Then she put it back again in her pocket and gazed into the empty grate for some time without speaking.

He came back again, however, without it, and stood for some time staring at the empty grate.

Sara slipped from the bed and moved to one of the chairs beside the empty grate.

Peter removed his boots and placed them beside the empty grate.

In the empty grate there were fish bones and feathers.

I turned to my mother, who sat sewing by the empty grate.

In their room the aunts sat holding each other by the empty grate.

A moment later, a boy nearly grown to manhood entered the room and started a fire in the empty grate.

As he bent to snap it shut his eye was caught by something in the empty grate.

He threw his cigar in the empty grate and came to sit on the edge of the bed.