Fireplace in example sentence

Sherlock Holmes sat moodily at one side of the fireplace cross-indexing his records of crime, while I at the other was deep in one of Clark Russell's fine sea-stories until the howl of the gale from without seemed to blend with the text, and the splash of the rain to lengthen out into the long swash of the sea waves.

More example sentences with word fireplace

Back in the late 19th century, the only source of heat in most homes was a big fireplace in the kitchen that was used for cooking and heating.

This particular one came in out of the forest to lick this boy and curled up around the fireplace to go to sleep.

Stephen Colbert: I've got my eye on a wildly popular program from Norway called "National Firewood Night," which consisted of mostly people in parkas chatting and chopping in the woods, and then eight hours of a fire burning in a fireplace.

We truly do all understand it, and we have this global digital fireplace, don't we, but I want to share you with the world, because you are also a tribe.

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