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Our Mutual Friend

By: Charles Dickens

...a spare show of the commonest articles of crockery and 23 Charles Dickens cooking-vessels. The roof of the room was not plastered, but was formed of ... ...f the regular customers, and were pro- vided with comfortable fireside tin utensils, like models of sugar-loaf hats, made in that shape that they migh... ...the fire, father, dear, while I cook your break- fast. It’ s all ready for cooking, and only been waiting for you. You must be frozen.’ ‘Well, Lizzie,... ...gh the window, would seem to be so ex- pecting him, for the supper was not cooking, but set out ready to be cooked; that it would be high-water at abo...

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The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe

By: Daniel Defoe

...s, including some beds, bedding, and household stuff, particularly kitchen utensils, with pots, kettles, pewter, brass, &c.; and near a hundred pounds... ...plenty within and without; they had more tame cattle than the others, more utensils and necessaries within doors, and yet more pleasure and diversion ... ...eanly within doors; and having learned the English ways of dress- ing, and cooking from one of the other Englishmen, who, as I said, was a cook’ s mat...

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My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass. With an Introduction. By James M'Cune Smith

By: Frederick Douglas

...mitted the allowance for all to the care of Aunt Katy, to be divided after cooking it, amongst us. The allowance, con- sisting of coarse corn-meal, wa... ...the day’s work is done, most of the slaves have their washing, mending and cooking to do; and, having few or none of the ordinary facilities for doing... ... both ends. The slaves work often as long as they can see, and are late in cooking and mending for the coming day; and, at the first gray streak of mo... ...ll piece of pork, or two salt herrings. Not having ovens, nor any suitable cooking utensils, the slaves mixed their meal with a little water, to such ... ... of pork, or two salt herrings. Not having ovens, nor any suitable cooking utensils, the slaves mixed their meal with a little water, to such thicknes...

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The Dove in the Eagles Nest

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

... which con- tained a huge tiled baking oven, various brilliantly-burnished cooking utensils, and a great carved cupboard like a wooden bedstead, and, ... ...on- tained a huge tiled baking oven, various brilliantly-burnished cooking utensils, and a great carved cupboard like a wooden bedstead, and, passing ... ...th the girl that should hinder her from being the very same fat, sourkrout-cooking, pewter-scrubbing housewife of thy mind’s eye?” “I have heard nothi...

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Sons of the Soil

By: Honoré de Balzac

...r which the various outdoor properties of the peasantry were put away,—the utensils of the vine-dressers, their empty casks, logs of wood piled about ... ... of Bur- gundy brick, containing several casks of wine. Though the kitchen utensils of the peasantry are usually only two, namely, a frying-pan and an... ...mely, a frying-pan and an iron pot, with which they manage to do all their cooking, exceptions to this rule, in the shape of two enormous saucepans ha... ...which stood on boards just behind the window-panes went through a periodic cooking. When the sun concentrated its rays through the lenticular knobs in...

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Under the Storm or Steadfasts Charge

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...plenty of dry leaves and half- burnt wood to serve as tinder. The fire for cooking would be outside, whenever warmth and weather served, to prevent in... ...made some furni- ture—a chair and table, some stools, bedding, and kitchen utensils, and she toiled to keep things clean, but still it was a mere hove...

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An Historical Mystery

By: Honoré de Balzac

...pow- der-horn, cap, handkerchief, screw-driver, and rags,—in fact, all the utensils needed for his suspicious occupation. His wife’s chair was against... ...tum of the chateau, and his wife was the housekeeper. He was helped in the cooking by the sister of Catherine, Laurence’s maid, to whom he was teachin...

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The World Set Free

By: H. G. Wells

...re, seamanship, their knowledge of the habitable globe, or the devices and utensils of domestic life between the days of the early Egyptians and the d... ... quaint little summer-house, and there I sat and watched the men in groups cooking and squatting along the bank. The sun was setting in a nearly cloud...

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The Warden

By: Anthony Trollope

...tcher for the preparation of lobsters and coffee, and an apparatus for the cooking of toast and mutton chops; such utensils and luxuries as these did ... ...d coffee, and an apparatus for the cooking of toast and mutton chops; such utensils and luxuries as these did not suffice for the well-being of Tom To...

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Stalky & Co.

By: Rudyard Kipling

...thout warning. Stalky upset a form crowded with small boys among their own cooking utensils, McT urk raided the untidy lock- ers as a terrier digs at ... ...rning. Stalky upset a form crowded with small boys among their own cooking utensils, McT urk raided the untidy lock- ers as a terrier digs at a rabbit...

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House of Mirth

By: Edith Wharton

...he mere idea of immorality was as offensive to Mrs. Peniston as a smell of cooking in the drawing-room: it was one of the conceptions her mind refused... ... steam-heat was beginning to sing in a coil of dingy pipes, and a smell of cooking penetrated the crack of the door. The door opened, and Gerty, dress... ...d, “what these European mar- kets are, when a fellow can make a reputation cooking peas!” Jack Stepney intervened with authority. “I don’t know that I... ...profiles, under exaggerated hair, bowed in the harsh north light above the utensils of their art; for it was something more than an industry, surely, ...

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Scenes from a Courtesans Life

By: Honoré de Balzac

...ed with flowers blackened and greasy with age; a fireplace full of kitchen utensils of the vilest kind, two bundles of fire-logs; a stone shelf, on wh... ... and might make Careme mad with jealousy. Asie can do everything by way of cooking. She will turn you out a simple dish of beans that will make you wo... ...rate, I hope you dined well, my Lulu, at that detestable Baron’s?” “Asie’s cooking prevents my ever thinking a dinner good, however famous the chef ma... ...’s cookery. “I understant,” said he, “vy you call her Asie; dis is Asiatic cooking.” “I begin to think he loves me,” said Esther to Europe; “he has sa... ...f the Quartier Latin, straw chairs with the bottoms out, a table and a few utensils, compose the furniture of such a room, in which two accused prison...

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Main Street

By: Sinclair Lewis

...ould’s scandalous carryings-on with a farmer’s daughter four years ago, of cooking cabbage, and of al- tering blouses. Their references to the war tou... ...y a color print. She had hoped for tiling, and a kerosene range for summer cooking, but Kennicott always postponed these expenses. She was better acqu... ...nicott always postponed these expenses. She was better acquainted with the utensils in the kitchen than with Vida Sherwin or Guy Pollock. The can- ope... ...d Dyer telephoned to Carol and, after a rather im- probable question about cooking lima beans with bacon, de-manded, “Have you heard the scandal about... ... without losing any of the putative feminine virtue of domestic- ity; that cooking and cleaning, when divested of the fuss- ing of an Aunt Bessie, tak... ...rful brick walls, broad windows, gymnasium, classrooms for agriculture and cooking. It indicated Vida’s triumph, and it stirred her to activity—any ac...

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The Village Rector

By: Honoré de Balzac

...employed a charwoman by the day, an old peasant from Auvergne, who did his cooking. The brown earthen- ware off which he ate, and the stout coarse lin... ...hree chairs, and on the dresser a few brown earthen- ware dishes and other utensils necessary to life. Above the fireplace were two guns and two gameb...

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North America Volume Two

By: Anthony Trollope

...osite to each other, and behind them are other sheds used for stabling and cooking places. Those in front are divided, not into separate huts, but int... ... persons set in high authority to protect the government. We learn how all utensils for the camp, kettles, blankets, shoes, mess pans, etc., were sup-... ... extras on the bill—and, after all, receives the advantage of no exclusive cooking. Particles from the public dinners are brought to the private room,...

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The Old Curiosity Shop

By: Charles Dickens

...so a closet or larder, several chests, a great pitcher of water, and a few cooking utensils and articles of crockery. These latter necessaries hung up... ...set or larder, several chests, a great pitcher of water, and a few cooking utensils and articles of crockery. These latter necessaries hung upon the w... ...Dick, rising. ‘What do you mean to say you are—the cook?’ ‘Yes, I do plain cooking;’ replied the child. ‘I’m house maid too; I do all the work of the... ..., as he supposed by clock work. He also gave them to under stand that the cooking apparatus roasted a fine piece of sirloin of beef, weighing about s... ...per—the wing of a roasted fowl now—’ ‘Why, goodness gracious me, sir, it’s cooking at the kitchen fire this instant!’ cried the landlady. And so indee...

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Catherine de Medici

By: Honoré de Balzac

... centuries old, and two lighted furnaces on which heretical compounds were cooking. Neither the floor nor the ceiling of the laboratory could be seen,... ... on the floor were books, instruments for distill- ing, chests filled with utensils for magic and astrology; in 253 Balzac one place I saw horoscopes...

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Typee a Romance of the South Seas

By: Herman Melville

... sailor’s little ‘ditty bag’, containing needles, thread, and other sewing utensils, then came a ra- zor-case, followed by two or three separate plugs... ...on as a rump-steak after undergoing the castigating process which precedes cooking. My physician, having recovered from the fatigues of his exertions,...

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Beatrix

By: Honoré de Balzac

...h guns equally suitable for chase or war, three sabres, two game-bags, the utensils of a huntsman and a fish- erman hang from nails upon the wall. On ... ... took heed about herself in all the infinitely little trifles of love. The cooking trouble lasted nearly a month. Sabine, assisted by Mariotte and Gas...

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Liver Twist

By: Charles Dickens

..., and which was secured to the mantelshelf by a string, some sausages were cooking; and standing over them, with a toasting fork in his hand, was a ve... ... side lowering from their back doors and windows, buckets, pails, domestic utensils of all kinds, in which to haul the water up; and when his eye is t...

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