Our new domicile is no manor-house, but new, and externally not inviting, but furnished within with every convenience, capital new locks to every door, capital grates in every room, with nothing to pay for incoming, and the rent £10 less than the Islington one.

The white summer curtains will now be carefully put away, the fireplaces, grates, and chimneys looked to, and the House put in a thorough state of repair, so that no "loose tile" may, at a future day, interfere with your comfort, and extract something considerable from your pocket.

In each of these it largely enters into the domestic economy, and stoves, grates, and the general implements of cookery, are usually composed of it.

He grates upon me; for I, his subordinate in this service, am aristocrat, a Count of l'ancien régime, catholique, presque royaliste.

In spite of London smoke and grime, Mrs. 's floors and windows were clean; the grates shone every morning like mirrors, and the glass and silver were bright.

'I suppose there is something about me now that grates on your nerves.'

Lingua, thou strik'st too much upon one string, Thy tedious plain-song[170] grates my tender ears. LIN.

Around this court there were many apartments, and it was surrounded by high porticos closed with grates, and containing sofas.

Te semper studiis utilibus colam: Grates, summe pater, tuis Recte qui fruitur muneribus, dedit.

And in all rooms, save one, the boisterous life Blazed like the fires within the several grates Save one where lay the poor dead silent thing, A closest chill as who hath sat at night With love beside the ingle knows the ashes In the morning.

Old rheumatic men and young children starved by half-empty grates when the snow stopped us getting the peat, and you have seen the profits you worked hard for melt before the price Bell charged for cattle-meal.

They have no chimney or grates; the smoke escapes through a hole in the roof.

Naturally here, the words of the opening canto of "Marmion" are recalled to our memory "Day set on Norham's castled steep, On Tweed's fair river, broad and deep, And Cheviot's mountains lone The battled towers, the donjon keep, The loophole grates, where captives weep, The flanking walls that round it sweep, In yellow lustre shone.

Grates were falling out of fire-places.

Somehow it grates" "Now, look here!" cried Tommy Dye, bristling at once, and jamming his hat back on his red head.

The chief articles are sharp instruments, as knives, scissors, razors, saws, and edge-tools of various kinds, and to these may be added, files and plated goods to a great extent, besides stove-grates and fenders of exquisite beauty.

The enemy is around them on all sides, jailers of the Marshalsea and envious critics, the evil shepherds that preside over grates of steel and noisome beds of straw, but Youth has its mocking answer to all these: Let them disdain and fret till they are weary!

To know of nothing but a dark kitchen, grates, eggs and bacon, dirty children; to work seventeen hours a day and to get cheated out of your wages; to answer, when asked, why you did not get your wages or leave if you weren't paid, that you "didn't know how Mrs. S would get on without me.

It is impossible to state with any degree of accuracy the cost of the grates, air-stoves, and fittings of the buildings, which will mainly depend upon the mode to be adopted in warming them; but it may be confidently stated that it will not exceed 600l.

Tota tui in Domini grates dissolvere laudes!

Magnes Britanniae principe, cui merito dicata est, digna editione Psalmorum, ex versione metrica omnium fere poetarum principis JONSTONI maximas tibi grates habet agitque Jacobus.

'Och, dear,' says the Gout, 'that's a poor case entirely; what sort of a place was it at all, an' what were they doin' in it?' "'Ah, 'twas a great big placealtogether too big for my taste; an' they had roarin' fires in the grates.

Then he took a long breath, for the sight of prison doors and locks and bars and grates and gates and guards oppressed even his peaceful soul.

Though the beef hash was good, and the toast nicely browned and buttered, and the tea strong, and the fire burning brightly through the grates of the stove, and the curtains snugly drawn, and everything cheerful and comfortable in Bog's humble home, the boy was unhappy, and could not eat.

Chimney pieces were now no longer specially designed by architects, as part of the interior fittings, but were made and sold with the grates, to suit the taste of the purchaser, often quite irrespective of the rooms for which they were intended.