chimney place
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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“Could you,” asked the printer, “stay patiently in a chimney place to hear what is said in a room?”
From The Legend of Ulenspiegel, Volume I (of 2) And Lamme Goedzak, and their Adventures Heroical, Joyous and Glorious in the Land of Flanders and Elsewhere by Coster, Charles Th?odore Henri de
As he spoke he tossed the entire sheaf of brushes which he held in his hand into the chimney place.
From Countess Erika's Apprenticeship by Schubin, Ossip
They stayed together as long as the remains of a fire of roots burned in the chimney place.
From The Legend of Ulenspiegel, Volume I (of 2) And Lamme Goedzak, and their Adventures Heroical, Joyous and Glorious in the Land of Flanders and Elsewhere by Coster, Charles Th?odore Henri de
In one corner was a chimney place, in which a log burned lazily, opposite a broad, low window, its shelves filled with flower pots, near which, in a harp-backed chair, an old lady sat sewing.
From People of the Whirlpool by Wright, Mabel Osgood
She shivered again, the cutting rasp from the chimney place stinging her with fright.
From Tess of the Storm Country by White, Grace Miller
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