There was no cooking-stove on our plantation, and all the cooking for the whites and slaves my mother had to do over an
open fireplace, mostly in pots and "skillets." While the poorly built cabin caused us to suffer with cold in the winter, the heat from the
open fireplace in summer was equally trying.
The whole of the house-party, with the exception of the Prince himself, were gathered around the great
open fireplace at the north end of the hall.
The next winter I used a small cooking-stove for economy, since I did not own the forest; but it did not keep fire so well as the
open fireplace. Cooking was then, for the most part, no longer a poetic, but merely a chemic process.
It was lined with books, and there were pictures and statues, and distracting little cabinets full of coins and curiosities, and Sleepy Hollow chairs, and queer tables, and bronzes, and best of all, a great
open fireplace with quaint tiles all round it.
A large
open fireplace, with rusty dogs in it, and a bare boarded floor; at the far end, fleeces of wool stacked up; in the middle of the floor, some empty corn-bags.
As he spoke he put the money remaining in his pocket, took the title deeds in the bundle as Harker had left them, and swept the remaining things into the
open fireplace, where he set fire to them with a match.
The old neglected palazzo, with its lofty carved ceilings and frescoes on the walls, with its floors of mosaic, with its heavy yellow stuff curtains on the windows, with its vases on pedestals, and its
open fireplaces, its carved doors and gloomy reception rooms, hung with pictures--this palazzo did much, by its very appearance after they had moved into it, to confirm in Vronsky the agreeable illusion that he was not so much a Russian country gentleman, a retired army officer, as an enlightened amateur and patron of the arts, himself a modest artist who had renounced the world, his connections, and his ambition for the sake of the woman he loved.
It has a reception hall with a re-fitted guest cloakroom/WC off, a front sitting room with a bay window and
open fireplace, a huge 30ft plus full width breakfast kitchen with a living room off, huge conservatory extension, four large bedrooms, master with en-suite shower room, and a large fully fitted family house bathroom.
Making up the remainder of the ground floor is a drawing room with an
open fireplace, a sitting room complete with double aspect windows, stone fireplace and a wood burning stove, a spacious dining room with a character fireplace, a cloakroom and a two-chambered cellar.
On the first-floor there is also a large lounge with bespoke shelving and an
open fireplace, a modern toilet, plus a large kitchen and dining room with modern appliances.
All they want is an
open fireplace and a view over Cork City.
The lounge has an
open fireplace with wood burning stove, which you can sit by while looking out over the grounds through a mullioned bay window.
open fireplace - an open recess in a wall at the base of a chimney where a fire can be built; "the fireplace was so large you could walk inside it"; "he laid a fire in the hearth and lit it"; "the hearth was black with the charcoal of many fires"