warming-pans

These chief specimens of the marriage provision were supported on the right by a couple of kitchen dressers, each fitted complete with their cups, dishes, and plates, in their turn followed by two dumb-waiters, two family Bibles, two warming-pans, and two intermixed sets of chairs.

Under the Greenwood Tree 2006

And there are sweet modest little souls on which you light, fragrant and blooming tenderly in quiet shady places; and there are garden-ornaments, as big as brass warming-pans, that are fit to stare the sun itself out of countenance.

Vanity Fair 2006

A stack of neatly folded coats and waterproofs covered the top of an old oak chest; there was a grandfather clock ticking; and some polished brass warming-pans on the walls, and a barometer, and a print of Chiltern winning the St Leger.

The Thirty-Nine Steps 2005

Here she was again in the paved alley; there were the old curiosity shops with their blue china and their brass warming-pans; and next moment she was out in the famous crooked street with all the domes and steeples.

The Years 2004

Yes, we became very wakeful; so much so that our recumbent position began to grow wearisome, and by little and little we found ourselves sitting up; the clothes well tucked around us, leaning against the headboard with our four knees drawn up close together, and our two noses bending over them, as if our knee-pans were warming-pans.

Moby Dick; or the Whale 2002

That had been Talaysen's second job here-lowering down the boxes of warming-pans and featherbeds for winter.

The Lark And The Wren Lackey, Mercedes 1992

"This tray was used for heating and holding the embers before they were put into warming-pans, " she said.

Five On Finniston Farm Blyton, Enid, 1898?-1968 1960

You'll remember that you told me you had a quaint old hole in the wall in one of the bedrooms - where in the old days people used to heat embers for warming-pans, and bricks to put in between the bed-sheets.

Five On Finniston Farm Blyton, Enid, 1898?-1968 1960

It was a singularly unpretentious affair, lacking any display of horse-brasses, warming-pans or sporting-prints.

Death of a Fool Marsh, Ngaio, 1895-1982 1956

WITHIN the last few years many young ladies have searched country houses or ransacked old garrets to find spinning-wheels, which, like old chairs, tall clocks, and warming-pans, have now become objects of curiosity and interest to those who take a fancy to antique articles.

The Olden Time Series: Vol. 2: The Days of the Spinning-Wheel in New England Gleanings Chiefly from old Newspapers of Boston and Salem, Massachusetts Various