"Cookstove" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... far until there came a general outcry against the heavy loads and unnecessary articles. Soon we began to see abandoned property. First it might be a table or a cupboard, or perhaps a bedstead or a cast-iron cookstove. Then feather beds, blankets, quilts, and pillows were seen. Very soon, here and there would be an abandoned wagon; then provisions, stacks of flour and bacon being the most abundant—all ...
— Ox-Team Days on the Oregon Trail • Ezra Meeker
... in one hand and the dish towel in the other, was, to say the least, startled. As she expressed it afterward, "the everlastin' soul was pretty nigh scart out of her." The saucer flew through the air and lit upon the top of the cookstove. ...
— Cap'n Dan's Daughter • Joseph C. Lincoln
... in the cookstove oven most of the time. There! there! the more you talk the further from home you get. You started in with Roscoe and the bank and you're in the grave already. If I was you I'd quit afore I went any further. Land knows where you might fetch up ...
— The Rise of Roscoe Paine • Joseph C. Lincoln
... Vaucouleurs for rest and replacements. At Vaucouleurs there was a great big hut with a piano, a victrola, and a cookstove. ...
— The War Romance of the Salvation Army • Evangeline Booth and Grace Livingston Hill |
