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  • Filling a coffee-pot and frying-pan with part of my plunder, and taking some chinaware from the cabin pantry, I left Wolf Larsen lying in the sun and went ashore.

    Chapter 32 2010

  • "Can't lose no time with all that multitude a-rushin 'by," Kink spluttered, as he jabbed the sour-dough can into the beanpot with one hand and with the other gathered in the frying-pan and coffee - pot.

    TOO MUCH GOLD 2010

  • She, who had never cooked in her life, learned to make bread without the mediation of hops, yeast, or baking-powder, and to bake bread, top and bottom, in a frying-pan before an open fire.

    THE UNEXPECTED 2010

  • The terrific gong was a frying-pan, hanging on the wall, that rattled and clattered with each leap of the ship.

    Chapter 2 2010

  • He unpacked his food and got out frying-pan and coffee-pot.

    All Gold Cañon 2010

  • As he flopped the steak into the frying-pan the door opened.

    THE ONE THOUSAND DOZEN 2010

  • The rattle and bang of the frying-pan was grating horribly on my nerves.

    Chapter 2 2010

  • When Mr. Bledsoe lifted the irons, the calf jumped up, wobbled a moment, then scampered back to his herd, a frying-pan logo seared into his shaggy hide.

    In a Beef Over Branding Stephanie Simon 2011

  • The moose-meat sizzled uneasily, and she moved the frying-pan to one side of the red embers.

    LI-WAN, THE FAIR 2010

  • There were other things on the sled — blankets, an axe, and a coffee-pot and frying-pan; but prominent, occupying most of the space, was the long and narrow oblong box.

    The Trail of Meat 2010

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