kettle-holder

The blind was up, and he pulled back the little chintz curtains to let the sunlight strike across to the bed, hung his watch within good view of his pillow, on a nail that supported a kettle-holder, and sat down on his bed to undress.

The Wheels of Chance: a bicycling idyll Herbert George 2006

He made embroidery, designing his own patterns; and in that kind of work I never made anything but a kettle-holder in Berlin wool, and an odd garter of knitting, which was as black as the chimney before I had done with it.

Memories and Portraits 2005

But Philippe was so powerless, he couldn't even stop his croquet hoop from being heated red-hot in the flames as a kettle-holder ...

The Happy Foreigner Enid Bagnold 1935

The old-fashioned furniture brightly rubbed and polished, my aunt’s inviolable chair and table by the round green fan in the bow-window, the drugget-covered carpet, the cat, the kettle-holder, the two canaries, the old china … and, wonderfully out of keeping with the rest, my dusty self upon the sofa, taking note of everything.

Unfading Pictures 1922

"But Miss Perry has the kettle-holder," said Miss Rosseter, and indeed

Jacob's Room Virginia Woolf 1911

Your liver pad has been made into a kettle-holder.

Getting Married George Bernard Shaw 1903

See when the kettle boils, the young man jumps up, whips the cap off his head, and uses it for a kettle-holder.

Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 Sex in Relation to Society Havelock Ellis 1899

But she often talked lovingly of Peter and she knitted a kettle-holder for him, and one day when she was wondering what Easter present he would like, her mother made a suggestion.

The Little White Bird; or, Adventures in Kensington gardens 1898

But she often talked lovingly of Peter, and she knitted a kettle-holder for him, and one day when she was wondering what Easter present he would like, her mother made a suggestion.

Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens Arthur Rackham 1898

But she often talked lovingly of Peter, and she knitted a kettle-holder for him, and one day when she was wondering what Easter present he would like, her mother made a suggestion.

Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens Arthur Rackham 1898