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  • As soon as he shewed signs of life, we wrapped him up in blankets, and placed him near the chimney of the kitchen-stove.

    Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus Mary Shelley 2004

  • As soon as he shewed signs of life, we wrapped him up in blankets, and placed him near the chimney of the kitchen-stove.

    Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus Mary Shelley 2004

  • As soon as he shewed signs of life, we wrapped him up in blankets, and placed him near the chimney of the kitchen-stove.

    Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus Mary Shelley 2004

  • They had only one room for kitchen, bed, sitting-room, &c.; and it is curious how little one now thinks of the bed standing in one corner, the washing-stand in another, whilst kitchen-stove, and scullery fill up a third.

    A Lady's Life on a Farm in Manitoba Cecil Hall

  • But by realism, I do not mean the commonplace details of an uninteresting household, nor the hired man with mud on his cowhide boots, nor the whining farmer who sits with his feet on the kitchen-stove, but the glory that we find in nature and the grandeur that we find in man, his bravery, his honor, his self-sacrifice, his virtue.

    Modern Eloquence: Vol III, After-Dinner Speeches P-Z Various

  • The air is full of latent fire, and the cold warms me -- after a different fashion from that of the kitchen-stove.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 101, March, 1866 Various

  • What was the use of trying to educate a woman, who could see no farther than her own kitchen-stove?

    Jimmie Higgins Upton Sinclair 1923

  • But when night after night she heard the voices of the two as they sat about the kitchen-stove long after she had retired, she began to consider the matter seriously.

    The Gun-Brand 1921

  • A tea-kettle on the kitchen-stove sang in a low murmur.

    The Brimming Cup Dorothy Canfield Fisher 1918

  • Vauquier certainly did burn a letter in the kitchen-stove, and that after she had burned it she sat for a long time rocking herself in a chair, with a smile of great pleasure upon her face, and now and then moistening her lips with her tongue.

    At the Villa Rose 1906

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