Then, at last, Alberich, his mother, and the wretched little scullery maid and turnspit boy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Exile's Honor]

The picture above is of Whiskey, the last surviving specimen of a turnspit dog, albeit stuffed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Whiskey the Turnspit Dog | clusterflock] Reference

I showed them my economical furnace, my turnspit by clock – work, my roasting apparatus, and my vaporiser.    From Wordnik.com.  [The physiology of taste; or Transcendental gastronomy. Illustrated by anecdotes of distinguished artists and statesmen of both continents by Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin. Translated from the last Paris edition by Fayette Robinson.] Reference

There is even a sort of turnspit Selenite, very common, whose duty and only delight it is to apply the motive power for various small appliances.    From Wordnik.com.  [First Men in the Moon] Reference

I remember him a little dirty turnspit boy in the house of Avenel, that every body in a frosty morning like this warmed his fingers by kicking or cuffing! and now he is.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Monastery] Reference

There is a variety of this dog; the crooked-legged turnspit.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dog] Reference

Here stood the greyhound, with his long legs, beside the turnspit.    From Wordnik.com.  [O. T. a Danish Romance] Reference

Whiskey, the last surviving specimen of a turnspit dog, albeit stuffed.    From Wordnik.com.  [clusterflock] Reference

Kittlegab's French cook, wi 'his turnspit doggie trindling ahint him, and.    From Wordnik.com.  [Waverley] Reference

As soon should our kitchen turnspit dog fly the greyhound that I had given.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wulfric the Weapon Thane] Reference

Reform was foiled, as Burke put it, because the turnspit in the king's kitchen was.    From Wordnik.com.  [The English Utilitarians, Volume I.] Reference

Mangy turnspit dogs were lying about, and grey rats were gnawing at refuse in the sinks.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Princess and Curdie] Reference

The dog worked in a cage, operating a wheel or drum which in its turn revolved the turnspit.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chats on Household Curios] Reference

'I'll show you three regular little turnspit dogs to-morrow that will answer that question.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lord Kilgobbin] Reference

Colonel Sykes says of these outcasts that among the pariahs is frequently found the turnspit-dog.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dog] Reference

'The fellow is as awkward as a turnspit when first put into the wheel, and as sleepy as a dormouse,' iv.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life of Johnson, Volume 6 Addenda, index, dicta philosophi, etc.] Reference

I showed them my economical furnace, my turnspit by clock-work, my roasting apparatus, and my vaporiser.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Physiology of Taste] Reference

But I recollect the immense kitchen very well, and the polished relics of the ancient turnspit machinery.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Amateur Poacher] Reference

So it has probably been with the turnspit dog; and this is known to have been the case with the ancon sheep.    From Wordnik.com.  [On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. (2nd edition)] Reference

'Mount, lazy long-chined turnspit, as thou valuest thy life,' cried Abdul the corsair, 'and away for Tunis.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection] Reference

Although of the same species, the two individuals were as unlike each other as a tall greyhound to a turnspit.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wild Huntress Love in the Wilderness] Reference

Kala fair and blushing in the lamp-light; and Sigmund playing idly with the crooked little turnspit at his feet.    From Wordnik.com.  [In the Yule-Log Glow, Book II Christmas Tales from 'Round the World] Reference

It was there my lad was turnspit once upon a time, for as great a man as he is now with my lord and all the household.    From Wordnik.com.  [St. George and St. Michael Volume II] Reference

As for his pupil, the king contemptuously sent him into his kitchen, and condemned him to the servile office of turnspit.    From Wordnik.com.  [Historical Tales, Vol. 4 (of 15) The Romance of Reality] Reference

The old turnspit was bred in the kitchen, and its daily task was to run in the revolving drum that helped to roast the meat.    From Wordnik.com.  [Castles and Cave Dwellings of Europe] Reference

As for the turnspit, he ran after the chariot, and got so covered with mud that one could hardly see what he was like at all.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Blue Fairy Book] Reference

Lambert, Simnel, 331; received in Dublin and crowned, 134; defeated at Stoke, 135; taken prisoner and appointed turnspit, 135.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of Ireland] Reference

All good people of either persuasion, royalty or commonalty, knowing his kitchen-range to be cold, no longer would play turnspit.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lorna Doone; a Romance of Exmoor] Reference

Hence, when he waddled across the court to and from his old grey pony, he somewhat resembled a turnspit walking upon its hind legs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Waverley — Volume 1] Reference

The shepherd-dog, the turnspit, and the bull-dog are the three remarkable variations of the canine blood which were brought about by.    From Wordnik.com.  [Domesticated Animals Their Relation to Man and to his Advancement in Civilization] Reference

The following occurrence at the Jesuit's College at Flêche, shows that others of the species have kept the turnspit to this disagreeable duty.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anecdotes of the Habits and Instinct of Animals] Reference

They are said also to be derived from terriers, and it seems to me that the perpetuation of malformation in several breeds will produce the turnspit.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anecdotes of the Habits and Instinct of Animals] Reference

Soon after, however, the refractory dog entered the kitchen, driving before him the truant turnspit, which immediately, of its own accord, went into the wheel.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anecdotes of the Habits and Instinct of Animals] Reference

In some few instances new breeds have suddenly originated; thus, in 1791, a ram-lamb was born in Massachusetts, having short crooked legs and a long back, like a turnspit-dog.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I.] Reference