| 单词 | hearthstone |
| 例句 | Only he had left in wizardly fashion a message of silver-scrawled runes on the hearthstone, that faded even as Ogion read them: “Master, I go hunting.” A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z “Remember,” Francie went on, “how we did our examples on this hearthstone, and the time papa got us a real blackboard eraser and then the stone was like the blackboard in school, only lying down?” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z It had a stone mantelpiece and a slate hearthstone on which Francie could draw pictures with chalk. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The floor had been fresh-sanded, the hearthstone polished, the pewter scoured. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z When Helene reaches for the hearthstone to pull it over me, I grab her arm. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z “You are better, then. You may sit you down in my chair on the hearthstone, if you will.” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z In a few years there might be thousands of his progeny spreading out from this original hearthstone. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z She sat down on the warm hearthstones and put her head in her hands, feeling tired and disoriented. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z In the morning, with great anxiety I left Dr. Trefusis huddled upon the hearthstone and went forth to seek us more permanent lodgings. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z Rapidly Ranofer explained the hearthstone mold, a stone ground flat, with a bar-shaped depression in the center and little grooves scraped from it to let the air out. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z She stared at the fire, at the hearthstones, at the candlestick holding the black leather book open, the words crawling like worms across the page. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z For the next century or so, the rubble provided doorsteps and hearthstone for the local populace and mortar for the building trade, while the Turkish garrison used the carved figures for target practice. The Robot Guerrilla Campaign to Recreate the Elgin Marbles 2022-07-08T04:00:00Z Young people must have fun and relaxation somewhere; if they do not find it at their own hearthstones, it will be sought at other and perhaps less profitable places.’” Buying into Nuclear Power; Selling American Cars in Japan; Advocating for Nitroglycerin 2018-02-11T05:00:00Z What a thrill though today to sleep literally steps away from the hearthstone of a rich living culture and discover its past not completely buried, but finally celebrated. JW Marriott El Convento Cusco: Peru's Luxury Hotel That Moonlights As A Museum 2014-09-30T04:00:00Z The host had room for friendships in his heart, and room at his hearthstone. A Breeze from the Woods, 2nd Ed. 2012-04-23T02:00:29.820Z They, too, went to New York, not on business, and returned to their hearthstones as late as possible. Mrs. Balfame A Novel 2012-04-15T02:00:04.827Z For many years we looked across the valley to see the smoke from the fire on the Mercer hearthstone winding skyward, for they were our only neighbors. Blazing The Way True Stories, Songs and Sketches of Puget Sound 2012-04-03T02:00:30.677Z "It does not seem as though there ever could come a sorrow to threaten a hearthstone so shut in, so well tended as this one!" A Pilgrim Maid A Story of Plymouth Colony in 1620 2012-04-02T02:00:24.090Z A dull red fire was glowing comfortably on the hearthstone, before which a posset stool was standing. The Story of Francis Cludde 2012-03-30T02:00:16.347Z He who wrote "Under the king's hearthstone are many cockroaches" knew his world--a seamy, ugly, vicious, dangerous world. The Man in Black 2012-03-30T02:00:14.473Z The Father of his Country received the guests standing before an old fireplace whose hearthstone has been lettered in memory of the event. Historic Shrines of America Being the Story of One Hundred and Twenty Historic Buildings and the Pioneers Who Made Them Notable 2012-03-08T03:00:11.013Z Even among the deserted hearthstones and tumble-down chimneys the striped leaves ran up among the roofless walls. Old-Time Gardens Newly Set Forth 2012-03-06T03:00:22.850Z Except for the camp bed, the wide hearthstone and one other detail it might have been the lodge of some Indian Chief of olden time. The Camp Fire Girls' Larks and Pranks or, The House of the Open Door 2012-02-21T03:00:19.740Z There is a God in heaven, And angels, score on score, Who will not see my hearthstone cold Because I’m crazed and poor. The Mountainy Singer 2012-02-20T03:00:20.273Z Rows of wine-bottles garnished the parlour wainscoting; the trim little hostess was squeezing lemons into a jug on the hearthstone, with a view to prospective punch. My Lords of Strogue, Vol. I (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union 2012-02-15T03:00:34.177Z On the wild mountain top I have met Lear, wandering with only a fool for company, and I have led them in from the storm and warmed them at this hearthstone. The Lucky Piece A Tale of the North Woods 2012-02-13T03:00:18.927Z If there is anything calculated to destroy home, to do away with human love, to blot out the idea of family life, to cover the hearthstone with serpents, it is the institution of polygamy. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 11 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Miscellany 2012-02-11T03:03:52.627Z I have said, and I say again—the hearthstone is the foundation of the great temple; the fireside is the altar where the true American worships. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 8 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Political 2012-02-11T03:03:48.503Z We looked regretfully out over those significant reaches of land which we would have liked to explore to the last hearthstone. Spanish Highways and Byways 2012-02-06T03:00:15.617Z From the softer layers comes that article of domestic use, the “hearthstone,” used to whiten London hearths and doorsteps. The Brighton Road The Classic Highway to the South 2012-01-24T03:00:26.933Z Ah! well do I remember those Whose names these records bear, Who round the hearthstone used to close After the evening prayer, And speak of what these pages said, In tones my heart would thrill! Recitations for the Social Circle 2012-01-17T03:00:22.643Z They fall like healing music, reminding listeners of home, and hearthstone, and a father's heart. Abraham Lincoln's Cardinal Traits; A Study in Ethics, with an Epilogue Addressed to Theologians 2012-01-17T03:00:21.120Z The polished black oak floor was covered with Eastern rugs, and a fine silver-tip grizzly bearskin lay on the hearthstone. In Jeopardy 2012-01-04T03:00:35.013Z The natives had at first protested against this improvised hearthstone, being apprehensive lest the fire should reach their huts, the roofs of which are thatched with dried palm-leaves. Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume II (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. 2012-01-03T03:00:07.630Z England knew not a happier circle than that which for years assembled by the humble hearthstone at Greta Hall. Curiosities of Impecuniosity 2011-12-31T03:00:16.190Z With a sudden thought he displaced the hearthstone. The King of Schnorrers Grotesques and Fantasies 2011-12-28T03:00:34.587Z Bones, both human and of animals, have been found under hearthstones of houses. Ecclesiastical Curiosities 2011-12-13T03:00:24.507Z When the flames die down, each person carries home a glowing brand and places it on the hearthstone for good luck. Armenian Legends and Festivals 2011-11-26T03:00:13.237Z They appealed to want, to misery, to threatened financial ruin, to the bare hearthstones, to the army of beggars, We had grandeur enough to say: "No; we'll settle fair if we don't pay a cent!" Ingersollia Gems of Thought from the Lectures, Speeches, and Conversations of Col. Robert G. Ingersoll, Representative of His Opinions and Beliefs 2011-11-24T03:00:41.267Z She had put one dainty-booted foot on the low gilt trellis which rose between the rug and the hearthstone. An Ambitious Woman A Novel 2011-11-23T03:00:54.137Z Her world is her home; her altar, the hearthstone. Nature and Culture 2011-11-17T03:00:34.107Z The silhouette figures on the white background enliven the winter landscape, but now the blazing log on the hearthstone rolls over and the whole study is aglow with light! Life of Oliver Wendell Holmes 2011-11-01T02:00:25.563Z May the hearthstone of hell Be their best bed for ever! A Book of Irish Verse Selected from modern writers with an introduction and notes by W. B. Yeats 2011-10-27T02:00:26.373Z How can I turn from any fire On any man's hearthstone? Chimneysmoke 2011-10-27T02:00:25.953Z Perhaps it is fair that the sterner sex should have its turn at guarding ideals by the hearthstone, while women make the grand tour. Atlantic Classics 2011-10-16T02:00:18.497Z On! though perennial be the strife, For honor dear, for hearthstone fires; Give blow for blow! take life for life! Southern War Songs Camp-Fire, Patriotic and Sentimental 2011-09-27T02:00:19.517Z One day, I was shown at the convict establishment one of these deserters of the family hearthstone. The House of the Dead or Prison Life in Siberia with an introduction by Julius Bramont 2011-09-27T02:00:18.213Z “Retire!” exclaimed the lady, “and leave my lord’s hearthstone to the invader?” A Maid at King Alfred?s Court 2011-09-13T02:00:30.520Z Our hearts to-night are open wide, The grudge, the grief, are laid aside: The path and porch are swept of snow, The doors unlatched; the hearthstones glow— No visitor can be denied. Chimneysmoke 2011-10-27T02:00:25.953Z I tell you, the Greeks and Romans did not make a religion of the hearthstone; they merely recognized the religion that the hearthstone is. Atlantic Classics 2011-10-16T02:00:18.497Z While crimson drops our hearthstones stain, And Northern despots forge our chain, O God! shall freemen strike in vain? Southern War Songs Camp-Fire, Patriotic and Sentimental 2011-09-27T02:00:19.517Z The house-cloth fell across his eyes, like a bandage, and the hearthstone took him full on the nose. Mrs. Bindle Some Incidents from the Domestic Life of the Bindles 2011-09-08T02:00:22.323Z A worn hearthstone and doorstone, surrounded now by green grass and shadowed by dying lilacs, still show the exact spot where once stood her humble walls, where once “her garden smiled.” Stage-coach and Tavern Days 2011-08-31T02:01:27.587Z There was nothing to speak of the spirit but the beautiful flame, a mysterious power which the hand of man had wrested ignorantly from the elements, to burn and leap and soar upon his hearthstone. The Wayfarers 2011-08-28T02:00:32.867Z Why should we leave the shrines where they revered Their guardian God, and break the golden bands That bind us to the ashes of our sires, Their haunts, their hearthstones and their altar-fires? Canada, My Land and Other Compositions in Verse 2011-08-23T02:00:28.813Z Farewell to the home and the hearthstone, Where my sisters are weeping for me; Oh; the foot of the spoilers shall never, Stain the home of the brave and the free. Southern War Songs Camp-Fire, Patriotic and Sentimental 2011-09-27T02:00:19.517Z Then his hand went to his neck-cloth and he produced a piece of hearthstone which had, apparently, become detached from the parent slab. Mrs. Bindle Some Incidents from the Domestic Life of the Bindles 2011-09-08T02:00:22.323Z "Come along, let's be off," he said, spitting on the hearthstone. The Red Room 2011-08-13T02:00:26.943Z Well may he be content, then, with the snug corner of his own hearthstone, around which are gathered the good wife, the children, and his camp companions, the dogs. In New England Fields and Woods 2011-07-27T02:00:26.953Z Do grandsons round thy hearthstone play, Or dost thou end thy race? In the Track of the Bookworm 2011-07-19T02:00:23.543Z First of all I think I should look for the holy fire on the common hearthstone of human love. The Whole Armour of God 2011-07-12T02:00:30.060Z "Threw bricks at me," he complained, holding out the piece of hearthstone to the policeman. Mrs. Bindle Some Incidents from the Domestic Life of the Bindles 2011-09-08T02:00:22.323Z When, seeing that his words were of none effect, he coolly laid aside his rifle, rolled up his shirt sleeve, and opening a large knife, began to rub and sharpen it upon the hearthstone. Adventures of Working Men From the Notebook of a Working Surgeon 2011-07-07T02:00:30.453Z When we fight for America abroad, we save our children from fighting for America at home beside their own ruined hearthstones. Lest We Forget World War Stories 2011-07-07T02:00:28.183Z Your people can make no mistake about the kind of God they have to meet, and I am glad that lately you have been bringing your sermons to the counter and the hearthstone. Playing With Fire 2011-06-29T02:00:30.590Z A young New York millionaire, at odds with his family, finds his solution in working for and loving the optimistic nursemaid who brought him from the depths of trouble and made for him a hearthstone. A Man's Hearth 2011-06-25T02:00:17.093Z Even the hearthstone had been forced up; the despoilers had evidently thought that the thrifty farmer had hidden a store of money beneath it. The Dispatch-Riders The Adventures of Two British Motor-cyclists in the Great War 2011-06-24T02:00:22.377Z To avoid a clash with the sheriff and his deputies, the miners made a holiday in the hills, leaving their hearthstones to their wives. The Coming of Coal 2011-06-17T02:00:17.207Z The rock foundations ranged in size from twenty to thirty feet, with the hearth containing ashes underlying the debris of ages, on smooth hearthstones showing years of service, being apparently a century old. Fifty Years In The Northwest With An Introduction And Appendix Containing Reminiscences, Incidents And Notes 2011-06-13T02:00:27.317Z For a moment Gabriel stood petrified on his own hearthstone. Gabriel Conroy 2011-06-08T02:00:19.217Z The fire as it revived had thrown a glow upon the hearthstone, which was of cast-iron, and presented a large armorial escutcheon. The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 3, June, 1851 2011-05-18T02:00:14.897Z He knew that nowhere in the world is the hearthstone more sacred than in the south, and how long would his welcome last, even at The Hall, with his past unexplained? Sons and Fathers 2011-05-16T02:00:19.893Z Soaring eagles scorn to perch at one man's hearthstone, and behold the comical climax of her flight above the laws of decency and good taste. A Speckled Bird 2011-05-06T02:00:09.097Z Again in fancy we gathered around the familiar hearthstone, made warm and bright by blazing fire and sweet memories of other days. E.P. Roe: Reminiscences of his Life 2011-05-05T02:00:19.377Z His heart was turning back to another fair creature, who had indeed been the angel at his hearthstone years before; and her memory was the very type of human loveliness to him. Silent Struggles 2011-05-05T02:00:16.850Z The teacher smoothed the ashes of the hearthstone out flat with a shingle, and the children did their figuring on that. A Northern Countryside 2011-04-27T02:00:22.523Z Fellow citizens, it can no longer be denied that there is treason at our very hearthstones. The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers, Series 1 2011-04-21T02:00:47.647Z "No more than I'd say it was squatting to sit down on my own hearthstone." Luttrell Of Arran Complete 2011-04-01T02:00:31.290Z There were bitter disputes wherever men were congregated, and domestic quarrels on every hearthstone, while feminine friendships melted away in the heat of passionate arguments so well seasoned with personalities. All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography The Red Leaves of a Human Heart 2011-03-31T02:00:16.763Z The cricket is chirping away quite comfortably in his cozy corner under the warm hearthstones and I hear the click of Granny’s knitting needles. Voices; Birth-Marks; The Man and the Elephant 2011-03-28T02:00:27.040Z House walls were crumbling about cold hearthstones and smokeless chimneys, and thresholds untrodden but by the nightly prowling beast or the foot of the curious hunter. Vermont A Study of Independence 2011-03-17T02:00:13.130Z We know that plains and cities waste Are pleasant in Thine eyes— Thou lov’st a hearthstone desolate, Thou lov’st a mourner’s cries. Songs and Ballads of the Southern People 1861-1865 2011-03-06T03:00:22.800Z A great heap of grey ashes upon the cold hearthstone revealed the fact that Mr. Sleaford had employed himself in destroying papers before his hasty departure. The Doctor's Wife 2011-03-06T03:00:18.770Z Often as he sat doing his sums on the hearthstone, with a bit of charcoal for a pencil, his mother would sigh sadly. The Green Forest Fairy Book 2011-03-04T03:01:06.297Z He was to approach none of them—none of the hearthstone group! The Storm Centre 2011-03-01T03:00:39.427Z I know of no allegiance superior to that due the hearthstones of the homestead. Presidential Candidates: containing Sketches, Biographical, Personal and Political, of Prominent Candidates for the Presidency in 1860 2011-02-27T03:00:34.390Z To their right is a huge fireplace, where, upon the hearthstone, turf lies burning dimly, emitting the strong aromatic perfume that belongs to it. Mrs. Geoffrey 2011-02-27T03:00:29.460Z Now there is no man living who does not at some time dream of a good woman—a woman much better than himself—upon his hearthstone. A Song of a Single Note A Love Story 2011-02-24T03:01:01.930Z "Dixie" sat down like a sulky, sullen woman by her own hearthstone, and refused to be comforted. Project Gutenberg book of Historical Romance of the American Negro 2011-02-11T03:00:26.280Z "Yep," Bill answered, following within the hut to where Derrick's lighted candle burnt in the neck of a bottle among the rank weeds that grew about the broken hearthstone. Sergeant Silk the Prairie Scout 2011-02-07T03:00:22.570Z Instead she found a cold hearthstone and an empty casserole. Robert Tournay A Romance of the French Revolution 2011-01-06T03:00:50.873Z There was sorrow in every household for friends fallen in battle, and Poverty sat by many a hearthstone. The Boys of '61 or, Four Years of Fighting, Personal Observations with the Army and Navy 2011-01-05T03:00:55.123Z Like a slim, white, waxen altar candle snuffed out by a child's accidental, gusty pleasure-laugh, we brought her home to the sweet, green, peaceful library, with its resolute, indomitable hearthstone. The Sick-a-Bed Lady And Also Hickory Dock, The Very Tired Girl, The Happy-Day, Something That Happened in October, The Amateur Lover, Heart of The City, The Pink Sash, Woman's Only Business 2011-01-04T03:01:00.723Z If he were a peasant, he tied his money up in a clout and put it under the hearthstone. The Ivory Gate, a new edition 2010-12-25T03:00:10.617Z “His name is inscribed in every hearthstone in Ireland,” the Rev. Henry A. Brann eulogized at a hero’s farewell at St. Patrick’s Cathedral, where the coffin was adorned with lilies and violets. Open Court 2010-11-21T02:05:00Z His heart must thrill for the saddle and not for the hearthstone. A Book-Lover's Holidays in the Open She sat by the hearthstone, with her head tied up in red flannel, and her large, watery face flushed with pain, and pointed towards a basket of apples on the window-sill. Sister Dolorosa and Posthumous Fame Much white dust is brought into the house by the daily use of hearthstone, and precious time is wasted in the operation. Household Organization The inmates of Lady Sorgham's thoroughly English and thoroughly comfortable drawing-room were aliens, possessing neither of them a hearthstone within range of several thousand miles. The Sentimental Adventures of Jimmy Bulstrode They are rallying to the standard of the Socialist party because they know that this is their party and that here they are master, and here they sit at their own political hearthstone and fireside. Labor and Freedom The use of stone was not popular, as it was apt to chip when brought in contact with the heat; this is also true of the hearthstones, where the flagging became rough and most unsatisfactory. Remodeled Farmhouses A small quiet flame was burning in my breast, as if it were some pure hearthstone, and must have shone from my eyes. The Romance of the Canoness A Life-History The hearthstones on which the peat fires unceasingly burned, which for generations had never grown cold, were left to the rain and the snow. Stand Up, Ye Dead I am always supporting a family that is not mine, that does not sit at my hearthstone or at my table. The Sentimental Adventures of Jimmy Bulstrode You will find it by itself under the hearthstone in my house at Ronda. The Firebrand Plainly, the life of the stage was not to her taste; she hungered, as every normal woman hungers, for the quiet hearthstone and the simple joys of home. The Master's Violin And even as she spoke the great hearthstone sank down endwise turning upon itself and disclosing a narrow flight of steps. Our Admirable Betty A Romance Never before had she stood in awe, enthralled before such an altar as this man’s hearthstone. The Moonlit Way The room was very large and lofty, and, seen in the dim light of a small lamp upon the hearthstone, seemed even more spacious than it was. The Fortunes Of Glencore The family is the source, the home and the hearthstone of charity. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 8 "Chariot" to "Chatelaine" So I prevailed upon the old woman to exchange places with me; she taking up her abode in the woods for the night and I her old stool on the hearthstone. Lost Man's Lane A Second Episode in the Life of Amelia Butterworth But here the shadow settled again; when it lifted, the morning ray lay cool and ghostly over the hearthstone. The Sword of Damocles A Story of New York Life He just strode in, without asking any leave, and plumped himself down by my hearthstone. The Great Miss Driver The prospect of Belinda established upon his hearthstone did not at all appeal to him. Shadows of Flames A Novel They all go to their homes, and will carry discontent and repentance to many a hearthstone. An Artilleryman's Diary He had grown accustomed to going out alone, and feeling a kind of safe repose in the idea of the wife watching on his hearthstone. Was It Right to Forgive? A Domestic Romance She had packed her little trunk, had said good-bye to all her neighboring friends and was now sitting on the old hearthstone, musing upon the new life that was about to open before her. The Sword of Damocles A Story of New York Life Behind all this seeming prosperity were thousands of mourning households and desolate hearthstones in the North as well as the South. The Greater Republic A History of the United States The night dragged on interminably—one of those grisly nights, when not only illness but peril and fear and madness squat on the hearthstone. Shadows of Flames A Novel What is this?” and he pointed to an open grate, upon the hearthstone of which were the long-cold embers of a fire. A Gallant Grenadier A Tale of the Crimean War In fact, he did not at all believe in any confession Cora had made to his wife; and he was resentful of her presence under any guise on his hearthstone. Was It Right to Forgive? A Domestic Romance At home and abroad, on our hearthstones and within our offices, the mocking devil sits. The Sword of Damocles A Story of New York Life He made the hearthstone once more an altar. Women of the Teutonic Nations Woman: In all ages and in all countries Vol. 8 (of 10) Thanis crouched by the hearthstone, stirring something savory in a blackened pot. Black Amazon of Mars He made up a great fire on the hearthstone. The Three Mulla-mulgars A speckled cat and a tame hare Eat at my hearthstone And sleep there; And both look up to me alone For learning and defence As I look up to Providence. The Wild Swans at Coole It was April as I have said, and there was no fire in the grate, but he posed his foot on the fender and looked sadly down at the empty hearthstone. The Sword of Damocles A Story of New York Life When winter decks with frost the bearded oak, In songs and sagas we our youth recover; Around the hearthstone crowd the listening folk, While on the wall mysterious shadows hover. Library of the World's Best literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 12 Do you still remember, men of the Alpgau, how, in the midst of peace, a centurion dishonored your Count's young wife by her own hearthstone, so that she hanged herself by her girdle? A Captive of the Roman Eagles By this worn hearthstone he had knelt, night and morn, to the God who had given him the desire of his heart. The Land of Long Ago It had been the idol upon the hearthstone to which had been offered up the happiness of her youth, and before which love lay slain. Jan Vedder's Wife For it is on the hearthstone she gives the fine healthy initial touch to her sons and daughters that is not effaced through life, and that makes them blessed in their generation. Maids Wives and Bachelors But she tries to force back her sorrow At the sacred shrine of her birthplace; And the angels are gentle that hover At the rustic shade of the hearthstone. Montezuma An Epic on the Origin and Fate of the Aztec Nation As neat as a womanless creature is able He swept up his hearthstone and laid the table. Down-Adown-Derry A Book of Fairy Poems Ruleson was at the hearthstone, and Jamie was at her knees, telling her what a splendid time they had had, and how many big fish they had caught. Christine A Fife Fisher Girl A pair of slippers she had forgotten still stood by the hearthstone. Jan Vedder's Wife He was to be burned on a stake at his own hearthstone, the walls of his mansion to be razed, and the standing turned to a market-place for barter of swine! Merchantmen-at-arms : the British merchants' service in the war Or did you by the hearthstones hear The cricket's kind, shrill strain when frost Worked mysteries of silver near Upon the casement's panes, and lost Without the gate-post seemed a sheeted ghost? Blooms of the Berry Beam, wall and flagstones the kitchen was lit, Every dark corner and cranny of it With the blaze from the hearthstone. Down-Adown-Derry A Book of Fairy Poems The big hearthstone has no rug to it, and the rack against the wall is yet full of the old china that Mrs. Macpherson’s mother used. Christine A Fife Fisher Girl Such conditions, it seems to me, undermine the American hearthstone and carry a deep menace to the future of our institutions. Conservation Through Engineering Extract from the Annual Report of the Secretary of the Interior He put the sleeping child in the bunk, and then sat down on the cold, dark hearthstone. Prisoners of Conscience What did that land hold,—what days should dawn upon it; what hearthstones should be alight; who should be the victor in the conquests of the future, and what of the victim? The Story of Old Fort Loudon Her candle was burning and the hearthstones had an extra coat of whitewash. My Lady of the Chimney Corner All the Macpherson boys and girls were married in that room, just in front of the hearthstone, or on it. Christine A Fife Fisher Girl The Christmas saint had been upon our hearthstone and left his footprints there. Belford's Magazine, Volume II, No. 8, January, 1889 The cabin was, of course, not yet fit for occupancy; the walls were not chinked, nor the hearthstone laid. Crestlands A Centennial Story of Cane Ridge After forty years, God would grant him home, and wife, and hearthstone peace. Vashti or, Until Death Us Do Part Anna's Sunday chore was to whitewash the hearthstones and clean the house. My Lady of the Chimney Corner Change is written on the landscape, Change is speaking from the hearthstone, All the work of sure mutation, Lays its impress on the city. The Song of Lancaster, Kentucky to the statesmen, soldiers, and citizens of Garrard County. It might appear a natural and pious custom in the hundreds who are left, the rearguard of perished thousands, that their feet should leave untrod these hearthstones of their fathers. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 18 (of 25) Mine was now the task to prove myself a man with power to create and defend the little kingdom whose throne is builded on the hearthstone. The Price of the Prairie A Story of Kansas Tidy, amiable, hearthstone heroes, who'd always wind up the clock regularly, and never invent dangerous airplanes or seek the North Pole. The Crow's Nest There were nights when the crested battalions of the waves stormed the hill-sides and foamed over the Abbey graves, and weltered about the hearthstones of the high-perched fishing village. An Isle in the Water She was as perfectly adapted in every tempered muscle to the rough conditions of natural life as the pioneer women who helped their men clear the wilderness and set hearthstones. Old Crow Sunday evenings, my married boys and girls are fond of coming home and gathering round the old hearthstone, and “making believe” that they are children again. Household Papers and Stories When the hearthstone is cold, a man seeks forgetfulness elsewhere. Stories by American Authors, Volume 7 Should he denounce the treachery of one of the little group that he could see huddling together for warmth on the meagre hearthstone, while outside the snows of a long-vanished winter were a-whirl? The Mystery of Witch-Face Mountain and Other Stories Down the ladder he darted, dropping the heavy hearthstone into place, and leaving the cabin which for so many years had been their home, to be consumed above their heads. With Ethan Allen at Ticonderoga They raised the hearthstone from its place, and, as she had said, the three casks of gold and the three casks of silver were found resting beneath it. Legends & Romances of Brittany The girls that are fair on the hearthstone, And pleasant when nobody sees; Kind and sweet to their own folks, Ready and anxious to please. Cole's Funny Picture Book No. 1 A crescent-shaped portion of the hearthstone is capable of removal, for what purpose it is not known. Famous Firesides of French Canada The hearthstone seemed safest, the door a barrier, the home circle a guard. The Mystery of Witch-Face Mountain and Other Stories There he met Mr. Calvin, who, owing to a turn matters had taken at home, was just beginning another long period of exile from the hearthstone. In the Heart of a Fool The chimney breasts and hearthstones of his principal rooms were seven feet wide. The Continental Dragoon A Love Story of Philipse Manor-House in 1778 “Ollie!” cried the man at the hearthstone, calling her name imploringly. The Bondboy There was no hearthstone, there was no roof-tree, there was no corner of refuge in all the vast, gray world. Claim Number One One, falling beyond the hearthstone, found the platter heaped with the deadly grains. The Fifth of November A Romance of the Stuarts It was half an hour after the Captain bursting upon his hearthstone like a martial sky rocket, had exploded the last of his blue and green candles. In the Heart of a Fool Elmer took the little slide from the lantern, and was on the point of shivering it to fragments on the hearthstone, when he paused in deep thought. The Galaxy Vol. 23, No. 1 There was at one time many more of these, but owing to their power of resisting heat they were largely exploited as hearthstones. The Broom-Squire “I long for a hearthstone to which I can attach myself––” “Then attach yourself to ours!” eagerly interrupted Carmen. Carmen Ariza You must leave enough of yourself to be able to bear and forbear, give and forgive, and be a source of life and cheerfulness around the hearthstone. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 89, March, 1865 Married people, who love each other, live together—temptations are serpent-like, but they seldom creep upon a hearthstone kept warm by domestic affection. Phemie Frost's Experiences He was standing by the fireplace with his eyes on the hearthstone, and his face was working under the stress of some emotion. East of the Shadows Come back and cluster around our hearthstone at so much per cluster. Nye and Riley's Wit and Humor (Poems and Yarns) He arrested the arm of industry as it fell towards the anvil; he put out the breath of his bellows; he extinguished the fire upon his hearthstone. Law and Laughter Cold was the hearthstone now, and the place was forsaken and empty. Poems Tris would be sure to meet her there, to return home with her, to sit again at her side on that bright, homelike hearthstone. A Singer from the Sea The china image slipped through her fingers, and was broken to bits on the hearthstone. Audrey Craven Nothing could escape its miserable contact, even sitting on the hearthstone its power was felt; and until a good northwester came to dissipate the damp moisture, nobody expected much from any one’s temper. An Orkney Maid But, as Serjeant Buzfuz would have said, the serpent was on the trail, the viper was on the hearthstone, the sapper and miner was at work. Ireland as It Is And as It Would be Under Home Rule The skipper was fond of telling the strange story, and the mate heard it many times, as repeated to him one stormy night, around the roaring fire of Captain Bergen’s hearthstone in New England. Adrift on the Pacific A Boys [sic] Story of the Sea and its Perils Her father, who had been on the sea all night, dozed in his big chair on the hearthstone. A Singer from the Sea What had he to fear, here on his own hearthstone, with his dear wife beside him, in another world from that he had so lately quitted? Wild Justice: Stories of the South Seas HIS fourscore years have bent a back of oak, His earth-brown cheeks are full of hollow pits; His gnarled hands wander idly as he sits Bending above the hearthstone's feeble smoke. Silhouettes Ah! well do I remember those Whose names those records bear, Who round the hearthstone used to close After the evening prayer, And speak of what these pages said, In tones my heart would thrill! The Universal Reciter 81 Choice Pieces of Rare Poetical Gems Then another expedition, and in again with three pebbles for hearthstones, a shell for a cooking pot, bits of straw for firewood, a stick for a match, and sand for rice. Things as They Are Mission Work in Southern India The air was damp and chilly, and there was no crimson glow on the hearthstones. The Book of Saints and Friendly Beasts He rose from his chair, placed the jewel on the hearthstone, and fiercely ground the precious stone beneath his iron-shod heel, and flung the crushed and distorted gold setting into the fire. The Tale of Timber Town The keys fell on the cracked hearthstone with a clang that Oswald, at any rate, will never forget. Oswald Bastable and Others These two fireplaces were reopened and restored and their brickwork was extended to form spacious hearthstones. The Fairfax County Courthouse To the little boy on the hearthstone, at least, the thin, stooped figure and worn face made up the most beautiful personality the world could produce. The Silver Maple I wish every one could have a night by a camp-fire,—by Mother Nature's old hearthstone. Wild Life on the Rockies They came from all over; the country was gleaned; and many a fire was raked up on the hearthstone that day which most Sundays got leave to burn and somebody to watch it. Say and Seal, Volume II The sunbeams which shone so bright on the tinted trees seemed powerless here; the single warm ray that shot through one of the empty window frames fell mournfully on the cold hearthstone. Say and Seal, Volume I No fireplaces or hearthstones were found in the courtroom floor, and when the interior was dismantled it was discovered that the chimneys rested on beams above the courtroom ceiling. The Fairfax County Courthouse But as Kirsty opened the door he thumped his tail upon the hearthstone. The Silver Maple Your poor old cooperative father welcomes you to the associated hearthstone.” Turn About Eleanor Let us not have to remove the cinders and ashes from our hearthstones every day and kindle a new flame; but let us keep it burning and never let it expire. Days of Heaven Upon Earth Gathered around her hearthstone was a large family of girls and boys who naturally added much brightness to the household. As I Remember Recollections of American Society during the Nineteenth Century But, of course, if you want a clean hearthstone and the logs roosting upon the andirons, and are devoid of all the camp-fire sentiment, have some asbestos gas-logs. Shelters, Shacks and Shanties He placed the skins for the dogs in the accustomed spot, lifted another huge log into the monstrous fireplace, swept the great hearthstone, bolted the heavy door, and then stretched himself upon his bed. Holiday Tales Christmas in the Adirondacks Go to the stricken hearthstones, and we exclaim, "Oh, that this cup might pass from us!" History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II He was peculiarly a mother's boy, content to grow up dreamy and impractical at her quiet hearthstone. History of Education She stood up, waving her white china tail, and before Tavy could stop her she had leapt, not, as before, into his arms, but on to the wide hearthstone. The Magic World Up to that time he had been reasonably sure of the integrity of his hearthstone. Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905 On either side of the broad hearthstone a hound sat on his haunches, looking gravely, as only a hound in a meditative mood can, into the glowing fire. Holiday Tales Christmas in the Adirondacks Under the operation of this Amendment, what will become of the family hearthstone around which cluster the very best influences of human education? History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II Farragut was a Southerner by birth—a Tennessean—and fought, as it were, against his own hearthstone. How the Flag Became Old Glory If tradition speaks truth, they were slow to take upon themselves anything more than the defense of their own hearthstones. The American Empire There was a rapier hanging upon the wall, slender and yet strong, of very ancient make; in an instant he had it down and was trying the temper of its blade upon the hearthstone. The Doomsman Tables were made in the same way, and after a time, the floor, a bare space being left about the fireplace instead of a hearthstone. The Two Hundredth Anniversary of the Settlement of the Town of New Milford, Conn. June 17th, 1907 Address Delivered by Daniel Davenport, of Bridgeport, Conn. Though public tranquillity was not disturbed, the peace of the hearthstones became like that of a fish-pond, all on top; underneath was commotion. An Eagle Flight A Filipino Novel Adapted from Noli Me Tangere Little shadows, little shadows, Dancing on the chamber wall, While I sit beside the hearthstone Where the red flames rise and fall. Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag VI An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving, Etc. While all unseen, the light of love went in with them, a light that should never fade from the hearthstone, driving loneliness and sorrow from it, far away. Winning the Wilderness At the same moment he lifted his head, which had been resting on one hand, and looked across the hearthstone at her, smiling faintly. Athalie In the streets, one heard bagpipes and minstrels; and, by the hearthstones, the music of the wandering piper. Fairy Book Getting inside it on the hearthstone he looked upward; it was open to the sky and at the top he could see a faint glow. The Ocean Wireless Boys And The Naval Code Harlan ran downstairs, feeling that the hour had come to defend his hearthstone from outsiders. At the Sign of the Jack O'Lantern Gave meaning to the hearthstone, and the birthplace, Winning the Wilderness She laid off her town attire, put on her cotton working-dress, kindled afresh the fire on the broad hearthstone and got supper. Judith of the Cumberlands But before this time I have known 79 you to sneak down into those same “lower rooms” to warm yourself by humanitarian hearthstones. The Jessica Letters: An Editor's Romance “Would any woman, for love of me, come to such a hearthstone?” he asked himself. Cavanaugh: Forest Ranger A Romance of the Mountain West It endows the bleak mountainside with comfort, makes the ledge a hearthstone. The Forester's Daughter A Romance of the Bear-Tooth Range And yet, the women make anchor for every hearthstone, and share in every deed of daring and every test of endurance. Winning the Wilderness Judith needed the small brass lamp at the hearthstone, and a tallow candle rather inadequately lit the supper-table. Judith of the Cumberlands Now he had life and had it abundantly; now he had wife and hearthstone. The Gentle Art of Cooking Wives One feeble moon-ray struggled through the foliage of a tall pine-tree, and, reaching down the wide smoke-hole overhead, searched the ashes on the hearthstone with a pallid finger. Lippincott's Magazine, November 1885 Two or three oaken logs, supported on bright brass andirons—the only bright things in the room—were blazing cheerfully on the broad hearthstone; and drawing our chairs near, we sat down before them. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3 No 2, February 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Remember in this affliction that your ambition may stake out claims and set up houses, but it takes a baby’s hand to really anchor the hearthstones. Winning the Wilderness Now she went uneasily back to the hearthstone. Judith of the Cumberlands "No one must know, Renny," was all he said, at last, between two gapes, kicking the hearthstone significantly, and stretching his arms, "not even the wife." The Light of Scarthey ‘Said Hugh, leaning down to the hearthstones, “I saw this stone move under Gilbert’s foot when Odo snuffed at it. Puck of Pook’s Hill Many things I know in fulness, And I know with perfect clearness, And my insight shows me plainly,150 In the roof we find the smoke-hole, And the fire is near the hearthstone. Kalevala, Volume I (of 2) The Land of the Heroes By them the hearthstones stand or crumble to dust. Winning the Wilderness Here too a fire smoldered on the hearthstone, for the head of the Turrentine clan was 100 tormented by rheumatism, that plague of otherwise healthy primitive man. Judith of the Cumberlands Only the hearthstone of old India Will end the endless march of gipsy feet. American Poetry, 1922 A Miscellany It was so huge, owing to Gourlay's whim, that when it slid through his fingers it came down on the muffled hearthstone with a thud like a pavior's hammer. The House with the Green Shutters But I ate, unhappy daughter, Flour scraped up, to handmill cleaving, With my ladle from the hearthstone, With my spoon from off the pestle. Kalevala, Volume I (of 2) The Land of the Heroes “When last we saw you,” said Temperance, “your chin was as smooth as the hearthstone, and now you’ve got beard enough to fit out a flock of goats.” It Might Have Been The Story of the Gunpowder Plot To the father’s intense disgust Jim Cal had elected to sit with the elders that night, and obstinately held his place before the hearthstone in the cabin room. Judith of the Cumberlands That meeting with the pretty blonde repaid him for his loss of sleep, for, though nigh upon fifty, he still had a warm heart, a romantic imagination, a glowing hearthstone of life. Tartarin On The Alps One important change has happened in this little household since I last sat by its hearthstone. Faces and Places Cold I felt the very hearthstones, To the burning coals I reached it; In the stove the coals were frozen. Kalevala, Volume I (of 2) The Land of the Heroes At Irene is planted his hearthstone and around it is mobilized his considerable family. An African Adventure The Merryweathers bestirred themselves, some bringing dry garments, some preparing a hasty meal; the guest meanwhile stood in the centre of the hearthstone, and adjured them not to put themselves to inconvenience. The Merryweathers It was furrowed like a field under cultivation and burnt like a hearthstone. The Goose Man Some of the plain plates with cable-twist borders were probably used as hearthstones and not as backs. Chats on Household Curios Where the gravely dressed partners of the brilliant creatures set up the hearthstone none can tell, unless it be the mop-headed Papuan, and he will not. In Nesting Time Come, sit with me beside the broad hearthstone and gaze into the depths of the fire when it burns low, for not among the leaping flames alone are there to be seen marvelous things. The Shadow Witch Though her father’s hearthstone be cold, let us hope that she may yet see good days in the home of her husband.” Allison Bain, or, By a Way she knew not For every vacant chair there was a ruined hearthstone; for every hearthstone there was a sorrowing widow; and for every widow there is a fatherless child. America First Patriotic Readings Many have been the times, while sitting on my father's lap around the old hearthstone, now more than fifty years since, that I listened to affecting reminiscences of Col. Reminiscences of the Military Life and Sufferings of Col. Timothy Bigelow, Commander of the Fifteenth Regiment of the Massachusetts Line in the Continental Army, during the War of the Revolution She drank her coffee slowly, looking steadfastly into the fire, as if she saw in the wavering flame some reflection of another fire on another hearthstone. The Lowest Rung Together with The Hand on the Latch, St. Luke's Summer and The Understudy You will bring strife to your own doors, to your very hearthstones—bloody, disheartening strife. A Report of the Debates and Proceedings in the Secret Sessions of the Conference Convention For Proposing Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, Held at Washington, D.C., in February, A.D. 1861 It was balmy spring weather, but they had taken their places at the hearthstone from old habit when a matter of importance had to be considered. Country Neighbors Here we found my father, already seated in a rocking-chair by a broad hearthstone and a roaring, crackling fire. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2 No 4, October, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy One felt her hopefulness, her serenity of soul, as one feels the cheer of a warm hearthstone. Mary Ware's Promised Land And as I look tenderly up at them, as they stand in their very familiar places before me, I salute them as the two old comrades saluted each other across the hearthstone. Mushrooms on the Moor A cat was tearing at the door, and there was a sound of gnawing rats beneath the hearthstone. A Christmas Carol Even now the crying world-need for men—big men—is as great as in the days when the fighting McKims deserted their hearthstones to answer the call of the falchion's clash or the cannon's roar. The Promise A Tale of the Great Northwest As we just now sat enjoying our evening fire, 'My hearthstone,' she said, 'was never cold for seventeen years, but there is no light there now. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2 No 4, October, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Wives wail by hearthstones where the household fires have died into cold ashes forever more. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 4, August, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy The window—an ordinary one—had wooden shelves nailed across it; and on these were displayed soap, slates and slate-pencils, bottles of peppermint lozenges, hearthstone, flannel, lemon-drops, gingham, sausages, and gingerbread. A War-time Journal, Germany 1914 and German Travel Notes Driven to despair, a few of the younger Acadians took up arms to defend their hearthstones, but the great body of the people submitted without resistance. Acadia or, A Month with the Blue Noses Well then, sweet Smidgkin, will you open the broad gates of genial widowhood to admit a fallen wretch to the warmth of your bosom and hearthstone—particularly the latter? Semiramis and Other Plays Semiramis, Carlotta And The Poet Once or twice he came himself, and lent a strong hand to raise a corner-stone, and help to lay the hearthstone. The Billow and the Rock And there he lifted up the hearthstone; the hard-stane they call it in Scotland, and it is called so in the prophecy of Thomas of Ercildowne. The Gypsies "Come on! we'll take in the hamper, and make tea on the deserted hearthstone," said Ruth. Ruth Fielding and the Gypsies The Missing Pearl Necklace The Child: There must be fire in the city To throw that yellow glare; And fire in the little villages On all the hearthstones there. Lundy's Lane and Other Poems The very chimney, fireplace, and hearthstone of which his beautiful lines were written, the kitchen of Whittier's boyhood's home, at East Haverhill, Massachusetts, is shown in the accompanying illustration. Home Life in Colonial Days Washington was in a forest and couldn't furnish wood enough to warm the presidential hearthstone! Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 24, March, 1873 In the conjugal relations, secrets kept one from another are nitro-glycerine under the hearthstone, and the fuse is lighted! The Wedding Ring A Series of Discourses for Husbands and Wives and Those Contemplating Matrimony What followed in that hearthstone fight so hot and brisk took so short a space of time, and happened in so confused and terrible a moment, that all but my personal feeling escapes me. John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn The Father, musing: Yea, flames are on the hearthstones; The ovens are full of bread, But here the coals are dying And the flames are dead. Lundy's Lane and Other Poems I do not know what you are!" she cried wildly, "but you talk like an old song mumbled over the hearthstone, and it is to the hearthstone that you would chain me. In the Border Country He was always looking for romance, forgetting that the most wonderful romance is that of the hearthstone and of the quiet heart. Glory of Youth The time has come when woman no longer accepts the hearthstone as the circumscribed arena of her activities. 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. I wonder how much these simple, homely people knew of Roman assaults and massacres or of Napoleon's butcheries enacted on the very ground where their hearthstones were laid? Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, September, 1878 It broke—sad omen!—on their first hearthstone. Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure I passed the spot the other day—it was not desolate and forsaken, with the moss growing on the hearthstone; on the contrary, it flared with many lights—a thronged gin-palace. The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author Calling a few days afterward he found her comfortably seated with a neighbor around a cheerful hearthstone drinking their newly made tea. Gathering Jewels The Secret of a Beautiful Life: In Memoriam of Mr. & Mrs. James Knowles. Selected from Their Diaries. And there was a wasted place in the twilight, and grass through a split hearthstone ... The Wind Bloweth He accepted a choice cigar—there were certain luxuries in which Don Roberto never economised—and added his quota to the anecdotes of the hearthstone. The Californians The hearthstone is ever an emblem of home. At the Time Appointed They beheld their fields and villages in flames about them, and their hearthstones deluged in the blood of their dearest and their bravest. Historical Sketches, Volume I (of 3) The Turks in Their Relation to Europe; Marcus Tullius Cicero; Apollonius of Tyana; Primitive Christianity So this man has loved her passionately too, and the house which is destined to rise in the woods will throw a shadow over more than one hearthstone in this quiet village. The Old Stone House and Other Stories And they deemed him a madman; yet did they not laugh him to scorn, because that he had come a-wooing, and had laid the fish and the hare upon the hearthstone. The Holy Cross and Other Tales No sooner said than done, for Pat brought it down on the hearthstone with such force that it was shivered to atoms. Shifting Winds A Tough Yarn The home is darkened from roof to floor, The house is naked and ravaged and plundered Where a Changling sits On the hearthstone, warming his shivering fits. A Cluster of Grapes A Book of Twentieth Century Poetry No merrier eyes have ever glistened Around the hearthstone's wintry glow, Than when my youngest child was christened,— But that was twenty years ago. Gryll Grange The platform, it will be understood, served as our hearthstone, and kept the burning embers off the snow. Dick Onslow Among the Redskins And you shall understand it all if, perchance, this sacred Christmas time a little Mistress Merciless of your own, or a little Master Sweetheart, clingeth to your knee and sanctifieth your hearthstone. The Holy Cross and Other Tales A cricket sang from the hearthstone, and a mouse squeaked upon the floor. The Skipper's Wooing, and The Brown Man's Servant "Good God!" he cried, "are you bringing your doubts of the breed of us to my hearthstone?" Doom Castle Hamersley obeyed, and soon both stood at the bottom of the chimney—on the hearthstone where the stalks of the creosote still smouldered. The Lone Ranche It had always been so trim and neat, and its white hearthstone and open door had invited the passer-by to enter. White Lilac; or the Queen of the May But the sea was placid as a hearthstone and the palms lay asleep in the sky that night, for it was Atua's will that the woman should suffer alone. The Holy Cross and Other Tales But it was empty now, and the sun, as it glanced through the guarded window, fell brightly on the white hearthstone. Kilgorman A Story of Ireland in 1798 Welcome guests on kitchen hearthstone or on drawing-room rug, treated as pets by the servants, as friends by our master, and agreeable company by his acquaintances, no animals have ever passed a happier life. Cat and Dog Memoirs of Puss and the Captain No rough hearthstone littered the centre of the hall, but a marble fireplace was built up against the side. Northland Heroes And, as she was kneeling on the wide hearthstone stirring some broth, the woman opened her eyes. A Little Girl in Old Detroit When it was morning this tall, fair man came and entered that house and laid a fish and a hare upon the hearthstone and called for Talakoa. The Holy Cross and Other Tales And mind you—your Uncle Jimps is coming over evenings just as often as and a little oftener than if you didn't have this literary light burning on your hearthstone. Under the Country Sky Then she went home and sat down by her own hearthstone feeling deeply injured. Other Main-Travelled Roads These people are in the wrong, but have been made to believe they are in the right—that we are the invaders of their hearthstones, come to conquer and destroy. The Citizen-Soldier or, Memoirs of a Volunteer The fleeting sanity was vanishing—"The hearthstone—her—down at Trouble——" The candle flickered up luridly. A Son of the Hills Under my winter cottage at the Meadows Ranch in Arizona skunks always denned and lay up during the cold weather, selecting a point immediately under the warm hearthstone. Ranching, Sport and Travel Fields had my people where the vine hung purple as the sky at midnight and grain did we garner golden as the belly of the tiger hide beside our hearthstones. The Coming of the King He felt that he was going to be very eloquent, and he felt reasonably secure from interruption, for no one in that company would have the temerity to question, on his own hearthstone, his pronunciamentos. White Ashes "Here, Spring, my man," says he, setting the plate down afore him on the hearthstone, "here's your supper for you this blessed Friday night." Stories of Comedy Its soldiers are obliged to protect the hearthstones, the property, the families, the independence and liberty of their native land. Sophisms of the Protectionists Children were torn from their mother's breast to be brained on the hearthstone. Canada: the Empire of the North Being the Romantic Story of the New Dominion's Growth from Colony to Kingdom She found no difficulty whatever in doing so, for the woman, in her simplicity, informed her gossip that every morning the coin was found on the hearthstone. Welsh Folk-Lore a Collection of the Folk-Tales and Legends of North Wales The hearthstone was soon cleared and raised, and Martin brought out a crock, in which he had placed the gold. No Surrender! A Tale of the Rising in La Vendee For I fight for something greater, if greater there can be, than the hearthstones of my people and the Lordship of the Lion. The Napoleon of Notting Hill Two Pots, one of brass and the other of clay, stood together on the hearthstone. The Aesop for Children With pictures by Milo Winter But what the ordinary, educated German of peaceful pursuits, staying by his hearthstone far behind and safe from the battle line, thought and wished to say, has been beyond our ken. Villa Elsa A Story of German Family Life In the morning, on leaving, they left a bright new shilling on the hearthstone for the woman. Welsh Folk-Lore a Collection of the Folk-Tales and Legends of North Wales I buried it one day under the hearthstone of the kitchen, thinking it possible that the Blues might come here. No Surrender! A Tale of the Rising in La Vendee A pinnacle is a poor substitute for a hearthstone, from the feminine point of view; and laurel wreaths do not make half so satisfactory a journey's end as lovers' meetings. The Farringdons Blessed in all who gathered about his hearthstone, his cup of happiness was full to overflowing. Something of Men I Have Known With Some Papers of a General Nature, Political, Historical, and Retrospective Was it not merely something awfully exciting to talk about, argue about, puzzle over, in the prosaic humdrum at this respectable hearthstone? Villa Elsa A Story of German Family Life His new home was bright and big, but the old hearthstone would draw him home. The Eternal City Love and loyalty within; noble friends at the hearthstone; soft or shining heavens above; mystery of forest and music of stream without: this is home in Arden. Under the Trees and Elsewhere The hearthstone so sacred is just as 'twas then And the voices of children ring out there again. Poems Teachers Ask For, Book Two The conversation around the hearthstone of my host turned to the famous island of the Inner Hebrides, Iona, with its wonderful history reaching back to the sixth century. Something of Men I Have Known With Some Papers of a General Nature, Political, Historical, and Retrospective Hilliard had respected his hearthstone because it held the ashes of a burned-out love; the governor respected his office. The Henchman And with that he took up the decanters and dashed them, one after the other, on the hearthstone, the wine and brandy running like life-blood in bubbling red streams across the floor. Girlhood and Womanhood The Story of some Fortunes and Misfortunes Older than history, more ancient than civilisation, are these familiar tones which unite the low-lying meadows and the upland pastures with the fire on the hearthstone and the nightly care of the fold. Under the Trees and Elsewhere Home was here in the pitched tents, a hearthstone in the flame lapping on the singed grass, humanity in the loud welcome that rose to meet the newcomers. The Emigrant Trail The mention of his name recalls a tragic event that cast a pall over the nation and shrouded more than one hearthstone in deepest gloom. Something of Men I Have Known With Some Papers of a General Nature, Political, Historical, and Retrospective Before that lonely home we wait, Ah! nevermore to see Her lovely form within the gate Where heart and hearthstone desolate And vine and shrub and tree Seem asking: "Where is she?" Poems Vol. IV Ruined husband and ruined wife confronted each other on their stained hearthstone. Girlhood and Womanhood The Story of some Fortunes and Misfortunes Six months later he was surprised and killed on his own hearthstone, at a time when his son and most of his retainers were away on a raid. Both Sides the Border A Tale of Hotspur and Glendower The hearthstone shone red with its light, and they sat drawn back on the seats of pine looking into its roaring depths—housed, sheltered, cozily content. The Emigrant Trail It was worth while to have known Proctor Knott, to have been his cotemporary in public life, the sharer of his confidence, the guest at his hearthstone. Something of Men I Have Known With Some Papers of a General Nature, Political, Historical, and Retrospective The field from which this class is gathered is an extensive one, and its outer limits are near to every hearthstone. Thoughts on Educational Topics and Institutions Unlike evil spirits, which, according to popular superstition, need urging over the threshold before they can enter and possess the hearthstone. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 1, January 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy If both parties met under arms the matter was different; but that, in spite of the slaying of his own father by them, he would not kill even a Baird on his hearthstone. Both Sides the Border A Tale of Hotspur and Glendower Suddenly Zulma moved about in her seat, and rolled her head from side to side on the chair, as if a vision was flitting before her and the light of the hearthstone. The Bastonnais Tale of the American Invasion of Canada in 1775-76 Even the domestic hearthstone was invaded and antagonisms engendered that knew no surcease until the last of the chief participants in the eventful struggle had descended to the tomb. Something of Men I Have Known With Some Papers of a General Nature, Political, Historical, and Retrospective We have provoked no war, yet in defense of our hearthstones, our country has been laid waste from end to end. A Journal From Our Legation in Belgium And he hurled his pipe from him so that on the hearthstone it broke into many pieces. Man to Man Aglow in the Christmas halo, Shining with heavenly lustre, These are the fairy faces That round the hearthstone cluster. Christmas Its Origin, Celebration and Significance as Related in Prose and Verse A happy, young life had gathered again about the ancient hearthstone that had seen two hundred years of human change. Faith Gartney's Girlhood Also in the same deposit were hearthstones, and works of art, flint knives, projectiles, sling-stones, and chips. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 4, April, 1864 When you take the family hearthstone and the prayer and memory closet out of a home you must expect irreverence. Green Valley It is a magnified love for his own hearthstone—a glorified home-sickness. Shakespeare and the Modern Stage with Other Essays Jupiter and Neptune sweep the heavens not more unfamiliar to us than the worlds that circle our own hearthstone. The Wit and Humor of America, Volume IV. (of X.) He has started at the fountainhead and the purity of his home and hearthstone is a magnificent memorial to the purity of the black woman. Twentieth Century Negro Literature Or, A Cyclopedia of Thought on the Vital Topics Relating to the American Negro I’m sick of dozing by a dumb hearthstone— And the peat, with never a click or crackle in it— Famished for news. Krindlesyke When the family of the organ-builder gathered about the hearthstone that evening, the youngest came to the father and drew forth his contract. Choice Readings for the Home Circle But for me, I got no letter; and these echoes began to sound in my ear like the distant outside rumblings of the storm to one whose hearthstone it has already swept and laid desolate. Daisy in the Field No victims of brute rage, no hirelings trained to fight, But men in calmest manhood, fresh from the hearthstone's light. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 2, February, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Nor lacked Præneste's founder, Vulcan's child, Found on the hearthstone—if the tale be true,— Brave Cæculus, the Shepherds' monarch styled. The Æneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor A woman is never too old for anything: It’s only men grow sober and faint-hearted: And Judith’s just the sort whose soul is set On a husband and a hearthstone: I ken that. Krindlesyke Still they were only the duties that pertained to his temporal welfare, for the flame of devotion had smoldered to ashes on the hearthstone of her heart. Choice Readings for the Home Circle He found that he could then leave his club at one o'clock and get home to his wife at twelve; and for the first time in twenty years peace reigned around that hearthstone. Modern Eloquence: Vol III, After-Dinner Speeches P-Z But although in my village the chinks under the hearthstones are mute, the nights of summer are musical with a singer little known in the North. Social Life in the Insect World Here on our own hearthstones goes on this wonderful spectacular and beneficent transformation of matter and energy, and yet we are grown so familiar with it that it moves us not. The Breath of Life He found that he could then leave his club at one o'clock and get home to his wife at twelve; and for the first time in twenty years peace reigned around the hearthstone. Model Speeches for Practise All day long with doom portentous, Shreds of pennons shrieked and flew Over Ys; and black fear shuddered On the hearthstone all night through. Ballads of Lost Haven A Book of the Sea So her thoughts wandered back to bygone times, while I, not wishing to interrupt her, had taken the poker in my hand and with it was tracing geometrical figures in the peat-ash on the hearthstone. More Tales of the Ridings A Puritan hearthstone—sooth, it must be a goodly place; yet right glad am I that we live beneath the stars, and are still the light free-hearted folk o' Merrymount! Patriotic Plays and Pageants for Young People He, the fortune-reader, read poor Helen's heart; And a face created for the hearthstone's light— Fishers tell its ruin as they scud by night. Tales of the Chesapeake She has always a place in her heart, though, for absent dear ones, and she often thinks regretfully of one sweet face that used to smile at her hearthstone. Clemence The Schoolmistress of Waveland Sometimes the mantels have been removed and new flooring laid over the hearthstones. If You're Going to Live in the Country And there on the hearthstone were the ashes, and reet i' the middle on 'em the prent of a man's clog. More Tales of the Ridings A wooden settle ran half round the hearthstone on the side farthest from the draught of the door. The Black Douglas I gave you the dog years ago, little dreaming that I was thereby providing future discord for my own hearthstone. Infelice Your poor mother was the victim," continued the priest; "she lay on the hearthstone dead and bleeding. The Three Brides, Love in a Cottage, and Other Tales Door knockers, H and L hinges, fireplace cranes, wavy old window glass, whole sections of paneling and even hearthstones are wrenched from place with light-hearted abandon. If You're Going to Live in the Country The fire was very low, and the kettle standing cold where Teen had left it on the hearthstone. The Guinea Stamp A Tale of Modern Glasgow He was drumming on the hearthstone with the end of his sword scabbard. Arms and the Woman The less married people see of each other these days, the fewer scalps dangle around the hearthstone. Infelice Save by two or three persons, the crime which had desecrated the hearthstone of a humble village home was forgotten in those great historical events, of which Europe and France were then the theatres. The Three Brides, Love in a Cottage, and Other Tales At the same time that the paneling makes its exit, the large hearthstones are pried from position and moved to a waiting truck. If You're Going to Live in the Country Yes, say I, and the valley is the hearthstone. The Soldier of the Valley Then she turned again, looked at the tranquil hills and the far-stretching woods of Inchguile, and the smoke curling from many a poor hearthstone. The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 6, June, 1891 Then happy indeed must have been that hearthstone, whose rose-coloured reminiscences linger so tenderly around your heart, and survive the attrition of a long residence in Paris. Infelice A piece of burning wood fell upon the hearthstone. A Prince of Sinners This was laid dry and just below the level of the first floor, large transverse beams were put in place to support the hearthstones of the fireplaces above. If You're Going to Live in the Country She must lose, not only, the nurtured joys of her hearthstone, but strain every long-strained nerve afresh to keep them where she could not see and could but dimly enjoy them; but she was willing. Hills of the Shatemuc Somebody was there, that was certain; and the first fire had been lighted on the hearthstone. Fern's Hollow Farewell to our hearthstones, our cherished ones there, Our wives and our children, now reft of our care: Farewell, everloved of our souls—nevermore, Shall we look on your faces—our lifetime is o'er. Lays of Ancient Virginia, and Other Poems The smouldering patches of red on the crumbling logs shrank smaller and smaller as the close-set little points of fire died out, and the feathery ash-flakes fell in a soft pile on the hearthstone. Secret Bread You could as soon guess at a tiger from the cat on the hearthstone. The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume II Nimrod licked his hand, and rapped his tail feebly on the hearthstone. The Puritan Twins The fires still glow upon the hearthstones to which our southern writers in the olden days gave us friendly welcome. Literary Hearthstones of Dixie The cottage is built around the original hearthstone of the old Smith home. A Young Folks' History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints He was standing beside his own hearthstone and he was at ease. The Voice of the People 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. The Gay Cockade The shattered pipe upon the hearthstone made Charlotte utter a low, hopeless cry of pain. The Squire of Sandal-Side A Pastoral Romance In the house all was as if no great sin and sorrow had darkened its threshold and left a stain upon its hearthstone. Winter Evening Tales So it came to pass that I went no more into the village that night, but slept by a fire that burnt where our own hearthstone had been, amid the ruins of my home. King Olaf's Kinsman A Story of the Last Saxon Struggle against the Danes in the Days of Ironside and Cnut Then, as Nicholas entered, they made a place for him upon the hearthstones, treating him with the forbearing tolerance with which the well-born negro regards the low-born white man. The Voice of the People But she had done that; she had reared a child, and of the wet wood of poverty she had made a bright fire on her hearthstone. The Judge She stood upon the hearthstone while the servant rebolted the door, and then asked,— "Is dinner served, Noel?" The Squire of Sandal-Side A Pastoral Romance The fire burnt brightly upon the white hearthstone, and a little round deal table stood before it. Winter Evening Tales Then she brought out his dressing gown and slippers, hung the first over his arm chair and put the last on the warm hearthstones. For Woman's Love The crackling of the fresh bark made a cheerful accompaniment to the chirping of a cricket hidden somewhere in the hearthstones. The Voice of the People By three o'clock the gold was safe under the hearthstone, and then we breathed free, and felt that we indeed owned it. The Gold Hunters' Adventures Or, Life in Australia His hand shook, his long clay pipe fell to the hearthstone, and was shattered to pieces. The Squire of Sandal-Side A Pastoral Romance She devoted some moments absently to crushing with her boot the stray pieces of charred wood which littered the broad hearthstone. The Grey Cloak One summer evening Mary Sullivan was sitting at her own well-swept hearthstone, knitting feet to a pair of sheep's gray stockings for Bartley, her husband. Phil Purcel, The Pig-Driver; The Geography Of An Irish Oath; The Lianhan Shee Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three Louise was sitting by the hearth, with her back to him, and her hands in her lap, rocking herself gently on her stool, and gazing into the glowing ash on the hearthstone. A Loose End and Other Stories His foot slipped on the marble hearthstone and he went. The Lighted Way He reached across for the glass which I had emptied, took it up gingerly between thumb and forefinger, and tossed it with a crash on to the hearthstone. Noughts and Crosses Stories, Studies and Sketches The negroes seem to derive no pleasure from music outside of those songs and airs which they have so often heard at their own hearthstones, and which have come down to them from their ancestors. Lippincott's Magazine, December, 1885 "Doesn't it thrill you?—Doesn't it excite you?" he teased her, as they stood together in the nave, the church smelling faintly of hearthstones. Joanna Godden Here is this dwarf," I thought, "an ill-shaped, stunted caricature, banished into a corner of Nideck, and living just like the cricket that chirps beneath the hearthstone. The Man-Wolf and Other Tales The Hollanders built their government upon the hearthstone, believing it to be the earthly rock of ages to a nation that would build wisely for the future. History of the Negro Race in America From 1619 to 1880. Vol 1 Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens The room was empty, but the relics of supper lay on the deal table, and the remains of what must have been a noble fire were still smouldering on the hearthstone. Noughts and Crosses Stories, Studies and Sketches It slipped from his fingers, and dropped with a crash upon the hearthstone. Grey Roses Yet the natives of Scotland may have seen many things nicely baked by means of a hot hearthstone below, a griddle with live coals above, and burning turf all round. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 424 Volume 17, New Series, February 14, 1852 The old woman stirred no more than the rock-hewn pillars on each side of the hearthstone, and her lips were mumbling inarticulate sounds. The Man-Wolf and Other Tales Claiming spiritual kinship with Christ, the Negro could be sold at the pleasure of his master, and his family hearthstone trodden down by the slave-dealer. History of the Negro Race in America From 1619 to 1880. Vol 1 Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens Wherever he goes, at whatever distance from his country he may be, he finds a roof and a hearthstone which he may make his own for the time. Across India Or, Live Boys in the Far East The floor was covered with oilcloth, and a sheepskin rug lay upon the hearthstone, while white starched curtains draped the window. The Underworld The Story of Robert Sinclair, Miner The high mantelpiece and its carvings have been previously described, as well as the bloody hearthstone, where the tragical incident occurred connected with Alizon's early history. The Lancashire Witches A Romance of Pendle Forest Ah! how many fair young members of the household band have been decoyed from the hearthstone and immured in gloomy cells. Inez A Tale of the Alamo "A milk-white cake hot off the hearthstone, such as my lord the baron loveth so well," and they passed through the stone-flagged passage into the banqueting-room beyond to see the wonders of the Hall. Heiress of Haddon There, this is the twentieth year my plough has struck this old hearthstone. Israel Potter With a low and fearful moan the old woman lurched sideways, then crashed, like a fallen pine, upon the hearthstone. The Quest of the Silver Fleece A Novel The familiar stepped back, and, stamping upon the hearthstone, it sank like a trapdoor, and he disappeared beneath it, a flash of lightning playing round his dusky figure. The Lancashire Witches A Romance of Pendle Forest 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. 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. The old man, building a small heap of chips on the hearthstone, distended his cheeks and let out his breath slowly, as though coaxing a fire already kindled. Lady Good-for-Nothing Reënforced by railroad, telegraph, and newspaper, the schoolmaster will dispel the stagnation of remote districts, giving to the whole people a horizon wider than their hamlet, and thoughts higher than their hearthstone. The Awakening of China Sadly out of keeping with the peaceful landscape and cheerful hearthstone, were the feelings of a man who crept close to the window shutter, and peered cautiously within the cosy apartment. Idle Hour Stories I knew the great carved oak bedstead in this room, and the high chimney-piece, and the raised hearthstone, and shuddered as I gazed at it. The Lancashire Witches A Romance of Pendle Forest Ah! well do I remember those Whose names these records bear; Who round the hearthstone used to close, After the evening prayer, And speak of what these pages said In tones my heart would thrill! McGuffey's Fifth Eclectic Reader The orange of the masons' trousers, the blue of the hearthstones, these are the most beautiful colors to be seen in Thrums, though of course Corp was unaware of it. Sentimental Tommy The Story of His Boyhood They would show that the socialist should not guide his accursed bark into the tranquil seas of domestic comfort, and anchor it upon the very hearthstone of conjugal felicity. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, December 4, 1841 Still you linger at the hearthstone; You are loath to leave the place. Pipe and Pouch The Smoker's Own Book of Poetry "High hopes faint on a warm hearthstone," etc. Red Pottage And now Nella-Rose sank to the hearthstone and bent her head on the lap of the old woman. The Man Thou Gavest And I heard a voice near the hearthstone, as I thought, say, in a stern whisper, 'Fly the fangs of Belisarius!' Uncle Silas A Tale of Bartram-Haugh It is its hearthstone, its debating-club, the matrix of all its national sentiments. A Midsummer Drive Through the Pyrenees Nothing helped to solve the problem, until at last he discovered the Bible, which the Quaker had hurled at the snake, lying upon the hearthstone. The Redemption of David Corson She had read somewhere that high hopes fainted on warm hearthstones. Red Pottage 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. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 28, July, 1873 It is the love of home which strengthens us to endure toil, privation and suffering, and thousands in all ages have met death willingly to sustain the sanctity of their hearthstones. The Bay State Monthly — Volume 2, No. 6, March, 1885 Many of them had long since renounced allegiance to Jesus, and in the free air of America looked upon churches as anachronisms and hearthstones of superstition. The Lutherans of New York Their Story and Their Problems Ha, ha, ha, and ho, ho, ho, He'd a sharper penance know, We'd have better sport to-day If he got his will and way, Found the spell that lies unknown Underneath his own hearthstone. Three Wonder Plays Ashes of a peat fire still lay upon the cracked hearthstone, and a pair of worn-out boots, left by a tramp or the last tenant, stood on the window-sill. Children of the Mist At midnight there was the old, old cry of despair and anguish, the hurrying for help, where no help was of avail, the desolation of a terror creeping hour by hour closer to the hearthstone. Scottish sketches Would your rights make you or your wife, thriftier, or your hearthstone cleaner? Thrift Thus it happens that men often enshrine on their hearthstone the woman who approximates the worshipped mother, while they seek satisfaction for their erotic needs outside the home. Taboo and Genetics A Study of the Biological, Sociological and Psychological Foundation of the Family Before she came, I had a mind to prove the celebrity of a poet on the spot where he lived and died,—on his very hearthstone, as it were. Italian Journeys The kittens oft gripped at the old wife's spindle, as it tussled over the hearthstone. More English Fairy Tales She smiles at you, and despairing souls go to warm themselves at her knees as at a hearthstone that is never extinguished. Over Strand and Field There was an awkward silence, and William's eyes travelled round the kitchen till they lit on the kettle standing by the hearthstone. I Saw Three Ships and Other Winter Tales And it may be that those who are already provided with husbands will cheerfully renounce work in their favor and return to the hearthstone. The Living Present "What shall I do? what shall I do?" said he, as he crouched upon the cold hearthstone. Homestead on the Hillside Under the sheltered log some tiny sparks of fire still burned, omen of the unquenchable hearthstones which the land was yet to know! The Mississippi Bubble He came up to her on the hearthstone, raised her hand, and kissed the little pink palm. V. V.'s Eyes Prudy took up a second large mug that stood warming on the hearthstone, and began to pour the eggy-hot from one vessel to the other until a creamy froth covered the top. I Saw Three Ships and Other Winter Tales How was it that never before had she found the hearthstone dull? The Living Present Presently Giuseppe entered with a heavy tread, and paused in amazement at what he saw on his hearthstone. John of the Woods But on no hearthstone fell the gloom of death so darkly as upon that low, brown house, where a trembling woman and a frail young child watched and wept over the dying Frank. The English Orphans In these letters I do not intend to mistake a pedlar for a mountaineer, nor a hearthstone for a granite peak. The Glory of English Prose Letters to My Grandson He hurled it through the door, and it clanged and leapt from the further wall across the cold hearthstone. Wulfric the Weapon Thane Your true patriot sees home and hearthstone in the welfare of his country. Have faith in Massachusetts; 2d ed. A Collection of Speeches and Messages If a bomb had exploded in the midst of the hearthstone, the astonishment that ensued upon this simple statement could not have been greater. The Frontiersmen It was, at the least, disturbing to have a lovely woman rise out of the major's very hearthstone and claim him as a familiar spirit with the exquisite frankness of a child. Andrew the Glad At the door one of the dogs stopped, sniffed the keen frosty air, turned quietly, and went back to the hearthstone. Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895 The father's prayer at the hearthstone was vital to the household as the breath of their nostrils; morning and evening the voice of parents and children mingled together in the worship of God. Sketches of the Covenanters Cressida had always fought for the hearthstone and the fireside, and the humour of Destiny is sometimes to give us too much of what we desire. Youth and the Bright Medusa "I am a little large for a cricket," went on Albert; "but I'd not quit this hearthstone, so my stool stays." The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming. "So I had a letter wrote," she says, getting up to scrub the hearthstone, a feat she performs without kneeling, for the merest forward tilt of her body brings her hands upon the floor. The Bed-Book of Happiness There was still a little red gleaming between the bars, and Kit would have liked to go in and warm his toes on the hearthstone. Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895 Meanwhile the sunny Kansas prairies lay waiting for the hearthstone and the plow. Vanguards of the Plains How bright they rise and wreathe my hearthstone round, Divine my thoughts, reply without a sound, And with them many a shape that memory sees, As dear as they, but crowned with aureoles these! The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell The wrecked goods supplied them with the necessaries of life, and the rended planks of the dismembered vessel contributed to the warmth of the hovel hearthstone. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 4 Elsewhere, the skulking traveler received a chary welcome, but in the silent fastness of the hills latchstring and hearthstone and tobacco store were for genial sharing. Broken to the Plow The tread of this wild, intoxicating, heated midnight dance jars all the moral hearthstones of the city. The Abominations of Modern Society They are told that this household desires to have its goods and hearthstone gods transplanted two streets east. The Art of the Moving Picture In the forepart of the boat the Indians had fixed a piece of tin with a few bricks round it, forming a hearthstone and stove. Five Nights Two more children were born to brighten his hearthstone and refresh his memories of childhood and the enchanting ways of children. Eugene Field, a Study in Heredity and Contradictions — Volume 2 He had an aptitude for kindling the fires of domestic harmony, but he had discovered overnight the futility of fanning a hearthstone blaze when the flue was choked so completely. Broken to the Plow Right here we run up against the danger signal if our business success wins us away from the hearthstone. Laugh and Live It is generally keyed to the hearthstone, and keeps quite close to it. The Art of the Moving Picture Once children were born to our union and a hearthstone established, the family became the magnet of my life. Reed Anthony, Cowman Before thine altar tribal flags are furled, Fain wouldst thou make one hearthstone of the world. John Marr and Other Poems That makes things unpleasant about the domestic hearthstone. What Dreams May Come Christmas in the South is always a season of festivity, and the magnet of mother and home yearly drew us to the family hearthstone. The Log of a Cowboy A Narrative of the Old Trail Days There is a touch of the hearthstone priestess about the woman. The Art of the Moving Picture But he was afterwards discovered sleeping sweetly upon the hearthstone, after a hearty meal of empty barrels and boxes. Cobwebs from an Empty Skull Then Mr. Smith smoothed up his hat with his handkerchief, wiped the accumulated sorrow from his eyes, placed his hat upon his head, and sailed serenely out and down the stairs toward his desolated hearthstone. Elbow-Room A Novel Without a Plot When this happened, a crooked bough sticking up in the middle of the fire, like a curved fang, would jump out on to the hearthstone as though frightened by the noise. The Moon Rock As the wagon on the trail is home, naturally the fire is the hearthstone, so we gathered and lounged around it. The Log of a Cowboy A Narrative of the Old Trail Days The Germans are long-lived, and almost every domestic hearthstone supports the easy-chairs of grandparents. The Last Leaf Observations, during Seventy-Five Years, of Men and Events in America and Europe Close to the hearthstone, 10 With long thoughts of thee, Thy lonely lover Sits now, remembering All the spent hours And thy fair beauty. Sappho: One Hundred Lyrics Nettles almost breast-high carpeted the kitchen floor to the hearthstone. True Tilda Upon the hearthstone there shot up a cheerful blaze, for the night was damp and chilly, and the flickering light sent Mistress Penwick's hair first amber, then bronze. Mistress Penwick But she could, of course, only pause at the hearthstones of others. The Precipice "Lard, no, my dear," returned her crony, hastily dropping the crooked iron bar with which she had been drawing together the logs upon her hearthstone. North, South and over the Sea A tumbledown chimney overgrown with brambles and vines told of an abandoned hearthstone. Composition-Rhetoric Better hide your ideal in your heart than shatter it on the unswept hearthstone of the commonplace. A Woman of the World Her Counsel to Other People's Sons and Daughters In early times men, only, were deemed capable of handling fire, whether at the altar or the hearthstone. Eighty Years and More; Reminiscences 1815-1897 In olden times ample ventilation was secured through the massive open chimneys, which, with their generous hearthstones, was such a distinguishing and healthful feature of the homes of our ancestors. Minnesota; Its Character and Climate Likewise Sketches of Other Resorts Favorable to Invalids; Together With Copious Notes on Health; Also Hints to Tourists and Emigrants. It was plain that Danilo's own hearthstone was a tradition, something stretching back into a misty past, and that he was finding a stimulation in crossing the threshold of this far Western home. The Blood Red Dawn |
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