I took a seat at the end of the hearthstone opposite that towards which my landlord advanced […].1847 December, Ellis Bell [pseudonym; Emily Brontë], chapter I, in Wuthering Heights: […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Thomas Cautley Newby, […], →OCLC:
I am going to my own hearth-stone, / Bosomed in yon green hills alone,1846, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Good-Bye, line 15:
The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field, and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearth-stone, all over this broad land1861, Abraham Lincoln, First inaugural address:
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The denominational relations of a household will shape the future political positions of the young men growing around the hearth-stone, just as they did those of their fathers1876, Richard J. Hinton, English Radical Leaders, page 55:
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A soft kind of stone used to whiten doorsteps, scour floors, etc.
Lastly, there is the hearth-stone barrow, piled up with hearth-stone, Bath-brick and lumps of whiting1861, Henry Mayhew, London labour and the London Poor, volume 1, page 29:
hearthstone
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Etymology From hearth + stone.
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To scour, as a floor, with hearthstone.
We've a woman come in twice a week, to scrub, and red-brick, and hearthstone, and black-lead, and the rest we manage ourselves.1876, Hallberger's Illustrated Magazine, page 202: