Thick small carpets were scattered here and there and a huge fireplace blazed brightly not far away, the source of the heat that had made him think of fire.

With no gesture from him, the fireplace blazed at his side with a brighter flame.

The fireplaces in her rooms were all blazing, as she had known they would be, and would have been every day she had been away, month after month.

A fireplace blazed in the store.

A pleasant fireplace blazed in one long wall, and there were a set of tapestries hung on either side of it, one of a man holding a blazing blade and the other of a woman with a sparkling jewel in her hands.

The four fireplaces at THE ELMS RESTAURANT AND TAVERN (500 Main Street, Ridgefield; 203-438-9206) will be blazing all Thanksgiving Day.

A huge fireplace blazed, sending shadows dancing around the room.

Three fireplaces blazed with the kind of fires that must have warmed medieval castles on such cold winter nights.

The great south fireplace was already blazing like a forge while the day's bread baked in the oven.