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1 "There's the cold fireplace, you see," said Clym.
Return of the NativeBy Thomas Hardy ContextHighlight In BOOK 5: 2 A Lurid Light Breaks in upon a Darkened Understanding
2 Venn drew near to the fireplace, and looked into the flames in an absent mood.
Return of the NativeBy Thomas Hardy ContextHighlight In BOOK 5: 9 Sights and Sounds Draw the Wanderers Together
3 The room had been arranged with a view to the dancing, the large oak table having been moved back till it stood as a breastwork to the fireplace.
Return of the NativeBy Thomas Hardy ContextHighlight In BOOK 2: 6 The Two Stand Face to Face
4 It is, to the hearths of old-fashioned cavernous fireplaces, what the east belt of trees is to the exposed country estate, or the north wall to the garden.
Return of the NativeBy Thomas Hardy ContextHighlight In BOOK 2: 6 The Two Stand Face to Face
5 Susan took down the lump, and cutting off several thin slices, heaped them in an iron ladle, with which she returned to the living-room, and placed the vessel in the hot ashes of the fireplace.
Return of the NativeBy Thomas Hardy ContextHighlight In BOOK 5: 7 The Night of the Sixth of November
6 Wildeve was standing with his back to the fireplace smoking a cigar; and the promoter of the raffle, a packman from a distant town, was expatiating upon the value of the fabric as material for a summer dress.
Return of the NativeBy Thomas Hardy ContextHighlight In BOOK 3: 7 The Morning and the Evening of a Day
7 The last occasion on which he had lingered by that fireplace was when the raffle was in progress; when Wildeve was alive and well; Thomasin active and smiling in the next room; Yeobright and Eustacia just made husband and wife, and Mrs. Yeobright living at Blooms-End.
Return of the NativeBy Thomas Hardy ContextHighlight In BOOK 5: 9 Sights and Sounds Draw the Wanderers Together
8 So he retired into the niche of the fireplace where he had used to sit, and there he continued, watching the steam from the double row of banknotes as they waved backwards and forwards in the draught of the chimney till their flaccidity was changed to dry crispness throughout.
Return of the NativeBy Thomas Hardy ContextHighlight In BOOK 5: 9 Sights and Sounds Draw the Wanderers Together
9 She took from a cupboard some pieces of twine, which she strained across the fireplace, tying the end of each piece to the firedog, previously pulled forward for the purpose, and, unrolling the wet papers, she began pinning them one by one to the strings in a manner of clothes on a line.
Return of the NativeBy Thomas Hardy ContextHighlight In BOOK 5: 9 Sights and Sounds Draw the Wanderers Together