Word: hearths
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...hearth my guest I seated...
...chum and I were sitting on the hearth-rug warming our feet. We had been sitting there with the light out for some time, talking about house-breaking. I was urging that it was a safe and lucrative occupation; he had taken the opposite ground, and, as usual, was having rather the best...
...pass Sunday, and do not want a fire lighted, he puts himself to a great deal of pains to keep the fire blazing all day. And if I tell him I shall be back at a certain time, I am sure, upon my arrival, to find a desolate hearth...
...gods of my unlucky hearth restore...
...loss which has never been fully replaced. January, 1764, on account of the prevalence of small-pox in Boston, the General Court removed their sessions to Harvard Hall, and the fire kept up for their benefit in the library is supposed to have penetrated to a beam beneath the hearth. In the middle of a very tempestuous night, that of January 24, 1764, the fire broke out, and as it was vacation, and but two or three persons were left in that part of Massachusetts. Hall most distant from Harvard, the flames when discovered were beyond control. Massachusetts, Stoughton...