Forestick

Word FORESTICK
Character 9
Hyphenation fore stick
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The word "forestick" in example sentences

These are occasionally brought into higher relief by the white flashes, as the boys throw handfuls of hickory shavings onto the forestick, or punch the back log with the long iron peel, while wishing they had as ❋ Agnes Rothery (N/A)

Before the forestick had burned in two, she heard him coming, but he was not alone. ❋ Alice Brown (1902)

In the morning a buckeye backlog, a hickory forestick, resting on stones, with a johnny cake on a clean ash board, set before the fire to bake; a frying pan with its long handle resting on a splint-bottom chair, and a teakettle swung from a log pole, with myself setting the table, or turning the meat. ❋ John Bach McMaster (1892)

"That 's so every time!" he would say, with a lunge at the forestick. ❋ Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin (1889)

During the winter, when the large back-log, often as much as two men could handle, was brought in and fixed in its place, and a good forestick put on the andirons, with well-split maple piled upon it and set ablaze with dry pine and chips, the old fire-place became aglow with cheerful fire, and dispensed its heat through the room. ❋ Haight, Canniff, 1825-1901 (1885)

Of a green scrub-ellum forestick with a vicious pair of tongs, ❋ James Whitcomb Riley (1882)

They brought in the materials for an old-fashioned fire, backlog, forestick, and crowsticks, and presently seated themselves before a crackling blaze. ❋ Sarah Orne Jewett (1879)

"I believe in young folks makin 'all they can o' theirselves," announced Martin, puffing hard at his pipe and drawing a little farther still from the fireplace, because the scorching red coals had begun to drop beneath the forestick. ❋ Sarah Orne Jewett (1879)

The great oak back-log had required the strength of four men to heave it into its place; and above that lay another log scarcely less in size; while the forestick was no mean bough of the same tree. ❋ Unknown (1878)

Backlog and forestick were soon piled and kindlings laid, and the fire roared and snapped and crackled up the ample chimney. ❋ Unknown (1878)

The bright flame on the forestick, which Ralph had been watching, flickered and burned low. ❋ Eggleston, Edward, 1837-1902 (1871)

The dry forestick lying on the rude stone andirons burst into a blaze. ❋ Eggleston, Edward, 1837-1902 (1871)

Just as the flame on the forestick, which Ralph had watched so intensely, flickered and burned low, and just as Ralph with a heavy but not quite hopeless heart rose to leave, the latch lifted and Bud re-entered. ❋ Eggleston, Edward, 1837-1902 (1871)

"I'm going to be very magnanimous, and every time you'll bring your books home I'll knit for you -- I beg Mrs. Grundy, that you'll not throw the fire all over the floor," she added, as that lady gave the forestick a violent kick. ❋ Mary Jane Holmes (1866)

It is time to punch the backlog and put on a new forestick. ❋ Charles Dudley Warner (1864)

In this way you have at once a cheerful blaze, and the fire gradually eats into the solid mass, sinking down with increasing fervor; coals drop below, and delicate tongues of flame sport along the beautiful grain of the forestick. ❋ Charles Dudley Warner (1864)

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