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  • As Mr.. O'Rourke set the coffee-urn in front of Mr.. Bilkins and flanked Mr. Bilkins with the broiled mackerel and buttered toast, Mr.. O'Rourke's conscience smote her.

    Humorous Masterpieces from American Literature Various

  • I'll never be able to do any serious business again until I get her behind the coffee-urn.

    The Man Thou Gavest

  • [Illustration: THE OLD GENTLEMAN LIFTED JEAN UP ON THE POST.] "I should like to see where papa lived when he was a boy, but I wouldn't care to have Mr. Congreve there," said Bea, who had that morning began being more womanly than usual by relieving mama of coffee-urn duties.

    Six Girls A Home Story Fannie Belle Irving

  • "We will call our contrivance a coffee-urn; it sounds aristocratic," suggested Nattie, as she cleared the books from the least shaky table, and spread it with three towels, in lieu of a table-cloth.

    Wired Love A Romance of Dots and Dashes Ella Cheever Thayer

  • Down to the ground went Nattie's knife and fork, the coffee-urn narrowly escaped a similar fate, up went the back of the Duchess, and two dismayed Bohemians and one impatient cat gazed at each other.

    Wired Love A Romance of Dots and Dashes Ella Cheever Thayer

  • So everybody pranced into the dining-room, and Bea was placed behind the coffee-urn, and couldn't do a thing but blush, and look too happy and overcome to attend to her duties.

    Six Girls A Home Story Fannie Belle Irving

  • Mrs. Blecker's face grew hot; but that might have been the steam of the coffee-urn.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 69, July, 1863 Various

  • "Well, anyhow, Christmas is coming," said Bea, nodding cheerfully over the coffee-urn.

    Six Girls A Home Story Fannie Belle Irving

  • "But our dishes, 'ay, there's the rub,'" and she laughingly held up the coffee-urn, while the less adaptable Nattie thought apprehensively of the propensity of things to cool.

    Wired Love A Romance of Dots and Dashes Ella Cheever Thayer

  • Sylvia took her place at one end, behind the coffee-urn, Molly at the other end, behind the strawberries and ice-cream.

    The Old Gray Homestead Frances Parkinson Keyes 1927

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