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They were cordoned off from the winter night by the cozy glow of the lantern and the warmth wafting from the coal footstove.
Once An Angel Medeiros, Teresa, 1962- 1993
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Saying this, she simultaneously took her own cushion and laid it on a stool, and after Pao-yü took a seat on it, she placed the footstove she had been using, under his feet; and producing, from a satchet, two peach-blossom-scented small cakes, she opened her own hand-stove and threw them into the fire; which done, she covered it well again and placed it in Pao-yü's lap.
Hung Lou Meng, Book I Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books Xueqin Cao
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How many times have I carried her footstove for her and filled it in the vestry-room.
Eugene Field A Study In Heredity And Contradictions Thompson, Slason 1901
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Saying this, she simultaneously took her own cushion and laid it on a stool, and after Pao-yü took a seat on it, she placed the footstove she had been using, under his feet; and producing, from a satchet, two peach-blossom-scented small cakes, she opened her own hand-stove and threw them into the fire; which done, she covered it well again and placed it in Pao-yü‘s lap.
Hung Lou Meng 2003
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