It appeared as if there were a sort of match, or trial of skill, you must understand, between the
kettle and the Cricket.
“Why, there’s judgment in all things,” said Kirby, stirring the liquor in his
kettles briskly.
Tip wriggled around upon his stool and stared awhile at the
kettle, which was beginning to bubble.
"You'll find something in the
kettle when it's taken off--and it won't be poor, innocent chickens, either."
When the water in the
kettle was boiling, the cook went into the bedroom to fetch Fundevogel and throw him into it.
"Never mind," said the shaggy man, consolingly; "I ought to make enough soup to feed them all, I'm so big; so I'll ask them to put me in the
kettle first."
You get near the
kettle, so that it can overhear you, and then you shout out, "I don't want any tea; do you, George?" to which George shouts back, "Oh, no, I don't like tea; we'll have lemonade instead - tea's so indigestible." Upon which the
kettle boils over, and puts the stove out.
There was sand in our eyes, sand in our teeth, sand in our suppers, sand dancing in the spring at the bottom of the
kettle, for all the world like porridge beginning to boil.
It was with the greatest difficulty, however, that they succeeded in getting up a
kettle of water from the river for the use of the camp.
We'll all have tea, I'm a Protestant
kettle, No Popery!' cried the raven.
The vases fell off the mantelpiece, the canisters fell off the shelf; the
kettle fell off the hob.
He was a poor and honest workman who mended his neighbors'
kettles and pans, and did his best to keep his family in decent comfort.