Richard could see the back of a man in the chair beside the cold hearth.

Richard was lying on the floor in front of the cold hearth, unmoving.

I stared at the cold hearth, but watched him from the corner of my eye.

An old woman, too, had drawn a low stool to the cold hearth, and was sitting beside him.

I could think of no good reason that we should have come all this way to face a cold hearth and a cheerless welcome.

These were the cold hearths around which mankind now huddled.

To him she was "like the lighting of a fire on a cold hearth."

Elizabeth seated herself in one of the large chairs by the cold hearth.

His body tensed where he sat in the large chair beside the cold hearth.

"Sit down," he said, and she sat in one of the chairs by the cold hearth.