The hearthstone is the corner-stone of civilization. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Volume VIII. Interviews] Reference
The hearthstone was a big sheet of smooth gray sandstone. From Wordnik.com. [Her father`s daughter] Reference
Gathered around her hearthstone was a large family of girls and boys who naturally added much brightness to the household. From Wordnik.com. [As I Remember Recollections of American Society during the Nineteenth Century] Reference
The hearthstone is laid, and the rude cabin rises. From Wordnik.com. [Woman on the American Frontier] Reference
To make round our hearthstone a place for the boys?. From Wordnik.com. [Herself Talks with Women Concerning Themselves] Reference
He got a chair and placed it on the hearthstone near his own. From Wordnik.com. [Stories by Foreign Authors: Italian] Reference
I can see the great, wide hearthstone and the holly hung about. From Wordnik.com. [Poems Teachers Ask For, Book Two] Reference
What followed in that hearthstone fight so hot and brisk took so short. From Wordnik.com. [John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn] Reference
Now he had life and had it abundantly; now he had wife and hearthstone. From Wordnik.com. [The Gentle Art of Cooking Wives] Reference
If she wants to pick 'long o 'the hearthstone, she is goin' to do that. From Wordnik.com. [A Son of the Hills] Reference
Up to that time he had been reasonably sure of the integrity of his hearthstone. From Wordnik.com. [Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905] Reference
Fire from every rock and tree, from door and window, from hearthstone and chamber. From Wordnik.com. [Public Speaking] Reference
"Come on! we'll take in the hamper, and make tea on the deserted hearthstone," said Ruth. From Wordnik.com. [Ruth Fielding and the Gypsies The Missing Pearl Necklace] Reference
And now Nella-Rose sank to the hearthstone and bent her head on the lap of the old woman. From Wordnik.com. [The Man Thou Gavest] Reference
Southerner by birth -- a Tennessean -- and fought, as it were, against his own hearthstone. From Wordnik.com. [How the Flag Became Old Glory] Reference
I cannot tell you of the joy and thanksgiving that went up from that hearthstone that night. From Wordnik.com. [The King's Daughter and Other Stories for Girls] Reference
In the morning, on leaving, they left a bright new shilling on the hearthstone for the woman. From Wordnik.com. [Welsh Folk-Lore a Collection of the Folk-Tales and Legends of North Wales] Reference
The time has come when woman no longer accepts the hearthstone as the circumscribed arena of her activities. From Wordnik.com. [Sparkling Gems of Race Knowledge Worth Reading A compendium of valuable information and wise suggestions that will inspire noble effort at the hands of every race-loving man, woman, and child.] Reference
Judith needed the small brass lamp at the hearthstone, and a tallow candle rather inadequately lit the supper-table. From Wordnik.com. [Judith of the Cumberlands] Reference
Life and liberty and escape and a home-coming to a rival's very hearthstone, and more, -- soft lips and arms of a woman. From Wordnik.com. [The Maid of the Whispering Hills] Reference
Her temple in Rome, containing as it were the hearthstone of the nation, stood close beside the palace of Numa Pompilius. From Wordnik.com. [Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome] Reference
Just as the boy is going to turn round to the school-master, he sees close beside him, sitting down by the hearthstone on. From Wordnik.com. [A Study of Fairy Tales] Reference
Now is the time for our women to begin to try to lift up their heads and plant the roots of progress under the hearthstone. From Wordnik.com. [The Underground Railroad A Record of Facts, Authentic Narratives, Letters, &c., Narrating the Hardships, Hair-Breadth Escapes and Death Struggles of the Slaves in Their Efforts for Freedom, As Related by Themselves and Others, or Witnessed by the Author.] Reference
The floor was covered with oilcloth, and a sheepskin rug lay upon the hearthstone, while white starched curtains draped the window. From Wordnik.com. [The Underworld The Story of Robert Sinclair, Miner] Reference
Alas! before to-morrow's sun should set, her woman's heart should bleed at the desolations of war brought home to her very hearthstone. From Wordnik.com. [Neville Trueman, the Pioneer Preacher : a tale of the war of 1812] Reference
It was hard for an old man to die thus among strangers, far from his own hearthstone and the gentle influences that clustered round it. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 28, July, 1873] Reference
One imaginative writer has sketched for us the notable group gathered that April night about the time-honoured hearthstone in the modest. From Wordnik.com. [The Romance of Old New England Rooftrees] Reference
He wrote to her that of course she knew that there was no reason why she should go into an office -- his home and hearthstone were hers. From Wordnik.com. [The Gay Cockade] Reference
The old woman stirred no more than the rock-hewn pillars on each side of the hearthstone, and her lips were mumbling inarticulate sounds. From Wordnik.com. [The Man-Wolf and Other Tales] Reference
Here too a fire smoldered on the hearthstone, for the head of the Turrentine clan was tormented by rheumatism, that plague of otherwise healthy primitive man. From Wordnik.com. [Judith of the Cumberlands] Reference
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