62 Verbs to Use for the Word hearth

Breakfast over, he removes the tray and other things off the table, folds up the breakfast-cloth, and sets the room in order, by sweeping up all crumbs, shaking the cloth, and laying it on the table again, making up the fire, and sweeping up the hearth.

Thus leave the sermon dreary, Thus leave the lonely hearth; No more a spirit weary A free one of the earth! DEATH.

Oft cheered the shepherds round their social hearth; Whom levity or spleen could ne'er entice To purchase chat or laughter at the price Of decency.

In the light of such events where, on German soil, Germans murderously attacked their fellow-countrymen on such ridiculous pretexts, it requires little imagination to explain the outburst of brutality against Belgians who dared to defend hearth and home.

He took some vine-twigs which he threw in the fireplace, and soon a cheerful flame lighted up the hearth.

In establishments of this kind, the cook will, after having lighted her kitchen fire, carefully brushed the range, and cleaned the hearth, proceed to prepare for breakfast.

" Mr. Wilks bent down and, taking up a small brush, carefully tidied up the hearth.

And to laugh at men's affairs is a woman's privilege, tending to enliven the domestic hearth.

He seeks the dear paternal hearth, To die by his fond parent's side; To him the dearest friends on earth, Who with a smile each tear would hide.

She approached the hearth with slow steps, blew on the embers, relighted the lamp, and placing it so as to throw the light on her master's face, she said to him anxiously: You are in pain, are you not?

Notwithstanding this tragical result, however, the murderer alike of the father and the son boldly returned to Paris, where he was visited and congratulated by numbers of the nobles, who, instead of shrinking from all contact with a man who had desolated the hearth and home of a sorrowing and now childless widow, were loud in their encomiums on his bravery and skill.

The structure now before us seems to have been first granted to Sir Nicholas Lestrange, who perhaps intended, like other men, to establish his household gods in the niches whence he had thrown down the images of saints, and to lay his hearth where an altar had stood.

The inhabitants, finding themselves unable to make head against the dauntless pirates, abandoned their hearths, together with all they had not time to carry away.

Bates, my guard and housekeeper, was brushing the hearth with deliberate care.

He crossed the hearth and set it on the table at Sir Beverley's elbow.

Bunny was fixing the hearth (she showed us the very spot) brick and found a brick.

Why, Obed even used aluminum cooking utensils equal to theirs, though not meant for camping particularly; there were several rocking chairs, and one big fireside chair that looked mighty inviting indeed, as it flanked the broad hearth where Obed had a blaze going.

"It is not for the iconoclastic inventor or architect to improve the hearth out of existence."

* * The house is old, the trees are bare, Moonless above bends twilight's dome; But what on earth is half so dear So longed foras the hearth of home?

Isak he went about building, notching his baulks and fitting up his framework; also he managed a hearth and fireplace of picked stones, though this last was troublesome, and Isak himself was not always pleased with his work.

Nor were we less profoundly moved to thought by the sight of women mourning their desolated hearths and missing or captive children, or by the moral impression left on the faces and bearing of many prisoners by the hateful regime which was intended to destroy, in those who were subjected to it, the feeling of human dignity and self-respect.

In the smallest villages, as well as in Paris, the mortality was such that at Argenteuil, for example, where there were wont to be numbered seven hundred hearths, there remained no more than forty or fifty."

Aunt Mercy had dusted it and ornamented the hearth with bunches of lilacs in a broken pitcher.

A stove stood in the southwest corner, but it was not black and shining; it was rust-red and ash-littered, and the ashes had overflowed the hearth and spilled to the unswept floor.

That being successfully accomplished, she commenced her story by pointing out the old hearth, and explaining the kitchen arrangements of olden times.

62 Verbs to Use for the Word  hearth