“Huddled around the fire of the alphabet...”
“At this dim season of the year we hunger for such tales. Winter's tales, they are. We want to huddle round them, as if around a small but cheerful fire... It was the right thing to do on the darkest day of the year.”
“He was a little boy, and she was grown up. She huddled by the fire not daring to move, helpless and guilty, a big woman.”
“As Orion took a step closer, they wrapped their arms around each other in a miserable huddle.”
“They snickered behind her back in tones that sent up prickly hedges all around their tight huddles of lace dresses and ribboned curls.”
“At our table in the corner by the window, huddled around a flame in a red glass, all of us, body to body to body to body. The touch that proves you're not alone, that someone else is there.”