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/ˈoʊpən fˈaɪərplˌeɪs/ Listen

Open fireplace

noun

An open recess in a wall at the base of a chimney where a fire can be built. Synonyms: fireplace, hearth. "He laid a fire in the hearth and lit it" , "The hearth was black with the charcoal of many fires"

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... complained was beaten without mercy. He has described his misery on one particular night. After being sent supperless to bed, his suffering very soon became more than he could bear, and when everybody else in the cabin was asleep he quietly took some corn and began to parch it before the open fireplace. While thus trying to appease his hunger by stealth, and feeling dejected and homesick, "who but my own dear mother should come in?" The friendless, hungry, and sorrowing little boy found himself suddenly caught up in ...

— Stories of Achievement, Volume III (of 6) - Orators and Reformers • Various

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... around those stumps!" said Tom Binns. "It's just as if they'd started a fire in a furnace or a big open fireplace." ...

— The Boy Scout Fire Fighters - or Jack Danby's Bravest Deed • Robert Maitland

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... and the meats, have been put under lock and key and turned over to a care-taker as a full-fledged culinary museum of antiquities. One entire side of the crowded but orderly little room was taken up by a huge open fireplace. The logs resting on the great andirons were the trunks of full-grown trees. On two of the spits were long rows of fowl and legs of mutton roasting; the great chains were being slowly turned by a chef in the paper cap of his profession. In deep burnished brass bowls ...

— In and Out of Three Normady Inns • Anna Bowman Dodd

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... wide stairway. There on the hat tree hung a man's light overcoat, a gray fedora hat; a stick leaned below. When the master of the house went out of it this time, he hadn't needed these. Abruptly Worth turned and led the way into what I knew was the living room, with a big open fireplace in it. ...

— The Million-Dollar Suitcase • Alice MacGowan

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... up a rousin' fire in the open fireplace by pressin' a button, and if they git kinder warm, electric fans cool the air agin, though there hain't much chance of gittin' too warm, for electric thermostats regulate the atmosphere. But in the ...

— Samantha at the World's Fair • Marietta Holley

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