He was standing by the empty fire-place, a manly, upright figure; one who was not very clever, not brilliant at all, somewhat slow in his speech, but sure, deadly sure, in the honesty of his purpose.

After the shutters are all opened, she sweeps the breakfast-room, sweeping the dust towards the fire-place, of course previously removing the fonder.

He wore a long dressing-gown which was huddled round him as if he were cold, though a fire of logs almost as large as the one in the hall was burning in the open fire-place.

M. Dupin, apart from the group of Representatives, alone dressed in black, his hands behind his back, his head sunk on his breast, walked up and down before the fire-place, where a large fire was burning.

It was divided, from front to rear, by a hall twenty-five feet long and twelve feet wide, and on each side of the hall, in each story, was one large room with a large fire-place.

One was a young woman who sat sewing cross-legged on a settle at the side of the fire-place.

"If they was mine," he ses, squinting at the fire-place, "I should know wot to do with 'em.

The emotional capacity of all three was too over-spent to recognize either surprise or annoyance; but the cry of spontaneous affection that burst from the lips of Hank, as he rushed ahead of them towards the fire-place, came probably as a warning that the end of the amazing affair was not quite yet.

A fire of dry heather was made in the wide fire-place, and the ruddy flames, with a change of clothing and a draught of the amber vintage of Estepona, soon thawed out the chill of the journey.

Their huts or cabins of timber are thatched with grass, with a fire-place in the centre.

Above the fire-place, instead of a mirror, was a Mater dolorosa that caught the eye by its dazzling whiteness.

Some one in a previous battalion had already put three or four sketches on various parts of the fire-place.

The entrance was concealed by a pile of pine straw, representing a hog bedwhich being removed, discovered a trap door and steps that led to a room about six feet square, comfortably ceiled with plank, containing a small fire-place the flue of which was ingeniously conducted above ground and concealed by the straw.

First, you can look inside me as well as out: Secondly, you can get me more easily and keep me more cheaply: Thirdly, if you quarrel with me, you can get a divorce in the fire-place or at the trunkmaker's, without going to the House of Lords.

The visitants increasing in number, Mr. Wise has augmented the number of his baths, there being one cold bath, four hot for the use of gentlemen, seven for ladies, and one for children, all fitted up with Dutch tiles, or Derbyshire marble, and furnished for the convenience of invalids, with hand rails: to each of the baths is attached a dressing room, with a fire-place in it.

A low fire burned in the large fire-place, and before it a little girl was kneeling.

They walked back together into the house, and Blanche, going over to the fire-place, poured herself out another cup of tea.

There were a few books, which Gilbert remembered as Marian's literary treasures, neatly arranged on a rickety old chiffonier by the fire-place, and the desk and work-basket which he had seen on his previous visit.

William Carley had shown himself very civil and obliging in providing for the lawyer's comfort, and having done so, now took up his stand by the fire-place, evidently intending to remain as a spectator of the business.

The story of Helm drinking toddy by the fire-place when Clark retook the fort, and of the latter ordering riflemen to fire at the chimney, so as to knock the mortar into the toddy, may safely be set down as pureand very weakfiction.

"Following that line, I came to the screen in front of the fire-place.

"I wonder at your speaking to that fellow," said Bull, as the two new comers joined the group at the fire-place.

I was standing by the empty fire-place, when these bits of paper caught my eye.

On entering, he saw" Washington, who "stood always in front of the fire-place, with his face towards the door of entrance.

Have you never observed that any room without a fire-place is always close?