No longer will men be reduced to the cultivation of those meeker virtues that grace and adorn life; no more will they study those accomplishments that make home happy and their hearth cheerful.
Well, John, our fire isn't out of counting, like some of the old hearth fires in Yorkshire.
There was a bright fire burning on this hearth and a large fur rug before it.
Then John, holding it between his finger and thumb, walked straight to the hearth and threw the whole roll into the fire.
Here not a German word was to be heard; the talk was entirely in Slavonic; even around the hearth where Frau Franzka received her intimate friends, all spoke in that tongue.
Truedale pulled the couch to the hearth for Nella-Rose, piled the pillows on one end and then seated himself on the stump of a tree which served as a settee.
There was a dying fire on the hearth and the room was in order except for the wide table upon which still lay the work Lynda had been engaged with before she left the house.
Truedale was sitting by the tiny hearth in his diminutive living room.
The spark upon the hearth had become a flame; it had found something upon which to feed.
Little Ann soon learned to love the place and had her tiny chair beside the hearth or table.
It was a smart little breeze and it flippantly sent the ashes flying on the hearth and several sheets of paper broadcast in the room.
She called the dogs and the cats in; she set the small tea table by the hearth and lighted just fire enough to take the chill from the room and yet leave it sweet and fresh.
The essence of this ceremony, as we have already said, was the induction of the bride into the worship of her husband's ancestors through their both making an offering on the family hearth and eating a sacrificial meal together.
At any rate, the hearth was the place where offerings were made to the departed ancestors, and the flame on the hearth was believed to represent the spirit of the departed.
Edmonton Ridgar sat at the hearth gazing into the leaping flames, and Rette de Lancy passed and repassed among the shifting shadows, busy at some kindly task.
He ceased again, and McElroy could hear his breathing, see the whitened knuckles of his hands grasping the poker from the hearth where he had absently stirred the leaping fire.
The muffled voice fell silent, save for the sobs that would no longer be withheld, and there was an awful stillness in the room, broken by a stick falling on the hearth and the added roar in the chimney.
My two hands closed like steel round his throat, and by his head, thus, I dragged him from the hearth out into the centre of the room.
I looked across the hearth at him with a half amused, half ironical smile, and said nothing.
The glowing edifice on the hearth collapsed with a darting of sudden flame and a rolling of red cinders.
He who has hospitality to dispense," said he, smiling down at her mutinous grace, "should never ask whence or how the guest came to his hearth .
The light-keeper sate down by his lonely hearth and buried his gaze in the glowing wood-embers, over which, with each fitful thundering rush of wind round the chimney, fluttered little eddies of silvery ash.
The downright old baronet was even prepared, in an unformed sort of way, to see his successor that was to be return to the paternal hearth the richer for a few gentlemanly vices, provided he left his nonsense behind him.
He piled up the hearth with faggots till the flames roared again.
She was standing by the hearth holding each foot alternately to the great logs flaming on the tiles, ever and anon looking over her shoulder at Adrian, who had advanced closer, without self-consciousness, but still in silence.
She had stooped to the hearth and lifted the bowl of porridge.
She set the brushwood on the hearth alight, and threw some broken branches over it to make a blaze.
Penelop's father said, she would fly back to the mountain and her own people, and never more sit by her husband's hearth and churn or spin for him.
Deirdre was kneeling by the hearthwaiting for the kettle to boil.
She had made the floor of beaten clay too, and had gathered from the creek bed the grey and brown stones which Donald had built into the hearth and chimney with seams of lime and fine white sand that he had brought from the Port.
The log that had been smouldering on the open hearth all day broke.
The bottoms were half out of the chairs; the painted wash-stand stood on a square of chilly oil-cloth; the rusty grate and broken hearth were unswept of their ashes; the carpet patched and threadbare.
The red damask curtains would be drawn close, the hearth swept clean, and fresh logs thrown on the andirons.
Miss Clendenning sat beside her, leaning over the hearth in her favorite attitude, her tiny feet resting on the fender.
Her love, her passionate, engrossing attachment, she did not scruple to avow; but she could not become a bride while the stains of blood seemed so recent on the very hearth around which they were sitting.
There was the remnant of a wood-fire in the hearth at the corner, some benches along the walls.
Come, warm thyself before the hearth And eat the good white bread.
When bedtime came and the others were gone, the Mother said to the Bear, "You may sleep here on the hearth if you like, and then you will be safely protected from the cold and bad weather.
He would lie down on the hearth and allow the children to play with him as much as they liked, till by degrees they became so accustomed to him that the door was left unbolted till their black friend arrived.
Stella's first duty after supper was to hear Peter's lessons, while Buster lay on the hearth and I sprawled in a Morris chair with my cigar, and read the morning paper.
It proved to be a dog biscuit, which the recipient at once took to the hearth and began upon.
He cried; and the ingrate answer came In words of steel from a tongue of flame; They dyed his hearth in the blood of kin, And his dear ones fell for the Nation's Sin!
Kirsteen had listened, with one foot on the hearth in her favorite attitude.
He stood before the hearth facing the room, and his figure had the springy abruptness of men who cannot fatten.
And while she was swallowing down what he had caused to be kept back for her, he stood by the hearth in that favourite attitude of his, one foot on the fender, and one hand gripping the mantel-shelf.
There, buried in an armchair in front of the hearth she saw Miltoun with a book on his knee, not reading, but looking up at the picture of the old Cardinal.
The figure by the hearth bowed, and her fright, like some evil bird, came guttering down on her again.
They stood by thehearth in the sitting-room, and on the lips of both came and went a peculiar smile.
A man fled when he was in danger of destroyinghearth and home, when there were children, when he felt himself trampling down ideals, breaking something.
It tore up the hearth in several places (m), and broke some pieces of china in the beaufet (n).
A man was scouring an iron pot on the hearth and looked up in some surprise.
Meantime Jack had followed his example with the other, and shortly both prisoners were standing before the hearth while their captors searched their pockets for firearms and knives.
They ate their supper on a table close to the kitchen hearth for warmth.
On her return, she entered from the parlors that she might more easily reach a divan on the opposite side of the hearth from Orrin.
The cool waters invite us in to drown; the domestic hearth burns up in the hour of sleep, and makes an end of all.
Whereas I can imagine myself yawning all night long until my jaws ached and the tears came into my eyes, although my companion on the other side of the hearth held the most enlightened opinions on the franchise or the ballot.
To be chained to the domestic hearth was to them a misery, the bark of the old hound, and the recognising flutter of the familiar hawk, and the prattle of children became weary!
To write this portion of our history with his eyes--to go on from page to page recording what he witnessed from day to day--to have him seated by our hearth now as he no doubt many a time sat beside Tacitus.
A woman who gives birth to children renders, at least, the same service to the commonwealth as the man who defends his country and his hearth with his life against a foe in search of conquests.
Let us also hold sacred the hearth at which the dutiful German bourgeois house-wife dies a slow death, in order to keep the house comfortable, the table covered and the family in health.
Already in antiquity the hearth was sacred, near it were placed the Lares and patron deities.
There were some whose husbands could not sit by the domestic hearth ten minutes without dismal yawnings, men who depended upon newspapers for all their delight, men whose minds were always in the stable.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hearth" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
