Their great open fireplaces were ill-adapted to withstand the winter's rigor.
Am I mistaken in supposing that this is owing to the discontinuance of big chimneys, with wide fireplaces in them?
We hear wonderful stories of the bright generation that sat about the wide fireplaces of New England.
In northern New England it is considered a sign of summer when the housewives fill the fireplaces with branches of mountain laurel, and, later, with the feathery stalks of the asparagus.
The fuel is then kindled in the fireplaces d, d, and the door of the furnace is closed with bricks, in which a small opening is left for taking out samples, and for examining the interior of the muffle.
The front of the fireplaces is covered with a sheet-iron plate, which slides to one side, and may be shut whenever the kiln is charged.
The forests are now disappearing so fast that unless we use wood more carefully we may have to give up our attractive wooden homes and cheery fireplaces and live in houses of stone or concrete.
Our forefathers had all the wood they wanted just for the cutting, and so they warmed their houses by means of fireplaces large enough to hold great logs.
The Seven Hañʞa fireplaces were the last to join the nation, according to the tradition of the Tsiɔu wactaʞe people.
The Seven Tsiɔu fireplaces occupy the left or peace side of the circle.
With the coming of prosperity, these rude log huts gave way to timber houses, two stories in height, and with their advent the better type of colonial fireplacescame into vogue.
Not a few of the early fireplaces were of the inglenook type, a fad that has been revived and is much in evidence in modern dwellings; and many of them followed certain periods, such as the Queen Anne style and the Elizabethan design.
The fireplaces of those days were perhaps the largest ever built in any land, some ten feet or more in depth, and broad enough to hold the logs which were stacked just outside the cabin door.
Dating as far back as the earliest fireplaces are found fire sets, as they were sometimes called, comprising the hearth accessories necessary for an open fire.
Mantels and fireplaces of early Renaissance type show in detail an elegance that is characteristic of all the work of that period, the Italian designers being masters in their line.
With the advent of the furnace, many beautiful fireplaces were closed up, or taken away to be replaced by modern ones that lacked in every respect the dignity and grace of the colonial specimens.
By the beginning of the eighteenth century, fireplaces had come to be considered of great decorative importance, and in an account written in 1750 Isaac Ware says of them: "With us no article in a well-furnished room is more essential.
Several, too, were topped with mantels, features practical as well as ornamental, which are almost always associated with the fireplaces of to-day.
De white folks had old brick ovens away from de house, and wide fireplaces in de kitchens.
All de fireplaces had brass firedogs and marble mantelpieces.
They had large ovens and wide fireplacesin which they cooked.
Oh, dey would have dese big old open fireplaces en would have de grandest kind of fires.
The old fireplaces and recessed ovens are pronounced by experts to be genuine fourteenth-century work.
Item: The fireplaces in which the food is cooked are left above deck, open to water and air, where the first storm carries them off.
Some of these fireplaces were very large, "sometimes wide enough to drive a cart and horses between the jambs.
Wood, of course, was very plentiful at first and it was used quite freely, the immense fireplaces consuming vast quantities of it.
As fuel grew scarce, sometimes these fireplaces were made smaller by closing them up in part and building a "little chimney" within them.
The colonial houses were heated by means of fireplaces and in the kitchen the fireplace was also used for cooking.
Open fireplaces and fires in grates connected with chimneys, and using coal, wood, or gas, are very comfortable; nevertheless there are weighty objections to them.
A chimney without a fire may suck down the smoke from a neighboring chimney; or, if two fireplaces in different rooms are connected with the same chimney, the smoke from one room may be drawn into the other.
Secondly, the heat of grates and fireplaces is only local, being near the fires and warming only that part of the person exposed to it, leaving the other parts of the room and person cold.
Under very favorable conditions, two grates or fireplaces might be connected with the same flue, but it is not a good plan.
Now a road has been engineered along this col, and the rock wall has been cut through; not only so, but it has been carried through a nobleman's mansion, and the sculptured fireplaces overhang the carriage road.
With droll invention Jacques had one of his fireplaces made like a fortress, with little windows above, out of which folk are peeping.
Their houses have no chimneys, and their fireplaces are no more than a few loose bricks or stones, disposed in a temporary manner and frequently on the landing-place before the doors.
Yet the husband finds it necessary to allot to each of them their several fireplaces and cooking utensils, where they dress their own victuals separately, and prepare his in turns.
It would appear that the field of labour and the number of labourers, chiefly those who toiled with brick and mortar, were greatly reduced when those huge fireplaces were so widely discarded.
In these mountain countries the fireplaces are lined with stones, but in Illinois, in the olden times, stones were scarce and mud was plenty and the fireplaces were made like those just described and illustrated by Fig.
A hole or holes are left in the roof over the fireplaces for openings for the smoke to escape.
In all of the fireplaces which we have described you will note that the top front of the fireplace under the mantel extends down several inches below the angle of the chimney.
In Binghamton fireplaces the side walls are on an angle and converge toward the back of the fireplace, as in Fig.
I made sketches and took measurements which furnished me data by which I built the fireplaces in my own houses.
Fireplaces are dirty, I tell them, but--what are you staring at, my dear?
Desire had been in her new home a month and had just made a remark which showed her astonished Aunt Caroline that tea was no more of a surprise to her than fireplaces had been.
Desire was so used to fireplaces that this did not seem extraordinary and yet, from Aunt Caroline's tone, she knew that it must be, and tried to look impressed.
Four large open fireplaces gave warmth and cheerfulness to the corridor.
In each of the fireplaces were wood and kindling to be lit when the guests should arrive on the morrow.
North of the space once occupied by the dwelling are many comparatively large caches, with fireplaces between.
The fireplaces to which some of them belong appear to be used for heating the rooms rather than for cooking, as they are often disused for long periods during the summer season.
Baholikonga got angry at this and turned the world upside down, and water spouted up through the kivas and through the fireplaces in the houses.
Among the many forms of chimneys and fireplaces seen in Tusayan a curious approach to our own arrangement of fireplace and mantel was noticed in a house in Sichumovi.
When a deep cooking-pit is required in such a position, it is obtained by building up the sides, as in the indoor fireplaces of upper rooms.
Chimneys and fireplaces are often found in Tusayan in the small, recessed, balcony-like rooms of the second terrace.
The outdoor use of the above-described fireplaces on upper terraces has apparently suggested the improvement of the ground cooking pit in a similar manner.
The cottage itself is a typical home of the Scotch villager, the tiny rooms supplied with huge fireplaces and the quaint old-time kitchen still in daily use by the caretaker.
Inside there are great paneled rooms with richly bossed plaster ceilings, wide fireplaces with mantelpieces emblazoned with the arms of the ancient owners, and many narrow winding passageways leading--you never quite learn whither.
The floor of the house is hard clay; there are two fireplaces at one end, and at the other some large drums serve as seats.
The highest castes sit at the front end of the gamal, the lower at the back; these are forbidden to enter the gamal from the front, in order not to touch or step over the fireplaces of their superiors.
Both walls and ceiling are white, and there are elaborate doorways and fireplaces of white marble.
The original fireplaces have been retained in these rooms.
Woodburning fireplaces are located in the living room of the original portion of the house (now used as a study) and the living room of the 1957 addition.
These chimneys have separate flues for four fireplaces (two each on the first and second floors) and measure 5 feet by 2 feet 8 inches.
Large chimneys at each end of the house made possible heating by fireplaces in each room.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fireplaces" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
