"Frying pan" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the omelette in the air. It landed sizzling in the pan again, and she came forward into the light, holding the frying pan before her. Behind her was the dark stove and above it a row of copper kettles that gleamed through the bluish obscurity. She flicked the omelette out of the pan into the white dish that stood in the middle of the table, full in ...
— Three Soldiers • John Dos Passos
... saying about jumping from the frying pan into the fire. Let your daughter be warned. It is better to be ...
— Dark Hollow • Anna Katharine Green
... far as I could see, was very beautiful, so I sat down beside the trail and dropped my pack. I took out the tiny frying pan and cut some bacon into it. I gathered some sticks, and then tried to light one of the matches that was in the waterproof box, but it merely sputtered and went out. I used so many matches in this way that I became nervous lest the supply give out. Finally I ate my bread and bacon as ...
— The Blue Birds' Winter Nest • Lillian Elizabeth Roy
... was a fine old man; He washed his face in a frying pan, He combed his hair with a wagon wheel, And died with the ...
— Types of Children's Literature • Edited by Walter Barnes
... light he stared at me with villainous, beady eyes. By the uncertain light of a match I took aim with the faithless six-shooter and fired. When I sprang up, expecting to find the mangled remains of the intruder, I discovered a gaping hole in my only frying pan. ...
— A Mountain Boyhood • Joe Mills
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