Hearthstones [noun]

At that she snatched the child from his goal, the sharp curb of the hearthstone, and set him on her shoulder.

The field from which this class is gathered is an extensive one, and its outer limits are near to every hearthstone.

There was sorrow in every household for friends fallen in battle, and Poverty sat by many a hearthstone.

Five shillings a week for six persons meant starvation and creeping death, "an empty armry and a cold hearthstone."

Often as he sat doing his sums on the hearthstone, with a bit of charcoal for a pencil, his mother would sigh sadly.

Without another look he stretched himself upon the hearthstone below the bed.

He was always looking for romance, forgetting that the most wonderful romance is that of the hearthstone and of the quiet heart.

In May, 1872, a new mother came in, to keep the hearthstone bright at the Beloit home.

One felt her hopefulness, her serenity of soul, as one feels the cheer of a warm hearthstone.

He hurled it through the door, and it clanged and leapt from the further wall across the cold hearthstone.