tea-urn

Soon after arriving, Ronay was shocked to see how sugar was dispensed in a buffet at Victoria Station? with a teaspoon on a string next to the tea-urn, to be left for the next user.

Egon Ronay 2010

It bore through the harvest country a smell like a large washing-day, and a sharp issue of steam as from a huge brazen tea-urn.

The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices 2007

“Clive does not think he is a rascal at all, papa,” cries Rosey, from behind her tea-urn; “that is, you said you thought papa judged him too harshly; you know you did, this morning!”

The Newcomes 2006

A war between two such men is dreadful; pretty little pink-faced Rosey, in a sweet little morning cap and ribbons, her pretty little fingers twinkling with a score of rings, sat simpering before her silver tea-urn, which reflected her pretty little pink baby face.

The Newcomes 2006

The mother took both of them close to herself, and held a hand of each of them as they knelt down to prayers, which Sir Pitt read to them, and to the servants in their Sunday suits or liveries, ranged upon chairs on the other side of the hissing tea-urn.

Vanity Fair 2006

I looked up and saw my friend standing over the unconscious major, a filigreed Turkish tea-urn still swinging in his right hand.

The Vesuvius Club Mark Gatiss 2004

Now the guard standing with his hand raised dropped his flag and the tea-urn slid past.

The Years 2004

I looked up and saw my friend standing over the unconscious major, a filigreed Turkish tea-urn still swinging in his right hand.

The Vesuvius Club Mark Gatiss 2004

Arrived at the Kalinovo wood, we found the carriage awaiting us there, with, beside it, a one-horse waggonette driven by the butler — a waggonette in which were a tea-urn, some apparatus for making ices, and many other attractive boxes and bundles, all packed in straw!

Childhood 2003

The steam from the tea-urn rose in the middle of the lawn.

The Waves 2003