The country house; a practical manual of the planning and construction of the American country home and its surroundings (1905)
Hooper, Charles Edward, 1867- · New York : Doubleday, Page & company · leaf 210
umn, diminishing rapidly in horizontal directions.The old phrase of hugging the stove is not far from thetruth; you hang over it until one side is done to abrown, and then revolve like a chicken on a spit tofavour some other portion of your anatomy that is allbut freezing. Another point is its lack… … Hanging vestibule lantern in thestyle of the Renaissance 186 The Country House arts have recovered greatly in certain lines since the declining period of woodenGothic churches, and yet a glance at the ordinary modern stove convinces anyone of passabletaste that the dis-ordered brain thatevolved it…
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