"Frying pan" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the hand that was not busy with the frying pan. "From what part of the uncivilized world, ...
— Cabbages and Kings • O. Henry
... she was much too thoroughly conversant with the common way of the world with a woman alone to imagine that, by taking her life in her own hands, she would accomplish much more than exchange the irk of the frying pan for the ...
— Red Masquerade • Louis Joseph Vance
... off; but when stones can be procured they are to be preferred. Two sides are fashioned out of flat stones, somewhat in the shape of the letter V, only not having the line quite so pronounced. Thus a coffeepot will rest snugly over the smaller end, while the big frying pan cozily ...
— The Banner Boy Scouts Afloat • George A. Warren
... furniture consists of a table, bunk, and a couple of chairs, and if he be an educated man and fond of reading he will have a table for his books and writing materials. He is supplied monthly with a sack of flour and a bag of tea and sugar, salt, etc. His cooking utensils are a kettle, camp oven, and frying pan, to which are added a few plates, knives and forks, and two or three tin porringers. He always possesses at least one dog and a horse, and possibly a cat. The only light is that procured from what is called a slush lamp, made by keeping an old bowl or pannikin replenished by refuse fat or dripping ...
— Five Years in New Zealand - 1859 to 1864 • Robert B. Booth
... middle-class family pride that will make him prevent you from getting out and trying your own wings. Nature never intended a woman like you to be a celibate, any more than I was so intended. And sooner or late you'll marry somebody—if only to hop out of the fire into the frying pan." ...
— Big Timber - A Story of the Northwest • Bertrand W. Sinclair
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