Word: hearths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which they had sent him: "The insects you complained of are crickets and no doubt are found in most of the homes and apartments of Bayside. They are harmless, and many people enjoy their chirping; in fact, there was a poem [sic] dedicated to 'The Cricket on the Hearth and in China they put them in cages to hear them sing...
...followed by a waddling friar and--was it a dog? The Vagabond eyed the Beast fearfully, the hound-like body, the leathery gray hide maculate with patches of glinting hairs, the beak, the swinging pink teats, its ebon Veneficium of Amor between almond eyes. The Beast slunk to the hearth where the Franciscan had established himself comfortably. "Be thou not afraid," the Holy Man intoned softly. "We are of the World Spirit, to comfort such as thou." Further events the Vagabond shall never recall clearly...
...bridge, with its houses jutting over the water, and the traitors' heads stuck up on poles, they hurry on to one of the inns, a warm fire, dinner, and the canary flowing. A huge hound or two yawns about the table for food or crunches a bone on the hearth. Talk is free and boisterous until the fire burns low. Then a young boy, a page or a wandering minstrel, with a lute suspended from a silver cord around his neck, comes in with a repertory of ballads and lyrics, and sings for them--Campion's latest stanzas, perhaps...
...Prior to 1922 rails fluctuated widely in price. Years & prices: 1899, $35; 1900, $30-26; 1901, $28; 1916, $33-38; 1918, $55; 1919, $45; 1920, $55-45; 1921, $40. From 1909 through 1920 open-hearth rails, contrasted to Bessemer rails, commanded an additional...
...richer blessing can fill your own hearts than the consciousness on some bleak winter's evening that your generosity has lighted a fire upon some family's hearth that otherwise would be black and cold and has spread some family table with food where otherwise children would be wanting. I wish my last word to you to be the word GIVE...