kitchen-fire

He seemed to think it a crime and a wonder that such people should dine at all, and that it was their custom to huddle round their kitchen-fire over a bone and a crust.

The Book of Snobs 2006

The old man thrust his old hat on to his head and seated himself in a wooden arm-chair that stood by the kitchen-fire.

The Way We Live Now 2004

Iglesias and I did not wish to stand all the evening steaming before a kitchen-fire, inspecting meanwhile culinary details: Phillis in the kitchen is not always as fresh as Phillis in the field.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 58, August, 1862 Various

I saw him sitting by the kitchen-fire that was so warm and large in its dimensions -- for it was cold weather now -- and on the opposite side of the hearth his daughter on a low chair was busy looking into the flame that lit up the smooth bands of her hair that lay like satin of a soft brown color upon her comely face.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. October, 1878. Various

However, when Jem, after a while, began to snore, she got up and went to the kitchen-fire, kneeling down on the stone hearth: her head was on fire, and her body cold.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 75, January, 1864 Various

The same story; yet Betsey finds it new by your kitchen-fire to-night, as Gretchen read it in those wondrous pearls of Faust's!

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 59, September, 1862 Various

It would have seemed strange not to go in; so I went in and warmed my feet at the kitchen-fire.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 43, May, 1861 Creator Various

We have no comfort in the parlour yet: even the privileged kitten, wandering in vain in search of a resting-place, deems it but a chill dignity which has withdrawn her from the warm couch before the kitchen-fire.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, October 23, 1841 Various

The light of other days was simply a home-made tallow candle, and as matches were not then invented, careful housewives never suffered the kitchen-fire, even in the hottest days of summer, to die out entirely.

The New England Magazine, Volume 1, No. 4, Bay State Monthly, Volume 4, No. 4, April, 1886 Various

A neighbor heard me cry and would have me come to her kitchen-fire and she gave me some gruel.

The Narrative of Gordon Sellar Who Emigrated to Canada in 1825 Gordon Sellar