forest-logs

Updated: May 14, 2025

There was a fireplace of tremendous depth and height, fit to receive big forest-logs, and with a queer, double pair of ancient andirons, capable of sustaining them; and in a handful of ashes lay a small stick of olive-wood, a specimen, I suppose, of the sort of fuel which had made the chimney black, in the course of a good many years.

Nathaniel Hawthorne - Passages from the French and Italian Notebooks, Volume 1.

There was a fireplace of tremendous depth and height, fit to receive big forest-logs, and with a queer, double pair of ancient andirons, capable of sustaining them; and in a handful of ashes lay a small stick of olive-wood, a specimen, I suppose, of the sort of fuel which had made the chimney black, in the course of a good many years.

Nathaniel Hawthorne - Passages from the French and Italian Notebooks, Complete