I will order a porch with porphyry steps and alabaster pillars to replace your beloved hearthstone.

There is something pathetic in this desertion of the ancient, central hearthstone.

The deserted hearthstones grew cold.

The Germans are long-lived, and almost every domestic hearthstone supports the easy-chairs of grandparents.

Ken and Felicia were just beginning to be really anxious, when Kirk tumbled in at the living-room door, with a headlong tale of enchanted hearthstones, ebony elephants, cinnamon toast, music that had made him cry, and most of all, of the benevolent, mysterious presence who had wrought all this.

Mrs. Smith, believing that Severin designed to murder her husband, insisted on his calling his young men to assist him, which he did; and on arriving at the scene of slaughter, a most horrid spectacle was before them: five dead bodies weltering in blood, aside from that of the innocent babe, whose little form lay roasted and charred, on the fatal and bloody hearthstone of the drunkard!

On the west the recess beneath the gallery had been deepened to admit a truly ample fireplace, with a flat hearthstone and andirons.

In olden times ample ventilation was secured through the massive open chimneys, which, with their generous hearthstones, was such a distinguishing and healthful feature of the homes of our ancestors.

They returned to the relieved hearthstone loud in Jack's praise, having his promise to enlist them when they were twenty, if the war lasted so long; and if the wise smiled at this, wasn't it well known that the great army now gathering was to set out at latest by the 4th of July?

"To the bachelor who, like myself, has a modest hearthstone, yet no hand but his own to stir the fire, the dinner tables of his married friends and his clubs have been supposed to replace, in a measure at least, the need of family ties.

" He led the sexton to his chamberdesired him to raise the mysterious hearthstone, and dig up the ground beneath it.

They returned to the relieved hearthstone loud in Jack's praise, having his promise to enlist them when they were twenty, if the war lasted so long; and if the wise smiled at this, wasn't it well known that the great army now gathering was to set out at latest by the 4th of July?

Better hide your ideal in your heart than shatter it on the unswept hearthstone of the commonplace.