foot-stove

At the foot of each chair was a large copper foot-stove.

Hung Lou Meng 2003

Notwithstanding the cold, the baroness had her chair brought out so as to watch him working, and then her foot-stove, for her feet were freezing.

Une Vie 2003

At the foot of each chair was a large copper foot-stove.

Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books Xueqin Cao

"Master Broom," he resumed, "I warn thee that boys who are in the habit of putting snuff upon the foot-stove of the school-mistress may one day be discovered, and receive a flogging --"

Christmas Its Origin, Celebration and Significance as Related in Prose and Verse Robert Haven Schauffler 1921

Plenty of robes and a foot-stove, or at least a slab of heated soap-stone, provided for grandmother's comfort.

A Backward Glance at Eighty Murdock, Charles A 1921

A ` ` foot-stove '' was simply a square tin box in a wooden frame, with perforations in the sides.

Life of Hon. Phineas T. Barnum 1891

This left the bonnets hanging inside the barrel, which was set over an old-fashioned foot-stove filled with hot coals on which sulphur had been placed.

Home Life in Colonial Days Alice Morse Earle 1881

I have seen one "brassen foot-stove" which had the owner's cipher cut out of the sheet metal, and from the side was hung a wrought brass chain.

Sabbath in Puritan New England Alice Morse Earle 1881

These foot-warmers helped to make endurable to the goodwives the icy chill of the meeting-house; and round their mother's foot-stove the shivering little children sat on their low crickets, warming their half-frozen fingers.

Sabbath in Puritan New England Alice Morse Earle 1881

This stove was a foot-stove, -- a small metal box, usually of sheet tin or iron, enclosed in a wooden frame or standing on little legs, and with a handle or bail for comfortable carriage.

Diary of Anna Green Winslow A Boston School Girl of 1771 Anna Green Winslow 1881