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fireplace [ˈfaɪəˌpleɪs] n
1. an open recess in a wall of a room, at the base of a chimney, etc., for a fire; hearth 2. Austral an authorized place or installation for outside cooking, esp by a roadside ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
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At one end of the room is a great fireplace, so very spacious that there is room enough for three or four boys to stand in each of the chimney corners. When Mr Korbes came home, he went to the fireplace to make a fire; but the cat threw all the ashes in his eyes: so he ran to the kitchen to wash himself; but there the duck splashed all the water in his face; and when he tried to wipe himself, the egg broke to pieces in the towel all over his face and eyes. As my bricks had been in a chimney before, though I did not read the name of Nebuchadnezzar on them, I picked out its many fireplace bricks as I could find, to save work and waste, and I filled the spaces between the bricks about the fireplace with stones from the pond shore, and also made my mortar with the white sand from the same place. |
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