cruet-stand

• “There was no one in the eating-room, which had a separate entrance, and they sat down at a small table with a cruet-stand, a handbell, a bottle of Worcester sauce, and in a vase some failing pyrethrums which had never been fresh.”

  Flowering Wilderness

• “The table with all the plates was upset; sauce, meat, knives, the salt, and cruet-stand were strewn over the room;”

  Madame Bovary

• ““It serves you right,” she was saying: “I always told you not to have that old-fashioned cruet-stand.””

  The Complete Father Brown

• ““And remembered that there were emetics in the cruet-stand,” said Father Brown.”

  The Complete Father Brown

• ““Oh, there are sermons in a cruet-stand, too,” said”

  The Complete Father Brown

• “Holmes propped it against the cruet-stand and read it while he ate.”

  The Adventure of the Six Napoleons

• “It touched up the cruet-stand and the britannia metal in the little dining-room at the Green Man and an emaciated ray even found its way to the rows of bottles in the bar and to the anvil at Copse Forge.”

  Death of a Fool

• “Food, plates, knives and forks, glasses, and a cruet-stand were all she ever thought necessary; and even for a centre vase of flowers I had to ask, and often to insist, during the time she was single-handed.”

  J. Cole

• “He went into the pantry, my Lord," the steward continued, "when my back was turned, and while he was looking about him in one of the cupboards, the vessel took a lurch to port, and unshipping the cruet-stand, emptied the pepper-pot in his eye, my Lord.”

  A Yacht Voyage to Norway, Denmark, and Sweden 2nd edition

• “Life, as she said to Wally, was too short to woo a cruet-stand!”

  Captain Jim

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