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Example sentences for "good fire"

  • Here I alighted, and having bargained with my host for 20 crownes a moneth, I caused a good fire to be made in my chamber and went to bed, being so very wet.

  • Put some little bits of butter over them.

  • It can, however, be made more economically if boiled, and therefore recipes are given for its preparation in this manner.

  • There was a good fire, and a shaded lamp stood on a large table, where a girl sat writing.

  • Fortunately, there was a good fire on the hearth, and, after he had rubbed down and put on his dry, warm suit of deerskin, he never felt finer in his life.

  • They had matches with them--they were always careful to keep them dry now--and after securing their dry shavings they lighted a good fire.

  • They laid the strips of buffalo meat, taken from their salt bath, upon the network of small poles, and beneath they built a good fire of birch, ash, and oak.

  • So saying, Florine led her into a small room; with fireplace and carpet, and made her sit down in a tapestried armchair by the side of a good fire.

  • The two friends, who had felt on their journey a little of the sharp influence of the north wind, were warming themselves at a good fire lighted in M.

  • After supper of moose-skin and Labrador tea we felt in better spirits, and with a good fire and a pipe of tobacco discussed our position seriously enough.

  • There is no better camp than a well-set-up lodge with a good fire crackling in the middle, and in this respect we were comfortable enough, but the shortness of food was telling rapidly.

  • And now the guide led us into the vestry, where there was a good fire burning in the grate, and it really thawed my heart, which was congealed with the dismal chill of the cathedral.

  • Most of our men had employed themselves in cutting down boughs of trees to keep themselves out of the mud; but it was some hours before we could obtain that greatest of luxuries, under our present circumstances, a good fire.

  • In executing this task, being unsheltered from the enemy’s shot, their grape and canister occasionally played in among us, so that although it was freezing hard at the time, we had no reason to complain of not having a good fire.

  • There are several other species of lichen which might be employed in producing an analogous dye, were they prepared, like the preceding, into the substance called archil.

  • These are for one quarter-- Fine flour 5 bushels 3 pecks.

  • The last was rough, but sufficing—a good fire too, now I think of it, and precious cold it was.

  • Aunt Susan concerned herself about our comfort to the last; she reminded her nephew to keep up a good fire that I might not get cold; she insisted upon my making some tea for myself, and upon my husband having a glass of beer.

  • But there was a good fire in the small waiting-room, and three young men, and one young woman already there.

  • I spent another day without food, but had plenty of water; another night on a bed of green brush beside a good fire.

  • When the sun went down we tied the mule and oxen to cabbage trees, and shortly after dusk lay down ourselves, for we had enjoyed a good fire made of the trunks of cabbage trees, the first really comfortable one in a long time.

  • Now, Nat, get some sticks and make a good fire, while I lay the cloth and cook.

  • My uncle had not been idle, for he had made a good fire, the kettle was boiling, and we should have begun breakfast at once if it had not been for Mr Ebony's preparations.

  • We slept soundly and well out there in that little storm-swept island, but no storms disturbed us, and the first thing I heard after lying down was the crackling of wood as Ebo piled it up to make a good fire.

  • You keep a good fire," Westray said, "considering it is bed-time.

  • There is a good fire to-night, and a bit of driftwood that I got specially for your benefit.

  • It is all right later on; I rather enjoy the long evenings and a good fire, when I can afford a good one, but at first it is a little gloomy.

  • And they must please to get ready Satanʼs room, where the daffodil curtains was, because the young woman loved to look at the yeast, and to have a good fire burning.

  • And I kept the kitchen fire up, and a good fire in your pet room, dear; and I have got such a supper for you!


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    good actor; good advice; good blood; good breakfast; good common school education; good confession; good daughter; good fellows; good gentlemen; good glass; good grass; good harvest; good heart; good luck; good meat; good rest; good round; good service; good sound; good start; good stead; good supper; good uncle; good wench; good wine; holy places