1 "I shall take some up to Mother, though she said we were not to think of her, for she'd take care of herself," said Meg, who presided and felt quite matronly behind the teapot.
2 She had to wash the cups every morning, and polish up the old-fashioned spoons, the fat silver teapot, and the glasses till they shone.
3 Want of exercise robs them of cheerfulness, and too much devotion to that idol of American women, the teapot, makes them feel as if they were all nerve and no muscle.
4 "Ditto, ditto, Mr. Brooke," laughed Meg, looking young and pretty again, as she nodded to him over the teapot.
5 When he came back Mattie had set the teapot on the table and the cat was rubbing itself persuasively against her ankles.
6 "Fiddle-dee-dee, Melly, what a tempest you make in a teapot," said Scarlett grudgingly, but she did not throw off the hand that stole around her waist.
7 "I consider this whole affair a tempest in a teapot," said Scarlett coldly, rattling her papers to indicate that as far as she was concerned the discussion was finished.
8 The name of that lady by the teapot, is Mrs. Sparsit.
9 Whether this remark bore reference to the husband, or the teapot, is uncertain.
10 She fixed her eyes upon the little teapot.
11 She pours water out of the teapot over a piece of stuff which she holds in her hand; it is the bodice; cleanliness is a fine thing.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian AndersenContext Highlight In THE SNOW QUEEN 12 The white dress is hanging on the hook; it was washed in the teapot, and dried on the roof.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian AndersenContext Highlight In THE SNOW QUEEN 13 Then my sister sealed them up in a piece of paper, and put them under some dried rose-leaves in an ornamental teapot on the top of a press in the state parlor.
14 Recently I went in for a turn at billiards, and lost two jars of pomade, a china teapot, and a guitar.