He was standing on the hearthrug with his arm round Cynthia's waist, and his other hand raising one of hers to his lips.

The book he had been reading lay where he had put it down, on the hearthrug at her feet.

A man, recently washed and brushed, stood on the hearthrug before a pier glass, arranging a white necktie, part of his evening dress.

Anne gave him some tea, and he set it on the hearthrug between his feet.

I am the half that is dour and practical and canny, he is the fanciful half; my desire is to be the family solicitor, standing firm on my hearthrug among the harsh realities of the office furniture; while he prefers to fly around on one wing.

He stands on the hearthrug of his own special sanctum in his handsome house in Dorset Square, with his back to the fire, cigarette in his mouth, his hands now in his pockets, now waving in the air, as he vivaciously tells me the story of his busy, energetic and wonderfully interesting life.

She opened the letter by the flickering firelight, which was stronger on the hearthrug than the light of the dim November day.

On hearthrug in the winter-time We lay and read it over; We read it in the summer's prime, Amidst the hay and clover.