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There was a persistency to his nature, a sort of dogged determination that she would have admired if it didn't grate her so.
The grate will need no other cleaning, but will merely require dusting every day, and occasionally brushing with a dry blacklead brush.
When they are required, the bars, cheeks, and back of the grate will need blackleading in the usual manner.
He removed the ventilation grate aside, allowing himself to slide back onto solid ground again.
He did not know what it was, but it was a noisome sensation, like standing on a grate that you felt shift beneath your feet.
Slice the onions into half-moons, grate the ginger, grate the garlic, slice the leek into thin rounds.
There was also a small fireplace, dark, with the grate closed and a simple hearthrug before it.
Alexander was thrown into a small cell with brick stucco walls and a rusting grate that was unfortunately still solid.
The culprits entered, pulled open a grate to the underground chamber, but ignored Toscanini's coffin.
Peel the potatoes, coarsely grate them into a bowl and squeeze out as much moisture as possible.
The cast-iron grate can hold 18 burgers, and one-touch ignition makes lighting the fire a cinch.
For a more modest production run, take one pint of double cream and grate the rind of two lemons into it, plus the pips.
Depending on age and skill level, many children can grate cheese, shred lettuce, mix batter, and more.
Clean, peel and grate potatoes and red apple, place into a large bowl of cold water and allow starch to exit the potatoes.
Finely grate the orange and lemon zest into the cheese and sugar then beat until mixed.
Her voice is kind of strange actually, a nice sound but some notes grate on the nerves as she sings on about nothing but love and loss.
They were back home in the drawing room in Bloomsbury, with the countryside burning in the grate and the curtains drawn.
A bright, hot Monday morning and a warm fire burns in the grate of Guides Farm.
Anthony then sees the grate of the fireplace wide open, and fire burning strongly.
This features a cast iron fireplace with a Georgian grate and a generous built-in book case.
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Mr Verloc mumbled, with his nose over the grate, and with marked unwillingness.
It is not a coking coal, but has a wide and established reputation for grate, stove, and boiler uses.
Peel and wash a pound of full grown potatoes, grate them on a bread grater into a deep dish, containing a quart of clear water.
But the pickets had long since been torn away to fire the cookstove or grate.
It is well to rub the grease off the grate and the drip pan with a paper while they are still hot, it makes them easier to wash.
Sophie burned it all in the Orpheus and Eurydice grate, and kept her own counsel.
Always her mother had treated her with that indulgence which is as empty as an unfilled grate.
Clinkers are very troublesome because they often adhere to the stove grate or the lining of the firebox.
As a rule one will, on a light trip, carry no folding grate or fire irons as supports for utensils.
Children's clothing should never be made of flannelette, it is so liable to take fire if the child approaches the grate.
It looks infinitely more cheerful than this, and if I don't find the grate sufficient I can easily have a Franklin stove put up.
I barbarously hope it is frizzing behind that great black coal in the grate.
Stir in sufficient loaf-sugar to sweeten it, and grate some nutmeg into it.
She glanced all round the parlour, from the corner cupboard to the good fire in the grate.
Shred half a pound of suet very fine, grate into it half a pound of French roll, a little nutmeg, and the rind of a lemon.
Moreover, the percussion cap was unexploded, which seemed to make its presence in the grate even more difficult of explanation.
And what is this bossiness around the grate but some blunt, black-leaded garland?
This vault is used as a fire grate, the fuel being inserted by the fire-door in the front wall.
He felt her callouses grind and grate on his, and a great wave of pity welled over him.
But every dog has his day, and carline may be as grate a airass as no other guess parson.
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