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Example sentences for "hearths"

Lexicographically close words:
heartes; heartfelt; hearth; hearthrug; hearthrugs; hearthstone; hearthstones; heartie; heartier; heartiest
  1. The British Government, too, did not wish to keep the German prisoners who had fought with such gallantry longer from their hearths and homes.

  2. Their hearths and homes could well spare them a little longer.

  3. Hearths and jambs, of brick, look best painted over with blacklead, mixed with soft-soap.

  4. Stone hearths should be rubbed with a paste of powdered stone, (to be procured of the stonecutters,) and then brushed with a stiff brush.

  5. Michael Davitt was the founder and mainspring of the Land League and it is within my memory that in the hearts and the talks of the people around their fireside hearths he was at this time only second to Parnell in their hope and love.

  6. It has become necessary to protect our most sacred possessions, the Fatherland, our very hearths against ruthless destruction.

  7. Let the bones of the dead war against us; in life, they were men like ourselves, and no saints in the calendar so holy as the freemen who fight for their hearths and their altars.

  8. The curse of all time be on him who draws the first native blood in sight of the altars and hearths of London!

  9. To lonely hearths the presences that gladdened them before.

  10. Did we leave behind The graves of our kin, the comfort and ease Of our English hearths and homes, to find Troublers of Israel such as these?

  11. At many hearths the fires burn dim, The vacant chairs are closer drawn Where weary hearts draw nearer them And softly whisper, "they are gone.

  12. Around their hearths by night, What gladsome looks of household love Meet in the ruddy light!

  13. All listened, awed, wonder-stricken, and transported in spirit to the hearths which they had left, and around which they had often kept joyous vigil by the light of the burning turf.

  14. I block the roads, and drift the fields with snow; I chase the wild-fowl from the frozen fen; My frosts congeal the rivers in their flow, My fires light up the hearths and hearts of men.

  15. And, mindful that the day is come, On all the hearths in Christendom The fires are quenched, to be again Rekindled from the sun, that high Is dancing in the cloudless sky.

  16. But who would dream our sober sires Had learned the old world's ways, And warmed their hearths with lawless fires In Shirley's homespun days?

  17. And though they sweep their hearths no less Than maids were wont to do, Yet who of late, for cleanliness, Finds sixpence in her shoe?

  18. Sir Niel Campbell had performed his mission well, and kindness and truth so long unknown, now eagerly opened their hearths and hearts to the patriot king.

  19. Many domestic hearths will be upturned, extinct, destroyed; the women likewise passing through the terrible probation.

  20. The homes of the farmers whose sons bleed on fields of battle, are invaded, their hearths threatened with desolation, and the helmsmen sip Champagne, paid for by the people!

  21. In Portugal the hearths of Mugem and Cabeco da Arruda are distinguished by their triangular microliths and are undoubtedly Pre-Neolithic, because there is neither pottery nor any trace of domesticated animals, excepting, possibly, the dog.

  22. The teeth were associated with bones of the woolly rhinoceros, of the reindeer, and of two varieties of the horse, as well as with evidences of Mousterian hearths and flint implements.

  23. The difference is that in the shelter of the Castillo grotto the climate is recorded only through the changing forms of animal life which are mingled around the fire-hearths and with the flints in the ascending levels.

  24. As to its stratigraphic relations, the type station of Solutre exhibits lower and middle Solutrean above Aurignacian hearths and deposits; that of Placard, Charente, shows the middle and upper Solutrean overlaid by a Magdalenian layer.

  25. In the somewhat older Acheulean-Mousterian station of La Micoque, along the Vezere, the fire-hearths contain almost exclusively the remains of horses and relatively few remains of bison and wild cattle, but no reindeer.

  26. Fire-hearths containing remains of the forest fauna, also the alpine chamois and marmot, the cave-hyaena, and the leopard.

  27. The many shells of the moisture-loving snail Helix nemoralis, found in the fire-hearths of Mas d'Azil are proofs of the humidity of the climate, a fact confirmed by the contemporary flood deposits of the Arize.

  28. There is little direct evidence in regard to the wild horse, the remains of which do not occur in the hearths of Azilian times.

  29. You have lit a fire among Englishmen which will kindle a hundred thousand hearths in a cleaner world.

  30. He would give much to be in a chair by one of those hearths and in the thick of that blowsy fragrance.

  31. Also, Lady, how will it be with their homes and families--the hearths that have given you such faithful shelter?

  32. Stout men trembled by their hearths with dread of some paralytic old woman supposed to be a witch.

  33. Next morning the women sweep out their houses and hearths and set the sweepings on broken wooden plates.

  34. Next morning the women of the town sweep out their houses and hearths and deposit the sweepings on broken wooden plates.


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