Fire Screen

Word FIRE SCREEN
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The word "fire-screen" in example sentences

She quickly went to the low table in front of the fire-screen and grabbed a tap-pad, itching to make some notes before the moment passed. ‘First test for object number ZXY-4653: Made an eye-level trigger stare on object for approx. 30 seconds. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Victor meanwhile still played with the fire-screen. ❋ Unknown (2007)

The girl, standing by the chimney-piece, apparently examining a transparent fire-screen, was listening to the sounds from the courtyard in a way that justified certain maternal fears. ❋ Unknown (2007)

He had taken up a fire-screen, and was looking intently at the gauze. ❋ Unknown (2007)

She took the fire-screen, that hung by the side of the chimney and held it before her face, now glancing at me, now turning away her eye, as if resolved to be displeased. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Glass, for example, is transparent to light, but much less so to heat, so that it is useful as a fire-screen; and alum is transparent to light, but blocks heat completely. ❋ Herbert George (2006)

So she flitted — her figure, enlarging as it was, still allowed her to glide between table and chair — hither and thither; removed the fire-screen and set a light, before he could stop her, to the grudging lodging-house fire. ❋ Unknown (2004)

The still sky-blue walls, the green curtains patterned with red flowers and ferns; the crewel-worked fire-screen before the cast-iron grate; the mahogany cupboard with glass windows, full of little knick-knacks; the beaded footstools; Keats, ❋ Unknown (2004)

They wanted to read or take a cycle-ride in the evening, or perhaps March wished to paint curvilinear swans on porcelain, with green background, or else make a marvellous fire-screen by processes of elaborate cabinet work. ❋ Unknown (2003)

She set her fire-screen down on the chimney-piece, and spoke with tenderness in every tone of her voice. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Everything was as I had left it, down to the smallest detail — the pomander ball on the low table, the engraved fire-screen angled just so, the tall vase in the corner with leathery dried flowers that rattled like a gourd when shaken, a gift from a long-ago patron with an interest in botany. ❋ Carey, Jacqueline, 1964- (2003)

The fire-screen is adorned with a drawing of a lady in a sedan-chair -- ❋ John Trusler (N/A)

Jacques entered; and this embroidery was designed for a fire-screen. ❋ Anonymous (N/A)

Prejudice_ showed what a precious gem was hidden in that unbending case, she was no more regarded in society than a poker or a fire-screen, or any other thin, upright piece of wood or iron that fills the corner in peace and quietness. ❋ Richard Arthur Austen-Leigh (N/A)

As the fire was never used, there were no fire-irons at all, but only an old fire-screen made of wrought-iron. ❋ Blyton, Enid, 1898?-1968 (1950)

From the shrine they went to a mosque, which, in size and design, resembled a fire-screen; the arcades of Chandrapore had shrunk to a flat piece of ornamental stucco, with protuberances at either end to suggest minarets. ❋ Forster, E. M. (1924)

Already, at the age of thirty-five, her cheeks were whitening as her mother's had whitened, but for her there would be no memories of Indian suns and Indian rivers, and clamor of children in a nursery; she would have very little of substance to think about when she sat, as Lady Otway now sat, knitting white wool, with her eyes fixed almost perpetually upon the same embroidered bird upon the same fire-screen. ❋ Unknown (1920)

The fireplace was of smooth, chilly white marble, with an ormolu clock on the mantelpiece, and a fire-screen painted with Watteau shepherds and shepherdesses, making silken unreal love and scandalously neglecting silky unreal sheep. ❋ Sinclair Lewis (1918)

She set her fire-screen down on the chimney-piece, and spoke with tenderness in every tone of her voice. 1269 ❋ Unknown (1917)

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