tea-caddy

I knew it would be almost impossible to get any of that money from her willingly, and though I told myself that in this issue of passion and death no detail mattered, I could not get rid of tormenting scruples whenever I thought of that tea-caddy.

In the Days of the Comet Herbert George 2006

I suspect he is like the cat in some houses: for, suppose the whiskey, the cigars, the sugar, the tea-caddy, the pickles, and other groceries disappear, all is laid upon that edax-rerum of a Mulligan.

Mrs. Perkins's Ball 2006

She was very secretive about that, and it was locked in an old tea-caddy in her bedroom.

In the Days of the Comet Herbert George 2006

‘Am I late, Clifford?’ she said, putting down the few flowers and taking up the tea-caddy, as she stood before the tray in her hat and scarf.

Lady Chatterley's Lover 2004

At twenty-five minutes to six he put the book back in the window-sill, dashed a few crumbs from his jacket, assumed a mortar-board cap that was lying on the tea-caddy, and went forth to his evening “preparation duty.”

Love and Mr Lewisham Herbert George 2004

She still used the nice old silver tea-caddy, he noticed, with the sliding lid.

The Years 2004

Of his mother he remembered that she was very stout; kept her tea-caddy locked; yet had given him in that very room a copy of Byron.

Between the Acts 2004

Stretching out towards the tea-caddy, she measured the tea.

The Years 2004

And the young lady, with a laugh, sat down, looking so pleased, and good-natured, and merry, that even old Tamar was fain to smile a glimmering smile; and little Margery actively brought the tea-caddy; and the kettle, being in a skittish singing state, quickly went off in a boil, and Tamar actually made tea in her brown tea-pot.

Wylder's Hand 2003

Mrs. Punt and her son had escaped across the road, the son trailing and stumbling at the end of a remorseless arm, but Uncle Pentstemon, encumbered by the tea-caddy, was the centre of a little circle of his own, and appeared to be dratting them all very heartily.

The History of Mr. Polly 2003