Grates, hearths

Usage examples of fireplaces.

He envisioned her wrapped in a blanket, warming her feet by one of those fireplaces that littered the place.

The rooms not open to the public had broken fireplaces, missing paneling, and painted ceilings spoiled by a leaky roof.

Dougless went downstairs to the kitchen and was awed at what she saw: room after room with enormous fireplaces, huge tables, and many, many people scurrying about.

In two rooms, set back in the wall high above the double fireplaces, were tiers of beds with straw mattresses where many of the kitchen workers slept.

There were two fireplaces, in which the ashy logs of wood turned from gray to red as the sunlight retreated.

Am I mistaken in supposing that this is owing to the discontinuance of big chimneys, with wide fireplaces in them?

We hear wonderful stories of the bright generation that sat about the wide fireplaces of New England.

In northern New England it is considered a sign of summer when the housewives fill the fireplaces with branches of mountain laurel, and, later, with the feathery stalks of the asparagus.