What is "teapot"

Usage examples of "teapot".

He was not allowed to write in Bonita Vista, and there was a good likelihood he would soon be evicted from his little teapot museum office.

Everyone laughed and Rita placed the Cana water jar on the tray with the teapot.

Aluminium saucepans, cups and saucers and teapots, hammered copperware, silverwork from Amara, cheap watches, enamel mugs, embroideries and gay patterned rugs from Persia.

Susan Fenton placed the teapot on a gateleg table and gestured me to an oak chair whose seat was softened by a blue-and-white embroidered cushion.

The kettle sang and she poured the water into the teapot, then carried a tray of goodies into the sitting room.

The waiter had arrived bearing a tray with a large teapot and two handleless cups.

Given the fact that hemorrhagic fever could spread between strangers who shared a towel, or by the most casual close touch, Ebola made the AIDS scare seem like a tempest in a teapot.

In that he shows, with great logical skill, as well as with some humour, how the man who, on rising in the morning finds the parlourwindow open, the spoons and teapot gone, the mark of a dirty hand on the window-sill, and that of a hob-nailed boot outside, and comes to the conclusion that someone has broken open the window, and stolen the plate, arrives at that hypothesis--for it is nothing more--by a long and complex train of inductions and deductions of just the same kind as those which, according to the Baconian philosophy, are to be used for investigating the deepest secrets of Nature.

John walks over to the modern, mirror-walled washroom area, where on the wall above the imitation-marble counter sit a small electric glass teapot and complimentary individual servings of prepackaged tea mix provided by the trackside motel.

Essande returned, followed by Naris and Sephanie carring ropework trays, the one with a silver teapot in the shape of a lion and thin green cups of Sea Folk porcelain, the other hammered silver cups and a tall-necked wine pitcher that gave off the aroma of spices.

The gold-chased silver teapot sat on a ropework tray on a table near that door, along with a tea canister, a honey jar, a small pitcher of milk, and a large pitcher of water, all in worked silver.

She warmed the teapot, put in two teabags and then a third for the pot and poured the boiling water in.

But Lord-a-mercy, what am I wastin' time talking about an old teapot like her for?

With absentminded conscientiousness Bran rinsed out the teapot and left it neatly inverted on the draining-board.

The young servant returned with a crystal platter that held three cups of tea and a small teapot, and, as they sipped the sweet herbal drink, Baden and Jessamyn exchanged news about themselves and various members of the Order.