Miles of unbroken forest could be seen from the cupolas of Crichton; yet in this room the very stick of wood that burned slowly on the andirons was an extravagance which Mrs. Gerald would not have allowed herself.
He drew the andirons out, and let the unconsumed stick down into the ashes, lighted a candle, and turned the gas off.
There were cullers of staves, fence-viewers and hog-reeves, and surveyors of lumber and cordwood, lest that which should properly be used for purposes of building or export be consumed on andirons or in kitchen stoves.
It isn't bigger than a bandbox, but there's the cunningest little fireplace in one corner, with real antique andirons and the quaintest old Dutch tiles.
That is, whether we want 'set' grates or open fireplaces with andirons or something of that kind.
What an enormous wood pile," Bessie continued aloud, in a desperate endeavor to lead up to andirons by an unsuspicious route.
Certainly, we will have a few andirons and several spinning-wheels and moony clocks and solid old carved oak chests that for generations have been full of moths and food for worms.
An old coloured woman, who lived with me once, polished the andirons with salt and vinegar.
On the bed of ashes between the andirons or on the bare hearth put paper crushed into soft balls.
Place the andirons straight and close enough together to support the average length of the wood.
There was a roaring wood fire behind brass andirons and fender.
Large stones were sometimes used instead of a backlog, and an iron bar was laid on the andirons in front of the forestick.
Meat was roasted by passing through it an iron rod called a spit and this was rested on brackets on the back of the andirons in front of the fire and by repeated turning and exposing on all sides, the meat was evenly cooked.
The andirons were sometimes very elaborate, with claw feet, or cast in the figure of a negro, a soldier, or a dog.
Sometimes a fireplace had three sets ofandirons of different sizes, to hold logs at different heights.
The andirons added to the fireplace their homely charm.
The day was fading fast, and the leaping flames behind the andironsthrew fantastic shadows across the beams of the ceiling.
Now if the hearth is clean, wipe it with the damp cloth, and dust off the andirons well.
There were andirons in the fireplace and the ashes lay all over and around them, so her aunt first helped her lift these heavy things out on the newspaper at one side.
There are the andirons in the hall, for instance, and the shovel and tongs.
The telephone card hung in its proper place, and the brass andirons had been polished.
For holding the fuel in the fireplace were andirons, which sometimes were of three sizes to hold logs at different heights, and there were fire-dogs or creepers, which were smaller than the andirons and were placed between them.
There were very few tin vessels among the colonists and even iron was not so greatly in use, being used for andirons and pots and pans and some other vessels.
I thought our andirons were made of gold, just like the stars, only the andirons had enough gold in them to sprinkle the whole sky, and leave a good slice to make a new sun.
Never had the antique andirons on the hearth, the pewter plates and dishes upon the walls, the brass-bound blunderbuss above the mantel seemed so bright and polished before, and surely never had they gleamed upon a merrier company.
The first thing to be considered in laying one of these fires is the FIRE-DOGS Which in camp are the same as andirons in the open fire-places of our homes, and used for the same purpose.
The ram of the andirons was thus a permanent representative of the victim offered in the cult of the dead.
At this beautiful home I saw a pair of andirons even handsomer than those at the Van Cortlandt mansion.
In the drawing-room of the Van Cortlandt home stood a superb pair of brass andirons in the form of lions, which had been presented to Mrs. Augustus Van Cortlandt by my husband's mother as a bridal present.
Ambergreece Andirons ("The andirons were the ornamental irons on each side of the hearth in old houses, which were accompanied with small rests for the ends of the logs.
There are no records of the earliest inventors of andironsor dogs.
One pair of dogs or andirons has ratchets on which supplementary bars were placed.
The andirons were afterwards called fire-dogs, and in course of time bars rested on hooks or ratchets, or were laid across the dogs.
These fenders and andirons were gladly parted with, growing rusty as they had been for years, and almost forgotten in garrets and cellars.
However, it was by old clocks and brass andirons and fenders that Knapp made his fortune.
In the old chimney-pieces, fire leaped behind quaintandirons taking the chill from the evening air.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "andirons" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
