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  • The serious illness of the younger servant was at its height, when a cry from Tabby called Miss Bronte into the kitchen, and she found the poor old woman of eighty laid on the floor, with her head under the kitchen-grate; she had fallen from her chair in attempting to rise.

    The Life of Charlotte Bronte 2002

  • One of them, who appeared to be about twenty-six years old, told the captain he had let go his anchor through his kitchen chimney, and begged him to weigh it again, as it had knocked down the kitchen-grate and spoilt his dinner.

    A Sailor of King George Frederick Hoffman

  • God is a consuming Fire 'might be written over the kitchen-grate, to assist the mystic musings of the cook -- Shall we ever try that experiment, dearest.

    Gilbert Keith Chesterton Maisie Ward 1932

  • It was an October morning, but despite the invigorating chill in the air the kitchen-grate was cold and dull.

    Deep Waters, the Entire Collection 1903

  • It was an October morning, but despite the invigorating chill in the air the kitchen-grate was cold and dull.

    Striking Hard Deep Waters, Part 10. 1903

  • The serious illness of the younger servant was at its height, when a cry from Tabby called Miss Bronte into the kitchen, and she found the poor old woman of eighty laid on the floor, with her head under the kitchen-grate; she had fallen from her chair in attempting to rise.

    Life of Charlotte Bronte — Volume 2 Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell 1837

  • I cast mine eyes upon the fire in the kitchen-grate, the coals will glow and cool until I see her face; nay, but yesterday, the shoulder of mutton upon the spit gyrated until it at last assumed the decapitated head of Mary.

    Jacob Faithful Frederick Marryat 1820

  • Mysie, who had been so much alarmed by the thunder, should not have her kitchen-grate in full splendour.

    The Bride of Lammermoor Walter Scott 1801

  • But if I fhould dcfcribe the kitchen-grate, the prodigious pots and kettlesi the joints of meat turning on the fpits, with many other particuv lars, perhaps I fliould be hardly believed; at leaft a fevere critic would be apt to think I en - larged a little, as travellers are often fufpeded to do.

    The Works of Dr. Jonathan Swift, Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin 1768

  • He intermitted even his dearly-beloved chatter, for the purpose of making more haste, only assuring Mr. Lockhard that he had made the purveyor’s wife give the wild-fowl a few turns before the fire, in case that Mysie, who had been so much alarmed by the thunder, should not have her kitchen-grate in full splendour.

    The Bride of Lammermoor 2008

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