The first indoors fireplace had been a big, flat stone on the floor of the hut, with an opening in the roof which let in both wind and rain.

A fireplace, with a fire in it, is the glowing heart of a house; and a chimney completes it and reveals that it is a home fit for human creatures to live in; but we see hereand the truth of it strikes us as it never did beforethat a chimney standing alone typifies desolation and ruin more fitly, more brutally, than any written words could typify it.

Steam heat and furnaces are unknown, and fireplaces are a rarity.

The fireplace was its portal and he seemed to wait for the fires to cool before entering into its possession.

The open fireplace is not a necessary of life, but it is one of the first luxuries, and one that no man who can afford to eat meat every day can afford to dispense with.

The fireplace was in the middle of the floor, just a great hollowed boulder, heaped with crackling twigs.

The fireplace was a masterpiece of cabinet work, with high narrow shelves, and curious recesses holding priceless jars of Oriental enamel.

The floor was made of earth, and the fireplace was merely a pile of stones in one corner, from which the smoke ascended through an opening in the roof, at one corner of the building.

The Borgherini fireplace is a miracle of exquisite work, everything having received thought, the delicate traceries on the pillars not less than the frieze.

The fireplace was a platform of earth, taken from anthills, and heaped and spread on the boards of the boat.