1.   Each was low and irregular, plain white plaster walls with prominent wooden spars bracing the ceiling and an open stone fireplace.

2.   Her eyes fell to the open fireplace, the large, gaping grate with its neat pile of sawn logs.

3.   In front of an open fireplace in the hall, a couple of large leather armchairs were occupied by two men in dark suits.

4.   She noticed an open fireplace with an ornate mantelshelf in black Marble.

5.   The logs in the Adam-style open fireplace crackled.

6.   Their L-shaped living rooms were graced by open fireplaces, with the latest shapes in petrified wood adorning the mantelpieces.

7.   A great fire flamed in an open fireplace.

8.   A narrow stairway of glossy marble led straight into a sitting room arranged around a huge open fireplace.

9.   Instead of an open fireplace, use a glass-enclosed firebox.

10.   Some fireplace inserts may be more prone than open fireplaces to create thick, tarlike creosote deposits that are hard to clean and prone to ignite.