| 单词 | stove |
| 例句 | Mama is a blur of activity as she minces a huge pile of onions and garlic in a mini chopper and puts a jumbo pot on the stove. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z My father stood at the stove sipping from his usual mug, the smell of burned coffee and almost-burned toast in the air. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Instead of just blazing and getting warm, the way it should, little curls of smoke began to come up around all of the stove lids. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z But I do tell her I have to stop by the coal merchant’s to buy a few kilos for the stove. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z But I am only in bed with Helena, still in my dress, the stove making little ticking sounds as it cools. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z Put the pan on the stove and turn on the stove to medium or so. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z Everything was curved to fit the walls—the stove, the sink, and the cupboards—and all of it had been painted with flowers, insects, and birds in bright primary colors. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z They were lapping up tomato soup that had been warmed on the gas stove and speculating on when the power might come on again. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z The stove had come loose from its mount and been flung across the cabin and was jammed against the wall on the opposite side. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z She was humming under her breath, one hand flipping the bacon on the stove, the other holding a folded newspaper. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z I finally shut the stove off and went into the living room. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z There are so many guests invited to Sonia’s rice ceremony that Ashoke arranges to rent a building on campus, with twenty folding tables and an industrial stove. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Chase had filled not one but two buckets with chips and had the stove fire roaring. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z A clay stove was out back with a fire in it. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z For example, in the living room was a cast-iron potbellied coal stove for heating and cooking. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z The pink-uniformed maid was filling a row of blue china coffee pitchers from a great, battered kettle on the stove. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z “Compared to what I grew up in, it’s pretty nice. They have gas stoves, air-conditioning, electricity, TV.” Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z I hopped out of bed and glanced at the Vida National Bank calendar by the stove as I put the coffee on. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z Alex’s mom kept a tiny TV on the kitchen counter next to the stove. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z It had a potbellied stove in the middle and a picture of Abraham Lincoln on the wall. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z We sit in front of the stove, and I wait. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z The only light was from the ring of blue teeth in the burner of the stove. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z When she had finished mixing her herbs she let the small bowl simmer on the stove, then she took from her black bag a large lump of fresh, black clay. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The glacier that hung from the cliffs at their backs was their reservoir of water: chipping ice and bringing it inside to melt on the stove was a critical job. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z “Watch your mouth, young lady,” Nana said from the stove, “or you can go straight to your room without supper.” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z Grandma made for a huge brass on the stove. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Way down Carpenter’s Road, where the concrete sidewalks started, children hurried to the sliding places before shopkeepers and old women sprinkled stove ashes, like ancient onyx, onto the new-minted silver. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z The stove worked perfectly, with a strong, robust blaze that could be raised or lowered by turning the tap Orr had finally finished repairing. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z She opened the pot on the stove and stared at the slices of boiled yam. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z I dipped a few ladles of warm water from the stove’s reservoir into the largest enamel bowl, then dropped in a bar of soap and rolled it into a lather. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z She hovered over him, as if unwilling to return to the stove. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z She set the pan on the stove, over to the side, and then opened a bread box on a small table. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z He pushed aside an array of mesquite branches to reveal the furniture: remnants of a filthy old mattress, two metal stools, and an ancient, rusty pot-bellied stove. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z So I traded my soup for more bread and toasted the bread over the wood stove in the barrack. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z I tossed my shawl aside and moved to the stove, talking all the while. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z “Get over here to the sink and wash yourself,” his mother said without raising her eyes from the stove. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z Her hands, with long tapered fingers and wide nails, grasped pots and cooking spoons from shelves above the stove and placed them soundlessly on the glowing hot-plate burner. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z Today he could see Dad and Matthew and Mark at the table, and knew from the sound of frying bacon that Mother must be at the stove. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z We had an electric stove, and on the rare occasions when we ate by candlelight, my mother fit them, and when the charcoal grill was to be lit, my dad did that. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z They looked at their new room—a little apartment in itself with a small sink and stove—shut the door, and didn’t speak to us. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z Behind him, just beyond the point where the sunlight reached, Mrs. Coulter was heating some water in a small pan over a naphtha stove. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z When I came downstairs, everyone had left the dining room except Mistress Willingson, who cheerfully set before me a plate of food she had kept warm on the back of the stove. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z We heated it in a pot on the stove and poured it into the large aluminum container that we used for a bathtub. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z It was Tuesday, so both sad irons were heating on the stove and I’d covered the kitchen table with a clean blanket. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z “Stand in front of the wood stove,” she said. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z She lifted a large pot of soup onto the stove and looked at her reflection. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z “Hija, I want to talk to you about boys,” she says as she puts the kettle on the stove. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Dr. van Heerden fed it a kind of smelly liquid, and it hummed away as it made the lights shine and the stove hot. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I gathered dried leaves to light the dung in the stove so the water for tea would be boiling when the family awoke. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z “Shut the door,” the boy’s father called from where he sat near the stove. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z In that space, she floated swiftly like a bird between the gas stoves and ovens and walk-in refrigerators. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z “Maybe the wiring in the house shorted. Or maybe someone left the stove on.” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z She sat on the chair by the stove, her feet gathered under her. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z Max comes back inside and sticks his head in the stove, trying to look up the chimney. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z Honestly, I don’t think I’ve ever seen Violet or her dad use the stove. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z In addition to the bed, I had a tiny gas stove and a broken-down bed stand. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z With Dad in the hospital, Elliot in 4F has been checking in on me, bringing me dinner, especially since our stove has been busted for the past week after I tried making Dads empanadas. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z And it must have been stolen from a stove some-where inside the prison. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Janie was standing by the stove washing up the dishes when he spoke to her in a queer cold voice. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z When we arrived home, Papa gave Roberto the car keys and asked us to unload the tank and refill the stove with it. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z When we stepped into the foyer, we found Baba sitting by the wood-burning cast-iron stove with a short, balding Indian man dressed in a brown suit and red tie. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z He thought of her at the stove, cooking their dinner. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z Although the morning was warm and fresh, a small wood fire burned in the stove. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z She put the stove lid back in place, and walked toward the kitchen. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z Faces from the stove and sink turned to smile, but then moved so fast their words trailed like smoke from a train. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z My mother, white-faced in the light from the kerosene lamp, was at the stove getting coffee. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Carefully putting aside the four about her father, she crammed the rest of them into the stove. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z I licked my fingers and touched them to the greased frying pan heating up on the stove. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z “Now,” she said, pivoting quickly from the stove and staring as she pointed the menacing wire toward my nose, “let’s get this done once and for all.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z An old man woke and staggered to the stove to warm his peppered coconut oil. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Since the lights are back on, the stove is back on. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z In the corner is a small iron stove. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z The refreshments were on top of the stove. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z When Helena trudges back to Tatarska, exhausted from hauling the food bags up the hill, she gets a slap in the face from Karin for starting a fire in the stove and leaving it. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z The small bodies gave off heat like an iron stove no matter what we used to bring down the fever. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The pan of hot milk still rested on the stove burner, just enough there for a second mug. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z “I bought my daughter one. It don’t get hot like a gas stove.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “Maybe it fell in the stove, along with the beans!” The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z The stove Orr was manufacturing out of an inverted metal drum stood in the middle of the smooth cement floor he had constructed. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Over the stove the old electric clock was five minutes early. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z I also heat water on the stove and pour water into two hot water bottles. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z The stove kettle whistled, causing Viper to scurry from the kitchen. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z The little stove was roaring; it was redhot, and the chocolate in the tin sizzled and sputtered. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z I set the pot over the stove’s burner and check the cabinets for tea selections and decide on peppermint. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Then he turned back to the stove and opened the lids again and pulled out some of the things she had stuffed in. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z There were only some books in a pile, a small cooking stove, and the carpets, covered with mysterious designs. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Mom glanced at the clock on the stove, then she put down the phone and pulled the ponytail rubber band out of her own hair. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z She cleared the stove to make it easier for Roberto to refill it. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z Father sighed and set the iron he had been using back onto the stove rack. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z Portia held his shawl over the stove until the wool was hot. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z The children’s eyes widened when they heard the cabin had two lamps, two stoves, and grass growing in a yard with a fence and a gate. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z That was a sign the Stove King had returned to his place above our stove. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z Thus, Celia cooked over a wood-burning stove when El Patron was visiting because he liked the smell of burning mesquite. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z There was no one at home to explain the fearsome racket, but she satisfied herself that the iron cook stove had not blown up, and returned to her sweltering bedroom to continue reading and copying. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z Pecola opened her eyes and lay staring at the dead coal stove. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z Grandma was standing over the stove, flipping bacon with a fork. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z The kitchen in Redemption’s house was yellow and enormous, with a long farm table on one end and a large stove system along another wall, green-tiled counters stretching everywhere. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z About the time I went to bed she and Papa began to sing songs in Japanese, warming their hands on either side of the stove, facing each other in its glow. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z I had just set the frying pan on the stove when Grampa called for me. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z Upstairs, however, she could hear Mia in the kitchen: the rumble of a kettle coming to a boil, a whistle springing to life and then subsiding as someone lifted it from the stove. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Across the back of the building were the cooking and sewing labs with their banks of stoves and Singers. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z On one side was a wall of ovens, a commercial stove with six burners, and a large sink. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z He’s carrying a couple of binders and a saggy bag of groceries and looks tired, but he gets all excited when he sees the stove in their kitchen, which is apparently some kind of antique. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z When I woke the next morning in her spare bedroom, my host, in parka, hat, and gloves, was melting water on her stove. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z I get to the shack and bang open the door, expecting to see Sandy in the kitchen, fixing himself something he caught—but the stove is off, and the pan is empty on the counter. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z The pail beneath the pump jumped and rattled like a spider dancing on a hot stove. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z “Yeah,” said Hunter, and he moved to the stove like a predator and started spooning himself out dinner. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z They went on talking and remarking about it while Mother built a fire in the stove and put in their antelope leg to roast, and mashed some plantains. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z She was busy at the stove, presiding over a skillet of fried spinach with radishes, and could not hear me because of the drone of the exhaust fan and the fierce scrapes of her spatula. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z Then she took the pan off the stove and sat down to wait for the liquid to cool. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z The lance corporal looks around the room—the coal stove, the hanging laundry, the undersize children—with equal measures of condescension and hostility. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z He was sitting in front of the stove. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z A chipped enamelware pail by the stove held a fat collection of juniper kindling. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z To my surprise the stove came apart fairly easily—the oil I had put on the bolts last winter had done the trick. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z Peggy stood at the gas stove with her back to him. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Inside, the old house was warm—a small potbellied stove in the corner burned a cherry red with mesquite—and Gretchen met me outside as she always did. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z The air was full of the scent of food cooking and pots bubbled on the stove. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Ugwu walked away from the door and stared at the pot on the stove. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Sometimes he used his fists, but that night he grabbed the dirty skillet off the stove. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z The rat had climbed out of the sugar bowl and leaped up onto the stove. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z “I have a meeting,” she said, returning her attention to the stove. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z He built a fire in the cabin’s barrel stove, then hung the clothes across the room on a makeshift clothesline. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z On the same rock, the nuts were cracked after they had dried for several weeks in a tin box under the stove. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z “Dear, could you give Tayo that money in my pocketbook? I think my stove is getting low on oil.” Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Their toilets might not flush, their well pumps might not draw, they would live close to their stoves and lanterns. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z She muttered something and went back to the stove, coughed, spat into a bubbling pot. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z The boy followed, and each gathered a chunk-stick for the cabin stove. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z He filled it with coffee from the pot on the top of the stove. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Two of the men still squatted near the Primus stoves, serving corn mush and fiver. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z A wide-brimmed hat covered her black hair, which she had pressed straight with a hot comb off the stove that morning. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z He left the stove and closed the kitchen door and went back to the stove. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Behind the low counter, half a dozen women hovered over waist-high stoves made of concrete block. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z In the kitchen, his mom was struggling to get the large pot of mashed potatoes off the stove. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z Dark gold and soft brown were the old men who sat around Kapugen’s camp stove and talked to him by day and night. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z In one or two spots the side of the stove gave off a red glow. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Inside the cabin the younger children sat huddled together near the stove. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z The whites would boil away on the stove awhile. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z Aymo had a fire in the stove and a kettle of water on. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z He’d been hungry, tried to heat up some food on the stove, and passed out on the couch while it was cooking. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z “Said he was going to be passing and not to worry about the stove....When did he come home? I knocked earlier and he wasn’t there!” They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Soon, the kettle was filled and warming quickly on the stove. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z Milagro itself was almost hidden in a lax bluish gauze of pinon smoke coming from all the fireplaces and cook stoves of its old adobe houses. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z She cleaned her hands at the washbasin, then ladled some stew from the pot cooling on the potbelly stove. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Her mother was standing at the stove, standing more still than usual. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z He unwrapped four chapatis from a cloth and warmed them on the stove and stuck them on the sides of the bowls. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z “Split kindling and lay a fire in the kitchen stove.” Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z To begin with, our stove is an iron contraption with a firebox so immense a person could climb right in if they felt like it. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z She darted around obstacles—broken furniture left for the trash heaps or for scavengers, stoves and refrigerators that were past repair, peddlers sitting on the pavement with their wares spread out around them. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Pushing and bunting about the family warmth of our pot-bellied stove. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Next to the fireplace there was a small stove with four burners close together, a narrow counter with shelves underneath, and a deep sink. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z My mother fussed around the stove and poured two cups of hot chocolate. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z Dussel had an eye infection and was sitting next to the stove dabbing his eye with camomile tea. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z She put two huge pots on the stove, then tumbled a big bag of plump figs into one and ripe tomatoes into the other. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z The house smelled like a forest as the leaves boiled on the stove. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z Mrs. Dudley’s eyes moved to the clock on the shelf over the stove. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z There was another coal stove, a bed, a pullout couch where Mom and Dad could sleep, and a chest of drawers painted fire-engine red. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z He looked at old Grandma sitting in her place beside the stove; he couldn’t tell if she was sleeping or if she was only listening to the wind with her eyes closed. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Which I did, and quickly, too, at the smell of chowder on the stove. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z I paused because what I wanted to say was so far removed from gas cookers and kerosene stoves. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z Erma allowed us only one bath a week in four inches of water that had been heated on the kitchen stove and that all of us kids had to share. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Then he leaned forward and ducked his head and shoulders far back into the stove for the rest of the ashes. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z I made an elaborate stone stove and oven outside where I bake, grill, and boil. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z He was there in the hand-washed and ironed clothes on the cane-seat chair, in the warm slippers left outside my door, in the wood already burning in the stove when I came down for breakfast. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z She pulled on the nape of Nelson’s T-shirt, extracting him from the stove so she might speak to him face to face. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z A scrap of roofing tin propped up near the fire acted as a stove and baked the biscuits with its hot reflection. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z On our way home from work, we stopped at a gas station to get kerosene for our stove. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z One of us collapsed the tent and folded it while the other loaded stove, bags, etc., onto the sledge; the tent was strapped over all, and we were ready for skis and harness. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z Someone joked that the crowd was better than a stove for warmth. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z Several of my sisters were huddled near the stove doing their homework. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z I went over to the enormous iron stove. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The fire in the stove made the kitchen window a warm orange. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z The scent, even stronger than the smell of the leaking gas stove, was coming from Lucky or Salvador. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z I went to her little two- burner stove and put water on to boil. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Immediately below this manifesto squats the stove, fabricated from a rusty oil drum. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “He went back to sleep,” Ali said, kneeling before the stove. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z It was endless work to feed our cast-iron stove just for boiling the water, let alone cooking. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z After he was gone, Auntie made an inaudible remark from the stove, where she kept her dishpan to keep the dishwater hot. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z The Greek laid the ice pick on the stove and rolled his sleeves higher. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Billy Pilgrim was on fire, having stood too close to the glowing stove. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Smoke billowed up from the hot oil, and Teashop Aunty turned back to the stove. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z Mack glanced at the burned curtains, at the floor glistening with whiskey and puppy dirt, at the bacon grease that was coagulating on the stove front. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z She reached for an old hat on the shelf over the stove. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z Perched beside the stove, their family’s house spirit examined the mess of chopped herbs and leftover stems that littered the countertop. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z The kettle was just beginning to whistle on the stove, and Miss Perumal, with her back to him, was setting out cups and saucers. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z Sitting down on a steel cot across from the stove to mull over this eerie tableau, I encounter evidence of McCandless’s presence wherever my vision rests. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Celia enters her kitchen and warms a little milk on the stove, then sweetens it with a few lumps of sugar. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z The small room with the stove was our living- room. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z I hadn’t noticed it before because he’d been behind the stove. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z When her mother carried the steaming cup upstairs, Abra opened the incinerator end of the gas stove, put in the letters, and lighted them. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z The stove in there was called a Franklin, after Benjamin Franklin, who invented it with the help of a mouse—which Marly told Joe right away. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z We placed buckets of water on the cast-iron wood stove in the kitchen so we could have warm water for washing and shaving. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z I heard a groping at the stove, and then he struck a match and the light flared about his face as he bent over the kerosene lamp, intent on lighting it. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z At the time, Geyer wrote, “I was not able to appreciate the intense significance of the renting of the Poplar Street house and the delivery of a stove of such immense size.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Some mean governor or sheriff got mad and had them thrown right into the jail stove, big as a furnace, but the Lord blew out the fire and cooled the big stove in a second. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z I says, looking at him and opening the stove lid. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z The stove wasn’t even the worst of our cake troubles. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “Too bad I can’t bring in old Clyde,” he joked, stepping in front of the potbellied stove. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Her breath caught when she glimpsed the old woman with silver hair standing at the stove. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z Furniture was in there—tiny chairs and tables and beds and a kitchen stove. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z A jar of peanut butter had crashed to the floor; someone had gotten a running start, jumped into it, and skied a brown, onefooted track to the stove. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “The dishwater is boiling away on the stove, I forgot all about it. You all clear the table and start washing up. Be careful and don’t get burned.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z While he was at it, Grandpa also bought her a new walnut bedroom suit and a big iron coal-burning stove. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z No fewer than three pots simmered on the stove at all times. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z She turned around so quickly, she knocked the pan off the stove and nearly dropped the gray paper into the open flame there. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z Three cooks in white clothing worked at the big stoves, putting beans, rice, and enchiladas onto plates that dark-haired waitresses in bright-red dresses picked up at a counter. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z In my new house she cooked on a stove with a hot top, but no flames. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z A black stove, pouring out heat, squatted against the far wall. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The boy scooped up a tin pail of nuts from the big box under the stove and went out to the flat cracking stone. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z As Briony came up, a probationer with a Primus stove on a trolley was already preparing the fresh solution. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z A stack of dirty pots rises from a sink, and a kettle of water boils on the stove. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z One of the dinners that I shared in a mobile home was cooked in an immaculate kitchen, walled in plastic tile, with stainless- steel sinks and ovens and stoves flush with the wall. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z “Whenever it snows I think of that. The drifts and the big wind and the potbellied stove. And the starlight coming through the window.” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z From somewhere in the depths of the car our mother unearths a primus stove, which she sets up on the kitchen floor, since there is no table. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Anyhow, that stove was like a little fireplace with little carved doors on its front and a nice place on it where you could put your feet to dry. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z When all was done we could enter the tent, and almost at once the heat of the Chabe stove could be felt as an enveloping, protecting ambiance. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z Liza Hamilton, her apple cheeks flaming red, moved like a caged leopard in front of the stove when Samuel came into the kitchen in the morning. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z I get into the kitchen, and my mom’s setting the circle table Auntie Idris keeps in the kitchen, and my dad’s stirring a pot at the stove. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z My teapot start fussing on the stove, bringing me back to real life. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z He was at the stove, flipping hamburgers like a cook at a diner. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z The steak plates were piled high on the stove with their brown juice and their white grease sticking them together. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z I added a precious scoop of coal to the stove. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z There she stood at the stove ladling soup with the calm ease of one who feels there is certainly such a thing as grace. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Aunt Victoria has a nice big house with a real stove in the kitchen. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z He looked for some signs of what had been there, but all that was left was a hole in the ceiling where the stove pipe had been. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Down two flights our neighbor on the second floor has her apartment door open and the smell of eggs and bacon frying in the skillet on the stove makes my stomach growl. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z On my eleventh birthday, when we came home from school, I was surprised to see saucepans full of food simmering on the stove. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z I opened the stove and was met by a blast of hot air as if from a dragon’s cave. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z “Sit down, Mother. I will first go into the kitchen to turn on the stove. Then I will light a candle and change the fuses in the fuse box.” In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z The steam started the job, and then the heat from the stove tops did the rest. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z Uncle and I walked over to the stove. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z He’d bellied up to the stove to warm himself after his first course. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z I buy two end-of-day discounted rolls from the bakery for our supper, and two weeks after that, I have to decide between bread for our stomachs and coal for the stove. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z But other than a rocking chair, two straight-backed chairs, a large table, a sink and stove, there was no furniture. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z A man didn’t have to wait for a stove to heat up. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z A woman in a wrinkled gray sari turned away from the stove and looked at us. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z I spread the blankets close to the wall and near the stove while Ultima prepared the atole. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z He glanced up at the square clock on the wall over the stove. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Mrs. Reilly began boiling a pot of milk on her Edwardian gas stove. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z And so saying, Mr. Wonka scuttled across to the far end of the Inventing Room and went out through a small secret door hidden behind a lot of pipes and stoves. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z “You’re on fire, lad!” he said, and he got Billy away from the stove and beat out the sparks with his hands. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z His tail twitched as he watched a line of tiny ants marching from under the sink to a dark spot of something sticky by the stove. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z Mostly it was hot chocolate she made, warming the milk in a saucepan on the stove before mixing it. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z By the time Henry comes wandering into the kitchen in his pajamas, there’s an entire breakfast spread on the long green table, and Alex is at the stove, flipping his dozenth pancake. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z She went to the stove and looked into the pot. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z She had gotten her chloroquine injections there the last time she had malaria, and the nurse had boiled water on a smoky kerosene stove. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z I go around to the back, to the porch where they keep wood for the stove, and I open the door and fall onto the floor. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z On the coldest days, Tata lit up the oven and the four burners on the stove. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z Food laid out in pans on the hred-up stove, getting burned. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Chris told Marly the stove wasn’t called by that name, but was an “evaporator” because it boiled the water out of the sap and left syrup behind. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z He ran into the kitchen and turned the stove off. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z “This goes in the chips bucket and”—he rolled his hands around—“yee-haw! The chips flip right in the stove. No more mess.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z I was standing on a chair in front of the stove, wearing a pink dress my grandmother had bought for me. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z I couldn’t believe you got to order what you wanted, I thought you just sat down and they’d bring you whatever was on the stove. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z He lit the lantern from the stove as he had done before. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z When the pipe froze like that, we got our water by melting snow or icicles in the tin pan on the potbellied stove. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z There are no counters in the kitchen, only the bare sink; there’s no stove. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z I was in the kitchen house slaving over a hot stove when everybody came running by. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Another handful of chips in the stove barely took the edge off. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z When I walk into the kitchen, Mom is standing at the stove, working her magic. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z I come in the kitchen ready to tell her how many days we have left, but Miss Celia’s staring at that tree, hating it with her eyes the same way she hates the stove. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z The saucepans on the wall glowed with the light of the stove and behind each one there was a round, black shadow. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z While I waited for the milk to boil, I wished again for the stove. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z There was even a miniature stove and refrigerator. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z He would drink a pot of coffee by the kitchen stove and a deep uneasiness would come in him. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z When the cold was extreme, even the excellent insulation of the tent could not keep it out, and we lay in our bags as close to the stove as possible. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z The drawer next to the stove was where my mother kept leftover duck sauce, soy sauce, chopsticks, menus, tape, screwdrivers, but most importantly, all her coupons, organized and paper-clipped by product. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z The Seattle people passed into memory and winter savings accounts; stoves were stoked, fires banked, books taken down, quilts mended. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z It was a poor year, that one—too poor for them to buy the extra coal for the front room stove. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Most of what remained of our travel-equipment we had given away to various kindly hosts, and by now we had nothing but the Chabe stove, our skis, and the clothes we wore. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z Auntie looked at him, but when he looked up at her, she turned away to the stove to the simmering stew and boiling coffee. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z He opened the stove lid and out came the smoke in another huge cloud, simply billowing. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z I roll over and try to go back to sleep, listening to the hissing gas as she cranks up the camping stove to make tea. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z I aimed the gun at the stove and pretended I was shooting at a elephant or a dragon or a tiger, or best of all, Todd! Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z If it was still dark I turned up the light of the Chabe stove, and put a pan of ice brought in the night before, now thawed, on the stove to boil. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z He was thinking of a cabin that had two lamps, both lit at the same time, and two stoves, one to cook on and one to warm by. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z On a black cast-iron stove there were half a dozen pots steaming and singing. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z The next day when he came home from work, Mom was cooking at the stove. Doing Time Online 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “I would hate to leave my gas stove.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z They kissed the stove too, and the radiators, and the crack in the back bedroom, which had gotten much worse. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z “In January, the wind makes your bones crack. I’d give my teeth to stand over a hot stove. And no one has ever died making sauce.” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z Werner can feel the fever flickering inside him, a stove with its door latched. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Later we sat by a wood stove in the warming house, all alone, and after a while I asked her what it was like to be dead. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Ben walked to the stove and poured himself a cup of coffee. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z At the stove, Mia pretended to busy herself with opening a tea bag. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z He shaved slowly and combed his hair while the rattle of Lee at the stove sounded from the kitchen. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z On the back burners of the stove, there are two silver pots, their lids trembling on top of them like chattering teeth. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z Then I'd be sent South again to head the college—just as the mayor's cook had been made principal of the school after she'd become too lame to stand before her stove. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Fuchsia looks at the clock on the stove. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z Laura began to float away on the music, and then she heard a clattering noise, and there was Ma by the stove, getting breakfast. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z I turned off the stove and squatted to rummage through the cabinet for the coffee grinder. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z Earlier, August had boiled her tweezers and fingernail scissors in a pot on the stove and used them to pluck out Rosaleen’s stitches. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Two young men in chef hats are con-sulting over the stove. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The bath water was steaming on the cooking stove, but Momma was scrubbing the kitchen table for the umpteenth time. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z After dinner he will help Sonia and Ben scrape bay leaves and lamb bones and cinnamon sticks from plates, pile them on the counters and two burners of the stove. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z There was clean linen on the chair next to the stove, and on the shelf there was water, atole meal, sugar, milk, kerosene, and other things. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z But then, my father says, “the pot on the stove boiled over.” Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z All afternoon the stove had roared, heating water for baths. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z A woman is stirring something on a stove. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z In fact, it looks less like a stove than a machine hammered together out of some other machine. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Standing hungrily and silently in a corner of the kitchen, we would watch her go from the stove to the sink, from the cabinet to the table. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z The fuel for the camp stove was finished, and so they threw it aside. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z “This fuel is damp,” he muttered from behind the stove. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z The smell of smoke from the wood stoves the families in all of these houses were gathered around. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z Mama said, chuckling as she cooked supper on our kerosene stove. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z Mother came over and gave Luke’s shoulder a reassuring squeeze before turning back to the stove. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z Tomorrow we’re going to light the stove for the first time. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z She filled the stove with things to burn and then she struck a match. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z As a result, Mr. Pirzada lived in a room in a graduate dormitory, and did not own a proper stove or a television set. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z The stove spews out clean blue flames, unlike the ashy coals back home. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z The room smelled like wax, candles, oil lamps, tobacco, burning stove wood, whiskey, dirty clothes, and leather boots. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z The fumes burn the inside of my nose as I scour the stove. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z When I discovered my face was hot as a stove, I happily used it to warm my freezing hands. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z She had heated the leftovers from breakfast on the little stove at the back of the laundry. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Even the stove was gone, nothing left but a hole in the ceiling where the pipe had been. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z It had a full chrome grille, whitewalls, mud flaps, a push-button radio, the new stove bolt six engine, and a black convertible top that worked like a dream. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z “You go on back to sleep if you want, Ob. I’ll put some coffee on the stove. And I’ll fix you some eggs and cocoa when you get up.” Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z She sat the pan on the top of the stove and placed a platter on top of it. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z She scrubs the splattered chili off the stove while I dry everything and put it away. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z She searches for the matches near the stove but doesn't seem to see them, even though they're less than a foot from her hand. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z Then he hoisted himself up on his game leg and went to the iron stove against the north wall of his office. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z A Warm Morning Ben Franklin stove occupied the centermost floor space; a few rows of rickety wooden benches were aligned on either side of the stove. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Somehow he had kept hold of it throughout our near disaster at sea, but now it was stove in on one side like a bent muffler pipe. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z Momma and Aunt Pam work the stove as skillets full of bacon and eggs sizzle, blue flames dancing beneath them. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z The soiled clothes were dumped out of the wash basket and it was lined with a ragged but clean blanket and set up on two chairs near the stove. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z She faced the stove, never needing to actually see them to know they were breaking some rule or another. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z The roommates kept a stewpot simmering perpetually on the stove, tossing in a scrounged vegetable when they had it or a scrap of meat when flush, and squabbling over spare potatoes. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The place was lit by kerosene lanterns and heated by a cast-iron wood stove. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z There was no Uncle Willie or sizzling pot-bellied stove, but there was Mother and her laughing friends, and they amounted to the same thing. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z And you couldn’t forget Idabelle the Inside Cat in her basket by the stove. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z He hauled Ben out of the chair and dragged the chair around facing the stove and opened the door to the firebox and shoved Ben into the chair. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z The dust and smoke moved like a river among islands of debris—pieces of wall and roof, even an iron stove standing upright, as though it had been delivered by wagon. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Mrs. Weasley was stirring the contents of a large pot on the stove, while Mr. Weasley was sitting at the table, checking a sheaf of large parchment tickets. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z Just as she did this Mrs. Fitzgibbon walked over from the stove. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z She waves in the general direction of the stoves. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z We walked in, and I saw right away that the Clutters hadn’t eaten breakfast; there were no dishes, nothing on the stove. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z If she doesn’t hurry it will turn—cook itself before she can get it to the stove. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’ll use them only for special meals, so they will last long. I’m not packing away this kerosene stove just yet.” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z At night, I sat by the light of the stove, reading Dombey and Son. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z We weren’t allowed to use the oven or stove when Audrey’s parents weren’t home, which was most of the time, so we had to stick to using the microwave. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z "That row of cans must have exploded from the heat of the stove." The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z And when at last he spoke, Toby’s words came out like hot oil on a stove—still on the surface, but ready to pop at the slightest disturbance. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z A pretty weapon like that doesn't cost much on the market—480 Notes, less than a stove. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z The stove cooled gradually with almost imperceptible interior pops and puffings. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z And then he put the lid back and reached around to the side of the stove and pushed something—and suddenly the smoke stopped coming. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z I swallowed my pride and tossed them quickly in the stove. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z Ma was leaning over the stove, the pots clanking as she hummed a song to herself. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z I poured the tea into a saucepan and set it to warm over the stove. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z Dogs beside the men’s legs wait, looking up from time to time, and the girl who brings the food from the stove stands looking at the wall as she waits for the plates to empty. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z “How is de son gointuh be before his paw? Nature is de first of everything. Ever since self was self, nature been keepin’ folks off of red-hot stoves. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z On the counter near the stove in a silvery pan was a deep-dish berry cobbler. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z The stove and countertops have been scrubbed clean, and I wonder if it will all be torn away to make room for a bigger kitchen like the one at Darius’s house. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z “We have squash”—she turns back to the stove—“rice, and chicken.” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z Neeley sat on top of the far end of the stove where it wasn’t so hot. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Next week their relatives were spinning new webs in the corners and between the legs of the tin stove. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z And she remarked to old Grandma, dozing beside her stove with the dial turned all the way to HIGH, and to Tayo who was oiling his hunting boots: “I tell them, ‘It isn’t easy. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z The mother went behind the curtain to the gas stove. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z She had just fired up the stove and put the kettle on when Grandpa walked in to eat dinner. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z I was welcome to use the stove as long as I left it as I found it. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z “That boy was just scared and angry about things that had nothing to do with you,” my mother told me later in our kitchen as she stirred dinner on the stove. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z He rushed off to the bathroom while I finished the soft, tender rice, then nodded at the pot on the stove as I stood up. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z A low parlor stove was built into a black marble fireplace. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Something was bubbling on the stove that seemed to need his attention, so Jinny escaped and ran nimbly up the path, to start fresh. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z Consider a single piece glowing in your family’s stove. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z The pressure cooker sat on the stove, leaking stewing steak fumes. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z I don’t know what problem the stove was having, but if I know Mateo, and dammit I do, I bet he was doing something nice for us, something that absolutely isn’t worth his life. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z The kitchen was empty, nothing on the stove or in the oven. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z Mama Ya-Ya gets up, and picks up the pot of scalded milk from the stove’s back burner. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z I put a pan on the stove and dry toasted the cacao nibs, tingeing the air with the earthy scent I loved. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z But she was content chatting to her doll as her clothes dried by the stove. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z The boy had cleaned up the shavings and slipped them under the door of the stove when the draft was open. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z I had brought some food — fruit, meat, sugar, salt, and a chicken — and my mother lit the stove to make tea. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z She grabs the handle of the first pan and steps back from the stove. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z He lit the kerosene stove and mixed Baby’s pap. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z A simmering argument, a few bubbles splashing on the stove. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z Peeling paint, cockroaches, and no water, refrigerator, or stove in our tiny room. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z Genie filled his plate with a second serving of something called scrapple that was sitting in a pan on the stove. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z Fire rising from a pan on the stove, licking the ceiling and walls. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z We all crowded around the makeshift stove to smell it cook. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z There, on the blackboard by the stove, he puzzled out problems with his classmates. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Had no idea Benjamin Franklin had invented all that stuff—a stove, glasses of some kind, the first post office, and his own university. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z She then rolled back her shoulders and walked to the stove. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z I put my hand on the stove and found it comfortingly warm. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Hanako watched her grandmother stir the soup, then remove the pot from the stove, her thin arms sticking out from beneath her rolled-up sleeves. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z I had about all I could do to feed corncobs into the stove to keep the oven heat even. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z A pot of glue boils on the stove. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z He opened the stove door and poked the black sheets until they were reduced to powder. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z “You got that dog on your mind,” she says, lifting the big iron skillet to the stove top and laying some bacon in it. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Mrs. Guttingen came into the room early in the morning to shut the windows and started a fire in the tall porcelain stove. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z A gray stoneware pilon coffeepot grunted on the back of the stove. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z There’s an embossed photo of the falls, meant to hang over the stove railing decoratively. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z His wife stood in lamplight at the stove, pouring coffee. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z In the center of the bedroom, for the even distribution of heat, stood a coal stove. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z She turned back to the stove and flipped the johnnycakes. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z She brought the skillet over and stacked more johnnycakes and ham onto his empty plate, then went back to the stove. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z There are baskets full of flower petals, and a monstrous stove in the corner releases tiny clouds of steam. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z In the winter, the dirt floor felt cold, but I would shuffle over to the stove. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “It’s a lovely setting and there sure are a lot of pots on the stove for you not to be expecting anyone.” 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z And when Katie came in and lit the gas, chasing the shadows away and paling the light in the stove windows, it was like a great sin that she committed. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z A dishpan of coffee was on the stove and iced cakes filled a shelf in the cupboard. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z “And as you can see, it features a stove that will cook if we light the whole thing on fire and cook hot dogs and marshmallows on sticks.” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z The water on the stove isn’t warm, but it’s not cold anymore, either, so I try to sponge away the dried blood and dirt from Max’s side and face. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z After we’d put on clean clothes and locked the door, Osh and I spread the treasure out in front of the hearth while Miss Maggie lit a fire in the stove. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z ‘You just sit down at the table, and soon as this here stove is hot us going to have a cup of coffee. Then maybe it all won’t seem so bad.’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Babou grabbed the teapot off the stove—it was nearly empty—and dumped the dregs into the sink. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z She walked over to the stove and poured me a bowl of what was actually a stew filled with dumplings and greens. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z We decided to light the small gas stove. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z A stove, a refrigerator, several wooden chairs, a sink, and a few rows of kitchen cabinets. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z I sat down at the small wooden table next to the stove, the shaky tabletop stabilized by pieces of cardboard stuck under the legs. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z During the long winter nights, those few pieces of coal provided our only heat as we huddled around the stove. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z After the boy had fed the children and eaten something himself, he sat down by the warm stove and looked out of the window. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z “How are you going to make your payments if me and Carl’s picking your berries?” she asked from her place by the stove. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z In a stove flue no longer used, she had hidden a little meal bag which she called her treasure. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z They were quick at dodging and running, but once he caught them against the woodbox, behind the stove. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Bailey had lain down on his side behind the stove and his eyes were shining. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Henry hummed a little and walked over to the stove. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Every day, she sold fresh soups straight out of the pots on our stove. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z Then Baachan spooned two big globs of bacon grease into a pan and set it on the stove before lighting the fire. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z She was facing the stove, her back to us. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z I collapsed on the stool next to the stove, sobbing so hard I couldn’t catch my breath. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z At the stove she pressed the coffee button, and in a moment had put the imposing mug by his place at the kitchen table. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z They were hunched like mice near a can fire, not even a stove, on the floor, hungry and irritable. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z She sat, with her feet propped up near the stove, smoking. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z Mom turned down the burner on the stove, grabbed her mug of coffee, and came over to me. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z Then he grabbed them and thrust them into the lit coal stove. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Would they land on the old stove with a Heeaagh!, in their muscles and spangled clothes? The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z We huddled around a potbellied cast-iron coal stove in the middle of the living room and held out our hands to warm them. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z It is odd to see his father presiding in the kitchen, standing in his mother’s place at the stove. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z He stamped his feet and went to the stove to drink a cup of coffee. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z She made her famous rice pudding and slow-cooked greens, chitlins, and the vats of spaghetti with meatballs she kept going on the stove for whenever cousins dropped by hungry. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Back inside he sat by the stove holding his teacup and didn’t speak for a long time. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z Then she set it on the back of the stove where it would cook slowly. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z On the other side, there’s a small stove and a refrigerator that looks more like a box, and a closet that is barely the size of my mom’s suitcase. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z It wouldn’t be right, the first night on Mars, to make a loud noise, to introduce a strange, silly bright thing like a stove. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z A wood-burning stove glows with heat, and a scarf is slung over a wooden chair. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z Before she sat down, she put some water into a kettle, put the kettle on the stove and took a mug out of a cupboard. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z Mom said we should be thankful because we had it better than pioneers, who didn’t have modern conveniences like window glass and cast-iron stoves. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z “Not much longer now,” says Frau Elena, her palms out in front of the stove as the water refuses to boil. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z On the oil stove in the kitchen Antonapoulos cooked all of their meals. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Ma put the cubes into the big iron pot on the stove, poured in some water, and then watched while the pumpkin slowly boiled down, all day long. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z The chimney of the tin stove wouldn’t draw properly and it took him an hour to start a fire. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Then Mack made a ceremonious visit to Lee Chong while the boys got a fire going in the big stove. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z They go from station to station, removing pots from stoves and turning off the heat. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z He went to the stove and turned out the gas under the tea-kettle, then lighted it again. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z He held out A Child's Garden of Verses and scooted his apple crate chair closer to the stove. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z “Come in, come in, Mr. Stinson, and get dry by the stove for a minute.” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z The sweet smell of baking and vanilla had drawn the smaller children from the stove to the edge of the table. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Uncle Clark and Aunt Jody both had jobs and I was told that at noon I would find lunch on the stove. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z He lifted the lid off a pot simmering on the stove, and the three watchers licked their lips in anticipation. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z On the stove is an empty, gleaming stainless-steel stockpot so large that it covers two burners. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z I could hear the sizzle of meat frying on the stove and the open-and-close of the oven as she checked the biscuits or corn bread or pie or whatever she was baking for supper. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z Without a word they both hopped out and set to work, Joe scavenging bigger logs that burned well in his shop’s heater, Nancy gathering smaller branches that would fit easily into the kitchen stove. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Before breakfast I’d put the wash boiler atop the stove and lugged in kettle after kettle of water from the well to fill it. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z Twenty minutes later, the stove has been perfectly cleaned and my mom is pouring milk into cups for the kids. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z “It’s hard to get light bread in damp weather. Maybe next time set your sponge over the water reservoir in the stove. That’s what my mother does.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z Inside the cabin, the boy’s mother was cutting wedge-shaped pieces of corn mush from an iron pot that stood on the back of the stove. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z The carpenter took apart the wheelhouse from the ship and rebuilt it at Ocean Camp for a galley, and the larger “hot potato can,” as the stove was called, was installed inside. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z When I went back inside, the stove was going and Ma had a pot of mush cooling. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z On the stove sits a teakettle he has never filled with water, and on the countertop a toaster he’s never plugged in. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z With a sharp knife, she cut the roll into paper-thin strips, unwound the strips and hung them on a rack made of slender dowel sticks, which stood before the kitchen stove. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The kind lady saw him settled on a bench against the wall, and provided by a silent serving woman with a mug of chocolatl from the saucepan on the iron stove. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z One night I returned home from work and found Mrs. Moss sitting by the stove in the hall, nodding. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z He watched the red coals through the open draft in the stove door brighten each time the wind blew loud enough to make a low whistling noise in the stovepipe. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Two grizzled old men sat down on a bench by the stove. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z We looked for treasures among the discarded stoves and refrigerators, the broken furniture and stacks of bald tires. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z There was a stove nearly as big as Chrissie’s, and water was steaming away in a cunning tub at the side which Mother said was called a “reservoir.” Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z I went into the kitchen and saw Rashid Uncle tinkering around, lighting the stove and warming a pot of water for tea. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z This room had a well pump, a fireplace, an oven, and a stove. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z “But effective. Being angry at Kaz for being ruthless is like being angry at a stove for being hot. You know what he is.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z He lifts the lid of the pan on the stove, and steam escapes, along with the rich, juicy smell of chicken saltimbocca—little jelly rolls of chicken breast stuffed with spinach and prosciutto. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z After dinner, Alex cleaned the kitchen, scrubbing the pans and wiping down the counters and stove top with the same graying cotton rag. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z She ordered the cook to keep a stove always lit and told her she should be prepared to feed a large number of guests at a moment’s notice. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The big blue-enameled possum kettle was boiling on top of the chunk stove. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z “Axel, this is a freebie day. No school with the power out. A late night with the rescue. This calls for chocolate chip cookie pizza on the stove top!” A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Then after a while she wiped her face for a final time and went over to the pot of greens on the stove. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Ishmael pushed two slabs of fir heartwood into the fire in the cook stove. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z He wet one finger and lifted an iron from the rack on the stove, where it had been heating. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z I could smell our wool mittens drying on the stove. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Their hands and faces were all caked with blubber smoke, soot from the Primus camp stove, and dirt, and some of the men tried washing up in the snow. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z "I wash standing up. I get a bucketful of water and I heat it on this little stove and I strip and wash myself all over." Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z In the kitchen, I took two onions and sliced them thin and began to fry them on the stove. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z The morning of the funeral, I melted paraffin on the stove and then carefully dipped each crepe paper flower. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z I make Helena a nest on the floor beside the stove with my coat, her skirt rolled up for a pillow, and prop the chair beneath the front doorknob. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z “Luke—I’m sorry,” Mother said, and scurried back to the stove. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z When Ophie returned, there was milk warming on the stove and a big bottle of honey on the table. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z She digs a hole for the corn under the fire and spreads the fire over the makeshift stove. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z December bolds us all in its thrall; not even the fires in the stoves and grates can loosen its icy grip. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z But the kitchen linoleum was scrubbed and the stove and fridge were clean, the carpet was spotless, Mia’s mattress bed was made with crisp striped sheets. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z That made the stove even more of a joy than it had been, because as I got the fire going I realized that I could have a real birthday cake, layers and all. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z What most caught Miss Hill’s attention was the fact that the furniture wagon was empty save for an iron stove that seemed much too large for a private residence. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z She sighed then, looked first at me, then at Mr. Winnike, then to the stove. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z As she walked absently toward the stove she took out a few tangles with her fingers. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z Outside, he murmured to himself, “That was the stove, I reckon.” Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z We sat in the dirt or on the mats near the stove. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z Malcolm looked at his mother, but she was busy at the stove and he was close to the door, so he opened it a little way. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z But nothing he drew seemed good enough, and he would end up scrawling across the half-finished page and poking it into the stove to burn up. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z She went into the front room to get the oil stove. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z They waited on the broad back porch while Dicey called her grandmother from the stove. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z Mama went to the stove to flip over the palomilla steaks. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z She got a couple of hot dogs out of the refrigerator and put them in a pot on the stove to boil. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z It was because you wadded up your underdrawers to stop up the flue on the stove and smoke out the schoolhouse. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z I turned the gas mantle high, lit the kerosene lamp, and lighted two burners of my stove to drive the loneliness away. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z I start a fire in the stove with some lumber scraps we find behind the ladder in the little hallway. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z I’m guessing that pretty soon we’ll have a weird old stove, like Safer’s. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z The pot had burned itself out and burned up the kitchen wall behind the stove, and smoke was billowing everywhere. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z In the front half, the half where I was now, there was a circular stove, with a broad rack on top, that stood in the middle of the floor. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z And once when a drunken gesture catapulted Cholly into the red-hot stove, she screamed, “Get him, Jesus! Get him!” The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z He set the puppy on the floor again and it dashed off, tail wagging, to growl at the logs piled beside the stove and to chew at their edges where raw wood curled. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z There was no sign of Pearl, but the clock on the stove read 3:15. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z In one corner stood a potbellied stove, hissing softly, surrounded by a semicircle of limp boots and draped with wet woollen socks, which steamed foully. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z The pan is sputtering loudly and has showered the wall behind the stove with oil. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z I sniffed as I settled down next to Chester by the stove. Bunnicula 1979-03-01T00:00:00Z The small room had a bed, a stove, and two chairs. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z He reported that Otis had returned to the stove; she shook her head. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Everyone has their own recipe, but Betty Jean makes it by boiling water in a saucepan on the stove. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Clayton washed up while Cool Papa threw a pot and a frying pan on the stove. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z “I didn’t know that was a thing. Cooking something on the stove and then sticking the entire pot in the oven.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z Before the girls got to the porch I heard their laughter crackling and popping like pine logs in a cooking stove. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z She beamed at me and reached over the propane stove for the pickle crock, where we kept the money. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z There sat the trainer, pushed up against the oil stove. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z He finds everything—if it is cold, a small stove and wood, hay and straw, a table and chairs—but above all food. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z He’d crawl through the damp tunnel each morning with a pick, filling buckets for his family and neighbors so they could keep their houses warm and stoves burning. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z An ancient pot-bellied stove glowed in the center of the room. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z I even wiped down the countertops and stove. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z The whole time Father was interrogating us on the porch, in my mind’s eye I was seeing her slumped over in the kitchen house, banging in mortal frustration against that locomotive engine of a stove. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z They were some time acquiring a stove and when they did find what they wanted, a silver-scrolled monster with floriated warming ovens and a front like a nickel-plated tulip garden, they had trouble getting it. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z I imagine my mother at the stove, hovering over bran pancakes. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Winter was every kid’s favorite season in Kabul, at least those whose fathers could afford to buy a good iron stove. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Almost in-visible in the stove’s small glow, tears began running down his face. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z The Greek laid the ice pick on the stove and rolled his sleeves higher. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Miss Peregrine, who seemed to be constitutionally incapable of idleness, took a saucepan from the stove top and began scouring it with a steel brush. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z There were shelves on either side of the stove, filled with crockery, pots, and linens. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Recessed into the dome-shaped top of each stove were two shallow clay dishes that served as burners. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z After sunset the temperature dropped well below freezing, and porters flocked in from the cruel night to warm themselves around the stove. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z There’s a fridge, a stove, and two little cabinets, all up against the side of the wall. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z He pointed to a vat of syrup boiling on the stove and fanned his face and squinted his eyes to show how hot it was. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Ekemeni whistled as she stirred something in the pot on the stove. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z At first, when they tried to cook inside with one of the blubber stoves, the oily smoke nearly suffocated the men. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z This transaction took place in Seaside and the stove weighed three hundred pounds. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z It was nearly dark when I finally arrived at the station, where passengers waiting for the morning trains were cooking their suppers on small stoves. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z No coffee brewed on the stove; everything was exactly as neat and clean as Gramma had left it when I went to bed the night before. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z Hundreds of crates of misprinted dictionaries are stacked in the halls, and the girls burn them page by page in the potbelly stove. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z In the morning the house was warm from the stove, but when Laura looked out of the window she saw that the ground was covered with soft, thick snow. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z A naked globe hung from the ceiling and the room was heated by kerosene stove. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z I decided to make some coffee, to warm us up, and the stove proved equally temperamental. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z In a skillet on the second stove lid there were pork sausages! Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Mom stood at the stove, her back to me, holding a spatula over the cast-iron griddle. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z One day she took a can of stove blackening and the brush and closed herself in the bedroom where she copiously blackened her left breast with the stove polish. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Inside the cabin, the boy’s mother sat by the stove, picking kernels of walnuts with a bent hairpin. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z But it was a love that like a pan of syrup kept too long on the stove, had cooked out leaving only its odor and a hard, sweet sludge, impossible to scrape off. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z Then Dexter asked if he could call his mom to check the stove. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z He crouched in front of the stove, tail twitching wickedly. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z Our shack—like most shacks throughout Alexandra—had no heat, electricity or plumbing, and we had no stove, so my mother had to keep the brazier indoors, as she had done all previous winters. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Kindra—-she seven now—she sass-walk her way to the stove with her bottom sticking out and her nose up in the air. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z He put some hot dogs in a pan for himself and his brothers and placed it on the stove. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z Once a day, someone filled the water pot with well water, so that it was always there, steaming and ready on the edge of the stove. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z I nod, so he goes back to the stove and opens and slams shut cupboards, looking for plates. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z In the kitchen the stove was settling and cooling, with little soft creakings. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z Once the pot is on the stove, she pulls out the stuff to make Hector’s formula. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z The kayak hung from the ceiling, and a little stove glowed in the center of the room. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Suddenly our kitchen went from one pot on the stove to three or sometimes four huge cauldrons of steaming food cooking all hours of the day. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z She dumped the wood into the box behind the stove. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Forks, kettles, horseshoes, even the grate off an old potbelly stove. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z “You’d like a stove? What else? A hot bath? A glass of cognac? Shut up and get to work.” Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z Although pinon fires burned in stoves day and night, dwellings stayed barely warm; outside, trucks would not start. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z As Shirley stood at the stove, stirring a pot of stew or whatever, she'd squint with real concentration when I read to her. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z The stumps were chairs and tables and stoves, and leaves were dishes, and sticks were the children. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z The sun came out and brightened the clean saucepans hanging on the wall above the stove. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Green climbed up onto the ice and got the stove going to boil up some milk, while several men in the boats mooed like impatient calves. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z I didn’t want to leave them alone together, but Mother needed help with the cooking, so I returned to the stove but devised small errands to bring me back to the table. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z She lights a stick by the flame of the stove and walks from room to room. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z “We may not have insulation,” Mom said as we all gathered around the stove, “but we have each other.” The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z He hid behind the spool of thread as Cook took the candle from the stove and held it up high. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z “What is it?” asked his grandmother, stirring the contents of a big iron pot on the stove. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z His mother returns to the stove, where she is deep-frying a batch of samosas, filling the air with a haze of smoke. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z When Shady went back to the stove for my breakfast, I leaned across the counter and peered behind it, but there was only a chipped coffee cup holding a couple of nickels and a button. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z Mary Anne shuffled a covered pan of popcorn on the stove. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z People were looting all around, making off with drums of paraffin, bags of mealie meal, carcasses of beef still dripping blood, Primus stoves, boxes of canned goods, loaves of bread and so on. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Mrs. Nurmi was out in the yard by an old wood stove which she still used for boiling the vegetable dyes for her weaving, or peelings and scraps for the hens. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z He takes Olly’s favorite mug, pours in a layer of chocolate and adds six ounces of hot milk heated to almost boiling on the stove—never in the microwave. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z “One day I will have my own stove; my grandson will buy one for me,” she said, and laughed. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z “One second,” Dad says over the sound of the vent fan above the stove. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z It’s pretty much a two-step process, yet everyone seems nervous about me turning on the stove. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z “They won’t,” I responded, placing the bean pot on the kerosene stove. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z She whisked the eggs and poured them into a skillet on the stove. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z I barely knew the kid, hut we were the only two in the courtyard at that moment, and I had to, so to speak, touch the stove that I knew was hot. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z Removing her gloves, she walked over to the kitchen stove to warm up her hands in its low flame. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z He took his dinner off the stove where she had carefully covered it and which she had admonished us not to bother. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Other men were just starting to build stoves and came to Yossarian’s tent during the day to marvel at Orr’s workmanship. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z My mom turns back to the stove, pleased with her retort. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z Then she removed the overcoat and hat and took a soiled apron down from the wall and put it on and built a fire in the stove. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Chris opened the stove doors again and began shoving in more logs. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z He recalled asking Holmes why he didn’t install a gas stove instead. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z She gets up and walks over to the stove. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Ma slipped piping hot baked potatoes into their pockets to keep their fingers warm, and Aunt Eliza’s flatirons were hot on the stove, ready to put at their feet in the sled. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Suddenly there is a crash in the drawing-room, and an iron stove hurtles through the wall past us and on, a yard from us out through the wall behind. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z The next gust stove one of the big windows in. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z She put some oatmeal on the stove, strained the coffee, and toasted the bread. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z So instead, Yan Chang and I roasted chestnuts on top of the little coal stove. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z The kitchen had a huge old-fashioned stove, a red chrome-trimmed breakfast table and chairs, bright yellow walls, and a linoleum floor with visible marks of wear and tear. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I felt almost as cold in the house; while we had the coal stove, we had no coal. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Andrew asked, walking to the stove and shivering, dressed to do battle with the snow drifts. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Here in Kinshasa we have a “city kitchen,” with the stove right inside the house, but it’s only a little bottle-gas burner, maddeningly sluggish after my years of cooking over roaring wood fires. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Their normal life was like this: both worked, Mrs. Dewey as an office secretary, and they divided between them the household chores, taking turns at the stove and the sink. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z Mother has figured out how to make bread “by hook or by crook,” she likes to say, but the stove doesn’t really have a proper oven. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z She stirred it well and left it in a warm place by the stove. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z The meal was delicious, somehow better for being cooked on the old stove. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z She took a pot off the stove and poured something into a cup. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z His mother has burned her hand on the stove and he doesn’t know what to do. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z I ran to the stove and pulled the lid off the pot. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z When she sat down next to her stove, her movements were stiff and slow. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z In the kitchen, the stove turns on under a teakettle without anyone touching it. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Now she was moving away to a land she knew little of, except the skillet of olive oil with crumbles of garlic and pine nuts browning on the stove. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z “And the stove. Things get banging around down here and we’ll have a first-class fire.” Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Viola was singing “The Willow Bends Her Boughs for Me” as she stoked the kitchen stove. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z I latched myself up tight in our kitchen house, tore off my filthy clothes and threw them into the stove. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z In his house, if something broke, his mother called a repairman to fix it—the stove, the washer, the disposal—or, for almost anything else, it was discarded and replaced. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Brave Orchid had an inside stove in the kitchen and a stove outside on the back porch. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “Oh”—he turned back to the stove—“maybe for good.” Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z “If we had a new gas stove we could make a cup of coffee in a few minutes,” he said. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Another oddity was my discovery, one afternoon, of a large copper pot bubbling on the back burner of the stove, a peculiar smell emanating from it. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z When I walk into the kitchen, my aunt is at the table sipping chai, and my mom is at the stove cooking. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z You couldn’t light a stove, or play, or tear paper, or ride in a car on the Sabbath, but you could read. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z “Daddy knows how to work the stove. As for stories, I’m not a record player. Keep it up, and it’ll be straight to bed.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z He put an iron pan on the stove, added butter and spring onions, and, after a bit, tossed in the bass cheeks. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z Her grandmother waited by the stove, stirring in the pan. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z The guy in the West Indian restaurant called me in and I shot him standing over the stove. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z Sacks and barrels were heaped by the potbelly stove, near a cot with a threadbare blue blanket. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Gabriel, from his corner near the stove, looked up and watched his mother. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z “I’ve got a pot of fresh coffee on the stove. Go ahead and dry yourself and then we can talk.” Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z I set Sohrab’s cleats on the counter and grabbed the Rezaeis’ tea out of the drawer to the right of the stove. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z It makes my arm ache and a mess on the floor, but the table is still usable, if propped just right against the wall, and now there’s wood in the stove. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z Nearby was a pile of stove lengths on the circle of burned ground where she cooked down her apples for apple butter. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z We had a sink, bed, dresser, stove, and a little icebox that the guy came around and put ice in once a week. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z "Okay," said Jessie, slapping the phone book shut and putting it back in the cabinet over the stove. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z While I’m eating the biscuit Miss Larsen heats water on the stove for tea and cuts an apple into slices, arranging them on a chipped china plate from the shelf. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z I turn to the stove so he can’t see my face. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z But the spinner is all apart with some of the rings under the table and some under the sink, and the cord is near the stove. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z I normally stood by the stove quietly while the food cooked. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z A burning chunk-stick fell against the inside of the stove, but the boy did not try to convince himself that it might be the thump of Sounder scratching fleas underneath the floor. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z I stuck my head into the kitchen, where fat pork chops sat burning on the stove. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z In the kitchen Mutti stands at the stove and tends a large black skillet. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z Using the few tools they saved, he fashioned two camp stoves, one using the ash chute from the ship’s boilers, and another, smaller one from the ash bucket. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z Generose was constantly shooing her younger children out of the kitchen, and allowed only Alex, the eldest, to cook on the stove. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z “Jesse Oliver! You leave that baby alone. Whatcha mean lying there in the middle of the floor doing nothing anyway? Didn’t I tell you I couldn’t cook supper before you chopped wood for the stove?” Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z Reassembling the stove was harder than I had thought it would be. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z He went out of the compartment and returned a few moments later with a small spirit stove and a pair of curling tongs. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z I would have never let my long-gone daughters travel nearly three thousand miles without turning on the stove. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z I glance over from the stove and see the sit-in at Brown’s Drug Store is the front-page news. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z And even without Daisy and Hamilton and Karl Marx and William and Portia he could sit by the stove alone and take joy from this knowledge. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Now Rita and Tendai Fired up the old coal stove in the kitchen, cut grubs out of the guavas and boiled the squash. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z The dry cottonwood chunks burned like gunpowder in the stove. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z I could have jerked her from the bed and stove in her golden-haired head against the wall. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z There’s the click-click-click of the gas stove, and then the sizzling of fish. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z Once the stove was roaring, she set the eggs and wedges of fruit on top, and sat to wait. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z He stood, moved to the stove, where he took the pot and two cups, which he put on the table, one for me and one in front of Gretchen. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Judith invited her into her house and the three of them huddled close to the oil stove. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z It seemed ironic, having finally gotten myself a stove, not to be able to use it. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z She dug grease out of the stove that had been there since Charles’ mother died. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z But before I could even decide what to name my new pet, my mother had dropped it into a pot of cold water and placed it on the tall stove. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Mom and Dad took over the room with the stove, and it became a combined living room, master bedroom, art studio, and writer’s study. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Papa pointed to the smoke starting to rise from the stove. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z The orphans called to Circe from the vegetable garden early in the morning as soon as they saw the smoke from the cook stove rising. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z He came back with a saucer and the matches that Naomi kept by the stove. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z That night he sat alone by the stove in the dark room and remembered. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Bessie switched on her electric stove, emptied a bottle of milk into a pan and set it upon the glowing red circle. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z I got up just before dawn and got the fire going in the stove and put water on to boil and cooked our morning rice. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z You found those laurel leaves, if you recall, on the stove in Francis’s kitchen.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Out of the corner of her eye, she saw Nina move back to the stove, her hand lingering on her husband’s arm for a moment as she turned. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z They boiled what was left of the rice in a steel pot on a charcoal stove. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z She turned off the stove and opened the doors and the windows to try to air the place out. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z “We can build a log house like the kolkhoz office, with a chimney and a stove. We can all live together.” Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z Mrs. Hameed moves the dough over the blue flames of the stove. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z Soon the whole stove was covered with hot flames that licked and devoured everything they touched. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “And Sean was going to take a look at our busted stove, but he doesn’t have to worry about that now.” They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z “If you’d let me know sooner—” She began bustling around the huge warm kitchen, which had a stove twice the size of an ordinary stove and a table ten feet long. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z She’s at the sink in the kitchen, my apron around her middle, washing the dishes in water she’s warmed on the stove. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z She spoke slowly and carefully, like she was explaining to a toddler not to touch a hot stove. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z She let her mind wander on briefly to other things, to a backpack and bedrolls, to a portable stove. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z Near one wall there was a black cast-iron stove, its stovepipe going straight up through the ceiling. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z “Once, when it was snowing. She let me warm up by her stove.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z I spun around in time to see a bag of garbage—into which I’d tossed the match I’d used to light the stove—flare into a small conflagration. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I plastered the chula, the small stove on which we cooked, with fresh mud. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z The glow from the stove was the only light in the room. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z She put an omelet in front of him, with toast grilled on the stove with olive oil, or semolina pancakes, or a frittata with peppers and mushrooms. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z She grabbed her real wand and turned around to find that the sauce on the stove was smoking. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z When he returned to the kitchen, he sighed heavily then sat down on a chair next to the stove. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z I ran inside to get some oil heating on the stove, realizing that dinner would be late. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z There was a potbellied stove there, and a pipe leading from it to the wall to let out the smoke. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z Onions and oregano and garlic—Mom’s spaghetti sauce heating up on the stove. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z The moment it was dark it became bitterly cold, but the lamp and the gas burners of the stove warmed my little house cozily. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z The meat, crisp and split, ignited into a small flame, which found new fuel in the spots of grease upon the stove. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Like his mother, he was pearled with damp, and he shook his woollen hat over the stove to make the drops jump and spit. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z The gas flame on a stove is like a Bunsen burner. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z His eyes were fixed on the open stove door, watching the yellow flame change shape and turn to blue and red. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z And in long pans, on a huge stove the whole length of the sugarhouse, sap was boiling high. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z Green fired up the blubber stove in order to get some hot milk into the sailor. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z Both stoves had been turned off for the night now, and the air was cooling. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z What we’d done, haw, and like I say it was my idea, we had cut every stick exactly four inches too long for the Whisnants’ kitchen stove. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Daddy stood looking at the stove; then he turned and looked at Mother, and then he looked at her. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z Wooden counters, wooden cupboards, wooden chairs, wooden floor; only the refrigerator, sink and stove were porcelain. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z Someone had pulled the stove away from the wall to disconnect the gas line. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z She saw rooms, tables, stoves, and daylight coming through windows. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z Both of these stoves were stoked with seal blubber and could boil two and a half gallons of water from ice in half an hour. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z “You want me to reheat your food on the stove, Daddy?” Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z “Sam, Ah say it’s caution, not nature dat keeps folks off uh red-hot stove.” Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z The kitchen was dark, lit only by the light above the stove. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z The house had an oil furnace and a gas stove. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z She was in the kitchen, scrubbing the sides of the kerosene stove with a soapy sponge. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z There were bunks in there, and two potbellied stoves and a water tap. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Aloe was standing at the stove, barefoot and in a rumpled jalabiya, stirring a pan. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z They were gone most of the day, and old Grandma was totally blind by then and always there, sitting close to her stove. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Rashid Uncle lit a fire in the enormous stove and boiled a pot of lentils. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z The kerosene lamps were gone, and the coffeepot was pushed to the back of the stove. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z In the kitchen behind her, something's simmering on the stove, and she just looks at me for a while like she's trying to place me. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z There’s a steaming pot on the stove, and I bet anything there are apples in it. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z The sensation, as always, was pleasant and induced in him a warm languor, like the feeling he got after sitting too long in front of a hot stove. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Katie rushed out to the kitchen and heated the coffee which was always standing on the stove. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The only heat source was a brick stove that didn’t warm up anything more than three steps away. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z He took the lantern to the stove, lit a splinter of kindling through the open door-draft, and held it to the lantern wick the way his father always did. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Down and to his right there was a small sink and alcohol stove and on the left a stand with drawers in it and a tiny cutting board on top. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z She stood still at the stove with her back to them like she always did when making her banging macaroni and cheese, and also-banging-but-in-a-lesser-way collard greens. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z The next door, opposite the sink and the stove, leads to a small hallway with a dirt floor and a ladder. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z Mrs. Guttingen took away the breakfast trays and put more wood in the stove. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z On Saturday night Mam will boil water on the stove and wash us in the great tin tub and Dad will dry us. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Portia left the supper to cook on the stove and sat silently with her long hands dropping down limp between her knees. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z “Have you got a stove in your room?” the man on the floor asked. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z It was like a pot of vegetable soup boiling on a stove, everything moving. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z She lifted the first lid on the funny old stove and stuffed in some of each. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z She smoothed her hands down the front of it, looked at the clock on the stove, and reached for an old white vinyl purse of May’s that she’d inherited. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “Here,” the old man said, opening a metal locker near the stove. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z But in the summers Grandma took down the stove that heated her front room, so there was space to leave a card table up. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z His mother looked up quickly from the stove at the sound of him. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z The boy put Sounder’s tin under the porch, closed the door, pushed the night latch, sat down behind the stove, and began to eat his supper. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z The clock above the stove says 7:30. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z At this they both turn, Frank from the stove top and Byrd with a look on her face like it all just dawned on her, everything all at once. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z In the lobby of the King City hotel he talked to the men who gathered around the stove and read the papers sent down from San Francisco. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Even now I can see the whole house, inside and out: a welcome mat at the door, a red kettle on the stove, the million stars shining in through the skylight at night. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z This time he was chopping wood for the kitchen stove. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z Across the kitchen, Pearl set the kettle on the stove and clicked on the burner. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The boy felt the brown paper bag of walnut kernels on the shelf behind the stove. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z She went back to the stove and carved more ham and ladled more batter into the skillet. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z I stood in front of our stove and watched the pancake cook in the pan. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z Portia took the lid from the pan on the stove and stirred the collards with a fork. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Chase ran inside and fetched the small bit of water left in the stove reservoir. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z She scoured the enameled wash basin and poured a bottle of sweet oil in it and set it on the back of the stove. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Afterward, at home, when Mother asked Mama Tataba to go put the soup on the stove, Mama Tataba turned and walked smack dab out the front door in between the words “soup” and “stove.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Lodged in the corner was a small stove surrounded by a couple of pots and dirty tins. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z Naomi left her letter on the table, got up, and went to light the stove. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z “Ah! here comes the sunlight!” exclaimed Mademoiselle, rising from her knees before the stove. The Awakening 1899-04-22T00:00:00Z “You’ll have it,” he cried, and he opened the stove lid and assaulted the fire with the stove lifter until the hairs on his hand curled and charred. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z The stove was cold, so I twisted a length of grocery paper into a wick and coiled it in the firebox. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z He was telling Mr. McAllister about the winter morning when Brother Belie Jones’s wife fired up her stove and shut the oven door, not knowing her cat was asleep in there. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z The noises start to piece together, and I look up as a pan clatters against the stove. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z Pinmei let herself be led to a large pillow next to the stove, its heat bathing her in warmth. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z It was a cold, lonely night, and we huddled around our oil stove while Mama and Woody and Chizu began to talk about the day. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z “Watch the sauce on the stove. I want to wash my hands upstairs,” she said, and I caught a bit of a wicked smile on her face. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z There was a table, two cane-seat chairs, two folding chairs, and, in the corner, a black, cast-iron stove. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z Soon everyone and everything inside was covered with a layer of greasy soot, but the stove provided much-needed warmth, and the men were beyond caring how dirty they were. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z The window’s closed, the light’s on, the stove’s burning, and there I am brushing away at the rug. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z Moms was making coffee at the stove and Derek was reading a comic. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z After a supper cooked over the shared stove in the courtyard, they separated to go to their rooms for the night, Kaede with Taisin and Shae, Con with Tali and Pol. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Mother and Daddy and Mr. and Mrs. Chris sat around the end of the stove, just lounging around like people by a picnic fire. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z The driver, Mr. Post, chops wood, tends the stove, sweeps the leaves from the front walkway, and does mechanical repairs on the truck. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z She passes me the bowl of milks and a whisk, then goes to grab the cooled cake from the wire rack next to the stove. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z The cabinets are a nice cherry-red color; the refrigerator and stove are a shiny silver, like the moonlight. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z On Faye’s tray she put her favorite cup and set the soup forward on the stove to heat. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z With hands as clumsy as boxing gloves, he fumbled a pot out of the stove and filled it with water. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z Helena has been sitting on the floor beside the stove, legs crossed, feet tucked under her knees. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z I heard the stove clang and I knew she was kindling last night’s ashes. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Over the rise I could sense the city of Petoskey, the smoke of stoves and chimneys down there. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z She hung the apron on a peg by the stove as Peach put his napkin on his plate and pushed in his chair. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z I had begun to steal logs to keep the stove fired. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z He did not look at his mother, who stood up and went to the stove to heat his breakfast. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z Mom looks up from the stove, brow creasing. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z I sprang out of my chair and twisted the knob on the stove and the flames doubled in size. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z It’s sort of like a train but without tracks, and the driver sits in his own protected car up front with the stove that heats the steam engine. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z Perhaps even now soup simmered on the kitchen stove. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Meanwhile, Grandma was busy pouring oil into a pot that was heating up on the stove. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z She glances quickly at the pan on the stove and takes him through the kitchen and into the living room. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z They look at the kitchen, with its iron stove and stone sink, and file along a dirt path to look at the outhouse. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z He checked the valve on the tank that it was turned off and swung the little stove around on the footlocker and sat and went to work dismantling it. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z We are fascinated by him, goggled and bent over the stove a clamped test tube protruding from his gloved hand. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z For the first few days of his life, Wilbur was allowed to live in a box near the stove in the kitchen. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z He looked even more immovable than the stove or the building. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z Then I casually looked around the room and I glanced to my left and there, just a few feet away, right next to the coal stove, was Koko. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Bailey had finished his chores and was already behind the stove with Mark Twain. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z We were staring at each other across the glowing stove like a pair of wooden dolls. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z Mama had warned him that he’d get piles from sitting on a hot stove. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z He inspected it often in the little mirror by the stove. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z When he came back into the cabin, he took off his blanket-lined overall jacket and sat behind the stove for a long time. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z When he let himself in through the back door, he was shocked to find Master’s mother near the stove. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z She put some more coals on the iron stove, hoping it would stop her trembling, but the cold was in her bones, not just her flesh. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z “Except the stove hasn’t worked in weeks. Bri’s done all the cooking in the microwave when there’s been electricity. Which there isn’t anymore, in case you hadn’t noticed.” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z She was standing over the stove making some bone soup when I got home from the cemetery. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z There was a sheet iron stove in the center of a wooden frame filled with sand, and a faded map on the wall and the dingy plat of a township. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z She went into the kitchen, where there was an electric stove and a refrigerator that no longer worked and was used to store glasses and dishes so Poppy couldn’t get at them. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Lena poured some milk into a pot on the stove and began adding ingredients. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z I run out to the pump and fill a pitcher with cold water, then bring it inside to heat on the stove. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z A pallet of straw sat next to the wall near the stove. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z Beto wandered to the stove and lifted the lid from a casserole dish. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Before I could answer, she got out a big black frying pan and poured some bacon grease in it out of a coffee can that was sitting on top the stove. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z And out to the very edges of the roads that led from the town to general stores where farmers came on Saturday nights and sat around the stove. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Our darkest fears were confirmed the next day when Father went to empty the stove and discovered the clip, used to fasten it to a pocket, among the ashes. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z No stove could be that big, he thought. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z After he had washed up and eaten, Estraven sat a long time by the stove that night figuring out precisely what we had and how and when we must use it. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z Travis’s mom dumped the batter from the mixing bowl into a cake pan, bent down, and got another cake pan from under the stove. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z He’s sitting on the front steps of the school so antsy and twitch-ity that he looked like he’s sitting on a hot stove. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z The weather is drizzly and overcast, the stove stinks, and the food lies heavily on our stomachs, producing a variety of rumbles. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z By six thirty all hands were pitching tents, and Green was firing up the blubber stove to make dinner out of the seal. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z The stove was one of those excellent and economical devices perfected by the Gethenians in their millennial effort to outwit cold. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z The food was kept hot on the stove and Aunt Maggie stood on the front porch staring into the deepening dusk. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z There, my mother cooked over the fire in a large metal can once used for cooking oil that we now used as a stove. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z She thought it part of the mystery of his race that he could iron with an iron never heated on a stove. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z We moved into a tiny, dingy two-room den in whose kitchen a wall bed fitted snugly into a corner near the stove. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z “She’s very domestic. What about that little stove with the silver saucepans? Yes. And that striped broom. We are so troubled with stardust, and she will love having that to sweep it up with.” Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z Elizabeth is right beside me, using prepackaged naan Mama heated on the stove to soak up the curry. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z There in their secret place, his feelings bubbled inside him like a stew on the back of the stove—some sad for her in her lonesomeness, but chunks of happiness, too. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z “The designers of the hotel figured we only needed electricity for that and the stoves. Cursed bureaucrats!” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z But inside there are stories, there are biscuits and grits and eggs, the fire in the potbellied stove already filling the house with warmth. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z Three men sitting around the stove grinned at him. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Takumi had brought a camp stove in his backpack, and the Colonel was huddled over it, heating instant coffee. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z Her bowling shoes pounded the floor purposefully, carrying the swinging breasts and rotating hips back and forth between the table and the stove. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z She boils water on the stove and spends a day at a great tin tub washing our shirts and socks, diapers for the twins, our two sheets, our three towels. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z The liquid Jell-O was cooling on the stove. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Ida Spavento took the espresso pot from the stove, the coffee still gurgling as she put it on the table. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z I’d gotten the stove going and was melting the snow when I smelled something burning. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Right next to the pancakes is a plate of perfectly crispy bacon, and Sneaky’s mom is scrambling eggs at the stove. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z “Will—” she said at once, her voice full of concern, and she turned from the stove to help him to a chair. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z It was morning in the desert, and Julia had already gotten out of bed and was boiling coffee on a propane stove wed set up on the tailgate of Cade’s pickup. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z There was a magazine stand beside the wood stove, and he pawed through the magazines there. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z No moon, but the stars were so lit up, we didn’t even need to turn the porch light on to stack splits for the kitchen wood stove. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z “Nothing. It’s nothing at all. Just my nervous Nellie ears playing tricks on me. You’re an old fool,” she said to herself as she turned back to the stove. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z Roberto picked up the dishpan full of soapy water and hurled it over the stove. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z For a long time she gazes silently at her son’s boots under the stove, his handwriting on the walls, his toothbrush. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “Well, go find some wood for the stove then!” said the bald man. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z A neighbor was boiling corn, and once in a while, when the water frothed over, the stove fire hissed. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z My mom’s car wasn’t in the driveway, and Abby isn’t allowed to use the stove. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z “Oh, take it,” his mother said angrily, reaching for her cracked vinyl purse on the shelf above the stove. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z My stove was unlighted and a loaf of bread gathered mold in my cupboard. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z “I feel like sitting on the stove right now.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z No matter that it was a relatively warm summer morning: if you had lived in Milagro all your life, you started a fire in your combination stove first thing after checking out the sun. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z A few years earlier, my mother had said she was tired of the tile backsplash behind the stove in the kitchen. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z No fluted plates or flowered cups, no circle of blue flame burning in a stove eye. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z In one corner of the room was a potbellied stove with a pipe leading up to the ceiling. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z “Most kind, sir,” said Lee, and carried out the wooden bench himself while Grumman went to the stove and poured the scalding drink into two tin cups. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z When he entered the house, he looked around at the blank-faced walls, the two prickly bushes outside the window—the tan shag carpeting, the lack of books, the tiny stove. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z “What the hell’s your hurry with that stove, anyway?” he barked out a moment later in spite of himself. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z “Someone has to watch this build- ff mg. “But there’s nothing left to take but your stove and your chair.” Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z Once we were seated and Mrs. Brenner had put a kettle of tea on the small potbelly stove in the corner, she turned to me. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z He pulled out the two bread pans and tossed them on the stove top. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z Old Grandma sat by her stove, comfortable with darkness too. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z She liked to sit by her stove and gossip about the people who were talking about their family. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z His father had hollowed it out during long winter evenings as he sat by the stove. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z When the sun was bright we ate lunch on the porch but the rest of the time we ate upstairs in a small room with plain wooden walls and a big stove in the corner. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z Henry switched off the lamp and went to the stove and began, rather mechanically, to make some bacon and eggs. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z She pried herself loose from the bar before the bartender could stop her and came over to Ignatius, who was huddled against the stage as if it were a warm stove. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The Franklin stove went over with a crash. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Most of them won’t be able to stand up, there’s going to be no privacy, and beneath the summer sun and the tin roof, it’s hot as the devil’s stove up here. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z Master stared at him and then at the pot on the stove. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z It had only one electrical outlet and only a single wood- stove for heat. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Ma lifts the simmering curry from the stove and heaps huge servings on two plates. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z I drove up anyway and when I opened the door to the house he was sitting alone in the kitchen, the kettle on the stove madly whistling away. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z It sounded like they were standing by the stove, but she didn’t dare peek around the corner to find out. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z She cracked the eggs in a pot, whipped them with a fork, dipped in four slices of white bread, and laid them out in the frying pan on the stove. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z He set the backpack on the oak table, and in the dim light from above the stove, he began to pack supplies. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z These are called “housekeeping cottages,” which means they have some kind of a stove in them, a pot or two and a tea kettle, and a table covered with oilcloth. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z She picked the stove up and shook it. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Bigger looked round the room wildly, then darted to a curtain and swept it aside and grabbed two heavy iron skillets from a wall above a gas stove. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z To undermine their effort, one of the district commissioners ordered the warden to install two gas stoves near the women’s cells and to hire six women to cook ham and bacon twenty-four hours a day. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z She tore the letter into tiny bits and stuffed every shred of it into Mrs. Bedlow’s iron cook stove, and then, to her own amazement, burst into tears. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z His mother was rattling the stove to make the flames roar when Jody went through the kitchen. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z A servant had already put tea and sweet cakes on the table and was now lighting the houlu, a small stove for burning coal. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z She ordered that kind because she didn’t want to impose on any of them to look after her stove for her. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Her mother had hung woolen army blankets to divide the Imadas’ cramped room in half and had given them, on their wedding night, two cots adjacent to the stove. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Mrs. Coulter turned back to the water on her stove, which was nearly at the boil. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z I make sense of a stove I have never used before. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z Then she rinsed him off, rubbed him with a towel, and plunked him down in front of the stove to finish drying. Bunnicula 1979-03-01T00:00:00Z Dicey had been hoping for a kitchen house of some sort, with pans and a stove. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z “For that bit of impertinence you may polish the coal stove tomorrow. This room is the perfect place for a noisy, I might say badly spoiled, little tyrant to have his sulks in private.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z Bobby Gene and I hovered around the stove like pigeons waiting for bread crumbs. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z Sherm’s grandmother was at the stove, with her back to them. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z We lit the stove a few days ago and the entire room is still filled with smoke. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z "Do you want me to put these on the stove?" Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z Just puts coal in the stove and makes the tea. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z Refrigerators were sailing along the avenues, as were stoves and dishwashers. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z When the pan was clean she clapped it back on the stove and said, “They cannot linger in your world, Mr. Portman, because in a short time they would grow old and die.” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z Thula dropped a pot on the stove and bolted for the front door. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z His coat and shawl steamed over the back of a chair by the stove. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z I tied a string around the neck of the cloth, making a tea bag, then placed a kettle on the stove. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z The parlor looks the same as it always has: two cribs beneath two Latin crosses, dust floating in the open mouth of the stove, a dozen layers of paint peeling off the baseboards. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z We eat cans of Habitant pea soup, heated up on the two-burner stove in a dented pot, and slices of bread spread with molasses, and hunks of cheese. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Mrs. Monroe turned off the stove and left the room. Bunnicula 1979-03-01T00:00:00Z Mother was frying hamburgers on the stove when she said to Daddy, “States do have rights, you know Those politicians in Washington can’t be telling us how to run our schools.” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Copper pots hang from a wooden rack on the far side of the kitchen; big spoons and ladles are shoved into ceramic holders near the stove top. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z They slept beneath a set of stairs in an alley behind a tavern, tucked between a discarded stove and bags of kitchen refuse. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z During the next two weeks, Mama cooked outside on a makeshift stove using rocks and a comal Dona Lupe had given her. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z Within an hour after our evening meal Estraven turned the stove down, if it was feasible to do so, and turned the light-emission off. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z By now, both of them would be screaming about dinner, how they were starving, and his mother would have another excuse for why she hadn’t put anything on the stove yet. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z Baachan owned an iron that you filled with hot coals from the stove. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z It's weird going into his house, finding it fresh and clean, food warming on the stove. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z All around him the room was very dark, and he had to hold the book close to the stove to make out the print. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z “I have brought everything you ordered,” he nodded towards the small stove and pile of wood. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z I could see the backs of three women, stirring and chopping and moving pans around on a couple of giant stoves. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Ma stood at the stove, frying up some catfish. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z It made her think of the kitchen light in her house, the one over the stove, the one that her mother left on all night long. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z They built a fire in the stove and made tea and feasted on vegetables, fried potatoes, and canned meats, eating so much, they feared they would get sick. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z The CD has ended and the apartment is silent apart from the sounds on the stove. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z She picked up the box and banged it hard against the iron stove, just once, to show me. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z She sent Mary Alice to the pump for pail after pail of water, and she sent me to the house for coal scuttles full of wood ash from the kitchen stove. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z The only sounds in the kitchen belonged to the eggs frying on the stove and Nana whistling the Bunker theme song. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z Obinze selected some spice bottles from the cupboard, sprinkled them on the chicken, and put the pot on the stove. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z And while Mama mended Papa’s shirt, he drove in our Carcachita to the nearest gas station to fill the gallon bottle with drinking water and to get more kerosene for the stove. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z There was a restaurant, too, where cooking was done over an iron stove instead of a fireplace; Jethro had eaten there once when he had come to town with Bill and Shadrach. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z In the kitchen he waited until his mother got from in front of the sink and went back to the stove. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z Naomi crossed to the stove and lit one of the gas burners under the percolator. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z I started on the raspberry preserves, rinsing off the berries and dropping them into a small pot on the stove with some water. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z She burned two in a row, to be exact—she had the fire in the stove stoked up way too high. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z I asked Calista as she turned the heat on under the pot on the stove. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z The tunes whistled through perfect teeth are remembered, picked up later and repeated at the kitchen stove. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z I might never finish it, and it’ll wind up in the wastepaper basket or the stove. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z We had kept the Chabe stove, the only thing of value left to us. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z Then when the morning’s milk had cooled, she mixed it with the skimmed milk and set it all on the stove to heat. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z After she had put the cream in the tall crockery churn and set it near the stove to warm, she washed and scraped a long orange-colored carrot. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z No one is cooking in the kitchen even with the nice stove and refrigerator filled with food. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z She walked over to the stove and ran a sponge on the warm surface, over and over, her back to Odenigbo. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z I guess I sleep, because the next thing I know, it’s morning and Greasy Sae’s banging around at the stove. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z He washed as best he could and then dried himself on the tea towels that hung on a line by the stove. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The fur captured her warm breath, held it against her face, and she became her own radiant stove. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z We come to a stop at last in front of a pushcart with a stove on it. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z Hardly even a dog worth the trouble and stove wood. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Only deep into the play’s final act did he notice a white scrap of paper visible behind a flickering, holographic prop stove he’d been working on earlier. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z When I came home from work there was a potato peeler in the kitchen drawer, and a tablecloth on the table, and chicken curry made with fresh garlic and ginger on the stove. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z Fujiko loaded coal into the potbellied stove and wiped her hands on her apron. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z As soon as she touched it to the burner, the stove burst into flames, setting the curtains on fire. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z And so he bade the laborers build a little room and an earthen stove in it and he bought a good cauldron. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z He warmed himself and watched a patch of red glow the size of his hand at the bottom of the stove. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z He shooed the press out of the barn, slung a rope across the entrance, posted a guard, and retreated to his track cottage, sitting by an oil stove in a cramped room. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z She was checking the boiling water in a huge pot on the stove. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z Violet and Klaus read the note as they ate their breakfast, which was a gray and lumpy oatmeal Count Olaf left for them each morning in a large pot on the stove. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z As she put the kettle on the stove and busied her hands with the tea caddy, she was thinking hard. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z To have dishes, he thought, just to have dishes and pots and pans and a stove to cook the food—it still made him marvel. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z I pour some ground coffee into the pot, enough to make sure the resulting brew will be good and strong, and set it on the stove to boil. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z I poured some milk out of the pail and into a small kettle and set it on the stove to warm. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z At that, Grandma turned all the knobs on the stove until they clicked, turning the flames off. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z The boy had not moved from his chair by the stove. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z In a hundred valley houses fires started burning in combination wood and gas stoves, and men, dressed already in irrigation boots, quietly ate breakfast with their wives and children. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I lit the stove and warmed some milk in a little pan with cardamom seed. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z I’m not sure whether it was Momma’s presence or the bubbling soup on the stove which influenced him, but Mr. Taylor appeared to have livened up considerably. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z She has an electric stove and washing machine now. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z We could see his teeth marks on the pile of potatoes, our dinner, on a plate on the stove. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z “There are worse things than spending a day on a boat. I hang over a hot stove.” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z The kettle was heavy, but he managed to fill it with water from the sink and bring it to the stove. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z “You know it was the stove,” the mother said as she reached for the poker to push the wood back from the door. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z “Come on, son, we gotta get a move on,” Daddy yells from the stove. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z She sets the platter on the counter next to the stove. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z A small potbellied stove took up one corner, and next to it was a dry sink under a window that looked out to the sea. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z The potbellied stove was already stoked with logs the older students chopped each afternoon. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Then close by the warm stove, behind a screen made of a blanket over two chairs, Ma bathed Laura, and then she bathed Mary. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z “Sure, got a nice stove, burns coal or wood.” Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z “Here’s a sweet prospect!” muttered Jo, slamming the stove door open, and poking vigorously among the cinders. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z They were all miserable, cold, and completely filthy, since the last of the soap had been saved for Green, who stood all day in the greasy smoke of the blubber stoves. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z Those wagons regularly drove west toward the forested slopes, where they loaded wood for the stoves in the fort. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z With helmet down and torch blazing, he practiced to his heart’s content, welding all manner of metal objects—forks, shovels, horseshoes, even the grate off a potbelly stove—right into the gate. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z The Captain expanded Mr. Carter’s building program, providing every Coalwood miner a house with indoor plumbing, a Warm Morning stove in the living room, and a coal box the company kept full. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Then he burned the paper in the stove. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z “I’ve got a refrigerator out on the porch. It’s gas. So’s the stove and the water heater. I’ve got everything I need.” Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Then it occurs to me that my mother cooked them herself and that she was probably in pain as she stood before the hot stove. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z “They got some tea on the stove in there,’’ Peewee said. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z There was a hot blaze in the iron stove, a festive tree smelling of pine needles, professional entertainers from Moscow, and an amateur talent show. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z “We can go on a PIC mission and melt all the makeup in Rebecca’s pocketbook. The stove top’s probably still warm enough.” A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z My heart jumps to my throat when I see a light on in the kitchen and someone padding around the stove. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z She points to the pot on the stove, and I lift the lid to peek inside. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z Grandma shook a little bit of this and a little bit of that into the pots on the stove, shooing Ernie away, telling him to go sit down. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z The mud-caked dress and shawl she carried away as soon as Lyddie shed them and plopped them directly in a pot of boiling water on the black iron cook stove. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z “I have brought out my old kerosene stove,” she continued. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z The stove was warming, with orange light showing around the lids and the soft thunder of drafty flame leaping past the open damper. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z In the ash of a large stove they found a length of chain that the jeweler in Holmes’s pharmacy recognized as part of a watch chain Holmes had given Minnie as a gift. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Before leaving the house, Roy poked his head into the kitchen, where his mother stood over the stove. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “Why are you using the kerosene stove?” she shouted. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Babulya shuffled to one of the dining room chairs by the stove. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z He wished his whole village were here, so he could join in the moonlight conversations and quarrels and yet live in Master’s house with its running taps and refrigerator and stove. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z I grabbed a stick from next to the stove. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z Nelson raked a pan of cold ashes out of the stove, and together we strewed them all around the hard-pan-dirt yard outside the chicken house. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s only when I hear the oven door closing shut and the beeps of my mom setting the timer on the stove that I release them. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z I followed her into the kitchen, where a man stood at the stove with a dish towel over one shoulder, flipping pancakes. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z It seared his skin, and a memory popped in his head: putting his hand on top of the burner on the stove. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z Mariam could hear the buzzing of a fly somewhere, could make out the outline of the cast-iron stove in the corner, its pipe jutting up, then making a sharp angle just below the ceiling. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z She wadded them all up, leaned to one side, and dropped a ball into the large pot on the stove. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z They discovered the first one in a cupboard above the stove, beside an unopened bottle of malt vinegar. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z When Albert looks up from the stove, he startles but only says, “Hello,” and “Watch your head,” and waves his cooking spoon as the giant dodges the light fixture. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z I shoved the manioc pot onto the stove, slopping water all over everywhere. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z We all huddled around the potbellied stove, wrapped in blankets, holding out our hands toward the weak, smoky heat. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z At a quarter to six I swept the floor, dumped the dirt into a newspaper, along with the rotten beans, and tossed it into the stove. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z Because their stove and toaster and pressure cooker and imported spices were left behind in Nsukka, their meals were simpler too, and Ugwu had more time to play with her. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z He spins and points at a stove with the oven door hanging off. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z They would take the Primus camp stove and three days of fuel. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z But inside, I secretly thanked the Stove King perched above our stove. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z I can see the anger in Sunny bubbling like milk on the stove. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z She gave me a short, hard look and then stirred the pot of beans she had on the stove. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z I had to fire up the stove with a bunch of kindling while Grandma and Mary Alice went to work on the potatoes and onions. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z A remnant of a fire was banked in the far corner under the stove top. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z There were blankets, pillows, books, comics, and even a camp stove. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z Kindra carries a plate of beans and ham to her daddy and comes back to the stove for more. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Mademoiselle was poking at a rusty stove that smoked a little and wanned the room indifferently. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z But, trapped by winter, Descartes shut himself up in a room heated by a stove and sat and sat, and thought and thought. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z We are sitting on hard chairs on the back porch, warmer now than it was earlier in the day from the sun and the heat of the stove. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z She had to raise her voice to be heard over the roar of a stove fan that had been switched on in the kitchen. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z The next day when the maid emptied the stove, she found a little tin heart, which was all that was left of him. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z “Then he’s going to rip out these stoves and put in steam heat.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z They aren’t on top of the icebox or in the cupboard by the stove. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z She then stood quite still, her back against the wall between the filthy window and the stove, as though she wished for nothing more than to sink into the stone and vanish. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z At the stove, she scoops a bowl of stew into a plastic bag. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Miss Hill found the stove sufficiently strange that she mentioned it to her neighbors. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Charles found that he could cook his fried and boiled meals more quickly and efficiently on the forge than he could on the kitchen stove. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Daddy opened the stove door and shoved in some coal, hard. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z Turner cupped his hands around his, and they sat silently together for a time, feeling the warmth of the wood——stove and of the coffee thawing their frozen selves. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z “Stole it,” said the onetime prime minister of Karhide, holding his hands over the stove, which he had not yet turned down; he, even he, was cold. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z She tells Suesetta, “Now, I want you to measure eight cups of water and a half cup of manuka honey, and let’s get that pot on the stove.” Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z He frantically searched for the cloth kitchen towel because he thought that would work better and found it wrapped around a pot on the stove. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z After it was heating on the stove for a minute, I could hear Mom’s phone ring, and her answering, but I couldn’t make out the words. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Mom was standing in front of the stove, making bacon. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z "Do all the teachers live like this, with no furniture and no kitchen stove and no bathroom?" Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z “Don’t worry,” she said, stirring a bubbling pot of grits on the stove. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z Aunty Ifeoma chattered as she put the rice back on the stove and chopped two purple onions, her stream of sentences punctuated by her cackling laughter. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z I wipe down the stove top and replace the covers on the rings and then rinse my dishcloth and drape it over the drying rack. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z Although the birds did not provide much meat, their skins, lined with a thick layer of fat, made a good fuel for the blubber stove. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z At first glance, the kitchen was better—it was bigger, at least—though the stove burners were wrapped in aluminum foil and bedsheets had been stapled over the lower cabinets in place of doors. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z Over the course of the day, he learned how to wash the floors and clean the windows and empty out the iron stove. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z Mom fixed supper every day, but left it on the stove, retreating to her bedroom. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z The thick, greasy smoke from the blubber stove turned his face black and regularly sent him bursting outside coughing and choking, but he remained cheerful. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z Mr. Franklin turns away from the stove and puts his hand on Sam’s shoulder. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z I would sit in the big rocking chair by the stove and rock occasionally and stamp my feet. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z “Yes, I am,” she said, scooting the pot with the eggs away from the stove’s heat. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z I don't keep track of time anymore and I don't count, but I saw the clock on the stove when he walked out the door. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z She ached for those evenings spent around the stove, Daddy carrying on while Mama laughed or groaned at his funny stories. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z Mrs. Hameed calls us to a giant soup pot on the teacher’s stove. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z “We’ll use up this stuff first,” he said, as I set a pan of snow on the stove to melt. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z “Not my real recipe,” she said while walking back toward the stove. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z All day long the outside stove cooked peelings and gristle into chicken feed. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z When I walk into the kitchen, Grammy's cleaning and our stove has been pulled away from the wall. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z “It keeps him out of trouble to keep him at the stove.” Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z Even with the big stove that sits in the middle, black and ugly with who knows how many years of other folks’ grease and dirt cooked in, it still feels like a home. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z Behind this library or music room, or whatever you want to call it, is the kitchen, a narrow chamber with a gas stove, a water heater, and a sink. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z If she wanted the stove, he said, she could have it. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Mama would boil vinegar on the stove later to get rid of the fish smell, but Daddy don’t bother about the smell in our apartment. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z She went to the sink by the stove and poured herself a cup of water. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z Above the stove was a mirror, angled so that people sitting in the audience could view the top of the range. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z Mack and Hughie exhausted every possibility of haulage for ten days and only when they realized that no one was going to take this stove home for them did they begin to carry it. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z It was hard for him to leave the house because he worried so much that the stove and oven were on at home. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z He ignited the flame on the front burner of his stove. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z “We have been perfect angels,” said Moss, putting the food on the counter near the stove. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z There would be no more standing in chow lines; now Mama had a stove to cook on. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z There was no stove in the bedroom, and no matter how many blankets I piled on top of myself, I still felt cold. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z The coffee boiled over and Cal spent minutes cleaning up the stove. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Mary Alice and I were at the table, and Grandma was at the stove turning one last round of pancakes, when we got a visitor on the back porch. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z Me and Jay raced to get all the ingredients she said she needed while she added wood to our cast-iron stove in the kitchen. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z The stove was burning so hot, it felt like the middle of summer in the house. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z The house smelled strongly of gas from a small stove that stood in one corner of the main room. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z Grandma was supervising a pan of them on the stove. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z The essentials appeared to be present: stove, coffeepot, bread pans, skillet, and such, plus a few rough and splintery shelves for storage. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z Bernabe carried the ash drawer from his kitchen stove out to the chicken pen and dumped the ashes over the fence so the chickens could fluff it into their feathers and kill mites. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The space is wide, warm, and well lit, with a giant hearth and stove squatting in one corner and a wooden worktable sprawled in the center. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z She grabbed the kettle off the stove, lifted it to make sure there was water in it, then set it back down. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z I said, stuffing twigs into my pockets for our stove and my paintbrushes. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z She put this in a little pan of milk on the stove and when the milk was hot she poured milk and carrot into a cloth bag. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z I looked around, and it hit me that if you replaced the electric heaters with a coal stove, this squat on the Lower East Side looked pretty much like the house on Little Hobart Street. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Auntie let the lid on the frying pan clatter on top of the stove. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z The boy started to raise his hands, but the man was already reaching over the stove, snapping handcuffs on the outstretched wrists of his father. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z “This soup is really getting on my nerves,” Caroline whispered in my ear as she walked by the stove to get some water from the kitchen faucet. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z And for as long as I can remember, when she thought no one was looking, she played chicken with the stove, seeing how long she could keep her hand over the flame. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z She’d been working upstairs with a blanket over her knees and a little naphtha stove at her feet, so she hadn’t lit the sitting room fire all day and it felt chilly in there. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z His dad got up noisily and poured himself a cup ofblack coffee from the pot on the back of the stove. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z A thorough check of the stove and its environs revealed nothing. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I was nearly out of stove fuel and down to a single chunk of cheese, my last package of Ramen noodles, and half a box of Cocoa Puffs. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “No, really. I mean, you cook, you clean. I’ve never seen the stove so spotless, the refrigerator so...organized,” she says. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z He stalked through the house then and broke mirrors, tore down drapes, and kicked in the kitchen stove. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z “What’s eating you?” she said, removing a tray of hot biscuits from the stove. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z Mama then cooked the tortilla on a comal on one of the two burners of our small kerosene stove. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z Two of the men began pumping up two Primus stoves, one with a black pot of corn mush upon it, and the other, with a large, black, greasy saucepan containing chunks of liver. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z “Well then don’t get mad at her if she never does what you ask her to do,” Bertha harped, stirring some flour into a gravy base in a frying pan on the stove. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z He came to the stove and spread his hands palm down above the firebox. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z A rusted cast-iron stove with a gaping hole on its side tilted against a wall. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z I unwound my legs from the gripping fear and almost tripped onto the stove. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Straight across from her stood a big white gas stove, and in front of it, putting the lid on a pot, was Mrs. Fitzgibbon. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z Through the remainder of the day and night, they slept and ate, keeping the fire going in the stove with the blubber from four more seals they slaughtered on the beach. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z I could see Bertha in the kitchen stirring something on the stove and pretending like she hadn’t heard me. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z Each barracks was divided into six units, sixteen by twenty feet, about the size of a living room, with one bare bulb hanging from the ceiling and an oil stove for heat. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z The shrieks of her laughter rippling through the kitchen with its wooden table and cast-iron pots, and her father standing at the stove grinning, a spatula raised above a sizzling pan. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z My dad adjusted the heat on the stove. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z We stayed in bed with the fire roaring in the stove and watched the snow fall. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z And there was the hugest, roundest stove they ever saw in all their lives. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z Bertha stirring grits by the stove with a cat at her feet. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z Billy looked at the clock on the gas stove. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z He fumbled with the Ghabe stove, turned up the light, stared at me with his dark eyes full of fear. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z I wanted to step into the foyer, smell the orange peel Ali always tossed into the stove to burn with sawdust. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z If you toddle over to the hot stove and touch it, you burn a finger. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z She stood by the stove, sifting the yellow corn meal from her fingers into a kettle of boiling, salted water. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Jonas slept near the little stove, waking every few hours to add more wood. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z When one iron cooled off, I’d set it back on the stove and pick up the hot one, running it over a piece of old flour sacking to clean off any ash. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z She’d sit in the kitchen next to the coal stove, bundled up in long skirts and head scarves, blankets over her shoulders. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z He heard her cleaning out the stove and saw her go out back to empty the ashes. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z She opens her book to the marked page, curls up in a chair pulled close to the wood-burning stove, bowl of peanuts in her lap. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z The fire roared and the flames winked yellow behind the little isinglass windows in the front of the stove. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Ma Costa was setting a saucepan of milk on the iron stove and riddling the grate to stir the fire up. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Surely she didn’t mean the long fork that hung on the wall behind the kitchen stove—a scary million miles away. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z He made a visible effort to master his temper by going to the stove and silencing the coffeepot. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z She didn’t hear the stove lid lifted up, but she heard it bang down again. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Franklin is standing at the stove, breaking spaghetti over a pot and dumping the noodles into boiling water. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z “Lord, lemme go see if Santa’s okay. Poor thing. Maybe she burnt herself on the stove. Santa’s all the time getting herself burnt. She don’t take care around the fire, you know.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z One is old enough to re member his mother’s face, another her laugh, her favorite shade of lipstick, how her dress felt as she stood at the stove patting tortillas. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z I went in--after making every possible noise in the kitchen short of pushing over the stove--but I don't believe they heard a sound. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z There were only two saucepans in the refrigerator, both containing some orange broth, and a copper kettle on the stove. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z Without a word, she washed her hands in the sink, then took the skillet from me and put it in the oven and set the little white kitchen timer next to the stove. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z Women cooked on clay stoves outside; babies cried. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z She and Aunt Pam move to the ends of the stove, stirring the eggs and turning the bacon. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z “Don’t open the stove door,” he cautioned the younger children. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z “Sierra, m’ija,” her mom said without looking up from the stove. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z The moaning of the wind and the cries of the animals outside mixed into the thin smoke of incense and the fragrance of piñón wood burning in the stove. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z We had all the modern conveniences—electricity, running water, indoor plumbing, a bathtub, and a small stove. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z When I came into the kitchen to make spaghetti that evening, there was a stool by the stove. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Dignified, the old dog walked in, and gazed at the stove with bland confidence. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z She would blast eighties music and zip between the stove and the cutting board and the oven. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z She held a wooden spoon in her hand as if she had come straight from the stove. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Back in the family circle, I remarked to myself how like a cyclopean eye was the belly of the red-hot stove. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z The memory of the grim ceremony had been so real to me that I was surprised to look up and see Momma and Uncle Willie eating by the stove. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z One morning, Dad plunked bread slices in the old toaster that sat on the counter and pushed the mechanism down and then went to the stove to pour coffee. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Like the frying oil exploding in the pan on the stove. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z But Mama did not seem to mind; she hummed and cooked and cleaned and praised herself when she finally learned to turn the stove on. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Dad was standing over the stove, scrambling a pan of eggs. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z “You can have them two beds there,” he said, indicating two bunks near the stove. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z A patched couch sat in front of the stove. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z There was a cannonball stove with a steaming coffeepot on top. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z If it rained or snowed or a bitter wind blew he led her in and he let her sit among the warm ashes that dropped from the kitchen stove. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z Everything was going okay until she turned around from the stove and asked why I was wearing my African hat at her table. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z On the walls to either side of the stove and within reaching distance were ironing boards that folded down from the wall itself. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z She got that, then opened a cardboard box by the stove and took out her man’s knife and ulo which she had brought from Nunivak. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z On the shelf itself there stood a Primus stove, a saucepan and a half-full bottle of milk. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z There is an old wood-coal stove in the barn that my mother used to use before we got gas. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z To house construction workers while the road was going in, Yutan purchased three junked buses, outfitted each with bunks and a simple barrel stove, and skidded them into the wilderness behind a D-9 Caterpillar. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Stella could smell onions simmering in the big dented pot on the stove, supper already in progress. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Standing at the stove, waiting for Michael-Mary’s milk to skim, she opened the envelope and withdrew a greeting card. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z We took the old picture of the Stove King and smeared some honey on it before we burned it in the stove. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z “Would you,” he now said softly, returning Gretchen’s look at the stove, “like a cup of coffee?” This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Once he got to the kitchen, he also had the red glow of the digital clock on the stove. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z Billy closed it, took a hand from his muff, touched a stove. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z I missed the kitchen, the stove, the laundry tubs. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z From the ashes in the stove there must have been a great deal of it. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Against the near wall was a small iron stove that supplied heat by burning dried yak dung. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z The morning after our arrival at Thessicher’s farm, I took the stove and skied into town. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Foley and Ben were at baseball practice and there was a huge pot of chicken soup on the stove. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z All that remained was to install the small barrel stove. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z The stoves are lit, the blackout screen is taken down, and Mr. van Daan heads for the bathroom. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z I trudged through the snow to the shower block for the pleasure of dancing through ice water, then went to the general store and hung out by the stove with half a dozen others. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z One man had managed to ignite the end of a stick of wood by holding it against the electric burner on his stove. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z I went to the stove and found a plate of biscuits and jelly Ruthanne had left I took the plate to the table and sat down across from my grandfather. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z Mumtaz nodded to a pile of kebabs resting on a plate by the stove. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z Harry heard her walking toward the kitchen and then the sound of the flying pan being put on the stove. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z His Kmart hiking boots are arranged neatly beneath the stove, as though he’d soon be returning to lace them up and hit the trail. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I followed it all, heated it on the stove, and before I knew it, I had made a pot of pale gray mush. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z Judith and Rose chatted, but Julie’s eyes wandered around the room and she saw for the first time a gas cooking stove, a couch, framed pictures on the wall, and curtains of cotton print. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z I was tempted to run upstairs and wash up and get dressed, but my mom always said never to leave the stove. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z The squeamish ones would pull back their hands as if from a hot stove, and they would shudder and squeak. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z Red fired at him through the window and knocked the dog off the table and onto the small wood-burning stove that stood at the back end of the bus. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z They were proper brick buildings with stoves or fireplaces in each room. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z It should be fairly obvious that I cooked an omelette in a frying pan rather than in a wood stove, but it bothers me to make the same mistakes over and over again. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z Stew simmers on the stove, and the TV is on. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z She closed the stove door with a bang, and approaching, assisted in removing Edna’s dripping mackintosh. The Awakening 1899-04-22T00:00:00Z Uncle Camp mostly swept the floor and put out stock, and in the wintertime broke up wooden shipping crates to burn in the stove. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z A great gothic wood stove clicked and purred. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z I walk into the hallway and see Uhmma standing at her usual spot in front of the stove. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z The moon had risen, and rice was simmering on the clay stove when Neel spotted him coming into the courtyard. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z Inside, it had all the comforts, though: books, chairs, a gas stove, you name it. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a warm night, and the window between the stove and the sink was open. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z Doctor Copeland turned off the lights in his house and sat in the dark before the stove. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Then you heated up the pan on the stove to exactly the right temperature, without anything even inside it. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z We had left the front flap of our tent loose, and the wind had blown it against the stove. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z Soon they all held steaming mugs of hot milk, and Green and the blubber stove were brought back on board. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z Next to the stove was a water boiler which got hot when the fire was going. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z She mixed kerosene and water and carefully warmed the bowl on the stove. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z She points her spatula at me and turns back to the flautas frying on the stove. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Holding a plate in midair, she looked at me kindly, smiling that big wide smile as if this was no bigger problem than getting the stove hot enough to fry the croquettes. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Pearl glanced at the shelves above the stove and pushed a box under them; she took down bread, cheeses, dried fruits, meats, and a bag of oats and sugar. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “Two dollars,” I said to my mother at the stove, “two dollars and forty-five cents.” Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z But before she could add anything more, there was a crazy loud pop from the stove, and Ess screamed and covered her head. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z She led them to the stove and began to spoon rice porridge into bowls, its steam issuing like a sighing breath. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z With the great stove came pride, and with pride, the Palace became home. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z The only things left were the stove and Uncle’s prize chair, looking lonely and forlorn in the center of the empty room. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z I spotted a camp stove in the corner, and rows of cans neatly stacked along the wall. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z I really wished then that I had that wood stove moved in from the barn so that I could have a real oven and do some proper baking. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z Wonderful smells of coffee and apple pie and hash and—would it be fish?—wafted through the house from the magical stove as though to prove how many separate wonders it could perform at once. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z I sit by the stove drinking tea, thinking about my new work, about Izio and Max and, every now and then, a very handsome policeman. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z I slipped off my apron and hung it by the stove. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z Neel could see Ma sweeping the area around the outdoor stove where she and Rupa cooked, near where the family gathered to eat. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z They stood at either end of the small space separated by a crude kitchen with a camp stove. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z She peered suspiciously at the stove, knocked on the pressure cooker, tapped the pots with her fingers. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z That was something else to think of: the matches were running out, and so was the naphtha for the stove; she must keep the fire alight day and night from now on. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z He had a kerosene stove that left black marks everywhere. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z He walked into the kitchen with them and begged Kazi to burn them in the stove. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z They polished the bright work on the stove and they washed all their clothes and blankets. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z People gathered for warmth around a cast-iron stove where someone was making tea. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z I have to admit that it smells amazing, especially mixed with the smell of the breakfast Pop Pop’s got cooking on the stove. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z Filled to the rafters with beds, sofas, stoves, refrigerators, chests of drawers, desks, tables, and chairs, the hall was locked and boarded up at six P.M. on Sunday evening. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Mother got up to bring us some hot food from the stove, which she put before us when we had washed and sat down. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z He was looking at the stove and the red glow fell on his face. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Scene: A faint rustling noise behind the stove. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The clock over the stove say eight thirty-five. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Before we went inside, she built up a big fire from the stove lengths and shavings. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z In the kitchen I found coffee grounds spilled all over the table and burned toast in a pan on the cold stove. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z He put another log into the wood stove and sat down at his personal computer, which was located next to his clock-repair bench. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The soup pot bubbled on the stove, the fragrant smell of herbs and vegetables drifting through the kitchen. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z It has a small kitchen area with a sink and a stove. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z At that moment in Macondo Úrsula took the cover off the pot of milk on the stove, wondering why it was taking so long to boil, and found it full of worms. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z She finished cooking the rabbit and put the whole thing in the warmer part of the black stove. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z It ended up looking like a coal stove. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z He stowed the paper and string, shoved some driftwood into the stove, and blew on the lazy coals until they glowed. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z She looked into the stove, then she drew her apron over her head and donned the overcoat and opened the outer door and looked up and down the yard. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z On late afternoons like this there would be no light in the kitchen except the glow from the oil-burners of the big stove. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z She broke it and put the shell in her apron pocket and put it in a corner in the kitchen almost behind the stove where it was hard to see. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z He chased me into the kitchen, whereupon I picked up a metal pot off the stove and bounced it off his noggin. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z She had just never cooked fish on a stove, in a pan. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z Back in the kitchen she took off the apron and put it in the stove and poked the coals until a flame sprang up on the cloth. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z I put on my flip-flops and headed to the kitchen, where Mom whipped eggs in a bowl while a pan of what looked like chorizo sizzled on the stove. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z "Very. It's a good little stove, isn't it?" Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z Past that was the kitchen with its sink, stove, and a brown table that sagged in the middle. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z Turning from the stove, she pretended surprise at seeing Mary Alice and me there, though she had eyes in the back of her head. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z He wasn’t, he said, the kind to kick off his shoes and sit by the stove. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z Dilsey put some more wood in the stove and returned to the bread board. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z There was a localized explosion on the top of the stove. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Learning to build a fire in the stove. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z She’d burned the edges of the photo with the stove flame to make it look even more antique. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Then he went and sat by the stove. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z He stretches out on the floor in front of the stove, hands behind his head. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z She opened the oven and took out a pan of her crispy brown biscuits and showed us a pot of milk chocolate on the back of the stove. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z I gratefully sat before the glowing stove, soaking up the delicious warmth. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Attracted by the smell of coffee, he went into a kitchen where a woman with a child in her arms was leaning over the stove. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z He cooked; he savored; he even named me Tandoori, after West Indian cooking that is prepared in a clay stove called a tandoor. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z “Ay, Maria Luna,” Ultima interrupted, “you leave Antonio alone, please. Last night was hard for many men,” she said mysteriously and went to the stove where my father poured her some coffee. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z When he set it on the small wooden table near the wood-burning stove in the back of the bus, Toomer discarded the moss through an open window and revealed a bushel of single oysters. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The woman turned to the stove and began throwing things in a pot, while Lucas sat down next to Hazel and forbade her from putting her head on the table. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z Behind the door, the stove was making pancakes which filled the house with a rich baked odor and the scent of maple syrup. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z He didn’t want to waste any of the small amount of alcohol for the stove on something that didn’t need cooking. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z “Boiled,” a small word, meant twenty minutes over a roaring fire on a stove that resembled the rusted carcass of an Oldsmobile. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The warm, but frozen circle of man, woman, and three small children around the stove jumped to their feet. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Once your tortillas are fried but not burnt, turn the stove down to low. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z She scurries about preparing a hot bath with water boiled on the stove. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z There was a little stove there with a few coals glowing and a desk piled high with papers and a carpet on the floor, and some chests of drawers. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Her mom was standing by the stove, watching her. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z I bounded across the cold floor to the stove. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z She dressed quickly and went through the door at the end to find herself in the cabin with the stove, where it was warm. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Dirt was in every corner, angle, crevice of the monstrous stove, and lived behind it in delirious communion with the corrupted wall. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z Mama points to the butter chicken in a gigantic pot on the stove. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z She stood at the stove stirring tomato sauce around chicken meatballs. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z A gas stove came into the house and electric wires and a telephone. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z The hinges on the cabinets were Ls, the water faucets were Xs, the burners on the stove stood up on neat N legs. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z I pulled a tea towel from the drawer next to the stove, then grabbed the ceramic rice platter and dried it off. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z I found him fiddling with the stove, turning the burners on, staring into the blue flame, turning them off, opening the oven, peering in. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z Some hams hanging in the kitchen were taken out for burial, and the barrel ot beer in the scullery was stove in with a kick from Boxer’s hoof, otherwise nothing in the house was touched. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z That the kitchen curtains burned from the plantains she left frying on the stove. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z It had an electric stove, but the wiring was not exactly up to code, with faulty connectors, exposed lines, and buzzing switches. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z When I opened my eyes, I lay for a minute, watching Osh as he stood at the stove, cooking porridge in a scabby pot. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z “The man obviously has a camp stove. He probably just prefers to cook out in the open.” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z The wood and coal stove had been readied the night before, and she lit the smoldering, still-warm embers. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “She wants electric lights and an electric stove.” On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The ledge of the stove is lined with a few spice jars, labeled in his mother’s hand. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z She was at the stove, making pancakes on a griddle so large it covered two burners on the stove. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z In the morning the boy lay listening to his mother as she opened and closed the stove door. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z The stove isn’t completely out and I manage to coax the few live coals into a flame. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z She had to raise her voice to be heard over the roar of a stove fan that had been switched on in the kitchen. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z Above the stove the recess was made of coral-colored bricks and creamy white plaster. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z I sure didn’t want her stopping by wondering if she’d done the right thing after all, and was everything unplugged and the stove turned off. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z The day before Yossarian met the chaplain, a stove exploded in the mess hall and set fire to one side of the kitchen. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z I’ve visited families who lost everything in Hurricane Katrina and were tearful and grateful just to have a working refrigerator and stove. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z After that, Vivi found us a motel room with a stove, and we learned how to cook macaroni and cheese from the package. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Mia was cleaning the stove when Izzy stomped in—somehow clomping in bare feet as loudly as she did in her Doc Martens—and stopped. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z He knew they had big stoves in big jails. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Mama went to the stove and took out her big iron skillet with a folded-up kitchen towel and her oven glove. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z Then we took it back to the cubicle and ate huddled around the stove. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z I stood staring at Kazi and I felt the tears come again, but I wiped them away and walked over to the stove. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z They drank tea and warmed their hands at a stove. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z I didn’t think my dad even knew how to turn on the stove. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z As I exhale, Mrs. Malloy sets the kettle on the stove. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Out of the corners of his eyes he watched her go to the stove and putter with pots and pans. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z She stares at her empty teacup, and then at the kettle on the stove, which she’d had to turn off in order to hear her husband’s voice just a few hours ago. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Woody also got the stove, for heating formulas. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z Then she took three pins, and after dipping them into the new remedy on the stove, she stuck a pin into each doll. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Ernie didn’t seem to care; he was poking around by the stove, seeing what was for dinner. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z Brimming bowls and colanders lined the countertop, spices and pastes were measured and blended, and eventually a collection of broths simmered over periwinkle flames on the stove. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z I see Sourmelina, heating up a tin of wax on the stove. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z She emptied the grounds from the pot and put the coffee on the stove to boil again. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z She put a pot of water on the stove. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z He spooned some of the canned sauce heating on a saucepan on the stove over it. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z By the time the school bell ranged, Cooter had me so worked up that I was looking like I was sitting on a hot stove too! Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z A fire burned in the small wood stove and the windows were closed tight. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z The song fades, and a staticky voice says, Consider a single piece glowing in your family’s stove. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z They took the little stove with them and a couple of pans and he heated water and poured it into the tub and poured in water from the plastic jugs. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z Lighting the gas stove no longer took much thought, and she knew how to handle the oil- and mud-stained laundry Henry left in heaps for her to wash. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z There they distilled a homemade brandy that was used as a drink, to light the stove, to disinfect wounds, and to kill cockroaches; they pompously called it “vodka.” The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z There was a potful of freshly made coffee warming on the stove and someone had set a pitcher of real cream in the middle of the table. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z In the kitchen, I put a pot of water on the stove. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z I dropped one of them in the stove. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Then one day when Ralph was walking around in the kitchen he burned himself on the hot kitchen stove. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z One evening as we all sat grouped around the stove I told the kids a fairy tale I’d just read. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z He described the interior as bare except for a small wood stove and a bed—a good place for a soul to think and heal. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z The air was thick with the smoke from coal fires in tin braziers and stoves. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The old lady was sitting by the stove near Lyra’s crib, and she didn’t look at all well. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Ugwu came in and picked up the kerosene stove that he did not need and thought of Professor Ekwenugo’s long tapering nail. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Baba asks, peering into the pots on the stove. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z I make out a table, a long cold stove, a few chairs around a nearby fireplace. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z Dexter said he wanted to make it through a meeting without calling his mom to check the stove. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z A stream of water flowed upward from a bucket near the door, crossed the room, and cascaded into a large pot on the stove. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z He had gotten some of the ashes down out of the stove, but they choked the lower bin and still no air could get through. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Anya went inside the house, where Mama was standing at the stove. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z It bounced onto the stove with a loud clang and began to bubble at once. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z When she came around the stove, she had put birthday candles into the eggs, the toast, the grits, and lit them all. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Rosaleen had left dinner on the stove top, her famous smothered chicken. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z One night, I left the bald man’s shack to get a log for the stove. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z Daddy drops his tool bag on the floor and walks into the kitchen to grab the plate I left for him on the stove. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z “Maybe he’s sick. People get sick all the time, Ali. Now, am I going to freeze to death or are you planning on lighting the stove today?” The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z For herself and for Father, she made tea, using water from a copper teakettle that she must have already boiled and set at the edge of the stove to keep hot. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z I tries to see what it is 'cause I'm curious 'bout it and sees her gown catch on the stove and her hand comin' in sight with somethin' in it. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z She drew a chair into the corner between the woodbox and the stove. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Old Grandma was back in her chair beside the stove after all day outside under the elm tree, and she would listen carefully for Josiah to pour water into the tin basin. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z The light-emission of the Chabe stove is cut off, and it exists only as a sphere of heat, a heart of warmth. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z Aunt Florentine would sneak a piece of bacon from the paper-toweled plate on the stove and say with surprise, “My heavenly bed’s not ready yet!” Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z There is grease on the stove, blood in the air, and angry words piled in the corners. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z She sighs and goes back to the pot on the stove, which is giving off a sweet, milky fragrance. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z On the first floor was the store, a storage area, an ice room, a kitchen with a kerosene stove, and the backyard. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z He was bent over the kerosene stove, trying to get the fire to spread across the wick. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z Furious with the novel, she ripped the copy-book apart and stuffed it into the stove. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Malcolm said no more, but swept up the shavings and the sawdust and tipped them into the bin next to the offcuts, from which Mr. Taphouse would feed the old iron stove the next day. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z On the linoleum rug before the stove the flames from the burners made luminous reflections—five little golden lanterns. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Sai Fong put the cricket cage in the middle of the table and then went back and forth to the stove, bringing over steaming bowls of Chinese food. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z The house was otherwise quiet, apart from the simmer of boiling greens on the stove. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Savagely she stuffed paper and wood into the stove and lighted it with a trembling hand. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z After further dismembering him, she spent several hours burning the pieces in a stove. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Rita bustled importantly around the stove, adjusting the temperature, moving a teakettle, flicking toast over with a long fork. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z Usually I find her there, stirring milk on the stove and heating up a slice of apple pie. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z Frank asks as he stands at the stove top, like this is a normal way to start the day. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z They remind me of the burners on our gas stove at home. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z This time I knew exactly what was out there—a lot of long, taxing miles, steep rocky mountains, hard shelter floors, hot days without showers, unsatisfying meals cooked on a temperamental stove. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z When George came inside, Mom was at the stove with a spatula, tending to a frying pan. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z However, Momma said we were going, and put water on the stove for our baths. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Allegedly my father had poured kerosene on her and lit the kitchen stove. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z The green numbers on the stove say it’s now ten thirty at night. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z She was sitting by her kerosene stove, cracking pinons with her front teeth. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z I warmed some cold milk in a pan on the stove. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z She went over to the stove and turned her back. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Strange brass implements hung on either side of the stove. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z Lacking wood for the stove most of the time, she took to turning her electric iron upside down, plugging it into the one outlet, and cooking their stew on it. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z The kerosene stove was on a wooden table by the window. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z I warmed bricks and shuttled them back and forth from the stove. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z Ruffling her brother’s hair, Rupa took the sifted rice outside to wash it and put it on the stove. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z There was an enormous black stove, and a metal sink, and every surface, every wall, was piled and strewn and hung with everything imaginable, from onions to lanterns to wooden spoons to wash- tubs. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z I turned the stove off and put the pot of burnt raspberries into the sink. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z He lay a long time staring at the glowing Chabe stove, which I had turned up till it gave out suffocating heat, Then he looked at me. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z “It’s not my fault there hasn’t been electricity since the storm and the stove doesn’t work and I don’t know how to cook,” Alex said. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z The apartment smells strongly of cooking; on the stove, a few large pieces of chicken are browning in a pan full of oil. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Only her grandmother was in the kitchen, sitting with a cup of tea at the table, while two canning pots rattled on the stove. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z So did my father who was drinking coffee at the big chair he kept by the stove. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Alex hung up the phone and turned off the burners on the stove. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z The survivors from her village told her that when her father couldn’t keep the pace of the long march, the slavers stove in his head and left his body by the trail. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z The wood in the stove had burned down some, and it would be safe. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z She stooped to get a pan out of a cabinet under the counter, then turned toward the stove. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z When I get home from school, I find Mama in the kitchen, her citizenship study guide open on the counter as she stirs a curry on the stove. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z One chunk-stick burning atop another in the stove rolled against the stove door with a slight thump. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z We were never burned, although once I might have been when I was so terrified I tried to jump onto the stove to remove the possibility of its remaining a threat. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z You could hold a sliver of wood to the stove burner until it burst into flame, and then for a moment it would flare brightly, giving off orange light. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z When I got to the kitchen, Rorra ran and hid behind Mama, who was standing by the stove preparing dinner. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z There were caves everywhere running into the cloud, and at the entrances to the caves the Cloud-Men’s wives were crouching over little stoves with frying-pans in their hands, frying snowballs for their husbands’ suppers. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z The old man said in a slow, hoarse voice, “My stove is broke, don’t come for dinner. Repeat.” The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z I sat near the firelight of the stove. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z The kitchen table was set for breakfast, and the room smelled of coffee, bacon, damp plaster, and wood smoke from the stove. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z She went to the stove, poured herself a cup of coffee, and sat down at the table. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z The green numbers on the stove say it’s now two in the morning. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z They brought the soapstones in to hotten by the mill’s coal stove and loaded up the sled with bolts of cloth wrapped in brown paper. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z The women cooked with clay stoves fueled by coal, and the camp always smelled of fire and smoke. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z |
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