I was deeply implicated in theCharity League" Etta dropped her fan with a clatter into the fender.

"No. You keep your feet on the fender.

Five minutes passed, and ten, and the kettle was boiling furiously, and sending out a long jet of steam over the not very shapely toes of Mr. Van Torp's boots, as he leaned back with his feet on the fender.

She deliberately turned her back on her husband, rested one elbow on the mantelpiece and set one foot upon the low fender, drawing up her velvet gown over her instep.

Selingman, who happened not to be playing, came over at once and sat by his side on the broad fender.

She came and sat by his side upon the cushioned fender.

The fender is a good place, but to the side of the fire rather than in front.

Put these on the fender to rise again for 20 to 30 minutes, then bake in a hot oven, about 350 degrees (a little hotter than for pastry).

Next, that part of the fire and grate and brass fender immediately below it vanished entirely, as though a slice had been taken clean out of them.

"Each end of the chain fender goes about a drum, which winds and unwinds by hydraulic power.

" As he spoke the boys saw the immense steel-linked fender sink down below the surface of the water.

He had sufficient views of the giant fender.

That is to say it was planned that no vessel could proceed into a lock until the fender chain was lowered, and that an upper gate could not be opened until a lower one was closed.

Two minutes later Miss Nugent, enthroned in the best chair with her toes on the fender, gave her faithful subject a free pardon and full permission to make hot coffee.

"Whippetie Stoowrie," on the other hand, was a kindly creature inhabiting the nursery chimney, and given to laying small offerings such as a pistol and caps or a sugar mouse on the fender.

" So Frederick Lord Scoutbush went home to his rooms: and there sat for three hours and more with his feet on the fender, rejecting the entreaties of Mr. Bowie, his servant, either to have something, or to go to bed; yea, he forgot even to smoke, by which Mr. Bowie "jaloused" that he was hit very hard indeed: but made no remark, being a Scotchman, and of a cautious temperament.

I had just consummated an unusually hearty dinner, of which the dyspeptic truffe formed not the least important item, and was sitting alone in the dining-room with my feet upon the fender and at my elbow a small table which I had rolled up to the fire, and upon which were some apologies for dessert, with some miscellaneous bottles of wine, spirit, and liqueur.

The 'man overboard' is nothing but a dd paddy made out of a fender with a tarpaulin truck!

She was sitting by the tea things, the cups and teapot warmed, the muffins in the fender keeping hot, all ready for his return, when she realized quite abruptly that this thing which took him off, which kept him out so many hours day after day, this thing that was against her own little will and instinctswas enormous as the sea.

" Betty went down on her hands and knees, and found the one guinea, which had rolled under the fender.

I am sitting in the dining-room in the rocking-chair before the fire with my feet on the fender.

enoughwhich I do not like to trust to a letter, but which one day perhaps, or rather one eveningif ever we should find ourselves by the fireside at Haworth or Brookroyd, with our feet on the fender curling our hairI may communicate to you.

There seems to have been nothing, except one thing, that Charlotte did not talk about to Miss Nussey when they sat with their feet on the fender and their hair in curl-papers.

"MY DEAR SIR,Yesterday there were lying across my fender three or four sheets of paper, quite in readiness to dry themselves, and receive my commands.

He was about to deal with Rosamond in the same way, but she said "No, I am not going yet," and settled herself opposite to him, with her half-knitted baby's shoe in her hands, and her feet on the fender, her crape drawn up from the fire, disposed for conversation.