stove-lid

A stove-lid rattled and ashes were stirred to life with a silken slurring.

Ishmael Barbara Hambly 2000

A stove-lid rattled and ashes were stirred to life with a silken slurring.

Ishmael Barbara Hambly 2000

QUOTATION: We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it—and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid.

Mark Twain (1835-1910) 1989

She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again—and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.

Mark Twain (1835-1910) 1989

She knocked him down with a stove-lid lifter and the

Roosevelt in the Bad Lands Hermann Hagedorn 1923

The stove-lid shot so close to my head it was no joke ... it took out the whole window-sash and lit in the outside snow.

Tramping on Life Kemp, Harry, 1883-1960 1922

The stove-lid shot so close to my head it was no joke ... it took out the whole window-sash and lit in the outside snow.

Tramping on Life An Autobiographical Narrative Harry Kemp 1921

"Milk what?" he demanded, pausing with stove-lid and lifter raised in his hand, in the half-completed act of putting wood on the fire.

The Cow Puncher Robert J. C. Stead 1919

Then the sun showed itself, glowing like a red-hot stove-lid shoved above the horizon.

'Me--Smith' Caroline Lockhart 1916

I ran back to my room and locked myself in, and then stood, armed with the stove-lid lifter, in case it should be Ladley and he should break the door in.

The Case of Jennie Brice 1913