fire-grate

Thus the measure of a poker is not its power to add lustre to a brass-finished fire-grate, but to poke and rake a fire.

The Money Muddle 2007

At one end of this ghastly apartment was a large fire-grate, over the top of which were stretched some transverse iron bars, half devoured with rust.

Ivanhoe 2004

Whilst he was out, I made a quick inspection of the fire-grate and the desk.

The Vesuvius Club Mark Gatiss 2004

I swung the dark-lantern around and brought its feeble light to bear on the fire-grate, which was revealed to contain a quantity of blackened paper.

The Vesuvius Club Mark Gatiss 2004

Whilst he was out, I made a quick inspection of the fire-grate and the desk.

The Vesuvius Club Mark Gatiss 2004

He sat from morning to night looking at the empty fire-grate, and hardly ventured to speak of the ordeal that he had to undergo.

The Three Clerks 2004

I swung the dark-lantern around and brought its feeble light to bear on the fire-grate, which was revealed to contain a quantity of blackened paper.

The Vesuvius Club Mark Gatiss 2004

Whereupon something which he had taken from his waistcoat-pocket was thrown violently into the fender, beneath the fire-grate.

Can You Forgive Her? 1993

Crilly finished his bread and jam and threw the hard crust into the empty fire-grate.

Cal Laverty, Bernard Mac 1983

In a state of nature they hybernate; but when kept in a room, a favourite resort in cold weather was among the ashes under a fire-grate.

Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter James Conway Walter