Face it, those carefully reinstalled Victorian fire surrounds and mantles are beginning to look a little tired.
Thereby, it is possible to know how fire affects the soil mantle, stems and treetops, as well as to detect underground fires.
'Tis the season -- the trees are strung with lights, the stockings are hung from the mantle, the fire is flickering, and -- with any luck -- you have the luxury of a little time off.
As their anthem builds, you come to see their jackets as proud mantles and fire escapes as fairy-tale parapets.
Fresh plant material was placed with 2 liters distilled water in a 5 liter round-bottomed flask, connected to a steam distillation column, and heated using a heating mantle or open charcoal fire.
Mickey Mantle — who slugged 13 homers against Wynn, more than he did against any other pitcher — once drilled a single right past Wynn's blocky frame, and big Gus promptly fired a fastball pickoff attempt at Mantle's bad knees, making him dance at first base, which was how the old boy had won 299 games.
By the third episode, however, Luhrmann, who fired two showrunners before taking up the mantle himself, manages to pull the plot together.
She inherited Mrs. Vreeland's mannerisms, like the fortissimo "divine!" but not her mantle, and when Mrs. Vreeland was fired from Vogue in 1971, Ms. Donovan decamped for Bazaar.
"The hall was dark without song or light,/The fires were fallen dead," writes Tolkien, going on to portray "the lord of snows", whose "mantle long and pale/Upon the bitter blast was spread/And hung o'er hill and dale".
