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Example sentences for "samovar"

Lexicographically close words:
sames; samin; samisen; samite; samma; samovars; samp; sampan; sampans; samphire
  1. Avdyeitch laid down his awl, rose from his seat, put the samovar on the table, poured out the tea, and tapped with his finger at the glass.

  2. It was very cosy with the curtains drawn and the wood crackling in the stove and the samovar chuckling.

  3. The samovar hissed at the end of the table.

  4. There was always coffee in the morning, dinner at half-past six, and the samovar from half-past nine onwards.

  5. She was quite happy now, and sang and danced about as they cleared away most of the supper, leaving the samovar and the bread and the jam and the sausage for Nicholas and Bohun when they came in.

  6. Afterwards they lit the samovar and boiled some eggs and put the caviare and sausage and salt fish and jam on the table.

  7. Having had a drink of vodka and something to eat, they were about to take tea, and the samovar standing on the floor beside the brick oven was already humming.

  8. The tea-table was at one end of the room, and the big brass samovar was already sending out encouraging clouds of steamy vapor.

  9. The steaming, gleaming samovar with Doris Leighton's friendly face behind it brought a warmth to her heart the first afternoon that Constance had insisted on her cutting the hour with Rosamond and going with her to the tea-room below.

  10. The tea-room was very full that afternoon and Doris had little time for talk, but she asked Patricia to stay for a chat after the samovar was taken away, and Patricia very willingly promised.

  11. Old Peter threw in the lighted sticks and charcoal, and made a draught to draw the heat, and then set the samovar on the table with the little fire crackling in its inside.

  12. There was a samovar already steaming in the cottage, and a great cake of pastry, and cabbage and egg and fish.

  13. You did not do so badly after all," said his old wife as they sat there with the samovar on the table between them, dipping their bread in the hot tea.

  14. If only I were married, he thought, there would be two of us to drink our tea beside the samovar at night, and I should not spend my evenings in melancholy, thinking only of frogs.

  15. There was no more bread and jam on the table, and no more playing bo-peep, first this side of the samovar and then that, as she sat with her father at tea.

  16. Then old Peter took his big coat off and lifted down the samovar from the shelf.

  17. The samovar is like a big tea-urn, with a red-hot fire in the middle of it keeping the water boiling.

  18. The samovar on the table sang a sad tune.

  19. The waiter, a small man, with a face which was pale and characterless, brought in the samovar and quickly hastened out of the room, with short steps.

  20. You see, these newspapers give a samovar face to everything, and do not see the real one.

  21. I ordered the samovar to be brought there.

  22. But I know that my face on the samovar is distorted.

  23. He continued talking with Mrs. Phillips, and he threw an occasional remark toward Randolph; but now that all obstacles were removed from free converse with the divinity of the samovar he had less to say to her than before.

  24. The girl behind the samovar felt that her hair was unbecoming, after all, and that her ring, borrowed for the occasion, was in bad taste.

  25. Pretty soon they brought in a samovar and gave us tea and bread, and when we were about half through eating they brought in bundles of pamphlets.

  26. Tell them to send the big samovar to the maids' room--the very biggest; and find Annushka and send her to me.

  27. SCENE I From a side door there enter a footman with a samovar and a maid with a tea-service; they place both on the table and go out.

  28. Placing the samovar on the table] Lev Rodionych is coming with some people.

  29. Tánya, shouldn't I bring the samovar in here?

  30. She rented it furnished, with samovar service, but the curtains and some bits of bric-a-brac had been bought by Pavel who took more interest in these things and was handier about the house than she.

  31. A man servant brought in a silver samovar and a tray of Little-Russian cookies.

  32. Then, crouching before the absurdest looking samovar Pavel had ever seen, he explained that his mother had gone to his sister's for the night, as she did very often to avoid the noise of his gatherings.

  33. Wait till you have seen our crowd," said Aliosha, flicking the open side of an old top-boot at the samovar by way of bellows.

  34. The samovar was singing softly in the next room.

  35. It was probably the funnel belonging to the samovar which had dropped.

  36. Make the samovar and leave us alone, please.

  37. Her father invited people to his home to talk business, and just to make them feel at home that old-time samovar was set on the table.

  38. Yevpraksia had been careless; she had lifted a samovar and had then and there felt that something inside of her snapped.

  39. Ulita celebrated her entry into the Golovliovo manor by taking the samovar from Yevpraksia's hands.

  40. Ask for enough to eat and a samovar and tea and all that.

  41. While talking Yevpraksia rose to remove the tea-pot from the samovar and turned her back to Arina Petrovna.

  42. At last it was announced that the samovar was on the table and the priest was waiting in the dining-room.

  43. The samovar made spirited music, now humming aloud with all its might, now falling into a doze, as it were, and snoring.

  44. I suppose the samovar is making music on the table by now.

  45. The rooms were overheated and stuffy, the odor of olive oil and of the charcoal burning in the samovar filled the air.

  46. The cups were filled with tea over and over again, and the samovar grew silent.

  47. Then Arina Petrovna could not hold out any longer and went to the dining-room, where the samovar had already been brought in.

  48. In the dining-room there was a samovar on the table.

  49. The bedroom had been prepared, and a samovar was puffing on the table.

  50. The tea-pot had been boiling on the samovar for quite some time, but Yevpraksia seemed to have forgotten about filling the glasses.

  51. Go bring the samovar up here:--here, to my mother's room.

  52. They kept the rent of their rooms paid; and, moreover, it was a rare thing for a starving youth to drop in on them and find their samovar cold, or their welcome unready.

  53. The samovar hissed and steamed, comfortably; and to its accompaniment the man filled a glass with the amber liquid, tore the wrapper from his chemist's package, and poured into one hand a dozen yellowish pills.

  54. On its termination Ivan, fascinated by certain observations, accepted further hospitality, and sat for half an hour over a samovar in a beautifully furnished little salon; finally saying au revoir not only with his lips but with his mind.

  55. Therefore the evening of October 10th found six men assembled round the samovar in the transformed living-room of Ivan's home.

  56. By five o'clock he was in his own rooms again, and from then till ten he worked at piano and desk, a samovar bubbling at his elbow.

  57. But the samovar was brought in, and at the same moment the gospel-woman, who had been out of the room, returned.

  58. How is it you told us you lived alone," asked Stavrogin, passing a boiling samovar in the passage.

  59. On the table in the middle of the room the samovar was boiling, and there was a glass of tea poured out but untouched and forgotten.

  60. On one of the tables a huge samovar was boiling, and a tray with almost two dozen glasses was standing near it.

  61. A samovar was boiling the other side of the screen, but it was not for Fedka, who had every night for a week or more zealously blown it up and got it ready for "Alexey Nilitch, for he's such a habit of drinking tea at nights.

  62. Erkel was absolutely silent and did nothing but order the tea, which he brought from his landladies in glasses on a tray, not bringing in the samovar nor allowing the servant to enter.

  63. Stepan Trofimovitch was half unconscious all through the attack; at times he had a vision of the samovar being set, of some one giving him something to drink (raspberry tea), and putting something warm to his stomach and his chest.

  64. The samovar has been boiling since eight o'clock, but it went out at last like everything in this world.

  65. The stove was not heated, food was not cooked; they had not even a samovar as Shatov told me.

  66. On a low table a Russian samovar is hissing, and beside it on a tray stands a teapot, with glasses, lemon, sugar, and a decanter of rum.

  67. The samovar is hissing on the table by the stove, the tea things are set out.

  68. Kirillovna ordered the samovar to be brought in.

  69. I writhed, shouted, burst out in a fit of passion like Othello, seethed with hatred, like a samovar and finally finished, all covered with perspiration.

  70. In a few minutes the samovar was started, Glogowski proving himself a real master.

  71. Will you please carry the samovar for me?

  72. The louder hissing of the samovar buried the next words, and at that moment Daddy came into the room.

  73. And between them they nearly upset the old nickel-plated samovar that was a present from a Tiflis Armenian to whom the mother once taught English.

  74. He had another samovar and another bottle in front of him.

  75. On the table there was a samovar that had gone out, a tray with cups, an empty rum bottle, a bottle of vodka partly full, and some half-eaten crusts of wheaten bread.

  76. But Smerdyakov had finished tea and the samovar was out.

  77. I went in to clear away the samovar and he was hanging on a nail in the wall.

  78. On the table stood a little copper samovar with many dents in it, and a tray with two cups.

  79. I'll get a samovar from a peasant and heat it directly.

  80. One sits down to the table, there's an Easter cake and the samovar hissing, and some charming little thing beside you.

  81. Tea from the samovar steams us a welcome.

  82. Our host comes quickly with samovar of hot water and a pot of tea.

  83. But when he went to report that fact he found the village of Seletskoe evacuated by his own forces, natives also having fled with everything of value from the samovar to the cow.

  84. As the samovar hisses and bubbles, heavy footsteps resound in the street, and an indistinct voice says: "He thinks that because he is a Town Councillor he is also clever.

  85. The samovar with its bellied body and its shining chimney stood on a side table.

  86. I'm obviously out of practice," he reflected as he entered the breakfast-room where the silver samovar steamed among the dishes of old Sèvres.

  87. I hide him as well as possible with my broad back and bend down over the glittering samovar before me.

  88. Thrice daily Semyon carried a steaming samovar and his officer's meals from the camp kitchen to the ravine.

  89. In the parlour there was a samovar standing on the table, and a bottle of rum; in our profession one can't get on without it.

  90. Aksionov rested awhile in the passage of the inn, then he stepped out into the porch, and, ordering a samovar to be heated, got out his guitar and began to play.

  91. The samovar was always boiling on the office table, and customers were treated to tea and biscuits.


  92. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "samovar" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    broiler; cooker; pot