When Chartrand saw the open grate in the floor, his eyes filled with dread.

It smelled damp, and there was the hint of wood smoke, left over from the illegal fire that Charlie had burned in the open grate.

They had lit a fire on the ship's open grate and were cooking fish and talking loudly; no one was paying any heed to us.

Every part of him screamed as his bare foot was placed into the open grate of the oven, above the dying fire.

During one of my absences our open grate was replaced by a wood-burning stove.

Locke knew he'd never be able to fight or dodge the pair of them with an open grate behind his feet.

Within the great hall a fire leaped from an open grate.

There was a bright fire burning in a big open grate, with logs and peatblocks stacked on either side of it.

A very cheerful wood-fire was sputtering and cracking in an open grate at the further end of the apartment.

He smacked full-length across the open grate and spread his arms and legs to keep from falling in.