fire-iron

Reaching the kitchen, where the family breakfasted in winter to save house-labor, he sat down by the fire, and looked a long time at the pair of dancing shadows cast by each fire-iron and dog-knob on the whitewashed chimney-corner — a yellow one from the window, and a blue one from the fire.

The Woodlanders 2006

Tenio produced his dagger, but Conan drove the fire-iron point-first through the ferret-faced man's chest and caught the blade as it dropped from the transfixed man's nerveless fingers. Marusas 'sword leaped into his hand, then the Zamoran was staggering back, trying to scream around the dagger that had blossomed in fountains of scarlet in his throat.

Conan The Triumphant Jordan, Robert, 1948- 1983

Patch-nose was the first to see Conan free of his bonds, but the man had only time to goggle before wine sprayed out of his mouth and his skull was crushed by the fire-iron.

Conan The Triumphant Jordan, Robert, 1948- 1983

The little hand, that "had never spread itself over a doorknob or a fire-iron or any clumsy thing" struggled valiantly with the russet bag; the new

Little Miss By-The-Day Lucille Van Slyke

All at once he was galvanized into the rigidity of a fire-iron --

The Prodigal Father 1907

And, my dear, "she had pursued," white-washed walls, bare brick floors, not a picture, not a curtain, not even a fire-iron.

The Freelands John Galsworthy 1900

And, my dear, "she had pursued," white-washed walls, bare brick floors, not a picture, not a curtain, not even a fire-iron.

Complete Project Gutenberg John Galsworthy Works John Galsworthy 1900

Mrs. Hurd gave no sign, but the dark figure on the other side of the cottage made an involuntary movement, which threw down a fire-iron, and sent a start through Willie's wasted body.

Marcella Humphry Ward 1885

Reaching the kitchen, where the family breakfasted in winter to save house-labor, he sat down by the fire, and looked a long time at the pair of dancing shadows cast by each fire-iron and dog-knob on the whitewashed chimney-corner -- a yellow one from the window, and a blue one from the fire.

The Woodlanders Thomas Hardy 1884

I remember that when I grasped the fire-iron, by the strange working of habit I employed it for the moment in its proper use; and as I began to stir the embers on the hearth, my original purpose was forgotten.

Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall Charles Major 1884