She trembled with anger as she stuffed dry kindlings into the stove, and listened to the roaring of the flames up the rusty old stove-pipe.
Don, do you light the fire in the stove while we are gone; there are kindlings lying in that corner.
So finding one leg at liberty, he furtively kicked the leg of the stove and hurt his toe, even as his eyes fell upon a depleted stock of kindlings in the wood-box.
Aunt Judith," he shrilled, dropping his kindlingsinto the box with a clatter, "look!
He would insist on chopping wood and splitting kindlings for me, though I told him the Cap'n and Moses had left a plenty to last till they came home.
The board fell on the kindlings while Hilda stumbled over Elena, who was intent upon getting her plank to the cellar-door.
Now, the kindlings just right, you can lay a few heavy pieces of split wood on top.
I think I shall shoot unless you have the meat and kindlings put on Peter's sledge immediately and give Uppy instructions--in English--to drive us to Fort Confidence.
Then he said, "Uppy, put the dog meat and the kindlings on the big sledge--and drive like hell for Fort Confidence!
Biddy, breaking kindlings in an unscientific way with the hatchet, sent a piece of wood flying through the kite, tearing a large hole on what a sailor would call the starboard quarter.
She would have been smashed into kindlings in a minute if she had been left to herself, or had the engines been stopped even for an instant.
Right through the line in turn went Kindlings Woodhouse, Holly Cross and Ed Kerr.
Through holes torn first on one side between tackle and guard, or guard and center, and then on the other wing, Everet, Holly Cross or Kindlings butted their way.
Kindlings saw the ball coming toward him, and managed by a desperate effort, to get it in his arms.
He gave the word for Kindlingsto take the ball at Boxer's left-end, and smash!
It completely fooled the other team, and when the Boxer full-back finally managed to stop Kindlings it was on the ten-yard line.
It was a signal for Kindlings to take the ball through tackle, and, as he got it, the right half-back leaped for the hole that was opened for him.
Kindlings Woodhouse smashed in to make a hole for his brother back, who closely followed.
When Boxer Hall kicked off, amid the chorus of a spirited song, Kindlings caught the ball, and came back with it on such a rush, and so well protected by his teammates, that he got past the center of the field before he was downed.
Phil went down under him, and when Kindlingshad been stopped, after a few yards' advance, the quarter-back did not get up.
Right through he plunged, staggering along, half pulled, half shoved, until it was impossible to gain another inch, and Kindlings was buried out of sight under an avalanche of players.
It seemed to give just the stimulus needed, and when Kindlings had been sent crashing into the line for a twelve-yard gain, Phil quickly resolved on the fake tackle and pass to half-back play.
There had been gloom, following the withdrawal of Shambler and Frank, but with the manly way in which Kindlings met the situation the skies seemed to clear.
However he did not prohibit practice at weight throwing, and Frank soon proved himself an expert at this, almost equaling Dutch, so that Holly and Kindlings made a temporary shift in their list of entrants.
A day later some of the lads whom Kindlings had sent out made a report.
You've got to beat nineteen feet, eight inches," said Kindlings to his chum.
I'll tell Kindlings where I'm going, so he won't be looking for me.
They were just telling Kindlings where Holly had gone when the lad in question came back.
Holly and Kindlings have charge of the arrangements.
Everyone was in a healthy glow, and as Holly and Kindlingslooked at the notes of some of the records made that day there was a look of satisfaction between them.
There's going to be a slight change in the program," remarked Kindlings to the crowd of boys when practice was about over.
When it came to picking third there was hard work, for Sam Looper, Dan Woodhouse, Kindlings and Sid Henderson were so well bunched that it was hard to decide, and the six were put down as possible starters against the rival colleges.
Kindlings was glad of this, for he regarded it as an advantage for his lads to try to beat the records previously made by their opponents.
Meanwhile Holly and Kindlings had composed a letter to the proper authorities of the Amateur Athletic Union, asking a ruling on Frank's case.
And you'll never get it, I'm afraid," said Kindlings under his breath.
And there isn't now," declared Kindlings sturdily.
Lovina Nixon of her husband, as he performed the ultimate evening ceremonial of whittling kindlings for the morning fire.
Jim and Melvin watched from the wooden bench against the wall while Cap'n Jack hovered over the broken stove, deriving what comfort he could from the blaze of kindlings within.
Jan-an was on her knees by the hearth, puffing to life the kindlings she had lighted.
Holly Cross got to first, and managed to steal second and third, while Kindlings Woodhouse and Bricktop ingloriously fanned.
Even in pine wood which does not seem resinous to the touch there is much of this volatile inflammable material and a good store of pine kindlings is a first requisite in every well ordered country household.
A year ago last spring the mother pine put forth the beginnings of those pine cones that now dangle brown and pitchy, or drop to the ground, useless except as kindlings for my campfire.
This was the substance of Eunice's soliloquy, as she cleaned the potatoes for the morrow's breakfast, and laid the kindlings by the stove, ready for the morning fire.
Joel dropped his kindlingsand the heavier pieces of wood he had gathered up, and went like a shot back to the stove again.
Stephen had put a basket of wood and kindlings ready for Mrs. Dunikin in the kitchen below, and the key of the lower door had been left on a beam in the woodshed, by agreement.
I think I'll ask Kindlingsto let me shift to the other end.
It gives me the fidgets," and Kindlings grabbing a book, made as if to throw it at the timepiece.
Kindlings brokenly, in return, and his voice was not the only one that faltered when the tiger was given.
He looked to Kindlings for a confirmatory nod, which the captain gave, after a glance at his men.
Tom had changed his mind about going out to see if he could get on the trail of who had taken it, and sat with Kindlings and his two other chums, discussing what could be done to replace Kerr as right half-back.
Only I know, and so does Kindlings and Lighton, that we've got to do heaps better when we play Fairview and Boxer Hall.
You'll practice football as you never did before," declared Kindlings with energy.
There was only a little time left to play, and Kindlings desperately called upon his men in every way he knew how to rally and score again.
Proctor Zane stated the case to the president, and then Kindlings made his appeal.
The piled-up players slowly emerged from the heap, and Kindlings whispered to his new man: "Good work, old fellow.
Kindlings will want us to get into our football togs as soon as we get back, and jump out at practice.
I tell you what it is," saidKindlings to them one day.
They washed dishes and split kindlings and fed chickens and milked cows and dug potatoes.
Faggots for kindlings bring a fair price, too, and I recommend it as a way of earning money out of your father's wood lot if he has one.
They had everything fixed; a pile of kindlings laid in the corner back of the machine-shop annex and the whole thing saturated with kerosene.
Seems as if they thought we were splitting kindlings because we liked to split kindlings, instead of because we like old Joey.
They split enough kindlings to last at least a week, filled up the wood-box by the kitchen stove and piled more wood behind it and carried up three hods of coal besides a big basket full.
All right, we'll get the kindlings split for the next week, and the coal brought up for Mrs. Clark.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "kindlings" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: backlog; brush; fagot; firewood; kindling; log; wood
