“Oh, there are sermons in a cruet-stand, too,” said.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Father Brown] Reference

“And remembered that there were emetics in the cruet-stand,” said Father Brown.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Father Brown] Reference

“It serves you right,” she was saying: “I always told you not to have that old-fashioned cruet-stand.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Father Brown] Reference

The table with all the plates was upset; sauce, meat, knives, the salt, and cruet-stand were strewn over the room.    From Wordnik.com.  [Madame Bovary] Reference

Food, plates, knives and forks, glasses, and a cruet-stand were all she ever thought necessary; and even for a centre vase of flowers I had to ask, and often to insist, during the time she was single-handed.    From Wordnik.com.  [J. Cole] Reference

At this moment a gigantic cruet-stand was brought in.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of Robert-Houdin]

That's why I always carry a cruet-stand about with me.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wisdom of Father Brown] Reference

Life, as she said to Wally, was too short to woo a cruet-stand!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Captain Jim] Reference

Holmes propped it against the cruet-stand and read it while he ate.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Return of Sherlock Holmes] Reference

"And remembered that there were emetics in the cruet-stand," said Father.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wisdom of Father Brown] Reference

"Oh, there are sermons in a cruet-stand, too," said Father Brown, quite gravely.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wisdom of Father Brown] Reference

On the mahogany sideboard reposed a cruet-stand and a green dish of very red apples.    From Wordnik.com.  [Beyond] Reference

Giuseppe took a bottle out of the cruet-stand and set it on the table in front of him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Crowded Out! and Other Sketches] Reference

He was shedding tears copiously, and wiping them on a cruet-stand he carried in one hand.    From Wordnik.com.  [Somehow Good] Reference

Shorncliffe; and the first course consisted of a pair of very small soles and a large cruet-stand.    From Wordnik.com.  [Henry Dunbar A Novel] Reference

"Mustard old Towson's nose," said Miss Alsen, glancing lightly from the cruet-stand to the portrait.    From Wordnik.com.  [Many Cargoes] Reference

"It serves you right," she was saying: "I always told you not to have that old-fashioned cruet-stand.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wisdom of Father Brown] Reference

His cruet-stand, which looks as if it had been made in the patriarchal times, is still in use at Reydon Hall.    From Wordnik.com.  [Twenty-Seven Years in Canada West The Experience of an Early Settler (Volume I)] Reference

In that too well remembered room, the table was laid with a stained white cloth, a cruet-stand, and bottle of Worcestershire sauce.    From Wordnik.com.  [Beyond] Reference

She led the way into the dining-room, and they sat down on opposite sides of the table, the cruet-stand and japanned bread-basket between them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Summer] Reference

The table with all the plates was upset; sauce, meat, knives, the salt, and cruet-stand were strewn over the room; Charles was calling for help.    From Wordnik.com.  [Madame Bovary] Reference

That’s why I always carry a cruet-stand about with me.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Father Brown] Reference

Fox, you and Boys give Dr. Roberts a hand out with that cruet-stand.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Nursing Home Murder]

“Three chump chops, sharp,” said Soames, and staring at the cruet-stand, added: “She’s cooked her goose.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Silver Spoon] Reference

He’ll have to stand his trial, but I think they’ll find that the nut in the cruet-stand is not the only one loose.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Nursing Home Murder]

Wopples), who hides it, for some unexplained reason, in the cruet-stand, being the last piece of family plate remaining to the decayed family.    From Wordnik.com.  [Madame Midas] Reference

Bring me a large plate, and the cruet-stand, and a spoon and fork, and some salt. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Macleod of Dare] Reference

Who let you out o 'the cruet-stand?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life in the Red Brigade London Fire Brigade] Reference

He's a human cruet-stand without the oil.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Woman with the Fan] Reference

Old cruet-stand gone.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wisdom of Father Brown] Reference

What do you say to that cruet-stand? ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Salthaven] Reference

My carpet-bag -- my cruet-stand, that holds my sauce and soy.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of Humorous Verse] Reference

"D------ m the cruet-stand!" said Trimblett, wiping his hot face.    From Wordnik.com.  [Salthaven] Reference