18 examples of tea-urn in sentences

At breakfast, when there is no butler, the footman carries up the tea-urn, and, assisted by the housemaid, he waits during breakfast.

Before laying the cloth for breakfast, the heater of the tea-urn is to be placed in the hottest part of the kitchen fire; or, where the kettle is used, boiled on the kitchen fire, and then removed to the parlour, where it is kept hot.

"Come to breakfast, dear," said Dorothea, busy with the tea-urn.

He leaned forward, and as if impelled by the movement, the girl turned her face to him again, the tea-urn poised above her cup.

"It is poor fare, Excellency," she said, as she boiled the eggs in the tea-urn, "but it is safe.

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Travel may be "the conversion of money into mind,"and happy the man who has turned much coin into that precious commodity,but it is a good thing, after being tossed about the world from the Battery to Africa,that dry nurse of lions, as Horace calls her,to anchor once more beside the old familiar tea-urn on the old familiar tea-table.

Eliza, when she entered with the tea-urn, opened her eyes wide with astonishment at the singular spectacle she beheld.

This caused a general shout of laughter around the table, in which baby tumultuously joined, and rattled her spoon against the tea-urn until she almost deafened them.

At one of the latter sits the mistress of the house, with a tea-urn and a chafing-dish before her, dealing out every now and then tea-water, or coffee, and elevating her sharp shrill voice occasionally to keep the dilatory slaves and Hottentots at their duty.

Near us steamed and hissed the clean shining tea-urn, and around us roses and pinks shed their sweet odors.

That little ceremony over he walked for a few minutes in his garden while Williams brought in his toast and tea-urn, and observed that though the flowers would no doubt be all the better for the liberal watering of the day before, it was idle to deny that the rain had not considerably damaged them.

Pope was the Homer of the drawing-room, the boudoir, the tea-urn, the ombre-party, the sedan-chair, the parrot cage, and the lap-dogs.

She pictures that crackling wood fire, and her old terrier basking in the gentle heat, and the tea-urn hissing near by (or is it a cold bottle of beer in the portable refrigerator?)

It was Essy who took the Bible and Prayerbook from their place on the sideboard under the tea-urn and put them on the table, opening them where the Vicar had left a marker the night before.

Behind the tea-urn, mother is mingling her drink with tears, and making little covert signs to Algy, at all rates to hold his tongue.

There was a joyful time in that log house when the Major, Bush, Macrae, Arnold, Robinson, Dodd, and I gathered around a steaming samovar or tea-urn which stood on a pine table in the centre of the room, and discussed the adventures, haps, and mishaps of our first arctic winter.

Tea-urn Ver, the spring months.e.g.

18 examples of  tea-urn  in sentences