paraffin stove

In the hardware store, he found a paraffin stove, and took it home with a tin of fuel.

It also had an old desk, and a little paraffin stove for boiling water or frying food.

Most people had a paraffin stove used for cooking and also lighting when the electric failed.

Before oil prices increased the most popular form of heating was a paraffin stove despite the smell and danger.

By night women cook on paraffin stoves and serve dinner by the light of oil lamps.

"And I'll tell you another thing," said the younger maid as she lit the paraffin stove underneath the kettle.

I have a stove on which I can cook a dinner, and a paraffin stove for heating.

Residents use paraffin stoves and coal for cooking, and candles for light.

'I've got my little paraffin stove,' Miss Honey said.

Generally reliable cold weather performance makes petrol, white gas or paraffin stoves popular choices with high mountain and winter specialists.

It smelled of earth and damp canvas, while they huddled together and the ladies made tea on a paraffin stove.

Light the paraffin stove now, he thought, crouching uncertainly with a box of matches, wondering if it ought to be propitiated in some way.

There were paraffin stoves, bunks, plenty of blankets and a large assortment of canned foods.

Total fuel saving are estimated by the manufacturers at 30% over five years for South African families compared to heating by paraffin stove alone.

There's a gruesome ringing in my ears-an unpleasant melody, Feelings perhaps, possibly played by hectic dervishes on microwave mouth organs and paraffin stoves.

The high, vaulted caverns surrounding the mosque had filled with country folk who had spread rugs and paraffin stoves and food bowls about their temporary accommodations.

Inside are a few sticks of wooden furniture, a shred of curtain hanging off a tiny window, a paraffin stove and the double bed she shared with her son.

She followed him back into the little harness store and sat down on a bench while he lit the paraffin stove which soon filled the room with its smell and heat.

'Well, because, in the first place I had the radio on, and what with the paraffin stove going - that makes a bit of noise - and a towel round my head.

We struggled on, red faced and sweating by our paraffin stove, still convinced that we'd discovered an idea whose time had come, an idea which would make us millionaires if only the weather would allow it.

There were camp beds ranged against the walls, four of them with sleeping bags, wooden packing cases for tables and seats and a paraffin stove that looked as though it had come out of some derelict fishing boat.

There was an electric blower on the dressing table, another on the chest of drawers, two or three bar fires familiar from nursery days; the fumes from three ancient paraffin stoves hovered in such air as was left.

A junk-shop, where a withered, pale woman sat and knitted by a paraffin stove among broken old things - pitchers, candlesticks, a few books, a sagging chair, a limping table, a chipped enamel bread-bin full of cracked saucers.

On it there's a paraffin stove for immediate needs (my coffees!), but most food is boiled or fried on a metal construction the size of a large upturned basin which has two openings into which long pieces of wood are fed.

When we had come to the cottage we had found the garden chairs stacked in there, but they were now outside on the grass, leaving only oddments like a paraffin stove, some tins of paint, a step-ladder and a stack of fishing gear.