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  • Warming-pan and Chamber-pot: And 'tis no wonder, for when the good woman lies in, then come so many busie bodies that with their glouring eyes are peeping into every hole and corner.

    The Ten Pleasures of Marriage and the Second Part, The Confession of the New Married Couple A. Marsh

  • But the Warming-pan did not want to hear what Ann thought.

    The Wonderful Bed Gertrude Knevels 1921

  • "All right," said Rudolf, "only I hope the people who live there don't happen to be any relation of the Warming-pan."

    The Wonderful Bed Gertrude Knevels 1921

  • Clutching his sword, he thrust himself in front of Ann and bravely faced the Warming-pan.

    The Wonderful Bed Gertrude Knevels 1921

  • "Stolen", then an Arithmetic with a mean sort of face, rulers for legs, and compasses for arms; then a Clock that had been meddled with by somebody (Rudolf felt certain it was not by him) and kept striking all the time; then a Piano with a lot of horrid exercises waiting to be practised; then last of all a familiar clumsy figure with one red glaring eye -- their old enemy, the Warming-pan!

    The Wonderful Bed Gertrude Knevels 1921

  • "Oh, oh," she cried, "it's not a rock at all -- it's Betsy's Warming-pan!"

    The Wonderful Bed Gertrude Knevels 1921

  • We can't go back in the cave because the Warming-pan might catch us, and if we stay here Peter will catch his death of cold out in the snow in his night drawers -- and so will we all.

    The Wonderful Bed Gertrude Knevels 1921

  • At a second, the Warming-pan muffled in Italian Cutworke.

    A Wanderer in Holland 1903

  • In the Warming-pan where the _Welch_ Infant did sleep;

    Wit and Mirth: or Pills to Purge Melancholy, Vol. 5 of 6 Thomas D'Urfey 1688

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