Under the cloak of night an Indian crept to the kitchen end of the cabin, to start a blaze.
The fire-bug managed to crawl away, but he left his torch and the kitchen too.
Directly over against the subterranean kitchenwindows of a Phoenician dealer, ragged gamblers were playing at knuckle-bones, and gossiping.
The workmen were carrying up a heavy slab of marble, an antique bas-relief, stolen many years before and discovered in the hovel of a cobbler whosekitchen oven it had served to repair.
Mr. Mordant, the literary recluse, on his friend's arrival, was discovered cultivating his kitchen garden.
Yes," said the lady, "if she has not robbed the kitchen hearth.
Mrs. Slipshod entered the kitchen at this critical moment, and attacked the hostess with a skill developed by practice, tearing her cap, uprooting handfuls of hair, and delivering a succession of dexterous facers.
But Aunt Penine always puts me out of the kitchen when Tyntie gets that way, and so I don't know whether she talks or not.
The sharp words came from Margery, who had looked out at the kitchen window and caught sight of Miss Meta rolling in the mould.
I made bold one day to go up and ask after him, and the two young women in the kitchen took me to the room to see him, the ladies being out, and he had his tin stuffed full o' seed.
The kitchen we are to have is about as big as a rat-hole, and my hands are full enough this evening without dancing out to buy meats and dainties.
Lady Godolphin took her arm at once, and walked with a quick step through the kitcheninto the open air, nodding adieu to the old Welshwoman.
She didn't want screeching birds in her house, she said, and they had a desperate quarrel in mykitchen before they went away.
She washed the berries and then offered the tray of food to Penny who started with it toward the kitchen vestibule.
Hearing the telephone ring he came to the kitchen door.
Before Penny could answer, the proprietor came from the kitchen bearing two plates of food which he set down before them.
As she drew near, the kitchen door suddenly opened and a stout woman in a blue uniform came outside.
She told me it was brought to thekitchen door early this morning by a most disreputable looking boy.
My work isn't so heavy at the kitchen now, and the hours are not so long, so I hope to do some work of a literary nature.
I have started my soup-kitchen at the station, and it gives me a lot to do.
On Tuesday, February 9th, a Belgian officer came into Adinkerke station, claimed our kitchen as a bureau, and turned us out on to the platform.
Then came the winter of my work, day and night at the soup-kitchen for the wounded, a few days at home in January, then back again and to work at Adinkerke till June, when I came home to lecture.
When I came down to breakfast in the Joos' little kitchen I remarked, of course, on the beauty of the weather.
The bombardment lasted about an hour, and we all waited in the kitchen and listened to it.
I went to Adinkerke two days ago to establish a soup-kitchen there, as they say that Furnes station is too dangerous.
One or two strong trays in each kitchen would be useful.
The following brief impression of Miss Macnaughtan's work at the soup-kitchen forms the most appropriate conclusion to her story of her experiences in Belgium.
Had we permitted itinerant workers, the authorities gave notice that the kitchen would have to close.
I went down to my kitchen a little late, but I had seen something that Drake never saw--a bit of modern sea-fighting.
That evening I saw him walking up and down the kitchen floor with our Baby in his arms--for that Winter we had a homeless mother and Baby at the Colony.
The kitchen won't be very much larger, but this will make it easy for the cook.
Heaven in the drawing-room and hell in the kitchen is not the atmosphere for a growing child to breathe--nor an adult either.
Reconnoitring for a possible dog, they applied at the kitchen door for "a drink of water, please.
There are usually three or four extensive apartments, opening off each other, with a kitchen backwards.
He entered the kitchen quickly, and they heard him clattering about the stove.
In the kitchen he changed his felt-soled slippers for a pair of boots.
Bill Long entered from thekitchen and sat down, when requested, on the outer edge of an armchair.
Dick Goodine went about his business; and Mr. Banks sat by the kitchen stove, smoking and struggling with his puzzle.
They left the window, opened the back door noiselessly, crossed the kitchen on tiptoes, and threw open the door of the sitting room.
Banks was washing the dishes in the kitchen when Dick Goodine opened the door, and stepped inside.
The kitchen door opened and closed, Turk yelped a welcome, and next moment Dick Goodine entered the sitting room.
David felt fairly reckless under the influence of it; but when he came face to face with Nell Harley, in the kitchen door, his recklessness turned to confusion.
The sun was just over the eastern forests when they stepped out from the warm kitchen to the frosted open, buttoned their fur-lined gloves, and turned up the collars of their blanket "jumpers.
The two were washing the dishes, when the kitchen door opened, and Dick Goodine stepped into the room.
This intelligence sent Mrs. Chadron off to bedroom and kitchen to make preparations for her reception and restoration.
The kitchenwill be brighter from this day," Maggie declared, in the extravagant way of her race, only meaning more than usually carries in a Castilian compliment.
Perhaps when you are married to Mr. Macdonald you will have room in your kitchen for me?
She had settled down to her roasts and hot condiments, her knitting and her afternoon naps, as contentedly as an old cat with a singed back under a kitchen stove.
He brought Nola's coat at her mother's suggestion, for the evening had a feeling of frost in it, and attended her to the kitchen after the chicken broth as gallantly as if he wore a sword.
Maggie hung back a moment, until Thorn had come into the room, then she shot into the kitchen like a cat through a fence, and slammed the door behind her.
That had happened to him more than once, and it only seemed to sharpen the pleasure of being snowed in at a place like Alamito, where the kitchen was fat and the hand of the host free.
He smiled as he turned to the kitchen to wash his face and soap his hair.
On the other side the cowboy was watching his comrade's gun pointing through the kitchen door; Macdonald could see the whites of his eyes as he turned them.
Frances beckoned to Maggie, who had followed her mistress to the kitchen door.
Mrs. Chadron came back from her investigations in the kitchen in a little while to Frances, who waited alone before the happy little fire in the chimney.
As Morgan passed Stilwell, who was greatly impeded in his efforts to buckle on his guns by his wife's clinging arms and passionate pleadings to remain at home, Fred broke away from his sister and ran for the kitchen door.
Some hardy flowers, such as zinnias and marigolds, stood clumped about dooryards; in thekitchen gardens tasseled corn rose tall, dust thick on the guttered blades.
First, she found occasion to expel Mère Rollet, the nurse, who during her convalescence had contracted the habit of coming too often to the kitchen with her two nurslings and her boarder, better off for teeth than a cannibal.
Then they warmed themselves in the kitchen while their room was being made ready.
He took his meals in the kitchen alone, opposite the fire, on a little table brought to him all ready laid, as on the stage.
The smell of melted butter penetrated the thin walls when he saw patients, just as in the kitchen one could hear the people coughing in the consulting-room and recounting their whole histories.
She lighted one of the kitchen candles that she had hidden behind the books.
When Madame Bovary was in the kitchenshe went up to the chimney.
In another moment he was at the kitchen door, interrupting Sum Fat's first matutinal attentions to his teeth with a demand for a bathing-suit.
Whitaker left the kitchen hurriedly and, in an endeavour to control himself, made a round of the other rooms.
For hours he pondered it there in the sunlit kitchen of the silent house--waiting, wondering, deep in thought.
He lounged out of the kitchen with a tin bowl, a towel and a bar of yellow soap, and splashed conscientiously at the pump in the dooryard, taking more time for the job than was really necessary.
He rose, yawned, stretched, grimaced with the ache in his stiffened limbs, and went to the kitchen door.
Whitaker delayed only long enough to place a bill, borrowed from Ember, on the kitchen table, in payment for what provisions they had consumed, and to extinguish the lamps and shut the door.
With the frenzied leap of a madman, Whitaker gained the kitchen door, shook it, controlled himself long enough to draw the bolt, and flung out into the dim silvery witchery of the night.
I wanted clothing, mostly--and found these awful things hanging behind the kitchen door.
Leaving the kitchen light turned low, he went to his own room and, as on the previous night, threw himself upon the bed without undressing; but this time with no thought of sleep.
In the great stove that took up one-third of the kitchen there was a cheerful crackling, as in every Jewish home on a Friday.
The only person left alive was a servant-girl, who was sleeping on the kitchen stove.
The hiss of a pot boiling over in the kitchen interrupted the letter-reading, and she was requested to go and attend to it forthwith.
In front of the hammock, and within reach of her hand, is a common kitchen chair, with a pile of serious-looking books and a supply of writing paper on it.
VIVIE [going to the door of the kitchen and opening it, ignoring her mother] Now, about supper?
Before she can retort the door of the kitchen is opened; and the voices of the others are heard returning.
Miller rolled a barrel of flour into thekitchen from the storehouse, and told him to fly at them.
Miller called our man out behind the kitchen and told him to knock off if he wanted to.
Mrs. Ellmother sat by the dying embers of the kitchen fire; thinking over the events of the day in perplexity and distress.
Then the banging of the door that led into the kitchenshook the flimsily-built cottage.
Arrived at the top of the kitchen stairs, she noted a slight change.
He never stopped going until he ducked in the Back Way, through the Grape Arbor, past the Woodshed, into the Kitchen of the old Homestead in which he first saw the Light of Day.
The Goddess is in the kitchen trying to make preserves out of Watermelon Rinds, with the White House Cook Book propped open in front of her.
Simultaneous with the Golf Epidemic, a good many Families that could not afford Kitchen Cabinets began to glide around in red Touring-Cars.
He was lying in the kitchen when I saw him last in life, and his parting words must be sadder to the reader than they were to me.
He has been seen prowling about the kitchen of the palace where your meals are prepared.
This was above the hall, or a portion of it, or over the kitchen and buttery attached to the hall.
The Farm Kitchenas a Workshop, Farmers' Bulletin No.
The Farm Kitchenas a Workshop," Farmers' Bulletin No.
You are sure she didn't go into the kitchen and dry her feet?
The pillow and a shawl were brought, and Mrs. Grant covered Mary as she lay upon the sofa; then she went to the kitchen to hurry up tea.
