Jane Eyre vocabulary

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chimney-corner

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a cozy recess next to the fireplace that was a popular place to warm up.

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And George and Tom moved to a comfortable seat in the chimney-corner,

Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852)
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How long since she had been with him, sitting on the footstool in the chimney-corner, where she used to burn the end of a bit of wood in the great flame of the sea-sedges!

Gustave Flaubert. Madame Bovary.
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she has taken a chair in the chimney-corner

Charlotte Brontë. Jane Eyre (1847)
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I raised the latch of the door and peeped in at him opposite to it, sitting in the chimney corner.

Charles Dickens. Great Expectations (1861)
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