She was making toast at the gas-ring, and took no interest in their visit.

The gas-ring was on the landing just outside the bedroom door.

He lifted the vriki off the gas-ring at the last possible moment.

So,' said Sydra with a shrug of her shoulders, we use the gas-ring instead.

And for heaven's sake, Bobby, remember to turn off the gas-ring when you're done with the stove.

Inside he filled a kettle and lit the gas-ring.

They possessed no stove, managing their cooking on a single gas-ring in the fireplace.

Nurse Hopkins went and turned the gas-ring off.

After reflection, she filled it from the jug, and decided that she must go to the bathroom where the gas-ring was.

Victor fusses over his gas-ring like I'm his long-lost son.

Nurse Hopkins looked up alertly from where she was stooping to light the gas-ring under the kettle.

When the coffee had filtered through she warmed it gently over a gas-ring, watching carefully, making sure it didn't get too hot.

Hughie rose with alacrity and put the kettle on the grease-clogged gas-ring.

The kettle is on the gas-ring.

After school, Mary Blandin boiled a kettle on a gas-ring in the staff room and made some tea.

She has told us that as soon as he came in, she offered him 'a cup of coffee which was standing ready upon the gas-ring.'

Inside is a tiny sink and draining-board, with a gas-ring and an ancient grey kettle.

All the guests visited the wards, and then adjourned for tea to the top room where the housekeeper had to perform miracles with the gas-ring.

Norman's kitchenette served him as the traditional shopkeeper's lair, equipped with its obligatory bar-fire and gas-ring.

She dashed out of the room, as a hissing sound betrayed that her kettle had overboiled on to the gas-ring, as it invariably did.

In the drawer beneath the gas-ring - a few grey pieces of cutlery, a corkscrew and a lot of corks.

A thin but incessant stream of conversation began, punctuated by the loud hissing of a kettle which had overboiled upon the gas-ring.

Luckily we had a gas-ring, as it would have been an impossibility to run up and down the sixty-nine steps to the kitchen every time we wanted more hot water.

The pipe was picking up heat from the fierce explosion and fire that was raging somewhere above him, the way the handle of a skillet picks up heat from a gas-ring.

When The question was repeated more clearly, she explained that the coffee was made in ti saucepan, and that it was this which was laced on the gas-ring in the fender.

To the left of the gas ring was a note.

He turned off the gas ring and made the tea.

A sink and two gas rings were built into the back of the bar.

His last source of heat - the gas ring - had packed in.

He went behind a counter and put a kettle on a gas ring.

In one corner is a gas ring, in another a table with some school books on it.

An analogy from control engineering would be a kettle on a gas ring.

A kettle was boiling on the gas ring at the back of the stove.

The gas ring was leaking at a merry rate, though the flame had gone out.

"To check if you'd turned off the gas ring?"

Annie filled a large pan with water, added a little salt and oil, then set it on the gas ring.

"You could open a tin of beans and heat it on the gas ring.

Bare boards, a wooden bench against the wall and a gas ring was all we had.

This held a gas ring a our crockery and cutlery.

He went across the landing to the little kitchen, filled the kettle and lit the gas ring.

The gas ring was a belt of smoke which encompassed the world, all the way to the horizon.

It used a clockwork alarm clock, a gas ring and pilot light.

Willie was stirring a pot on a gas ring.

Adjacent to this was a quenching tank for use in conjunction with the gas ring.

As she passed the open bathroom door and saw the kettle and gas ring, an idea came to her.

There's a gas ring if yer want a cup pa and a washbasin.

He threw a handful of peppercorns into a frying pan and set them over the gas ring.

There is a gas ring in my room and the percolator is bubbling.

That was true, too, for there was hot water if she boiled a kettle, and two gas rings.

He remembered his mother's statuesque body bending over the gas ring to stir at something in a saucepan.