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In Chiyaden lady Bhosai had died, they said, of poison on the bottom of a tea-bowl.
2005 Cherryh, C. J. 2005
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Accustomed to seeing him gentle, shrinking, illusively non-resisting, I scarcely knew this white flame of a man, burning over the tea-bowl!
The Best Short Stories of 1917 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story Various 1915
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The life went out of his voice, the fire died in his eyes, his fingers drooped on the tea-bowl.
The Best Short Stories of 1917 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story Various 1915
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Artisans on various continents have painted Pop Art checkerboards on traditional tea-bowl forms and used ancient raku firing techniques on jokily unusable perforated vases.
NYT > Home Page By EVE M. KAHN 2011
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Up four flight of stairs we fly -- for the bath is in the double-sunk story -- ten steps at a bound -- and in five minutes have devoured one quartern loaf, six eggs, and a rizzar, washing all over with a punch-bowl of congou and a tea-bowl of coffee.
Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2 John Wilson 1819
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