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Examples
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Consider this New York Times story on cooking-stove soot: because women do most of the cooking, they are the ones whose lungs absorb the most damaging agents.
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She had a wagon with beds, tent, tent floor, cooking-stove, and every camp luxury, a light buggy, a man to manage everything, and a most superior “hired girl.”
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We have only a cooking-stove, which requires incessant feeding with wood, a kettle, a frying pan, a six-gallon brass pan, and a bottle for a rolling pin.
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This opens into a very small kitchen with a great American cooking-stove, and there are two
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The most disturbing thing was the need of a new cooking-stove, the cost of which added greatly to the bill.
Jennie Gerhardt 2004
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The next winter I used a small cooking-stove for economy, since
Walden 2004
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He set off, and stayed away two days, and came back with a cooking-stove — a barge of a man surgeing up through the forest with a whole iron stove on his back.
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Our cooking-stove had been floating about in the bottom of the boat, and portions of our last hoosh seemed to have permeated everything.
The Greatest Survival Stories Ever Told Underwood, Lamar 2001
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They took the lamp out of the cabin-and the little cooking-stove, for it wasn't there.
The Adventurous Four Again Blyton, Enid, 1898?-1968 1973
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It served both as kitchen and dining-room; there was a round table in the middle, an old dresser, and a Dutch cooking-stove of a type seldom seen nowadays.
Maigret and the Lazy Burglar Simenon, Georges, 1903- 1963
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