rolling-pins

Serve the ice-cream on wooden plates covered with lace paper doilies, and give as favors tiny wooden household articles such as dolls 'rolling-pins, clothespins, barrels, washtubs, spinning wheels, and the like.

Entertaining Made Easy Emily Rose Burt

I suppose I may look for flat-irons and rolling-pins next.

Eve to the Rescue Ethel Hueston 1933

It belonged to the category of vanished rolling-pins and dead bodies huddled up in dustbins: it had no date.

The Altar Steps Compton MacKenzie 1927

In huts along the way frowsy, unwashed women might be heard already crushing in their stone mortars, under stone rolling-pins, maize for the morning atole and tortillas, while thick smoke began to wander lazily out from the low doorways.

Tramping Through Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras — Being the Random Notes of an Incurable Vagabond Harry Alverson Franck 1921

I asked, ignoring the array of sauce-pans rolling-pins, and the poker of the range.

The Circular Staircase Mary Roberts Rinehart 1917

I asked, ignoring the array of sauce-pans rolling-pins, and the poker of the range.

The Circular Staircase 1908

Her ceaseless winding in and out of shops, her mad and furious buying of furniture, her wild grasping at any loose articles that came in her way, from rugs to rolling-pins, appeared to him as so many futile efforts to construct a dam.

The Divine Fire May Sinclair 1904

Linnet, who had a practical mind, preferred such as dealt with rolling-pins, flat-irons, and shirt-collars, because these were familiar objects, and their histories usually ended cheerfully -- (she liked "The Ugly Duckling" because he was a duckling, but objected to much of the tale as being too sad).

Major Vigoureux Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

The so-called rolling-pins of glass, made at Sunderland as well as at Nailsea and Bristol, were known as sailors 'love tokens, and are referred to more fully in Chapter XIII.

Chats on Household Curios 1900

In association with glass rolling-pins and other love tokens there are many sundry curios which from the mottoes upon them were evidently given with a similar purpose.

Chats on Household Curios 1900