Here they found Phoebe, sitting before a brisk fire, and looking anxious.

A pound of fat pork was now cut up very fine and thrown into the stew, already beginning to bubble over a brisk fire.

The windows were both closed and a brisk fire burned in the grate.

They held the position one hour and a half, keeping up a brisk fire on the enemy.

A few hundred yards to the north, the skirmishers began a brisk fire.

They had retired to the withdrawing room and were relaxed in front of a brisk fire.

For half an hour a brisk fire was maintained, at the end of which time a white flag went up from the trench.

I entered a large room, in which blazed a brisk fire.

As the landing party came ashore they were met by brisk fire from its Korean defenders.

He crossed the hall and went into the room at the front of the house and found his sister-in-law sitting by a brisk fire.