"Kettleful" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... and managed to light the stove and make a kettleful of tea. He drank a good deal of it, and nearly emptied the remaining small meat can, which he presently held out for the helmsman's inspection, ...
— Vane of the Timberlands • Harold Bindloss
... the world her husband could be thinking of. But she lost no time in guessing. She ordered her servants to make a big fire, while she herself stirred and cooked the great kettleful of oatmeal. ...
— Bertha • Mary Hazelton Wade
... lazy girl was willing enough to go, and thought that now the golden rain would come. Mother Holle led her also to the great door; but while she was standing beneath it, instead of the gold a big kettleful of pitch was emptied over her. "That is the reward for your service," said Mother Holle, and ...
— Household Tales by Brothers Grimm • Grimm Brothers
... off the covers. Now real drama seemed, at last, to be coming into her dull life. Somethink in disguise—Miss Anna's father! She hoped it was not bombs, for bombs might mean trouble for him. She resolved that should she see a bobby trying to get up into the attic she would pour a kettleful ...
— The Old Flute-Player - A Romance of To-day • Edward Marshall and Charles T. Dazey
... A good kettleful of soup for breakfast, dried meat fixed in packages, kegs and canteens filled with water, and we ...
— Death Valley in '49 • William Lewis Manly |
