How To Use Samovar In A Sentence
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The company brilliantly captures the feel of the master's writing without having to resort to big dresses and gleaming samovars.
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Antipa Vologonov sets out a squat samovar that is dinted of side, and plated with green oxide on handle, turncock, and spout.
Through Russia
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After searching and seeking and hunting the Russian Samovar can now be yours!
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He would offer him bread and salt, the burning charcoal would be put into the "samovar," and he would be made quite at home.
Michael Strogoff : or the Courier of the Czar
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_shchi_ (cabbage-soup) sends up its perpetual incense, and the samovar of cheap tea is never empty.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865
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The samovar is a little one, and before the visitors have drunk all the tea they want, she has to heat it five times.
The Cook's Wedding and Other Stories
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We here at The Atlantic grapple with all sorts of problems: matters glandular and jugular, animals crepuscular, extractions tonsillar, Mormons tabernacular, the politics of Simón Bolívar, diseases vascular, the arthritis of Renoir, Freddie Mercury in Zanzibar, my lost Wanderjahr, and polishing the samovar.
What’s Your Problem?
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They do pretty good kirsch and I wouldn't mind sharing a samovar with you.
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Not far from the bridge he found a small café, and sat down beside the huge samovar.
KARA KUSH
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These singing-bird-parties are held in the underground rooms of houses, which are cool in summer and warm in winter, and I imagine the company and rivalry of a number of birds in the semi-darkness, with glimmering light from the 'kalian' pipes, and the bubbling of water in the pipe-bowls, and the boiling samovar tea-urns, all combine to cheat the birds pleasantly into believing that it is night-time in the spring song-season.
Persia Revisited
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The samovar was most welcome, and in fact the samovar is the most essential thing in Russia, especially at times of particularly awful, sudden, and eccentric catastrophes and misfortunes; even the mother was induced to drink two cups — though, of course, only with much urging and almost compulsion.
A Raw Youth
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A specialist who authenticated the antique samovar.
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Around us, the market erupts with fifteen thousand people buying and selling everything from kitchen sinks and samovars to airconditioners, camels and carpets.
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Their route took them away from the Neva, where was the greatest crowd, and they soon reached the entrance of the pleasure-garden, climbed the great flight of wooden stairs to the pavilion on top, where Ivan hired a sled, and paid for a glass of tea hot from the big brass samovar, which is always boiling and ready for use.
Harper's Young People, December 9, 1879 An Illustrated Weekly
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The samovar is a simple but brilliant way of preparing tea, as well as being a source of cultural pride.
EuropeUpClose
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Tatars and Russians also subscribe to the same school of hospitality, centring around the samovar and large arrays of buttery pastries.
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We all assembled in the kitchen, gulping down cups of tea from the samovar as none of us could really stomach any food, and Olga couldn't stomach making anything either.
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A board was found, fixed on two saddles and covered with a horsecloth, a small samovar was produced and a cellaret and half a bottle of rum, and having asked Mary Hendrikhovna to preside, they all crowded round her.
War and Peace
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She turned to me and explained, “A samovar is a Russian urn.”
Teddy Roosevelt and the Treasure of Ursa Major
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Inside the hut, sitting beside a large samovar which they were feeding with charcoal chips, were two Russian sergeants.
KARA KUSH
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In the dining room, in addition to the circa 1890 dining set, there's a backgammon table decorated with micro-mosaics, a brass samovar, a bronze bust of Beethoven and a 19th-century Japanesque fireplace screen.
Nancy Ruhling: Astoria Characters: The Man to the Mansion Born
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The tea arrived in a small tarnished samovar on a circular reed tray with two tall glasses suspended in brass holders.
CHAMELEON
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Three types of tea - nun chai, kehwa or mughil chai and doodhi kehwa or metha kehwa - are usually prepared in a samovar, a jug-like vessel with a funnel in the middle.
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Visitors who made purchases were entitled to enter the drawing to win bicycles, shoes, coats, musical instruments, gramophones, cosmetics, samovars, and other prizes.
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“Tough guy,” he says, and walks off toward the samovars of tea, and the trays heaped with dilled herring, with fish glistening in the ruby glaze of pomegranate sauce, and with about a million different kinds of piroshki.
White Cat
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Exclude words that are still used to refer only to Russian things, such as borscht, ruble, or samovar.
The Volokh Conspiracy » English words borrowed from Russian:
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Tea, the national beverage, is made in metal urns called samovars.
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A huge, steaming tea-urn, called a samovar -- etymologically, a "self-boiler" -- will be brought in, and you will make your tea according to your taste.
Russia
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We'd expected modern and clean, with curtains, carpets and polished samovars, happy, helpful provodniks and reputedly awful food.
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Vologonov sets out a squat samovar that is dinted of side, and plated with green oxide on handle, turncock, and spout.
Through Russia
