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fender
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Definition:n. a metal guard before a fire to confine the ashesChambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (1908)
photo: Original image: Alex Bush, PhotographerModifications: Chris McKenna (Thryduulf) [CC BY 2.0 uk (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/uk/deed.en )]
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I set his plate to keep warm on the fender;
Emily Brontë. Wuthering Heights (1847)
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Dinner done and we sitting with our feet upon the fender,
Charles Dickens. Great Expectations (1861)
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In a room without a window, there burnt a fire guarded by a high and strong fender, and a lamp suspended from the ceiling by a chain.
Charlotte Brontë. Jane Eyre (1847)
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After sitting long enough to admire every article of furniture in the room, from the sideboard to the fender,
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She had her feet on the fender and her jewelly slippers were so hot and they had such a lovely warm smell!
James Joyce. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
---The little china figure fell [...]. It rolled unheeded and broke against the fender.
Agatha Christie. And Then There Were None. p.183 (1939)
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his two hands on his stomach, his two feet on the fender, his two cheeks red with feeding,
Gustave Flaubert. Madame Bovary
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how funny it'll seem, sending presents to one's own feet! And how odd the directions will look!
Alice's Right Foot, Esq.
Hearthrug,
near The Fender,
(with Alice's love).
Lewis Carroll. Alice in Wonderland (1865)
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He settled deeper into the armchair and put his feet up on the fender. It was bliss, it was eternity.
George Orwell. 1984 (1949)
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