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But the peat-fire smoke that had covered Moscow had mostly cleared on Monday after having reappeared Sunday.

Fires in Russia Shrink 2010

Sam asked, the anger within him burning with the same slow heat as a banked peat-fire.

Omnibus Lackey, Mercedes 1993

Sheila took him into some of the cottages, or rather hovels, and he vaguely knew in the darkness that she sat down by the low glow of the peat-fire, and began to ask the women about all sorts of improvements in the walls and windows and gardens, and what not.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 25, April, 1873 Various

Malcolm laid a few sticks on the smouldering peat-fire, but they were damp and did not catch.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 85, January, 1875 Various

We went about on tiptoes as it might be in a house of the dead, and peeped in at the windows at where had been chambers lit by the cheerful cruisie or dancing with peat-fire flame -- only the dark was there, horrible with the odours of char, or the black joist against the dun sky.

John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn Neil Munro

It was in the seventh year after that finding by the sea, that one day, when a cold wind was blowing from the west, the child Morag came in by the peat-fire, where her mother was boiling the porridge, and looked at her without speaking.

Short Stories and Selections for Use in the Secondary Schools Emilie Kip Baker

Annette's father knew what his wife had seen: and one winter evening beside the peat-fire, as Annette was busy with her distaff, and he sat smoking and watching the glowing embers, he told her her mother's story.

A Loose End and Other Stories S. Elizabeth Hall

Doom sat long looking at his crumbling walls, and the flaming fortunes, the blush, the heat-white and the dead grey ash of the peat-fire.

Doom Castle Neil Munro

“It seems humorous to me,” I explained, “that Oscar Wilde should want to be an O'Flahertie,” and as I spoke a picture of the greatest of the O'Flaherties, with bushy head and dirty rags, warming enormous hairy legs before a smoking peat-fire, flashed before me.

Oscar Wilde Harris, Frank 1916

"It seems humorous to me," I explained, "that Oscar Wilde should want to be an O'Flahertie," and as I spoke a picture of the greatest of the O'Flaherties, with bushy head and dirty rags, warming enormous hairy legs before a smoking peat-fire, flashed before me.

Oscar Wilde His Life and Confessions Harris, Frank 1910