gas-stove

• “They lie repeatedly to the world (whose journalists seem willing to swallow stories and versions of stories as told by Hamas crooks they wouldn't otherwise buy a second hand kitchen gas-stove from).”

  On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...

• “In the hall there was a gas-stove, which was kept burning, and gave a faint glimmer, so that each could see the outline of the other.”

  John Caldigate

• “I never drink any water except that which I have surreptitiously boiled in my own room over a gas-stove.”

  Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine

• “It was a cold, dusty pigsty, with piles of books and papers littered all over the floor, generations of saucepans slumbering in their grease on the rusty gas-stove, the bed never made till afternoon, and everywhere — in every possible place where they could be stepped on or knocked over — tins of paint-fouled turpentine and pots half full of cold black tea.”

  Burmese Days

• “Returning with admirable punctuality at the expiration of the half-hour, Mrs Deane led me to the kitchen, which was roomy, though rather dark, and contained a gas-stove, remarkably dirty, and a dresser chaotically piled with crockery and cooking implements.”

  Crime On the Coast

• “She lit the gas-stove of imitation logs; Ruggles wheeled a chair in front of it and filled his pipe; from his match she glowed a cigarette, and with a great sigh of relief and tiredness lay back on the sofa.”

  Impressions of a War Correspondent

• “Broiling on a gas-stove is equivalent to broiling over a fire.”

  The Art of Living in Australia ; together with three hundred Australian cookery recipes and accessory kitchen information by Mrs. H. Wicken

• “The gas-stove and other things had disappeared behind the calico curtain.”

  The Witness

• “Gas-stoves, also, from the great heat given out, sometimes cause serious accidents; in one instance, a gas-stove set fire to a beam through a two-and-half inch York landing, well bedded in mortar, although the lights were five or six inches above the stone.”

  Fire Prevention and Fire Extinction

• “My elder sister goes quietly upstairs for the bottle of ammoniated quinine; my younger sister explores the recesses of a cupboard for the piece of red flannel to which I have been accustomed; and Emily, the maid, without being instructed, puts the kettle on the gas-stove.”

  Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, November 4, 1914

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