The steward drew them from a silver thermos shaped like an ancient Russian samovar, and served the tea in crystal cups.

He and Arleigh and Yamazaki had watched Rez meeting this new version of the idoru, the one Willy Jude saw as a big silver thermos.

The younger woman always carried a silver thermos tucked under her arm.

A silver thermos of coffee stood in the center, next to a plate of lime wedges.

"I'm totally nervous," said Heidi Julavits, a fiction writer whose stories had appeared in Esquire and Zoetrope, a literary magazine, as she reached into her bag for a silver thermos.

I snapped out of whatever force was holding me rooted, and I picked up the silver thermos and poured hot spiked coffee over whatever it was that writhed on the floor.

Nino, his partner in electoral manipulation and fowl assassination, was at his side, smoking and sipping Montepulciano from a silver thermos.

The other one, Ozaki, seemed to be the guy they brought along in case someone had to change the batteries in the silver thermos.

He picked up a silver thermos and poured coffee into his own coffee cup and into the water glass, moving slowly and evenly.