Inside the sitting room, the only light was a hearth fire that threw our quivering shadows against the wall.

Inside was a hearth with smoke going up through a hole in the roof, and a cauldron for cooking food.

There was a hearth, but with no fire on it, and John decided that he would sleep in the house.

Under each was a hearth, a simple excavation, two feet across and a few inches deep, and filled with ashes.

There was a hearth in that kitchen, and there were ashes still smouldering in the hearth, from the night before.

The floor was of clay, and in the centre of the building there was a hearth made of slabs of stone.

Now the king sat in the winter house, in the ninth month: and there was a hearth before him full of burning coals.