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Example sentences for "wood fire"

  • They were most apologetic because it had to be a wood fire--but I was delighted.

  • First place, we find that we can heat the salon very nicely with a wood fire, and second, we are definitely to have our chauffage central the 15th.

  • Well, I must close, but I shall have enough to tell you when I come home to outlast many a wood fire, and I am looking forward to the day when we can sit down together and talk, with the clock faced toward the wall!

  • He is so much better roasted before a wood fire.

  • This is for the sportsman who cooks his trout himself by a wood fire in the woods; and no other man ever arrives at just that perfect way of cooking a trout.

  • To most people probably a wood fire is a wood fire, whether the logs be of cherry wood, pine, hickory or anything else.

  • Who doesn’t know how to build a wood fire?

  • The hearth is raised above the floor] Finally, the most important factor of all in the management of a wood fire is an ample bed of ashes for its foundation.

  • They are as necessary to a wood fire as a poker is to a coal fire, and they serve much the same purpose.

  • However, if you have a wood fire, you must have a pair of bellows.

  • To play upon a wood fire with a bellows gives one the same satisfaction, and is just as pleasantly annoying to the onlookers.

  • Keep them in the pickle 1 month, drain them, and send them to be smoked over a wood fire for 3 weeks or a month.

  • Have them smoked over a wood fire, and be particular that the hams are hung as high up as possible from the fire; otherwise the fat will melt, and they will become dry and hard.

  • I will never complain, as long as I have soft coal," returned the new guest; "but there is an uncommon charm to me in a wood fire.

  • The young fellow squats down before her, as before a wood fire, stretches out his hands, and says in an ingratiating voice: "What a fine place is our cantonal town!

  • Have ready, over a bed of clear bright hot coals from a wood fire, a gridiron with grooved bars to catch the gravy.

  • Never allow yourself to be persuaded to use pyroligneous acid in curing dried beef or ham--instead of the real smoke of a wood fire.

  • Or wrap them in double vine leaves, and roast them in the ashes of a wood fire.

  • You may bake the chowder in an iron oven, over a wood fire, heaping live coals on the oven lid.

  • Strange instincts might be supposed to thrill and shudder in the ribs of ships that sail toward the beacon of a drift-wood fire.

  • Through the casement appeared the cheerful blaze of a wood fire, and Theresa, who had observed Emily approaching, was already at the door to receive her.

  • There is usually a wood fire burning, but no outlet for the smoke, which slowly finds its way through the roof.

  • The clay is obtained from the river bed by diving and after the vessel is made, it is first dried in the sun and then baked in a wood fire.

  • A cigar or pipe is no protection at all, but the insects will not face the smoke of a wood fire.

  • Taking the precaution to have a wood fire in my second salon, I ventured to invite my friends to see my fire de charbon de terre.

  • The combined advantages of greater heat and less cost, (for the coal fire was maintained at about half the expense of a wood fire,) procured imitators.

  • I built a wood fire, and started to make some toast.

  • After school hours and devoirs (we had a wood fire in one room), bed time soon came for the kids.

  • Just when we had exhausted the little supply of wood we had laid in originally for the luxury of a wood fire we did not need, our propriétaire notified us that he could get no more coal for heating or hot water.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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