It's the pot calling the kettle black then, if we do!
When his kettle boiled he filled the tea-pot, and summoned his guests.
He made use of a small kettle for the purpose, so that the important matter of boiling down the sap need not be interfered with.
So he set to work to build up the fires, that the process of boiling to syrup what was now in the kettle might be hastened, for it must be taken from the fire and strained and put safely into the camp before they went home.
The death of Black Kettlewas much regretted by many white people.
Harney said respecting him:--"I have worn the uniform of my country 55 years, and I know that Black Kettle was as good a friend of the United States as I am.
Obtaining a fresh kettleof alcohol, to keep up his spirits, he left camp, returning toward the scene of the late rendezvous.
We used to take a kettle of hot water, catch the crickets and throw them in, and when they stopped kicking, eat them.
We took advantage of this lull to fill all vessels with water, and soon had it by the camp kettle full; but they continued to withdraw, and all firing ceased, save occasional shots from sharpshooters, sent to annoy us about the water.
We kept a hot fire and finally boiled water in a kettle and, gathering wintergreen leaves from a knoll outside the camp, made a hot tea for him.
The spring was nearly a mile from the farmhouse; and at a little distance below it we built a shed and set up a large kettle for boiling water to scald out the kegs and barrels that came back from customers and dealers to be refilled.
Although the brass kettle was kept heating on the stove all the while, we had trouble in getting enough warm water to "take the chill off.
Aunt Olive put six quarts of milk in a kettle on the stove, and as it warmed, thickened it slightly with about a pint of corn-meal.
Every day, too, we noticed the smoke of the fire under the kettle in which he heated water for scalding out the casks.
Before starting for the woods we had to go to old Hughy's cabin to get two pails for carrying the honey and a kettle and a roll of brimstone for "stifling" the bees.
My heart is like a kettle in which everything is boiling, and it is foaming over the top with love for you.
What are you going to put into the kettle to stop this unseemly boiling?
I don't want you to pour in cold water, or take thekettle off, or put the fire out.
For supper they made a broth by boiling an old horse's leg in a kettle of water, filling up with water as often as the kettle was emptied.
Here we found a blazing fire, and the tea-kettle singing joyously.
Wash down the sides of the kettle as in making fondant.
Either make it in a large double-boiler, or a large saucepan or kettle over water.
When this fire is kindled, the kettle is again placed over the fire, and refilled with the vegetable.
On the appointed day the tribe are all assembled, and in the center of the lodge a kettle is hung over a fire, and filled with the coveted grain.
Dan threw on some more wood, and Billy unhung thekettle and poured some water into a pan.
Billy had crawled out of the cave for some snow with which to fill the kettle and reduce the temperature of the water poured into the pan.
Being made of bad conductors, such as wood, paper, or woollen cloth, they will not readily conduct the heat from the kettle to the hand.
Now Louis Placide surprises you in a rapids near Kettle Portage and brings you here.
The crew had deserted, but amidships, among the packages of pelts and duffel, sat a stranger, The canoe was that of the post at Kettle Portage.
A stranger came to-day with Louis Placide of Kettle Portage.
I want you to tell me what all this mystery is--about the man who to-day arrived from Kettle Portage, I mean.
Finally Louis Placide from the post at Kettle Portage got to his feet.
They both wanted it--I was almost afraid it might make feeling between them, till I soothed the loser by selling her an old brass tea-kettle that I had picked up in a curiosity shop in Oxford years ago.
She stretched on tiptoe over the fire, and ladled out a steaming mixture from the kettle with an arduous swing of her sharp elbow.
Don't you know enough, without being told, to lift that kettle off the fire for Elmira?
Jerome lifted the kettle off the fire without a word.
She made the fire and put the kettle on to boil and swept the kitchen.
The mice ran about the wainscoting, the kettle sang blithely, the little flames leaped in the grate, the kitchen and the breakfast-room were cheerful and cosy and redolent of the goodly savors of breakfast.
And that kettle is boiling over again," and Miss Penny jumped up and ran to the rescue.
So, after lighting a fire in the kitchen and setting the kettle to boil, he rooted about till he found the remains of a spade and set himself to unaccustomed labours.
We're in for it too," said Graeme, hastily emptying his kettle and packing up the tea-things.
Miss Penny had a driftwood fire roaring among the rocks, and the kettle was boiling.
The storm broke over them before thekettle boiled.
The flood rose through the night, till it washed the kettle off the hob in the kitchen.
But a fire was made in the kitchen, the hearth-rug put down, the kettle set on the hob, and Mrs. Brangwen began towards sunset to prepare the first meal.
Come along and let 's tell 'em to put the kettle on, and be sure to give us tea-leaves out of the canister.
And the Spawer approaches the Royal Arms and orders the Royal Arms to put the kettle on and lay the table for two, with ham and eggs and anything else they think likely to tempt an invalid.
The kettle commenced to throb upon the red embers of the little kitchen fire, and pushing out a blithe volume of steam through its pursed lips, appeared to be whistling light-heartedly at the immediate prospect of the cup that cheers.
Leisurely he filled a kettle from the well and thrust it into the centre of the small wood fire, which he had kindled.
Fresh logs were thrown upon the fire, a kettle boiled, and some tea deftly prepared.
After this the two bridesmaids raised the two-spouted kettle and presented it to the lips of the married pair, who drank from it alternately, till they had exhausted its contents.
This bear isn't held by a trap, and if you only wound him there'd be a pretty kettle of fish.
This defined roughly the size of the kettle to be made.
There was an unconscious celebration when the big kettle was completed.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "kettle" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
