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The oil-stove won her admiration, but on investigating the food shelves she found them empty.
Chapter 26 2010
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Featherless, semi-frozen despite the oil-stove, sprayed dripping on occasion by the frigid seas that pound by sheer weight through canvas tarpaulins, nevertheless not a chicken has died.
CHAPTER XXXIX 2010
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The cub painted a high-light picture of his poor little room, its oil-stove and the one chair, and of the death's-head tramp who kept him company and who looked as if he had just emerged from twenty years of solitary confinement in some fortress dungeon.
Chapter 39 2010
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This bureau stood in the corner, and in the opposite corner, on the table's other flank, was the kitchen - the oil-stove on a dry-goods box, inside of which were dishes and cooking utensils, a shelf on the wall for provisions, and a bucket of water on the floor.
Chapter 23 2010
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Under her directions the steward had actually installed a small oil-stove in the big coop, and she now beckoned him up to the top of the house as he was passing for'ard to the galley.
CHAPTER XV 2010
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Similar lists were on the wall over the oil-stove, and they were similarly conned while he was engaged in cooking or in washing the dishes.
Chapter 23 2010
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The Five Find-Outers were trying to roast chestnuts on top of the oil-stove.
Separate Douglas Light 2010
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On this cold winter's day he had an oil-stove burning brightly and the inside of the shed was warm and cosy.
Separate Douglas Light 2010
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Fuel we did not need, as we had included a small oil-stove among our outfit, and the weather was fine and warm.
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They had finished two hot games of pinochle, and sat with their feet on a small amiable oil-stove.
Our Mr. Wrenn 2004
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