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While I was seated at the table, the old woman, who now dozed over her distaff in the chimneycorner, would start up every five minutes or so, as if from the beginning of a nightmare, and rush at the flies, which were ravenously busy upon the grapes and pears that I had set aside for them.

Two Summers in Guyenne Edward Harrison Barker 1885

Among the inmates were two women; one of them sat at the chimneycorner, smoking a pipe, and rocking a cradle; the other sat directly before the fire, and full ten feet distant.

A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States; With Remarks on Their Economy 1856

Then, Dot quite well again, she said, quite well again -- arranged the great chair in the chimneycorner for her husband; filled his pipe and gave it him; and took her usual little stool beside him on the hearth.

The Cricket on the Hearth 1845

Time will come, I suppose, when you'll turn out into the cold, my little friend, and leave your old father to enjoy his pipe and his rheumatics in the chimneycorner; eh?

The Cricket on the Hearth 1845