What is "hearths"

Usage examples of "hearths".

Brinan and Crisavec suddenly burst into the space in the middle of the Mammoth Hearth, running down the passageway from the Aurochs and Crane hearths, chasing each other.

The fireplace was only the first of a row of hearths extending down the middle of the longhouse, a dwelling that was over eighty feet in length and almost twenty feet wide.

As they were led along a well-trodden passageway that ran down the middle of the longhouse next to several hearths, she noticed wide benches with furs piled on them, extending out from the walls.

It was a casual, everyday, morning meal with some people cooking at their own hearths and others gathering at the large first hearth that held the primary fireplace and several small ones.

The person who is adopted receives gifts from everyone, and in the name of the hearth that is adopting, gifts are distributed to the rest of the hearths in the Camp.

She had clung to the belief that Jondalar would forget their harsh words and return, especially since it seemed that every time she glanced toward the cooking hearth, she caught a glimpse, between the support posts and objects hanging from the ceiling in the intervening hearths, of him as he turned away.

Jondalar positioned himself so that he could see most of the Mammoth Hearth by looking down the passageway and through the open areas of the hearths that separated them.

He lifted his head and looked across the darkened hearths in her direction.

On the northeast she counted four huge outdoor hearths and two distinct work areas.

There were none of the usual household goods or large cooking hearths to be seen, only one small fireplace.

The floor of the individual hearths was bare earth, with woven mats scattered around for sitting or serving food.

Lesser Hearths would not be permitted to join its several parts together at its leisure.

There were six separate hearths inside, and a selection of special-purpose anvils.

Smoke drifted up from hearths outside the doors of huts and from a larger fire on the platform.

Martha and Lisketter were dragged up to the earthen mound, past larger buildings of wood and thatch, past hearths being prepared for cooking.