frying-pans

The whole crew seems to compose the band, and, like a lot of monkey-folk rejoicing in rude rhythm, emphasizes the beat by hammering kerosene cans, frying-pans, and all sorts of things metallic or reverberant.

CHAPTER XLIII 2010

At risk of over-stretching the frying-pans analogy, the flash-fry wok may be more likely to cause a disastrous kitchen fire than the slow-cook skillet, even if they both use the same amount of heat overall.

The surprisingly complex truth about planes and climate change 2010

The only other issue is one of frying-pans and fires.

A Couple of Moorhens On the Curate's Pond ... Laban 2006

The prejudice against the fork in England remained very steadfast actual centuries after its first introduction; forks are particularised among the treasures of kings, as if they had been crown jewels, in the same manner as the iron spits, pots, and frying-pans of his Majesty Edward III.; and even so late as the seventeeth century, Coryat, who employed one after his visit to

Old Cookery Books and Ancient Cuisine 2006

Business was slack upon the sea just now, but unusually active upon land, a tide of gold having flowed into Springhaven, and bubbled up in frying-pans and sparkled in new bonnets.

Springhaven Richard Doddridge 2004

Papa is always talking to me about chairs and tables and frying-pans, and I shall practise to do with as few of them as possible.

He Knew He Was Right 2004

She had a vague impression of Dwarfs crowding round the fire with frying-pans rather bigger than themselves, and the hissing, and delicious smell of sausages, and more, and more, and more sausages.

The Silver Chair Lewis, C. S. 1953

It is no joke cooking for half a dozen hungry scouts, and the one whose duty compelled him to be the chef for a day had to count on filling the capacity of coffee-pot and frying-pans, of which latter there were two.

The Boy Scouts on Sturgeon Island or Marooned Among the Game-fish Poachers Herbert Carter

So they ate until every one, even Giraffe, announced that he had had enough; but by that time the frying-pans were empty, and the coffee-pot ditto, so perhaps it may have been this condition of things that influenced some of them to confess to being filled.

The Boy Scouts on Sturgeon Island or Marooned Among the Game-fish Poachers Herbert Carter

These moans were produced by a simple process: pots and frying-pans were knocked against each other.

A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance Jean Jules Jusserand