soup-kettle

To Wilde, the Mormon Tabernacle “looked like a soup-kettle . . . an enormous affair about the size of Covent Gardens that holds with ease fourteen Mormon families.”

LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY JR. ROY MORRIS 2010

To Wilde, the Mormon Tabernacle “looked like a soup-kettle . . . an enormous affair about the size of Covent Gardens that holds with ease fourteen Mormon families.”

LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY JR. ROY MORRIS 2010

Thus an entry in February ends with the following words: "An Emperor penguin just come on a visit -- soup-kettle."

The South Pole~ On the Barrier 2009

February ends with the following words: “An Emperor penguin just come on a visit — soup-kettle.”

The South Pole; an account of the Norwegian antarctic expedition in the 'Fram', 1910 to 1912 2003

“All right, do you remember how you asked me to shift the focus of the incongruity to Coventry 1940, and I did, and I told you it matched the Waterloo soup-kettle sim nearly perfectly.”

To Say Nothing of the Dog Willis, Connie 1997

It took the Dreyfus Affair to get the Zionists out and doing, finally: what will drive you out of your soup-kettle?

Gravity's Rainbow Pynchon, Thomas 1978

A few short years more, and many of you, like your deceased brethren, will bend your proud heads level with the dust, and those giant limbs, which now kiss the summer sun and dare the winter's blast, will feed that insatiate meteor's stomach, or crackle beneath some adventurous pioneer's soup-kettle.

Lands of the Slave and the Free Cuba, the United States, and Canada Henry A. Murray

Odd as it may seem, a _soup-kettle_ is the standard of the Janissaries, an emblem rather more appropriate for a Court of Aldermen.

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 405, December 19, 1829 Various

This he found on inquiry was the soup-kettle of a corps of Janissaries, and always held in high respect; indeed, so distinguishing a characteristic of this body is their _soup_, that their colonel is called Tchorbadgé, or the distributor of soup.

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 405, December 19, 1829 Various

-- Put a piece of butter the size of an egg into the soup-kettle; stir until melted.

Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889 Barkham Burroughs