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As men beat on kettle or warmingpan, when angry she-bees, or say, flying desperate wasps, are to be hived; and the desperate insects hear it, and cluster round it, -- simply as round
The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838
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Remember, I've a warmingpan -- you know where it hangs, and that's enough.
John Bull The Englishman's Fireside: A Comedy, in Five Acts George Colman 1799
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Tuami brooch; for Dora Riparia Hopeandwater a cooling douche and a warmingpan; a pair of Blarney braggs for Wally Meagher;
Finnegans Wake 2006
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