Sentence examples for before a fireplace from inspiring English sources

In Mr. Kidd's spot, he woos the trophy before a fireplace.

We entered the ladies' drawing room: two pianos decked with old photographs, armchairs before a fireplace, busts and paintings and half-finished embroidery.

On the center-right, he is taking a well-deserved post-Christmas rest in a rocking chair placed before a fireplace, as he holds a meerschaum pipe popular among Germans, Dutch, and their American descendents.

One hundred and sixty-eight bleak Decembers ago or thereabouts, Edgar Allan Poe sat before a fireplace in a farmhouse on a high bluff on what would someday be called the Upper West Side, composing a poem.

Working from a shot of his wife seated before a fireplace, for instance, he removed a patterned drapery in the background and placed a small child at the foot of the chair.

But his best work is in the etching medium, like "The White Kimono" (1915), a woman standing before a fireplace, which combines sharpness of detail with a softness of approach worthy of Mary Cassatt.

So, he said, before using a fireplace, make sure that the chimney is clean and safe.

The commission recommends having a professional check the heating system every fall, before it is turned on, and having a chimney sweep check for blockages or defects, which can be caused by birds' nests or cracked liners, before using a fireplace or wood-burning stove.

"I never had a fireplace before," he said.

Before a big fireplace, Jean-Pierre Xiradakis grills and roasts magnificent chickens and ribs of beef.

"It leaves you with an appetite, a rod with which to beat your own back," he said carefully, seated straight-spined before a flickering fireplace in a hotel here.