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  • It is burned in a metal or earthen dish called a brazier, and a double handful may last a family a whole day. Conservation Reader
  • Two female slaves were tending a small fire in a brazier in the antechamber, and when Burun entered they veiled themselves.
  • Before a few stood braziers and camp fires from the night before, allowing for a few of the arrows to be wrought in flame.
  • The light outside had dwindled away to almost nothing, and silent soldiers on padded feet were lighting braziers and turning up gas lamps.
  • I took off the brown mantle and my guild cloak, put my boots on a stool near the brazier, and stood beside him to dry my breeches and hose, asking if all those who came this way on monomachy stopped to refresh themselves with him. The Shadow of the Torturer
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  • The gingerbread man poured a sackful of coals into the brazier. THE RIVAL QUEENS: A COUNTESS ASHBY DE LA ZOUCHE MYSTERY
  • Half-seen in a corner of the lobby, three watchmen in greatcoats crouch over a brazier.
  • In medieval times a chafing dish was a portable brazier to hold burning coals or charcoal, designed to be set on a metal stand and to have a dish of food on top.
  • Mary's brother Robert Whittaker, a brazier, stripped to his underwear when the ship struck, and threw away 80 gold sovereigns, the weight of which threatened to drown him.
  • Cadfael went back to his workshop in the herbarium, and blew up his brazier to boil a fresh elixir of horehound for the winter coughs and colds. A Caregiver's Homage To The Very Old
  • He found him sitting in his canvas chair beside a brazier, drinking Guinness with the chief armourer.
  • This breeze reeked of the incense cast upon the brazier of such sulfurous content to seem as though spewed from the bowels of perdition.
  • When Hugh was gone, with his own cares to keep him fully occupied, and his errand in friendship faithfully discharged, Cadfael damped down his brazier with turves, closed his workshop, and went away to the church. A River So Long
  • A log fire crackled in the hearth and two capped braziers had been moved in just inside the door.
  • Mary's brother Robert Whittaker, a brazier, stripped to his underwear when the ship struck, and threw away 80 gold sovereigns, the weight of which threatened to drown him.
  • Huge braziers of shining bronze lit the cavernous dining hall with dancing, playful flames.
  • With no one to keep the burning braziers lit, these, too, burn out soon after, and the entire palace grows dark, cold, and empty of any movement except for the Red Death that ‘held illimitable dominion over all.’
  • A pair of jaded barmen served the local brew, Biere Niger, while to another side of the pool a chef fanned away at a charcoal brazier to provide brochette aperitifs.
  • There is a great danger attending this, for if the Germans catch a glimpse of the brazier being whirled in the air they immediately locate the whirler and begin firing in his direction. A Soldier's Sketches Under Fire
  • ( "And the Nebula goes to ...":: rotates brand in brazier of hot coals::) It would certainly make losing the award a lot more palatable. Nebula Weekend, days 2-3
  • A brazier stands forlorn in one corner, its fire long burnt out.
  • She tossed the iron into the brazier, where it landed with a metallic clank. Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Rough Beasts of Empire
  • Coals glowed red in several braziers to take the chill out of the room, and the servants moved like lemures in and out of the shadows. Antony and Cleopatra
  • There were also four round, usually open, sugar bowls resembling water basins and four large low bowls on brazierlike stands, two for each side of the rotunda.
  • She was then dining alone, and her solitary dinner had been brought in from somewhere, over a kind of brazier with a fire in it, and she had no company or prospect of company, that I could see, but the old man who had brought it. Little Dorrit
  • The brazier was a beautiful thing, a credit to the smith who made it; on three braced legs like saplings, the fire-basket a trellis of vine-leaves. St. Peter's Fair
  • Merchants had thrown rugs on the ground to display their wares and I could see torches and braziers ready to be lit.
  • Half-seen in a corner of the lobby, three watchmen in greatcoats crouch over a brazier.
  • The Japanese heat the tetsubin, a cast iron pot, over a portable charcoal brazier in the art of chanoyo, the tea ceremony. Graphic:DESIGN:basics updates
  • Some have hypocausts of timber; others, without hypocausts, must have been heated with braziers within the rooms.
  • He could feel the heat from the molten metal and the brazier from a dozen feet away. NEVERWHERE
  • Quins' next try came when prop Lou Clancy took the ball on from a line-out and Avon's defence was broken, allowing scrum-half Saskia Brazier-Kobus to run through to score.
  • In one corner, a scruffy individual was toasting a flat loaf over an open brazier. THE LONELY SEA
  • She lit the brazier so that the fire could burn the stench of filth away.
  • No longer are its streets thronged with bare-knuckled flyweights, the long-term unemployed huddling for warmth around braziers, or urchin children.
  • Mixed with the charcoal in the brazier are a few coals of soft white pine, which when burnt look exactly like charcoal. Miracle Mongers and Their Methods
  • Heaps of chestnuts are being turned enthusiastically in a brazier of glowing red coals, and I'm encouraged to tuck in.
  • The braziers had not been moved, the fire was dead, the candle had spluttered out.
  • Railway workers prayed silently before their meagre meal, coaxed from the heat of a charcoal brazier.
  • He found an abalone shell on the beach and uses that for his incense brazier.
  • But again, the best is in bronze: a kitchen scale with a bronze head for a weight, a fat pumpkin-shaped vessel standing on clawed feet, a sieve whose tiny holes form an intricate floral pattern and a remarkable cylindrical brazier with a classical double doorway for putting in coal, a cover with dolphin handles and a triton statuette on top. The Gracious Art of Living
  • An ornamental Grecian brazier, or urn, is back in place on top of a 100 ft high column at Castle Howard.
  • The air was thick with the smoke from coal fires in tin braziers and stoves.
  • The altar should ideally be placed outside, where a charcoal brazier can be safely lit.
  • The company was seated about one of the braziers that warmed and lit Vengag's great hall.
  • For economic and technical reasons, the alloys used by coppersmiths, brassfounders, braziers, blacksmiths and pewterers have varied over time, and a knowledge of the alloys can provide definitive answers.
  • The girl was calmly prodding a brazier of hot coals with an iron stick.
  • Smokeless braziers have been introduced in an effort to reduce air pollution in homes and the broader community.
  • There, lit by the glow of braziers and ‘towers of light’, or candelabras, were Richard, his partner Pam, their snuffling pugs Bijou and Ioda, and a quartet of soignée French guests.
  • He used a folded towel to lift the pot from the bed of coals in the brazier, his ursine countenance screwed into a squint of concentration as he poured.
  • Here and there were ornate iron braziers, now cold and unlighted.
  • And without the game, thousands of youths would still be holding on to the misconception that a brazier is a support undergarment. From the Dungeon to the Dictionary « Isegoria
  • Martin stood on the dais where the lectern usually sat, a low brazier to either side.
  • He then took his place, and the others each lighted a torch in one of the other outer fires and used it to light one of the braziers.
  • For economic and technical reasons, the alloys used by coppersmiths, brassfounders, braziers, blacksmiths and pewterers have varied over time, and a knowledge of the alloys can provide definitive answers.
  • We won't win this dispute by standing around braziers on picket lines.
  • Mauritians are also partial to a snack, sold by streetside vendors who cook up on charcoal braziers, fanning the flames with a flourish - another excellent exposure to the outdoor life.
  • Nearly every other motorist passing the site has showed their encouragement by tooting their horns and some have even stopped off to donate food as well as firewood for the brazier.
  • I went quietly about the room, picking up the discarded clothes, straightening the trifling disorder on the table, putting fresh charcoal in the brazier, adding a pinch of elecampane to sweeten the smoke. Sick Cycle Carousel
  • The young prince's expression was shadowed in the light from the smoking brazier. TREASON KEEP
  • He arose and went to her as I lit the cresset from the brazier coals.
  • Mr. Carnes was a pewterer, meaning he worked primarily in tin, while Mr. Maycock was a brazier working mostly with brass.
  • And Sue Brazier, who is a lollipop lady outside Beechcroft Junior School, has offered to stick stamps onto the cards for anybody who doesn't have time to do it themselves.
  • With the lack of light, the archers are going to be out of the question until those braziers get lit.
  • The lower rank comprises ‘the people of every art besides’, who include wrights, blacksmiths, braziers, craftsmen, physicians, judges, druids, and others.
  • She inscribed the patterns on the ground, lit the braziers, and burned the incense, all as instructed.
  • Mr Abney was sprinkling some incense on the brazier from a round silver box as Stephen passed, but did not seem to notice his step. Lost Hearts by M. R. James | Solar Flare: Science Fiction News
  • Women bunged their brassieres on the brazier as a symbolic gesture - they weren't going to be reined in anymore by men or by a bit of frilly elastic.
  • Mauritians are also partial to a snack, sold by streetside vendors who cook up on charcoal braziers, fanning the flames with a flourish - another excellent exposure to the outdoor life.
  • Even though she was blind, she sensed that no braziers or torches were lit, plunging the room into darkness.
  • He kicked the bedside brazier, showering red coals on the floor.
  • This caused a spirited discussion of the best way in which to smoor a fire for the night, including an argument over the proper blessing to be said while doing so, and this lasted long enough for me to have coaxed the brazier into a decent glow and set a small kettle in it for tea-making. A Breath of Snow and Ashes
  • A charcoal brazier shimmered the air where three soldering irons were being heated in the red-hot coals. BLOOD IS DIRT
  • He looked across the hallway at a low brazier that lit the passage and then walked over to it.
  • If you take the time to win their confidence, the secrets of the Atlas will be unveiled over cups of mint tea or perhaps a plateful of tagine, a stew of vegetables, mutton and herbs cooked in conical earthenware pots on charcoal braziers.
  • From the abrazier (coal pot), pieces of coals were taken and placed in the thurible (a metal censer, suspended from chains, in which incense is burned) which the Archbishop used to incense the marble crosses and the congregation.
  • The inevitable coughs and colds of winter, the chilblained hands and heels, kept him busy replenishing the medicine cupboard in the infirmary, and thanks to the necessary brazier his timber workshop was somewhat warmer to work in than the carrels of the scriptorium. The Confession of Brother Haluin
  • Huge braziers of shining bronze lit the cavernous dining hall with dancing, playful flames.
  • The only light was an unsteady red glow coming from a perforated metal drum nearby: a brazier filled with hot coals.
  • People were preparing their midday meals, many on charcoal braziers, when the Great Kanto earthquake struck Tokyo and surrounding areas on September 1, 1923.
  • The young prince's expression was shadowed in the light from the smoking brazier. TREASON KEEP
  • The housekeeper had put a fragrant pot of balsam in the window and kindled a pine-knot fire in the brazier.
  • The aromas mingle in the smoke of the little brochettes grilling over braziers.
  • With the aid of the grocer, and the shoemaker, and the brewer, and the tinman, and the glassman, and the brazier, &c., Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Robert Southey

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