"Kitchen stove" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... music-teacher, Frau Pfaff. And as she played on and on the music further evoked the memory of this worthy lady who had given her services in exchange for lodgings in an incredibly small hall bedroom, with certain privileges at the kitchen stove. And pictures of this irritating woman rose before her, stewing dried fruit, or preparing sour beef, or borrowing the clothes boiler for a perennial wash. What compromises her mother had made to give her child the gentle accomplishments that Mrs. Robson ...
— The Blood Red Dawn • Charles Caldwell Dobie
... and could lay down and sob fer, is to know The homely things of homely life; fer instance, jes' to go And set down by the kitchen stove—Lord! that 'u'd rest me so,— Jes' set there, like I ust to do, and ...
— Songs of Friendship • James Whitcomb Riley
... which hung over the kitchen stove. The room across from Sara Lee's bedroom contained a small round dining table and chairs. Sara Lee, enveloped in a large pinafore apron, made the omelet in the kitchen. Marie brought a pail of fresh milk. ...
— The Amazing Interlude • Mary Roberts Rinehart
... she was told, and her mother was soon rocking on the snuggest side of the kitchen stove, interspersing her rather bewildering orders ...
— He Fell in Love with His Wife • Edward P. Roe
... sparrows chirped a greeting to little Prue who stood irresolutely upon the threshold, a wistful expression in her pretty brown eyes, as she twisted one of her short curls and looked over her shoulder to say good-bye to Tabby who lay in her accustomed place upon the large braided rug beside the kitchen stove. ...
— Randy and Her Friends • Amy Brooks
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