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  • On the hearth, in front of a back-brand to give substance, blazed a fire of thorns, that crackled ‘like the laughter of the fool.’

    Wessex Tales 2006

  • The back-brand had burnt itself in two, and ceased to flame; the light which he had placed on the mantelpiece had nearly gone out.

    Wessex Tales 2006

  • On the hearth, in front of a back-brand to give substance, blazed a fire of thorns, that crackled 'like the laughter of the fool.'

    Wessex Tales Thomas Hardy 1884

  • The back-brand had burnt itself in two, and ceased to flame; the light which he had placed on the mantelpiece had nearly gone out.

    Wessex Tales Thomas Hardy 1884

  • The log which was to form the back-brand of the evening fire was the uncleft trunk of a tree, so unwieldy that it could be neither brought nor rolled to its place; and accordingly two men were to be observed dragging and heaving it in by chains and levers as the hour of assembly drew near.

    Far from the Madding Crowd 1874

  • The log which was to form the back-brand of the evening fire was the uncleft trunk of a tree, so unwieldy that it could be neither brought nor rolled to its place; and accordingly two men were to be observed dragging and heaving it in by chains and levers as the hour of assembly drew near.

    Far from the Madding Crowd 1874

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