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Examples
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Suggests that a McCain presidency is going to be friendly fire-side chats and Peanuts holiday specials.
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By the way, Sarah, will these fire-side chats be from an exclusive Christian point of view?
Sarah Palin…extremist views trouble for McCain! « Julian Ayrs & Pop Culture 2008
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We are both 50 years old and we wonder if this is how people felt when they heard FDR speak his ‘fire-side’ chats during the depression and the years to come.
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'A travelled man, sir, thinks no more of what you call across the sea, than you, that live always over your own fire-side, think of stepping across a kennel. '
Camilla 2008
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Try this in bed, in the dead of the night: try this at your own comfortable fire-side, in the life of the night.
The Haunted House 2007
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Try this in bed, in the dead of the night: try this at your own comfortable fire-side, in the life of the night.
The Haunted House 2007
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But on his arriving at the front door with Mrs. Hall a sharp shower of rain began to come down, when the widow suggested that he should return to the fire-side till the storm ceased.
Wessex Tales 2006
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Try this in bed, in the dead of the night: try this at your own comfortable fire-side, in the life of the night.
The Haunted House by Charles Dickens | Solar Flare: Science Fiction News 2004
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To think of passing the winter evenings by the parlour fire-side of Seacombe Rectory alone with one of them — for instance, the large and well-modelled statue,
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He was a delicate youth, I take it, and willingly slunk from the robustious winter to an inn fire-side.
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