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  • noun Plural form of hearthside.

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Examples

  • At our hearthsides, we gain more than we dared desire, by mutual mercy; at our hearthsides, we bestow and receive a better love, by this power of soft and magnanimous oblivion.

    Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844 Various

  • Germany, the land of the Christmas tree and folk songs, and hearthsides and gay childish laughter, turned into a relentless fighting machine!

    The Better Germany in War Time Being some Facts towards Fellowship

  • Oh, what do the folks who sit snug by their warm hearthsides, knitting their lives into comfortables to wrap around their real feelings and human impulses, ever know about their neighbors who come in to drink tea with them?

    Seven Miles to Arden Ruth Sawyer 1925

  • There are times when he comes amongst us like one who might quite conceivably have been comrade to pelted warriors who fought with clubs and hammers, like one who might have beaten out a rude music by black, smoking hearthsides quite as readily as made tone-poems for the modern concert-room.

    Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers Paul Rosenfeld 1918

  • And surely Chapman was a fascination at hearthsides, with his gospel-tinged backwoods storytelling, even though Howard Means concludes: 'By our modern definitions, John Chapman almost certainly was insane.'

    NPR Topics: News 2011

  • Welcome to what I hope you will experience as a four or five night midwinter-lull footie video festival, to warm your hearts and hearthsides as we trek together round the globe in search of the 2008 perfect goal …

    Soccer Blogs - latest posts 2009

  • River before they returned "-- so that it behooved the Fincastle men to look to their own hearthsides.

    The Winning of the West, Volume 1 From the Alleghanies to the Mississippi, 1769-1776 Theodore Roosevelt 1888

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