A large, heavy-paper funnel is put in the nose of the teakettle which is boiling on the gas range. From Wordnik.com. [The Mother and Her Child] Reference
Then, whoever is 'it,' begins to ask questions, and we answer, only we put the word 'teakettle' in place of the real word. From Wordnik.com. [Cricket at the Seashore] Reference
Halle groaned and set the teakettle back on the pad. From Wordnik.com. [Lunatics]
The water brought in in the teakettle should be hot. From Wordnik.com. [How to Prepare and Serve a Meal; and Interior Decoration] Reference
It starts with an apple falling, a teakettle boiling. From Wordnik.com. [Futures Imperfect]
= -- Set a bowl over a boiling teakettle, into it put. From Wordnik.com. [Vaughan's Vegetable Cook Book (4th edition) How to Cook and Use Rarer Vegetables and Herbs] Reference
"Knocked me top over teakettle," he said with a laugh. From Wordnik.com. [Locked Rooms]
And Isabel entered, the teakettle boiling in her wake. From Wordnik.com. [White Ashes] Reference
Why, Polly Howland, look at my perfectly good teakettle!. From Wordnik.com. [Peggy Stewart at School] Reference
There was a small fire in it, over which her teakettle hung. From Wordnik.com. [Six Little Bunkers at Mammy June's] Reference
Never use water which has stood in the teakettle over night. From Wordnik.com. [Things Mother Used to Make] Reference
The teakettle began whistling then, and Stephen was grateful. From Wordnik.com. [Lunatics]
The brass teakettle looked to be good-tempered but unreliable. From Wordnik.com. [The Cat in Grandfather's House] Reference
And there's the cricket on the hearth and the teakettle singing. From Wordnik.com. [The Gay Cockade] Reference
"There's something catlike about a teakettle," Hortense reflected. From Wordnik.com. [The Cat in Grandfather's House] Reference
Have some boiling water in a teakettle; pass as much of it through. From Wordnik.com. [A Poetical Cook-Book] Reference
While there is no sound to be heard above the hum of the teakettle. From Wordnik.com. [Precipitations] Reference
"It's a teakettle, that's what makes it," said Mun Bun, as he looked. From Wordnik.com. [Six Little Bunkers at Aunt Jo's] Reference
Howard Dean is a simmering teakettle of emotion, aspiration and edge. From Wordnik.com. [Feeling Dean's Pain] Reference
"I left the teakettle boiling over to come and see if ye were killed.". From Wordnik.com. [Four Little Blossoms and Their Winter Fun] Reference
Just above the small alcohol lamp the teakettle was beginning to sing. From Wordnik.com. [The Camp Fire Girls in the Outside World] Reference
Stephen went to the stove and pretended to watch the teakettle heat up. From Wordnik.com. [Lunatics]
His face was a mottled red, and he was sputtering like a crusted-up teakettle. From Wordnik.com. [Gabriel's Lady]
The MVD man hissed like a teakettle and both heads swung round to look at him again. From Wordnik.com. [Supermind] Reference
Make plain ice-cream; melt two squares of chocolate in a little saucer over the teakettle. From Wordnik.com. [A Little Cook Book for a Little Girl] Reference
To Keep teakettle from Rusting -- A clean oyster shell placed in the teakettle will keep out rust. From Wordnik.com. [Fowler's Household Helps Over 300 Useful and Valuable Helps About the Home, Carefully Compiled and Arranged in Convenient Form for Frequent Use] Reference
He seemed composed now, too much so, a boiling teakettle with the lid strapped down and the spout plugged. From Wordnik.com. [The Shadow Rising]
It is much better to have a teakettle lined with earthy matters than to have such a lining in our arteries. From Wordnik.com. [Maintaining Health Formerly Health and Efficiency] Reference
Grabbing the teakettle off the stove, she took it to the sink, filled it, then set it down again on the back burner. From Wordnik.com. [The Part Time Wife]
Melt the chocolate over the teakettle and stir in the sugar and butter and a couple of drops of vanilla, if you like. From Wordnik.com. [A Little Cook Book for a Little Girl] Reference
Very soon the kitchen stove began to heat its end of the house, and the big tin teakettle sang and sighed over the flames. From Wordnik.com. [Buffalo Roost] Reference
Halfway across the dining room, an earsplitting whistle sounded — the teakettle on the stove had reached the boiling point. From Wordnik.com. [The Part Time Wife]
The white flannels, after being well washed in the suds, will require to be scalded by turning on a teakettle of boiling water. From Wordnik.com. [Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889] Reference
Melt one square of Baker's chocolate in a saucer over the teakettle, and put in two tablespoonfuls of milk and stir till smooth. From Wordnik.com. [A Little Cook Book for a Little Girl] Reference
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