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Wiktionary
- n. The area around the fireplace in the living-room of a family house. Being literally beside the hearth.
- adj. Used to identify something as normally being in the area of the fireplace.
- adj. Pertaining to an activity normal to the household, usually associated with the living-room, whether or not it has a real fireplace.
Examples
“Chapter 16, page 65: “He looked more like someone Anderson would expect to find hearthside in some Ivy League library reading Dostoyevsky.””
“Beauty and light glowed from classic mantel and carven cornice and walls grotesquely figured, while a sleek black cat rose yawning from hearthside sleep that his master's start and shriek had disturbed.”
“Closing the first and shortest stanza, they draw us into the hearthside of the poem.”
The Guardian: Poem of the week: A Fire Shared by Peter Didsbury
“Our expeditions are but tours, and come round again at evening to the old hearthside from which we set out.”
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“Jean was lying on the hearthside rug playing with a doll.”
“There, seated in splendid comfort, sat Father Morrison, hands clasped around his belly, feet stretched out, dozing, comfortable as a cat on a hearthside rug.”
“She grabbed a medium-sized log from the hearthside basket and gently placed it diagonally across the top; she sat back on the couch, watching the flames, transfixed.”
“Is it all right to suggest the major reason Leverman has joined the hearthside Hannibals sending their red elephants east?”
“British Gary says: or a bear from a shaggy hearthside rug”
Think Progress » VIDEO: Powell Says U.S. Went Into Iraq Without Enough Troops
“That if there is a god, then it is the thing that separates us from a corpse or a tree from a pile of fire wood or a bear from a shaggy hearthside rug.”
Think Progress » VIDEO: Powell Says U.S. Went Into Iraq Without Enough Troops
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