gasogene

Lovers of these stories — can we not call them addicts? — often note that part of their appeal lies in their comfortingly familiar atmospheres: Holmes and Watson's rooms on Baker Street, with the "gasogene" (whatever that is) and the Persian slipper filled with pipe tobacco, or Wolfe's townhouse on West 35th, with its kitchen on the first floor and its plant rooms on the roof.

Now, Read it Again 2009

With hardly a word spoken, but with a kindly eye, he waved me to an armchair, threw across his case of cigars, and indicated a spirit case and a gasogene in the corner.

Sole Music 2010

He rose and went over to the cabinet, rattled bottles, and added a swoosh from the old-fashioned gasogene to his glass, then came back and stretched his long legs out to the cold fireplace.

A Letter of Mary King, Laurie R. 1996

He rose and went over to the cabinet, rattled bottles, and added a swoosh from the old-fashioned gasogene to his glass, then came back and stretched his long legs out to the cold fireplace.

A Letter of Mary King, Laurie R. 1996

With hardly a word spoken, but with a kindly eye, he waved me to an armchair, threw across his case of cigars, and indicated a spirit case and a gasogene in the corner.

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1950

With hardly a word spoken, but with a kindly eye, he waved me to an armchair, threw across his case of cigars, and indicated a spirit case and a gasogene in the corner.

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1950

So I went to an oculist, and he turned a gasogene -- I mean a gas-engine -- into my eye.

The Light That Failed Rudyard Kipling 1900

With hardly a word spoken, but with a kindly eye, he waved me to an armchair, threw across his case of cigars, and indicated a spirit case and a gasogene in the corner.

Masterpieces of Mystery In Four Volumes Detective Stories Joseph Lewis French 1897

With hardly a word spoken, but with a kindly eye, he waved me to an armchair, threw across his case of cigars, and indicated a spirit case and a gasogene in the corner.

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Arthur Conan Doyle 1894

With hardly a word spoken, but with a kindly eye, he waved me to an armchair, threw across his case of cigars, and indicated a spirit case and a gasogene in the corner.

A Scandal in Bohemia 1891