There was a fire in the hearth, not to heat the room but for grilling meat.

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The fire in the hearth felt almost medieval.

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He would raise his nose and sniff the air to see if he could guess what his wife had cooked for dinner, and then he went in to her, finding her always in the same posture, making him tea, fanning the fire in the hearth.

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In my snapshot of the memory, he was backlit by a crackling fire in a stone hearth and his date was wrapped in fur.

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After a drink from the modest bar, I was led to a large chamber with intricate shellfish mosaics lining the walls and a generous hearth with a fire in it.

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In the cottage downstairs there was only one room, with a kitchen at one end and a sitting room at the other, a flagged floor and a wood fire smoldering in a wide stone hearth, one wall stripped back to the naked stone.

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