She laid off her town attire, put on her cotton working-dress, kindled afresh the fire on the broad hearthstone and got supper.
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.
And there on the hearthstone were the ashes, and reet i' the middle on 'em the prent of a man's clog.
The hearthstone was soon cleared and raised, and Martin brought out a crock, in which he had placed the gold.
I buried it one day under the hearthstoneof the kitchen, thinking it possible that the Blues might come here.
My fireplace, which is deep, and nearly three feet wide, has a broad hearthstone in front of it, where the live coals tumble down, and a pair of gigantic brass andirons.
The hearthstone is an enormous block of trap rock, with a surface not perfectly even, but a capital place to crack butternuts on.
Hearthstone tales keyed to the mood and using the brush stroke that delineates this especial circle would be unmistakable in their distinction.
They are told that this household desires to have its goods and hearthstone gods transplanted two streets east.
There is a touch of the hearthstone priestess about the woman.
Talking and swearing to himself cheerfully, Bonny applied the end of a broken whiffletree to the blunt lip of the old hearthstone which marked the stage-house chimney.
I do not sit with my children in a home of my own, I still long for a hearthstone of my own, however humble.
The happy mother and son sat together by the old hearthstone that night, telling how proud they were of each other, and how they would prove to the world that they could take care of themselves, as they had long taken care of others.
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.
Soon she was left alone, and she stole from her couch and knelt at the hearthstone and read the missive eagerly and flushed not a little at Count Cantemir's warm words of love that were a prelude to the weightier matters appertaining.
Twas a great square apartment, with low ceiling, a small hearthstoneand an immense bedstead with tester and outer coverings of flowered chintz.
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!
Beneath the hearthstone in the hall of the manor are three casks of gold and three of silver, and all these will belong to you and to me if you assist me; so put your courage to the proof, I pray you.
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.
The shattered pipe upon the hearthstone made Charlotte utter a low, hopeless cry of pain.
Flann put his sword under thehearthstone and pried it up.
Then it went down and the Hags put the hearthstone above it.
No sooner were the words said than the lean, gray, ash-covered cat that lay on the hearthstone sprang on the back of the man's chair.
But if it were a token, what was under the hearthstone was an evil thing--a cockatrice.
Then the first Hag bent her knee to him, and, said she, "Loosen the hearthstone with your sword and you will find a token that will let you know who your father was.
Never will I stay by the hearthstone and submit to be abused by cocks and hounds and men.
So Madame fetched a hatchet, and the lamb was chopped in chunks on the hearthstone and put into the caldron with a sheaf of onions, and I reflected that I had at least secured mutton broth.
We went up an outside staircase into a tiny room with a hearthstone and an iron pot in it, and from this into another room, where the Voyvode's lady welcomed me cordially.
The fire blazed on the hearthstone in the corner, and his wife was making coffee.
It was a narrow slip of a room, about twelve feet by six, with the hearthstone at one end of it, and a barrel that served as larder.
He has been standing on the hearthstonewith his back to the smoked chimney-piece, and now turns round with his glasses to his eyes.
Mr. Tulkinghorn is as imperturbable as the hearthstone to which he has quietly walked.
There is at Santee Agency a piece of limestone, perhaps three feet wide by five feet long, which was the hearthstone of our Dakota mission home.
It was taken a few years ago by my brother, from Minnesota, where it had served the purpose of a hearthstone in one of the original buildings of the mission.
When I had replaced the hearthstone I called Gregory to me, and put in his hands fifty guineas to be divided amongst the servants for their present necessities.
Hark ye, lad, there is gold and jewels hidden away under the hearthstone of the room where my dry herbs are kept.
Flood his black hearthstone till its flames expire, Though your old Sachem fanned his council-fire!
On many a hearthstone burns the cheerful fire; The schoolhouse porch, the heavenward pointing spire Proclaim in letters every eye can read, Knowledge and Faith, the new world's simple creed.
The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot's grave to every heart and hearthstone of this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union when touched as they will be by the better angels of our nature.
None the less, with the homely topics of everyday life for discussion, he was equally at home, and ever a welcome guest at the hearthstone of the humblest dweller in pine forest and mountain glen of his native State.
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.
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.
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.
At the same moment he lifted his head, which had been resting on one hand, and looked across the hearthstone at her, smiling faintly.
But it is something to spend the evil season by one's own poor hearthstone (save that yours is opulent), crouching over the embers and chuckling low over all the dreadful places where one is not!
