Gavest

[Illustration: THE OLD GENTLEMAN LIFTED JEAN UP ON THE POST.] "I should like to see where papa lived when he was a boy, but I wouldn't care to have Mr. Congreve there," said Bea, who had that morning began being more womanly than usual by relieving mama of coffee-urn duties.

Six Girls A Home Story Fannie Belle Irving

"We will call our contrivance a coffee-urn; it sounds aristocratic," suggested Nattie, as she cleared the books from the least shaky table, and spread it with three towels, in lieu of a table-cloth.

Wired Love A Romance of Dots and Dashes Ella Cheever Thayer

Down to the ground went Nattie's knife and fork, the coffee-urn narrowly escaped a similar fate, up went the back of the Duchess, and two dismayed Bohemians and one impatient cat gazed at each other.

Wired Love A Romance of Dots and Dashes Ella Cheever Thayer

So everybody pranced into the dining-room, and Bea was placed behind the coffee-urn, and couldn't do a thing but blush, and look too happy and overcome to attend to her duties.

Six Girls A Home Story Fannie Belle Irving

Mrs. Blecker's face grew hot; but that might have been the steam of the coffee-urn.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 69, July, 1863 Various

"Well, anyhow, Christmas is coming," said Bea, nodding cheerfully over the coffee-urn.

Six Girls A Home Story Fannie Belle Irving

"But our dishes, 'ay, there's the rub,'" and she laughingly held up the coffee-urn, while the less adaptable Nattie thought apprehensively of the propensity of things to cool.

Wired Love A Romance of Dots and Dashes Ella Cheever Thayer

Sylvia took her place at one end, behind the coffee-urn, Molly at the other end, behind the strawberries and ice-cream.

The Old Gray Homestead Frances Parkinson Keyes 1927