hearthful

Definitions

1. The amount a fireplace can hold.
2. A quantity (of something) contained within a fireplace.
3. A quantity (of something) sitting on a hearth outside a fireplace.
4. A homeful; enough to fill a cosy domestic situation.

Equivalents

Examples

“All furnaces were built with two sumps, wells or forehearths in which the molten aluminum accumulated, one hearthful or about two metric tons at a time.”

“They sawed and hacked and somehow managed to acquire⟳ hearthfuls of fuel to see⟳ them through.”

“Another bard, Rhys Goch Eryri, between the years 1385 and 1448, describes the dragon's colour as similar to a hearthful of fire in a smithy, a significant comparison for such a fire is not composed of lambent flames, but of a golden-red glow.”

“Shortly before Thanksgiving, oil prices and expectations rising apace, I had accumulated a healthy hearthful of ashes which I painstakingly distributed on my lawn.”

“Give⟳ me refuge, o hearthsful of fire”

“I hugged the fat, ceiling-high contraption — I would have⟳ preferred a hearthful of roaring fire, but I was here, where rooms are heated by stoves — then set⟳ to kneading some warmth back into my cheeks and palms.”

“A hearthful of flames flung warmth into this room, cheerily bouncing their glow off polished walnut furniture and silver-gilt.”

“famished after a baconless dinner and a snack of cold weak tea and heavy bread, miserably shod, and with nothing to look⟳ forward⟳ to in the evening but a hearthful of wet⟳ clothes steaming before an inadequate wood fire, source of light⟳ as well as heat.”

“And if gunning over an intelligent handsome setter enriches my sport, certainly a hearthful of them on a winter evening or speckled faces peering out of our station wagon are things to value.”

“Of the company, one was on the ground insensible; another was in a yet more deplorable condition; another was nodding over a hearthful of battered pots, pieces of pipes, and oozings of ale.”

“Again he begins to weave his spell⟳ around Antonia, whispering in her ear that it was foolish of her to have⟳ given father and lover the pledge she has; so huge a sacrifice is not to be expected of one with her talent, her beauty, her charm; what can domestic felicity, even with a hearthful of brats thrown in, weigh⟳ in the scales against the applause of the adoring multitude?”

“And to whoever came there, to a house that was much too small to hold⟳ its contents, the result⟳ of moving from bigger dwellings, there was always a hearthful of homely welcome⟳, with no humbug, whenever he or she entered, and the offer⟳ of a meal too almost before they sat, except to the immediate neighbours, who were as much at home there as ourselves.”

“I did not leave⟳ you when I was young and how can I quit⟳ now that we are the parents of a hearthful of children?”

“If you want⟳ your wife to respect⟳ you for your work⟳, you can demonstrate⟳ your respect⟳ for her work⟳ by heaping on her a hearthful of appreciation.”

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