Hearth in example sentence

The proper economic policy was to teach people to venerate the throne (so that they would respect property), the paternal hearth (so that they would not marry imprudently young), and the religious altar (so that they would fear pre-marital sex).

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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