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hearth

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hearth
symbol of home life. [Folklore: Jobes, 738]
See : Domesticity
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The light from the hearth quivered upon the flowers and foliage that were wrought into its oaken back; and the lion's head at the summit seemed almost to move its jaws and shake its mane.
Grandfather's Chair by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context
Then he sat down on the hearth among the ashes and they all held their peace, till presently the old hero Echeneus, who was an excellent speaker and an elder among the Phaeacians, plainly and in all honesty addressed them thus:
The Odyssey by Homer View in context
As soon as he got indoors he put the Serpent down on the hearth before the fire.
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