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And he characterized North and South as being irrevocably united by "the mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield, and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearth-stone, all over this broad land."

John Stauffer: What Obama Can Learn from Lincoln's Inaugural 2009

The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field, and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearth-stone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.

Today is the 200th birthday of our greatest President. Ann Althouse 2009

Someone had picked up the glass paperweight from the table and smashed it to pieces on the hearth-stone.

Nineteen Eighty-four 2008

But it hurt Sir Philip Forester no more than the hail hurts the hearth-stone.

My Aunt Margaret's Mirror 2008

The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field, and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearth-stone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.

When it went down 2008

But it hurt Sir Philip Forester no more than the hail hurts the hearth-stone.

My Aunt Margaret's Mirror 2008

Someone had picked up the glass paperweight from the table and smashed it to pieces on the hearth-stone.

Nineteen Eighty-four 2008

Cosette, with that touching trust of childhood, which can always be deceived yet never discouraged, had placed her shoe on the hearth-stone also.

Les Miserables 2008

A cat was tearing at the door, and there was a sound of gnawing rats beneath the hearth-stone.

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, Stave 4 The Last of the Three Spirits | Solar Flare: Science Fiction News 2004

If I ever have time I shall patent this invention; why, you may burn brick-dust in it, Bath-brick, hearth-stone, or potsherds!

Erema Richard Doddridge 2004