hearthstone

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For the next century or so, the rubble provided doorsteps and hearthstone for the local populace and mortar for the building trade, while the Turkish garrison used the carved figures for target practice.

From New York Times • Jul. 8, 2022

The city culturally has been a family without a hearthstone.

From Time Magazine Archive

This noble edifice . . . will contain our hearthstone, our workshop, our temple.

From Time Magazine Archive

Last week the grey Walsh mustache bristled more ferociously than ever as he did legislative battle in defense of his summer hearthstone and of a governmental principle.

From Time Magazine Archive

“Remember,” Francie went on, “how we did our examples on this hearthstone, and the time papa got us a real blackboard eraser and then the stone was like the blackboard in school, only lying down?”

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith