House and hearth delight me not

Here is our home, our hearth too.

Beside a hearth where no dim shadows flit,

Why art thou banished from our hearth and hall,

Of course, I'm just a cricket singing my way from hearth to hearth, but let me tell you what made me change my mind.

She sat down on the hearth herself without waiting to be asked.

His pipe lay broken on the hearth, instead of a bowl broken at the fountain.

Martha said, going back to her hearth. Tha' thinks it's too big an' bare now.

She had finished her dinner and gone to her favorite seat on the hearth rug.

He was always an advocate of the home and hearth. I... I always thought so.

Go thou my incense upward from this hearth, And ask the gods to pardon this clear flame.

I burnt the brown ash until it was coal and here it lies piled on the hearth.

Spirits surround us on every side they have driven me from hearth and home, from wife and child.

Mr. Bunting was standing in the window engaged in an attempt to clothe himself in the hearth rug and a West Surrey Gazette.

She went out of the room and slammed the door after her, and Mary went and sat on the hearth rug, pale with rage.

She stood at the window for about ten minutes this morning after Martha had swept up the hearth for the last time and gone downstairs.

The only things in the kitchen that did not sneeze, were the cook, and a large cat which was sitting on the hearth and grinning from ear to ear.

When she opened her eyes in the morning it was because a young housemaid had come into her room to light the fire and was kneeling on the hearth rug raking out the cinders noisily.

For all those men, a road was not the way to their family, pleasures or work, but a way of bypassing or attacking, a house was not the hearth and home, but the ambush position,

Nowadays the host does not admit you to his hearth, but has got the mason to build one for yourself somewhere in his alley, and hospitality is the art of keeping you at the greatest distance.

I was surprised to see how thirsty the bricks were which drank up all the moisture in my plaster before I had smoothed it, and how many pailfuls of water it takes to christen a new hearth.

Sometimes, notwithstanding the snow, when I returned from my walk at evening I crossed the deep tracks of a woodchopper leading from my door, and found his pile of whittlings on the hearth, and my house filled with the odor of his pipe.

I had got a couple of old fire dogs to keep the wood from the hearth, and it did me good to see the soot form on the back of the chimney which I had built, and I poked the fire with more right and more satisfaction than usual.

And it happened again, even more spectacularly, in the last half million years when our own ancestors became cultural creatures, they came together around a hearth or a campfire, they divided labor, they began painting their bodies, they spoke their own dialects, and eventually they worshiped their own gods.

Every morning she awoke in her tapestried room and found Martha kneeling upon the hearth building her fire every morning she ate her breakfast in the nursery which had nothing amusing in it and after each breakfast she gazed out of the window across to the huge moor which seemed to spread out on all sides and climb up to the sky, and after she had stared for a while she realized that if she did not go out she would have to stay in and do nothing and so she went out.