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Example sentences for "room fire"

  • A minute after, Arthur was standing by himself before the drawing-room fire; and when presently he heard the carriage roll away, and the sounds became gradually fainter and fainter in the distance, he felt that he was all alone.

  • Once established in an armchair by the dining-room fire, Mrs. Davenport took off her gloves, untied her veil, and enjoyed herself thoroughly.

  • Raymond pushed her chair into her room, bent over her with extra tenderness, bade her good night; and when Julius had done the same they stood by the drawing-room fire together.

  • Anne was discovered hanging over the dining-room fire, looking whiter and more exhausted than the night before, having indeed been the first to come down-stairs.

  • Then the squire went to bed, and Bernard sat over the dining-room fire, meditating on it all.

  • It will be better for us that we shall leave it," she said to herself as she seated herself in her own arm-chair over the drawing-room fire.

  • It is almost incredible," he said, standing with his back to the drawing-room fire.

  • This was on a Tuesday morning, and on the same evening, before dinner, the vicar again seated himself in the same chair before the drawing-room fire, as soon as he had seen his horse led into the stable.

  • A strong-minded man goes direct from the hall door to his chamber without encountering the temptation of the drawing-room fire.

  • Stephen was lounging over the dining-room fire, perhaps dozing.

  • III Vera reclined on the sofa that afternoon, and the sofa was drawn round in front of the drawing-room fire.

  • Why, upon my soul, this steam heat is warmer than the dining-room fire.

  • The dining-room fire isn't lighted either, is it, duck?

  • Georgiana, therefore, with memories of college days again strong upon her, made ready to serve afternoon tea beside the living-room fire.

  • If you had only had the condescension to return my confidence when I poured out the fulness of my art, the night I put you so much out of the way by sleeping before your sitting-room fire, I never should have doubted you.

  • But I recollect being conscious of his company without having noticed his coming in--and my still sitting, musing, over the coffee-room fire.

  • No fire had been lighted in the drawing-room, so when their meal was done they sat together by the dining-room fire.

  • She was waiting for him by the dining-room fire, and when he first came in he displayed anger because the cabman had wanted more than his fare.

  • One Saturday evening, after an uneventful but laborious week, when she had supped alone and was reading by the dining-room fire, Marsden came in and abruptly asked her for money.

  • He was sitting by the dining-room fire, with his slippered feet on the fender, and a nearly emptied whisky bottle on the corner of the table near his elbow.

  • Judith told him so kindly, and afterward he would sit motionless before the dining-room fire, always turning his head away from Jacqueline's little chair.

  • Throckmorton was standing on the rug before the drawing-room fire, talking gravely with Mrs. Sherrard.

  • Wortley, rubbing his hands cheerfully before the drawing-room fire, where the gentlemen, including Morford and Freke, were assembled.

  • She saw herself standing by her father before the breakfast-room fire, listening to that tale of how he was lost among the mountains.

  • On an evening when this had happened, she sat with her mother by the breakfast-room fire.

  • Then the doctor went, and John Vavasor was left alone, standing with his back to the dining-room fire.

  • They sat over the drawing-room fire, talking chiefly of Alice's affairs, till it was time for them to dress.

  • It was between five and six when Mr Vavasor came back to his house, and he then found his daughter sitting over the drawing-room fire, without lights, in the gloom of the evening.

  • He and Barty would sit up over the dying embers of the dining-room fire of No.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "room fire" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    dark color; electric currents; everyone knows; falling away; feel what; great ability; high lands; neighbouring hill; old friend; room after; room again; room artificer; room door; room enough; room floor; room full; room furniture; room should; room table; room telegraph; room where; room window; severe tone; spiritual light; sufficient quantity; third voyage