This cast iron creation was also called the potbellied stove. From Wordnik.com. [The Albert Lea Tribune] Reference
The room was heated with a small potbellied stove. From Wordnik.com. [Time for a good hunting story. We are camped under huge spruce trees on Afognak Island. It's raining hard but we are dry.] Reference
We suppose a potbellied pig is out of the question too. From Wordnik.com. [Jesus Christ, Superstar] Reference
They had a son, 2-year-old Francis, and a potbellied pig. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 11, 2007] Reference
Oh I'd like to take each potbellied pol who talks that way. From Wordnik.com. [The Living Wage] Reference
The short, potbellied man scratched his scraggly gray beard. From Wordnik.com. [Gabriel Hawk's Lady]
We made a fire in the potbellied stove and read library books. From Wordnik.com. [Yatima » 2009 » July] Reference
Look at the potbellied inbred goobers with masks off on the left. From Wordnik.com. [Hillary: I Might Take Fight Over Florida And Michigan To Convention!] Reference
In the middle, a potbellied stove displayed a pan of congealed beans. From Wordnik.com. [Gorky Park]
"What's going on?" she demanded of a potbellied guy who stepped forward. From Wordnik.com. [What Dreams May Come]
"I beg your pardon," he said politely to the grubby, potbellied villager. From Wordnik.com. [Conan The Hunter]
The fat, potbellied man was probably the last of them, except for himself. From Wordnik.com. [Temple of the Winds]
At the forward end stood a potbellied stove, for use when fuel was available. From Wordnik.com. [The Day of Their Return]
Slauce was a blustery, potbellied, red-faced little man who was way out of his element. From Wordnik.com. [Bitter Gold Hearts]
A potbellied sunburned man wearing Bermuda shorts and a safari shirt let them in: Buddy. From Wordnik.com. [A Dirty Job HTML]
The potbellied shopkeeper slammed a grille across his doorway and stood behind it grinning. From Wordnik.com. [Lord of the Isles] Reference
He drew back the shower curtain to find the potbellied pig asleep in the bottom of the tub. From Wordnik.com. [The Tenth Circle]
Pigging Out In Winona, Minn., a part-potbellied pet pig now faces the prospect of portion control. From Wordnik.com. [Counting Up] Reference
Rosa was married to David, a potbellied American with a bulbous nose, big glasses and an easy smile. From Wordnik.com. [Christian Beckwith: Greening the Barrio: Part 4] Reference
It's hypocritical that Salem residents can keep potbellied pigs weighing under 100 pounds, she says. From Wordnik.com. [Some City Folk Are Mad as Wet Hens When Chickens Come Home to Roost] Reference
If you can't stand up to a bunch of potbellied liars, how can we expect you to stand up to al Q'aeda?. From Wordnik.com. [Andrew Foster Altschul: WANTED: Angry, Confrontational, Take-No-Prisoners Brawler for the Democratic Nomination] Reference
"Ernie, get out of there, " Bartholemew said, scolding the potbellied pig he'd brought out for a walk. From Wordnik.com. [The Tenth Circle]
"What's the matter, Captain?" said a balding, potbellied major a few stools down, who was nursing a beer. From Wordnik.com. [The Judas Valley] Reference
A potbellied shopkeeper, who was just putting away his display of goods for the night, confronted him first. From Wordnik.com. [Conan Of The Isles]
The camps were militaristic formations of tarpaper barracks, supplied with canvas cots and potbellied stoves. From Wordnik.com. [Even Cowgirls Get The Blues]
Apparently he hadn't thought it worthwhile to stoke up the potbellied stove for an interview with a detective. From Wordnik.com. [Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine]
She was a huge, potbellied, ungainly and unkempt thing, with a huge, potbellied, ungainly and unkempt captain. From Wordnik.com. [Ensign Flandry]
Residents say those are small prices to pay for upsides such as pine floors, potbellied stoves and antique-glass windows. From Wordnik.com. [Where We Live: Clifton, in Virginia's Fairfax County] Reference
I also thought of famines and civil wars and potbellied, half-naked children staring at the camera, sunk in hopelessness. From Wordnik.com. [Tears Of The Giraffe]
All you get is four blank walls and one light bulb in the middle of the room and a black potbellied stove over in the corner. From Wordnik.com. [The Creative Art Of Coping In Japanese Internment] Reference
Other men, like the potbellied man, simply threw themselves on a woman, grunted in a moment of satisfaction, and it was over. From Wordnik.com. [Temple of the Winds]
Within the potbellied hull, Targovi considerately maintained both weight and pressure at Terran standard, and wore his oxygill. From Wordnik.com. [The Game Of Empire]
That was the fuel that she kept us warm with in that classroom, on a big potbellied heater sitting out in the middle of the floor. From Wordnik.com. [Oral History Interview with Samuel James (S. J.) and Leonia Farrar, May 28, 2003. Interview K-0652. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference
The owner, a red-haired, potbellied giant of a man named Simpson, told them Mary Rose and the stranger were out back by the corral. From Wordnik.com. [For The Roses]
And of course she knew what he really needed, for the potbellied young prof wore a look of longing that, by now, she recognized well. From Wordnik.com. [Hotel Chelsea - Nanette 2] Reference
About the potbellied posse of Maricopa County and other innovations of Phoenix's straight-talkin ', PR-seekin' Sheriff Joe Arpaio, 62. From Wordnik.com. [Arizona Is Talking...] Reference
Now there's cast-iron potbellied stoves set up in some of the classrooms, holes carefully drilled in the walls to let the chimneys out. From Wordnik.com. [jaxraven Diary Entry] Reference
He was in his mid-seventies, bald, bespectacled, with one of the sidepieces of his glasses held together with masking tape, and potbellied. From Wordnik.com. [When The Bough Breaks]
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