hearth-fires

Only 100 years ago there were hearth-fires for children to run into & horses to be trampled beneath.

Survivor: Child Island | Her Bad Mother 2006

Only 100 years ago there were hearth-fires for children to run into & horses to be trampled beneath.

Survivor: Child Island 2006

‘Even so,’ cried the priest, ‘will the king quench in blood the hearth-fires of his foes.’

Prester John 2005

Or if we went to Gibraltar, it was interesting to wonder why we had gone, and to be so glad of getting back, and after dinner joining a pleasant international group in the long reading-room with the hearth-fires at either end which, if you got near them, were so comforting against the evening chill.

Familiar Spanish Travels 2004

Throughout, electricity took the place of candles and slatternly hearth-fires.

Babbit 2004

With the Princess as a sublime figure and strong supplement, Britain becomes the "chosen isle" shining with watch-fires to the sea (ll. 510-11) and hearth-fires to the land.

A Tour of the Sceptic 2001

Margherita and Thomas 'influence quietly ensured bountiful harvests, fertile fields, and healthy children without any overt displays-Sebastian's magic was less useful to the villagers in that regard, but no one ever suffered from hearth-fires that burned poorly, wood that produced more smoke than heat, or indeed anything having to do with fire that went awry.

The Gates Of Sleep Lackey, Mercedes 2002

At home they crouched over tiny hearth-fires or slept the hours away within heaped sheepskins.

The Boat of a Million Years Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1989

At home they crouched over tiny hearth-fires or slept the hours away within heaped sheepskins.

The Boat of a Million Years Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1988

When the smoke of houses will cease, their hearth-fires having been extinguished, when husking-rods will be kept aside, and all the inmates will have taken their food, when mendicants and guests Will cease to wander, I shall select a moment for my round of mendicancy and solicit alms at two, three, or five houses at the most.

The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli