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... slaughtered unarmed human beings by townfuls, at the word of command? Had they not eaten the flesh, and drank the hearts' blood of their enemies? Had they not stained the house of God with wholesale massacre? What altar and what hearthstone had they not profaned? What fatigue, what danger, what crime, had ever checked them for a moment? And for all this obedience, labor, and bloodshed, were they not even to be paid such wages as the commonest clown, who only tore the earth at home, received? Did Philip ...

— The Rise of the Dutch Republic, 1555-1566 • John Lothrop Motley

... shirt sleeves with his pipe in one hand and the Teether Pike balanced on his knee. His expression matched that of the children in the matter of gloom, and like them he glanced apprehensively toward the door as if expecting Calamity to issue from his very hearthstone. ...

— The Road to Providence • Maria Thompson Daviess

... and I frankly knock under. But I had in mind something altogether different when I spoke. I was thinking of those idealists who want to bind us hand and foot and render us the slaves of a state where the most intimate relations of life shall be penetrated by legislation and the very hearthstone shall be a ...

— A Traveler from Altruria: Romance • W. D. Howells

... to a leather back, which was glued to the ivory, and formed a hinge. It fell open; and his grasp had been insecure; and the jerk as it opened was enough. It slipped from his fingers, and dropped with a crash upon the hearthstone. ...

— Grey Roses • Henry Harland

... you," said Temperance, "your chin was as smooth as the hearthstone, and now you've got beard enough to fit out ...

— It Might Have Been - The Story of the Gunpowder Plot • Emily Sarah Holt

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