coffee-pot-like

Updated: May 24, 2025

On the further side, in front of the window, there was a board which was strewed with glittering instruments forceps, tenacula, saws, canulas, and trocars. A line of knives, with long, thin, delicate blades, lay at one side. Two young men lounged in front of this, one threading needles, the other doing something to a brass coffee-pot-like thing which hissed out puffs of steam.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Round the Red Lamp