Large metal container in which coal or charcoal is burned; warms people who must stay outside for long times.
1 On a square stone brasier , fed with glowing coals, the rice-pot steamed.
2 Certainly she is a brasier at which one may warm one's soul.
3 He observed an improvised windbreak of canvas, and a charcoal brasier in the corner.
4 When she saw that it was ended, she threw her weapon into the brasier .
5 Richard turned with the iron in his hand, which he had just taken from the brasier .
6 Peter stopped in the antechamber, and approached a brasier , around which the servants were warming themselves.
7 And the brasier grew larger and larger-therewas first a pool, then a lake of light.
8 The brasier dwindled to the snuff of a candle; then nothing; more but a weak, uncertain flutter.
9 Above the moving brasier were some motionless banners, whose embroidered saints and silken cords showed with vivid distinctness.
10 I will ascend, ever higher and higher, till I have reached the brasier in which you shine in splendour.
11 Emmet went over to the brasier and warmed his hands, as if embarrassed for words with which to begin.
12 Prithee, send a brasier hither.
13 To tell the whole truth is thy duty, although It bring thee to burn on the brasier of woe!
14 They were utterly alone, and they never left each other's arms, but when Thorstan was busy mending the brasier fire, or getting food.
15 Alone in the great hall, Aurelia sat beside a brasier , at which she warmed her hands; she scarcely deigned to glance at the ecclesiastic.
16 The café keeper brought chairs, without any one's asking him; somebody else brought a brasier for the clerks; everybody was anxious to do something.
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