Chairs, shoved back, grated on the floor.

Remove from the fire and grate in 1/2 nutmeg.

Then came the grate of gravel and the scraping of the boat's bottom on the beach.

"There is a war of old grates with new grates, and plaster and paint with dust and cobwebs, carrying on in this once tranquil abode, with a vigour and animosity productive of little less din than that occasioned by 'lance to lance and horse to horse.'

As the rough rope grated against Gaspar's throat, he shrieked and jerked against the rope end that bound his hands.

This is a paste that seldom runs if it be even roll'd; roll it thin but let your lids be thiner than your bottoms; when you have made your tarts, prick them over with a pin to keep it from blistering; when you are going to put them into the oven, wet them over with a feather dipt in fair water, and grate over them a little double-refined loaf sugar, it will ice them; but don't let them be bak'd in a hot oven.

Marjorie wheeled a chair to the grate for Linnet, and then, having taken her wraps, kneeled down on the rug beside her and leaned both elbows on the arm of her chair.

Grate off the yellow part of the lemon rinds.

Take a pint of good thick cream, grate into it the outermost skin of two lemons, and squeeze the juice into a jack of white wine, and sweeten it to your taste; take the whites of two eggs without the strains, beat them to a froth, so whisk them altogether in a stone bowl for half an hour, then put them into glasses for use.

Q.What is the proper proportion of fire grate per horse power?

Ethelbertha expressed her sense of my inhuman behaviour by haughtily declining to eat any lunch, and I expressed my sense of her unreasonableness by sweeping the whole meal into the grate, after which Ethelbertha suddenly developed exuberant affection for the cat (who didn't want anybody's love, but wanted to get under the grate after the lunch), and I became supernaturally absorbed in the day-before- yesterday's newspaper.

It was a large room for so small a cottage, and comfortably furnished, with a floor of red tile, and with a grate at one end well raised up from the hearth.

A generous fire flamed in the wide grate behind me: warmth has always been to me the first necessary of life.

" She kept a light, gay tone thus far, standing the other side of the grate from him, but when he came near as if to draw her toward him, she said hurriedly, "These boys have been too much for me, and tried me terribly.

Then just at that moment came a noise from below louder than those before, hollow and grating like the cry of an old man in pain.

Racey grated through set teeth, and he let it go with a backward flip to the lower branches of the severe curb bit that instantly sent the horse on its hind legs.

But I am sure it was only kindness that prompted him on this dreary day to set the fire in the grate to blazing and arrange the tea-table, the steaming kettle close by, and turn on all the lights.

I had examined the little handful of rubbish that he had gathered up so carefully, and would have flung it back under the grate without a qualm.

The gravel grated under their feet; the rooks were flying about the elms.

It was at this exceedingly inopportune moment that Savaroff's guttural voice came grating up the stairs from the hall below.

We have all of us amusing memories of those severe old housekeepers who for no inclemency of the weather would allow a fire in the grate before the first of October, and who regarded a fire before that date as a positive breach of the moral law.

His Easter anthems (for his duty obliged him to those periodical flights) were grating as scrannel pipes.