As it was, the Female Samson's head came down just in the centre of him, and stove in about three-fourths of his ribs.

Mrs. West, with her heart in a tremor that it had not known since Marjorie was born, tucked away her knitting behind the school-books on the dining-room table, tied on her blue checked apron, and went out to the kitchen to kindle the fire for tea, singing in her mellow voice, "Thus far the Lord hath led me on," suddenly stopping short as she crammed the stove with shavings to exclaim, "His name was Holmes!

Back in a shadowy corner of the cabin he lay, while the man prepared something over a hot stove for Joan.

"A large bright room, ... a sandheap in one corner, a low tub or bath of water in another, a rope ladder, a swing, steps to run up and down and such like, a line of black or green board low down round the wall, little rough carts and trolleys, boxes which can be turned into houses, or shops, or pretence ships, etc., a cooking stove of a very simple nature, dolls of all kinds, wooden animals, growing plants in boxes, an aquarium.

"Yas. 'Twas hotter'n a red-hot stove on the road.

Then we discovered that they had collected and lowered to the beach a quantity of stateroom doors from the wreck, and had trundled the galley stove to the edge where it awaited our assistance.

The fire would smoke in the stove at every one of these blasts, and the flame leaped in the lantern.

He came up, limping, and stood on the other side of the stove from Scotty.

Dotty spread out her stiff, red fingers before the cooking-stove like the sticks of a fan.

The Nurnberg stove by Ouida, pseud.

He had fitted up his rooms with devices by means of which, while lying in bed on cold mornings, he could light his gas-stove without getting up; and his cigars, the ends of which he had dipped in sulphur, so that they could be lit by scratching them on the under side of the mantel-piece, just as matches are ignited, were the delight of his life.

He nodded toward the boy, who had placed his chair as close to the stove as possible.

By night the wolves would come stealthily to prowl among the deserted lanes; and the fishermen, asleep in their clothes under caribou skins, or sitting close by the stove behind barred doors, would know nothing of the huge, gaunt forms that flitted noiselessly past the frosted windows.

There was even laughter in the courtyard of the hospital, where the doctors tossed blankets, mattresses, food stores and stoves into the motor ambulances.

That ancient trembling crone who sits behind the stove opposite the great clothes-press may have been there for a quarter of a century, and all her thinking and feeling is, beyond a doubt, intimately blended with every corner of the stove and the carvings of the press.

They took a ten-gallon steel oil-drum and made a stove out of it.

We are reckoned a practical folk, who would rather hear about a new air-tight stove than about Plato; yet our favorite teacher's practicality is not in the least of the Poor Richard variety.

In another pile were discarded household utensilsold pots and pans and burnt-out kettles, old stoves through the linings of which the flames had eaten and the rust had gnawed.

When the chimney-sweep saw that she was quite firm, he said, "My way is through the stove up the chimney." ...

Further on, a cooking stove under a tree, a saddle and bridle, a few household implements scattered about, indicated the "ranch."

Lay the meat in this sauce and cover on back of stove until ready to serve.

When the wood is burning briskly, place a shovelful or two of rather small pieces of coal upon the wood, and, as they ignite, gradually add more, until there is a clear, bright body of fire, remembering, however, never to fill the stove above the fire bricks; then partly close the direct draft.

" Was it the heat of the stove after the long hours of cold that made him feel a little dizzy?

Since there were no stoves during slavery, they cooked their foods in large iron pots suspended from racks built into the fireplaces.

I saw him re-enter the room, carrying a saucepan, which he placed on a small stove alongside the fireplace.