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Until then the new carriers can tootle around carrying helicopters, but as instruments of power projection they will be about as much use as a chocolate fire-guard.

Cameron's Defense Cuts Reveal a U.K. Preparing to do Less With Less Iain Martin 2010

A fire-guard is an option, but hey it's another kind of condom and equally off-putting.

"The Nazi hunter's ultimate prize." Ann Althouse 2007

Old fire-guard, old shoes, two fish-baskets, washing-stand on three legs, and a poker.

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, Stave 1 Marley’s Ghost | Solar Flare: Science Fiction News 2004

He should have had a fire-guard hung before him, or a love-guard, if you will.

Framley Parsonage 2004

Jake had never before neglected a fire-guard, and he did not understand the resistlessness of a prairie fire.

When the Grass Grew Long 1996

Billy decided that they must have burned a fire-guard about their home since he had been there two days before; but when he came up to the three he saw the mistake.

When the Grass Grew Long 1996

I threw my trench-coat across the fire-guard he used in winter and sat down on the Louis Quinze chair that years ago had been filled with stuffing.

The Mandarin Cypher Hall, Adam 1975

I turned in disgust from their billing and cooing; went up to the fire, lifted my nightshirt, and warmed my bare loins on the fire-guard ....

Cider With Rosie Lee, Laurie 1959

Old fire-guard, old shoes, two fish-baskets, washing-stand on three legs, and a poker.

Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 6 Charles Herbert Sylvester

Then with a glance at the bassinet, where baby was soundly sleeping away some of his fretfulness, and a careful adjustment of the fire-guard on the nursery grate, nurse stole downstairs to get her own dinner, which, like the children's, would be none the better for waiting so long past the usual time.

Two Little Travellers A Story for Girls Frances Browne Arthur