Geysers spout up where a column of underground water is heated to boiling by "magma," or molten rock. Like a pan boiling over on your kitchen stove, this boiling pushes the water upward.

The best shape of dumplings is that of a ship, because when they are boiling in the pan, they look like ships sailing in the sea.

But there came a moment when the child trembled; Madame Thenardier raised the cover of a stew-pan which was boiling on the stove, then seized a glass and briskly approached the cistern.