kitchen-grate

The serious illness of the younger servant was at its height, when a cry from Tabby called Miss Bronte into the kitchen, and she found the poor old woman of eighty laid on the floor, with her head under the kitchen-grate; she had fallen from her chair in attempting to rise.

The Life of Charlotte Bronte 2002

One of them, who appeared to be about twenty-six years old, told the captain he had let go his anchor through his kitchen chimney, and begged him to weigh it again, as it had knocked down the kitchen-grate and spoilt his dinner.

A Sailor of King George Frederick Hoffman

God is a consuming Fire 'might be written over the kitchen-grate, to assist the mystic musings of the cook -- Shall we ever try that experiment, dearest.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton Maisie Ward 1932

It was an October morning, but despite the invigorating chill in the air the kitchen-grate was cold and dull.

Deep Waters, the Entire Collection 1903

It was an October morning, but despite the invigorating chill in the air the kitchen-grate was cold and dull.

Striking Hard Deep Waters, Part 10. 1903

The serious illness of the younger servant was at its height, when a cry from Tabby called Miss Bronte into the kitchen, and she found the poor old woman of eighty laid on the floor, with her head under the kitchen-grate; she had fallen from her chair in attempting to rise.

Life of Charlotte Bronte — Volume 2 Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell 1837

I cast mine eyes upon the fire in the kitchen-grate, the coals will glow and cool until I see her face; nay, but yesterday, the shoulder of mutton upon the spit gyrated until it at last assumed the decapitated head of Mary.

Jacob Faithful Frederick Marryat 1820

Mysie, who had been so much alarmed by the thunder, should not have her kitchen-grate in full splendour.

The Bride of Lammermoor Walter Scott 1801

But if I fhould dcfcribe the kitchen-grate, the prodigious pots and kettlesi the joints of meat turning on the fpits, with many other particuv lars, perhaps I fliould be hardly believed; at leaft a fevere critic would be apt to think I en - larged a little, as travellers are often fufpeded to do.

The Works of Dr. Jonathan Swift, Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin 1768

He intermitted even his dearly-beloved chatter, for the purpose of making more haste, only assuring Mr. Lockhard that he had made the purveyor’s wife give the wild-fowl a few turns before the fire, in case that Mysie, who had been so much alarmed by the thunder, should not have her kitchen-grate in full splendour.

The Bride of Lammermoor 2008