Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A small brush used to sweep up ashes, etc., on a hearth.
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Examples
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Today she overwhelmed me with shrill reproaches, and abased me to the level of a hearth-brush.
Poor Folk 2003
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Marian found her standing in the passage, with a duster in one hand and a hearth-brush in the other.
New Grub Street 2003
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She seemed willing to do her best; though she thrust the hearth-brush into the grates in mistake for the poker, and mal-appropriated several other articles of her craft: but I retired, confiding in her energy for a resting-place against my return.
Wuthering Heights 2002
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Here the hickory-stick broke in two, and the two brands fell controversially out and apart on the hearth, scattering the ashes and coals, and calling for Jennie and the hearth-brush.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 76, February, 1864 Various
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As for John Kendal, he was certainly new and original, but he was respectable notwithstanding; they could be certain that he was not putting his originality on -- with a hearth-brush, for the sake of advertisement.
A Daughter of To-Day Sara Jeannette Duncan
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Then looking round for more surgical needs to operate upon, and finding a hapless horse minus a tail, Alick ingeniously supplied the unbecoming deficiency with bristles out of the hearth-brush.
The Captain's Bunk A Story for Boys M. B. Manwell
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"But why?" yelped the pup, as the maid threw a hearth-brush at his head.
The Nursery, No. 109, January, 1876, Vol. XIX. A Monthly Magazine for Youngest Readers Various
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He had insisted on making himself up, and looked as if he had pressed his face against a gridiron and then garnished his chin with the hearth-brush.
Overture to Death Marsh, Ngaio, 1895-1982 1939
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She was very much out of breath, yet not at all upset, and as she put down the hearth-brush which she had bought of the oil-man, she said it was hot, flung the window further open, straightened a cover, picked up
Jacob's Room Virginia Woolf 1911
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The windows opened on to a garden whence the scent of lilac floated, and the whole room -- down to the hearth-brush, which charmed
Barbara in Brittany E. A. Gillie 1907
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