Eksempler på fireside

• His fireside chats, in contrast, were designed as informal conversations between a president and a family, not as oratory to assembled millions.

• There is also a tradition of rural wanderings written to engender an otherworldliness at the fireside or bedtime.

• At night, the opposite effect is achieved, drawing the eye (and mind) strongly inwards to the fireside.

• For where else shall those of such age more conveniently warm themselves in sun and fireside, or refresh themselves more healthily with sleep and waters.

• This type of whaling has often been referred to as a war against the whales, and is hardly the stuff for pleasant fireside reading or children's bedtime stories.

• If he were asked as president to give a fireside chat, even the fire would go out.

• He thought that the meeting was more like a fireside chat, a cosy chat.

• It was a joy to have him talking so intimately at our own fireside.

• In the meantime the purchaser is not being delayed, but may sit cheerfully at his own fireside.

• They were the topics which men liked to discuss at their own firesides, and which meant a very great deal in their lives.

• When we were children we used to see beautiful dreams in the fireside pages, the only pages we were allowed to see.

• If firesides are not properly lit, it leads to a great deal of trouble.

• He goes to the very firesides of the people.

• It moves the hearts and emotions of people in their homes, by their own firesides, often at what are their most quiet and receptive moments.

• He must have done his spitting by his own fireside, then.