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hearth and home

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hearth and home (literary)

your family and home. His first loyalties are to hearth and home.

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And as he soberly and thoughtfully puffed at his old pipe, and as the Dutch clock ticked, and as the red fire gleamed, and as the Cricket chirped; that Genius of his Hearth and Home (for such the Cricket was) came out, in fairy shape, into the room, and summoned many forms of Home about him. The Cricket on the Hearth by Dickens, Charles View in context More results

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