Then there are the groups like the Tea Party Fire Ants whose focus is far afield from the core principles of the movement.

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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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Dixon boils up some sweet tea, and we sit around the fire discussing life in Kenya.

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The problem is that if the tea party returns to issues proven to fire up the base it will violate at least two of its major tenets: fiscal prudence and smaller government.

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The housekeeper will, no doubt, welcome them with tea and freshly baked scones by a roaring log fire.

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Teapigs, a high-end tea manufacturer, is another company that has come under fire for allegedly hiding its corporate roots.

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The first time I went backpacking, I feasted on semi-raw hot dogs cooked over a driftwood fire (we'd forgotten to bring the stove) and sipped tea laced with ashes as chilly Northern California winds blew the fog in.

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Mr. Nixon took his tea into the living room, where the dog lay by the fire.

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"He was very afraid of fire, very scared of burning, " she said, describing his complaints after mere steam from hot tea once left a mark on his hand.

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