steam-kettle

A change would come over him, and from talking in his usual opinionated style he would go into a sort of brooding study, staring ahead and growling as though a steam-kettle was coming to the boil inside him.

THE NUMBERS

Henry said, “They must have used your steam-kettle.”

The White Mountains

Henry said, “They must have used your steam-kettle.”

The White Mountains

A change would come over him, and from talking in his usual opinionated style he would go into a sort of brooding study, staring ahead and growling as though a steam-kettle was coming to the boil inside him.

Flashman and the angel of the lord

A change would come over him, and from talking in his usual opinionated style he would go into a sort of brooding study, staring ahead and growling as though a steam-kettle was coming to the boil inside him.

Flashman and the angel of the lord

For meals, where a steam-kettle is not used, it is the best policy to have

Scientific American Supplement, No. 481, March 21, 1885

_Punch_ itself followed up the scent, and gave drawings of "Mercury giving Sir James Graham an insight into Letters" (with the aid of a steam-kettle), of "The Post Office Peep-Show, a Penny a Peep," in which foreign sovereigns, on paying their money to Showman Graham, are permitted to violate the secrecy of British correspondence; while a notice from St. Martin's-le-Grand informs his Continental clients that

The History of "Punch"

There were few signs of illness except a steam-kettle and a few bottles; a nurse was in the adjoining room.

Hugh Memoirs of a Brother

I don't suppose he has got bronchitis; but I have no doubt if I rushed over there at this moment, I should find him in bed with a steam-kettle.

The Lowest Rung Together with The Hand on the Latch, St. Luke's Summer and The Understudy

With the aid of screens and a sheet we contrived a tent over his cot, through a hole in which the elongated cardboard funnel of the steam-kettle could enter and give increased relief to the breathing.

The Lady of the Basement Flat