"See here, Kernal," said I, somewhat riled at seein' him make a spittoon of my best 'stove-pipe,' "if it's all the same to you, spose'n you eject your vile secretion out of the winder.

"We are to have company for tea," announced the figure kneeling on the oilcloth as she banged the stove door.

She banged the vessels, slammed the stove-eyes on and off, flung the stove-wood about, and kept up a snarling animadversion upon every topic that drifted through her kinky head.

I found two drenched and shivering, after a hail-and-thunder storm, and setting them in a basket on the cooking-stove hearth, went to help Melindy "dress her bow-pot," as she called arranging a vase of flowers, and when I came back the little turkeys were singed; they died a few hours after.

A stove evergreen shrub, which may be grown in any light, vegetable mould or in peat and loam, and is easily increased by suckers.

The grades of gasoline sold in this country vary from the common so-called "stove gasoline," or sixty-eight, to seventy-four.

He pats his hair down, after partin' it and usin' enough goose-grease on it to keep forty guns from rusting for ten years, and he shines his boots with blacking, my stove-blacking, the rustling scoundrel.

[Illustration] [Illustration] THE WISHBONE The stove lifter lay upon his iron side and looked across the top of the shelf which stood above the stove.

"Fine strings of fish," remarked the stove-man as they clambered in.

Black John files a stove leg.

ACT II TABLEAU I A room in KRASNÓV's house; directly in front a door leading to a vestibule; to the right a window and a bed with chintz curtains; to the left a stove-couch and a door into the kitchen; in the foreground a plain board table and several chairs; along the back wall and window benches; along the left wall a cupboard with cups, a small mirror, and a wall clock.

When we eat our morning rice, we are compelled to make no offering to the kitchen gods in the stove corner.

Patsy gets our breakfast on the stove yonder, and we buy our lunches down town, where we work, and then dine at Danny Reeves's place.

Favourite stove plants.

His big, coarse shoes shone with a metallic luster suggestive of stove polish.

Cuttings of the stove kinds root freely under a glass.

As he dared not light a bright fire on these trips, he would, on cold nights, make a small coal-pit, and cower over it, drawing his blanket over his head, when, to use his own words, he soon became as hot as in a "stove room."

This stove shrub is an evergreen.

I worked on the railroad section, laid crossties, worked in stave mills.

The machine consists of suitable framing, to which is attached all the requisite stave rails, batching apparatus, compound levers, top and bottom adjusting screws, and level setting down gear, also Stanley roller with all its adjustments.

The stove varieties require a sandy loam to grow in, and may be propagated by cuttings.

She banged the stove-griddle.

The reason is sufficiently obvious: the former live in the open air even in the middle of winter and seldom make use of a fire to warm themselves; whereas the Germans and Dutch live in an atmosphere of stove-heat and smoke and seldom like to stir abroad in the open air during winter, unless necessity obliges them.

The steam-cooker has an escape-steam tube through which all excess of steam and odors passes into the fire, and thus its different compartments may contain and cook an entire dinner, if need be, and over one stove hole or one burner of an oil or gasoline stove.

All the wagons were coming the other way, of course, on Saturday afternoon; but the one chat then caught up with them had been carrying a new stove home, and was returning empty.