Hearth in example sentence

I stood and warmed my numbed fingers over the blaze, then I looked round; there was no candle, but the uncertain light from the hearth showed, by intervals, papered walls, carpet, curtains, shining mahogany furniture: it was a parlour, not so spacious or splendid as the drawing-room at Gateshead, but comfortable enough.

More example sentences with word hearth

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.

Open-ended, open hearth, open source, open door policy, open bar.

Her most important duty is keeping vigil over the flame of Vesta, the virgin goddess of the hearth.

We named it after the goddess Hestia, the Greek goddess of the hearth and home, because we think the Earth became one.

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