hearth

The sunny apartment was now cozily dark and lit by the hearth fire Pater Lumley carefully built and tended.

Penelope scooped them up and retired to her comfortable chair near the hearth.

Although the cook was nowhere in sight, she discovered a big pot of porridge keeping warm on the kitchen hearth.

In an age when every middle-class household could afford a few hearth gods, the superior collector consummated his passion for beauty against the “prevailing winds of progress, fashion, democracy, money, and modernity.”

It was also the sound of the latest attempt to revive the smoldering embers of the electronic hearth and save linear television.