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Arnolts spent years looking for suitable furnishings, ending up with a potbellied stove, a dry sink and a rope bed topped by an uncomfortable-looking mattress.
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Jay Jones, chicagotribune.com, 16 Dec. 2021
The house’s big front room has a potbellied stove, a row of filing cabinets, lots of books and magazines and Persian rugs.
—William Finnegan, The New Yorker, 15 May 2021
The local hardware store is the closest thing modern America has to the general store, that linchpin of city and frontier, with its evocation of paper bags filled with penny candy and the communal checkerboard set up before a potbellied stove.
—Los Angeles Times, 15 Apr. 2021
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Jay Jones, chicagotribune.com, 16 Dec. 2021
The house’s big front room has a potbellied stove, a row of filing cabinets, lots of books and magazines and Persian rugs.
—William Finnegan, The New Yorker, 15 May 2021
The local hardware store is the closest thing modern America has to the general store, that linchpin of city and frontier, with its evocation of paper bags filled with penny candy and the communal checkerboard set up before a potbellied stove.
—Los Angeles Times, 15 Apr. 2021
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“Potbellied stove.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/potbellied%20stove. Accessed 27 Feb. 2025.
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