How To Use Fireside In A Sentence
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The delectable little Dutch songs with which she used to dulcify the house grew less and less frequent, and she would forget her sewing and look wistfully in her father's face as he sat pondering by the fireside.
Tales of a Traveller
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Twenty-four hours after leaving Waller's, I was sipping a single malt by my own fireside in Hampshire.
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Tammas, ma puir fallow, if it could avail, a 'tell ye a' wud lay doon this auld worn-oot ruckle o 'a body o' mine juist tae see ye baith sittin 'at the fireside, an' the bairns round ye, couthy an 'canty again; but it's nae tae be, Tammas, it's nae tae be.
Stories by English Authors: Scotland (Selected by Scribners)
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It did not read like a cosy fireside chat.
Times, Sunday Times
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Amy ran her finger along the rippled fore-edge and then put the book away amongst the rows of others shelved in the fireside alcove.
THE WHITE DOVE
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The plot is a typical fireside ghost story - murder, infidelity and a message from beyond the grave - and the thrills are familiar.
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And it sells all the fireside accompaniments needed to achieve a blazing fire on a cold winter evening.
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His "fireside chats "convinced millions that he was personally interested in each citizen's life and welfare, as in a way he was.
The American Nation: A History of the United States to 1877
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Cataldise, wearing a nightrobe, sat on a footstool in front of her favorite fireside armchair.
Conqueror's Moon
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He'd answer questions put to him in a fireside chat segment that featured a fantastic fake fireplace.
21 DOG YEARS
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However, the hour was late and the last train called us from our fireside reverie.
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Between these, a narrow, winding rivulet-track of rugs leads up to the armchair of the happy bibliophile, who is to be seen dimly manifest amid clouds of tobacco smoke by the fireside.
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And as for fireside reading,... "he reads no book but his ledger.
American Manhood: Transformations in Masculinity from the Revolution to the Modern Era
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He even had the hypocrisy, at times, to felicitate himself upon his escape, and to draw bleak fireside pictures of the dismal future which would have been had he and Frona incompatibly mated.
CHAPTER 15
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He sat by the fireside drinking coffee.
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Intruders used a fireside peat basket to carry antique silverware, porcelain and clocks to a waiting van.
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sitting snugly by the fireside while the storm raged
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Intruders used a fireside peat basket to carry antique silverware, porcelain and clocks to a waiting van.
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A fireside chat in the wee hours of the morning attains a heavenly composure, the dramatic ethereal lighting making this their crucial scene.
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I remember Roosevelt's fireside chats and his reading of the "funnies" on Sunday nights radio.
David E.
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In the county of Aberdeen, in particular, every homestead had its reservoir of "Graith," [53] and the "Lit-pig," [54] which stood by every fireside, was as familiar an article of furniture in the cots of the peasantry, as the "cuttie-stool," or the "meal girnel.
The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, o
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Only fireside tea and cake lured me back indoors.
Times, Sunday Times
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Transition Year students at the school have been following a course in metalwork and engineering, creating projects such as brass door pulls and doorknockers, and fireside pokers.
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He never called her Alexandrine -- it was always Mrs. Trevlyn; and through the long winter evenings, when they were not at some ball or party, and sat by their splendid fireside, he never put his head in her lap, and let her soft fingers caress his hair, as she had seen other husbands do.
The Fatal Glove
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Auld baudrons by the ingle sits, [Old pussy, fireside]
Robert Burns How To Know Him
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Warm yourself by the fireside of pure genius and it won't cost you a penny.
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As the autumn evenings draw in, a cosy fireside armchair beckons!
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It's a dirty old night out there, wind howling, rain dashing against the windows, not at all the kind of night to move far from the fireside.
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Made from cherrywood, this chair, the last of five versions, was designed for a fireside alcove.
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The whimsical drunk given to the occasional half-rhymed, fireside anacreontic is a pretty poor relation of the poet.
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We come now to the final volumes in the series of what one may as well call pianistic "nature-studies": the "Fireside Tales" (op. 61) and
Edward MacDowell
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It's much easier to appreciate the finer points of dull, rainy days from one's own fireside, that I have to confess.
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She readily lent an ear to the insinuations which Scarfe, also bitterly hurt, freely let out, and persuaded herself miserably that her boy was in the hands of an adventurer who had cajoled not only the boy but the father, and in short personated the proverbial viper at the fireside.
A Dog with a Bad Name
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This dessert wine - fragrant with aromas of raisins and vanilla - is best poured at fireside.
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John laid himself stretched in the bed, and he left the bodach to toast himself at the fireside; but about the crowing of the cock he went away.
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When did they so fully abandon the fireside crackle of human storytelling and primal mythmaking?
Times, Sunday Times
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Do you think the voters will be convinced by the President's fireside address to the nation?
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Biden's eloquent acceptance speech in Springfield, Illinois, while deliberately "veep" in tone, maintained a fireside rootsiness that played well; he and Obama looked good together.
Dakis Hagen: But Has Joe Biden Ever Punched a Voter?
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Baseball bats, fireside pokers, wrenches and garden rakes were seized by Gardaí.
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Now at ease by the fireside, his feet are shod in narrow velvet slippers with a monogram embroidered in gold thread.
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The plot is a typical fireside ghost story - murder, infidelity and a message from beyond the grave - and the thrills are familiar.
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Do you think the voters will be convinced by the President's fireside address to the nation?
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Muffle yourselves in your snug blankets or sit by your cosy fireside.
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Many the years that have passed since we sat entranced by the stories of the old people by the fireside long ago.
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'In the spring, the young man's fancy lightly turned to thoughts of love,' as lads and lasses, who had been pining for each other by their winter firesides, met again, like Daphnis and Chloe, by shaugh and lea; and learnt to sing from the songs of birds, and to be faithful from their faithfulness.
Prose Idylls, New and Old
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Baseball bats, garden rakes, fireside pokers, wrenches and planks of wood were seized as Gardaí battled desperately to bring the riot under control.
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I was yesterday to have dined with the tennantry at Chicksands, but I am tied to the fireside by an inflamation in my left ancle arising from a late accidental blow on the shin by falling off my chair!
Letter 304
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Charlie was in an armchair at the fireside, sipping a drink.
FINAL RESORT
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It is like a fireside tale whispered carefully into your ear.
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James was seated in his snug old easychair by the fireside, as if he had been an Edinburgh Parliament House lawyer, studying his hornings, duplies, and fugie warrants, with his left leg paraded out on a stool, with a pillow smoothed down over it, and all the
The Life of Mansie Wauch tailor in Dalkeith
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The song was sung and recited in the streets, at the smiddy, in bothies, and by firesides, to the shaking of fists and the grinding of teeth.
Auld Licht Idylls
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Cambridge was still hardly more than a village, a rural outskirt of Boston, such as Lowell described it in his article, _Cambridge Thirty Years Ago_, originally contributed to _Putnam's Monthly_ in 1853, and afterward reprinted in his _Fireside Travels_, 1864.
Initial Studies in American Letters
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This is history that's as comfortable as a pair of fireside slippers.
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This simple logic re-emphasises the importance of books, which can be consumed in the comfort of a fireside chair.
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The latter perfume, with the fostering aid of boiling water and lemon-peel, diffused itself throughout the room, and became so highly concentrated around the warm fireside, that the wind passing over the house roof must have rushed off charged with a delicious whiff of it, after buzzing like a great bee at that particular chimneypot.
Our Mutual Friend
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Rich, fireside colours add warmth to the room and, of course, they are supremely practical.
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News at Eleven: Thomas Hardy remembers sitting with other children by the fireside at midnight, listening wide-eyed to the adults tell them that the animals are kneeling now in their "strawy pen.
News at Eleven: [Thomas Hardy] remembers sitting
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We come now to the final volumes in the series of what one may as well call pianistic “nature-studies”: the “Fireside Tales” (op. 61) and
Edward MacDowell
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And as for fireside reading,... "he reads no book but his ledger.
American Manhood: Transformations in Masculinity from the Revolution to the Modern Era
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By the firesides of Irish cottages when songs are sung during the long winter evenings the listeners often "croon" an accompaniment, droning in low voices over and over again a few simple notes which harmonise with the singer's voice.
The Northern Iron
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Add to that a heavy mist and you've got the kind of driving conditions that make the fireside look awful tempting.
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But when the young priest had gone he sat on by the fireside and took up his breviary again, his head nodding every so often.
PROSECUTOR
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But we got him made gey snod, an 'syne we gaed inby to the ben-hoose fireside, an' had
My Man Sandy
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I'm going to have to sit him down for a little fireside chat.
The Sun
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Three lions, 23 fireside tabbies and a tray of cat litter.
Times, Sunday Times
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Perhaps we should regard his mock battle with him as a harmless diversion, a little fireside amusement for the masses.
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His multi-figure bronze casts portray a breadline, an Appalachian farm couple and a man listening to one of FDR's fireside chats.
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Tammas, ma puir fallow, if it could avail, a 'tell ye a' wud lay doon this auld worn-oot ruckle o 'a body o' mine juist tae see ye baith sittin 'at the fireside, an' the bairns roond ye, couthy an 'canty again; but it's no tae be, Tammas, it's no tae be.
A Doctor of the Old School — Volume 2
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But opening the door of the kitchen, through which her way lay to her own room, Winnie found there was a glimmer from the fire, which usually was covered up close; and coming further into the room, she saw some one stretched at full length upon the floor at the fireside.
The Hills of the Shatemuc
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In the post-war world the fireside has been split apart, indeed subsumed to the kitchen.
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It did not read like a cosy fireside chat.
Times, Sunday Times
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Mother liked to chat with other family members as she plied her knitting by the fireside.
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His multi-figure bronze casts portray a breadline, an Appalachian farm couple and a man listening to one of FDR's fireside chats.
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Douglas yonder, as well as in other places through the vale, and that is but a woful sight for a true Scotchman — even my own poor house has not escaped the dignity of a garrison of a man-at-arms, besides two or three archer knaves, and one or two slips of mischievous boys called pages, and so forth, who will not let a man say, ‘this is my own,’ by his own fireside.
Castle Dangerous
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A "black spell" makes people forsake pleasurable things — "fireside joys" — for the "gloominess" of church service.
The Peculiar Life of Sundays
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In attempting to reproduce various personal experiences on paper, I shall claim the roaming freedom of the fireside muser, for he can in one second skip from Continent to Continent and vault over gaps of thirty years and more, just as the spirit moves him; indeed, to change the metaphor, before one record has played itself out, he can turn on
Here, There and Everywhere
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Devoted wife, loyal friend, careful mother, large-minded and large-souled woman, she stands conspicuous, in a period of lax domestic relations, for the virtues that grace the fireside as well as for the talents that shine in the salon.
The Women of the French Salons
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But we got him made gey snod, an 'syne we gaed inby to the ben-hoose fireside, an' had
My Man Sandy
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fighting in defense of their firesides
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Made from cherrywood, this chair, the last of five versions, was designed for a fireside alcove.
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The streets were vacant, everyone preferred fireside warmth to temperatures so low that it only took a minute for a bucket of water to freeze solid.
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She lay on a sofa by the fireside, looking perfectly happy with her darlings about her.
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A fairy tale can find its beginnings in the simple sentences of sagas told at the family fireside.
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Resplendent in his long black coat, starched white collar and hard black hat tied with a white ribbon, he resembled in my mind a character often described to us in fireside ghost stories.
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James was seated in his snug old easy-chair by the fireside, as if he had been an Edinburgh Parliament House lawyer, studying his hornings, duplies, and fugie warrants, with his left leg paraded out on a stool, with a pillow smoothed down over it, and all the
The Life of Mansie Wauch Tailor in Dalkeith, written by himself
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'by his own fireside,' what greater enjoyment can he have than to abandon himself in true Barmecidal fashion to the tempting dainties which the last page of the supplement to the _Times_ offers to his keen appetite!
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 1, January, 1864
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Her mother's family were all fireside singers.
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There's likely to be an interruption to our quiet winter days this year, and I'm hoping to get it over with before settling down by a different fireside, in a different location.
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Childhood memories, of toasty firesides, warm bedtime drinks and even playing in the snow are all very quaint and charming but I can do without chilblains, in memory or in reality.
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Suffice it to say here that this triple enigma is as comforting as wine and open as an English fireside; that this thing that bewilders the intellect utterly quiets the heart: but out of the desert, from the dry places and, the dreadful suns, come the cruel children of the lonely God; the real Unitarians who with scimitar in hand have laid waste the world.
Matthew Yglesias » The Gaza Tunnels
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He sat by the fireside drinking his cocoa.
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It did not read like a cosy fireside chat.
Times, Sunday Times
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In the class there is none of the pedagogical chumminess, the cozy fireside attitude of modern times.
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But here was a real pro, oozing homespun fireside wisdoms - his beard big and bushy enough to hide a flock of starlings, little round specs, big red boots and rouged cheeks.
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Suffice it to say here that this triple enigma is as comforting as wine and open as an English fireside; that this thing that bewilders the intellect utterly quiets the heart: but out of the desert, from the dry places and, the dreadful suns, come the cruel children of the lonely God; the real Unitarians who with scimitar in hand have laid waste the world.
Matthew Yglesias » The Gaza Tunnels
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John Gristhorp, of the “Ship Inn,” at Filey, had turned out his visitors, barred his door, and was counting his money by the fireside, with his wife grumbling at him for such late hours as half past ten of the clock in the bar, that night when the poor bilander ended her long career as aforesaid.
Mary Anerley
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I can read the lives of dukes and of princes in nice picture books by the comfort of my own fireside.
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That evening he sat by his fireside with his chief clerk, Mr Guest, beside him.
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Flaherty had chosen the remote town of Iqaluit, population 7,000, where temperatures can dip to 40 degrees below zero in February, to try to promote more informal discussions, which he dubbed fireside chats.
NPR Topics: News
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Almost 12 hours after leaving home the comfort of fireside and family beckon.
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You can knit a sweater by the fireside. Sunday mornings, go for a ride.
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When everyone seemed to be looking the other way, Mr Wright slipped into another room and took off his outfit, and then he quietly returned to the fireside where only a very small fire burned in the grate and sat down.
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Not long afterward Utterson was sitting by his fireside when Poole , Dr. Jekyll's manservant, sought entrance.
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If the ploughman can get his whip, his ploughstaff, hatchet, or any thing that he wants in the field, by the fireside before the maid hath got her kettle on, then the maid loseth her Shrove-tide cock, and it belongs wholly to the men.
A Righte Merrie Christmasse The Story of Christ-Tide
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It was no longer a home; children were never born and bred there; the fireside had become mercenary — a something to be bought and sold — a very courtezan: let who would die, or sit beside, or leave it, it was still the same — it missed nobody, cared for nobody, had equal warmth and smiles for all.
Barnaby Rudge
