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Example sentences for "firesides"

Lexicographically close words:
firers; fires; fireship; fireships; fireside; firestick; firewater; firewood; firework; fireworker
  1. As a proof of it, there were the country newspapers, "which reflected the sober opinion of the firesides of the common people.

  2. In December, fur-coated men hurried through the forests of northern Michigan gathering Christmas trees that found their way to warm firesides through the street.

  3. To be poor was to be a fool; thought waited, art waited; and men at their firesides gathered their children around them and talked glowingly of men of dollars, holding them up as prophets fit to lead the youth of the young nation.

  4. The record is written indelibly in the hearts of thousands of soldiers who were stricken with disease on this battlefield, and the story has been told at quiet firesides in every State of the Union.

  5. The record is written indelibly in the hearts of thousands of soldiers who were stricken with disease on this battlefield, and the story has been told at quiet home firesides in every State of the Union.

  6. Fremont, from around the firesides of the American people, when his name was placed at the head of one of the great political parties of the nation.

  7. They soon put many a mile between them and the comfortable firesides at Rayado.

  8. Let us thank the good God who sent us gifts of days like these in the new year, and who tempers the winter winds in blessings to the firesides of the poor, and not mar their perfect beauty with our little differences.

  9. I am near you, the voice of all the firesides you have left behind.

  10. I am quite near you, I, the voice of all those firesides you have left behind you.

  11. Think of the firesides of the future around which will sit the fathers, mothers and children of the years to be!

  12. Cosy firesides in corners, not set back to back in pairs after the modern fashion.

  13. I feel myself compelled into this contest, in defence of the institutions of my own State, the persons and firesides of her citizens, from the insatiable grasp of the slaveholding power as being used and felt in the free States.

  14. When gathered around the firesides of the backwoods people, the conversation generally runs into hunting stories, Indian reminiscences, and wild tales of what the pioneers suffered while establishing themselves in their forest homes.

  15. O, people of the north, hold no longer to your relics of the war, stolen from the firesides of the south!

  16. The head of the bridge, however, over which they must pass, was defended by a strong battery, and the citizens were seen clustering in great numbers to defend their firesides against a foe whom they had once expelled.

  17. An Indian castle or fort defended Teller's or Croton Point from up-river tribes, and it was here that old Chief Croton died while defending the firesides of his people, he being the last warrior to go down before the invaders.

  18. But there came a time when a swarm of the rats surprised a group of bathers, and there were many desolate firesides that night.

  19. A vision of the future rises: I see our country filled with happy homes, with firesides of content,--the foremost land of all the earth.

  20. Up to the crisis of 1850, he succeeded in domesticating himself at most of the pious, moral, and intelligent firesides of New England.

  21. In fact, sir, they will not meet at their own doors and firesides equal numbers in honorable combat--they must always have some great and decided advantage.

  22. They neglected guards and pickets, and when the long nights of winter set in, the men hugged their wives by the firesides instead of their muskets by their watch-fires.

  23. The audience was wretchedly small, but the poor things who were there had left their warm firesides to drive or tramp through the slush of melting snow, and each one was worth a hundred on an ordinary night.

  24. The news spread from street to street, men carried it into the valley, and that night many a heart among the ranches beat quicker and many a voice at the firesides murmured the name of "Kitsap.

  25. On this hint, I frankly made a proposal to the old sealer to undertake the task of restoring these amiable and enlightened strangers to their own firesides and families.

  26. Although she had said much less about our firesides and altars than her husband, I see no reason to doubt that she had ever been quite as faithful as he could be to the one, and as much devoted to the other.


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