chimney place

American  

noun

1. an open hearth.

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Example Sentences

Prescott laughed, but Wayne only grunted and ominously eyed the chimney place.

From The Visioning by Glaspell, Susan

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

The fire roared in the wide chimney place; grandfather sat in his armchair, Mr. McKinley opposite and I on a low stool between them.

From The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume V by Harper, Ida Husted

Miss Mary Marston Gouverneur had ordered the chimneys cleaned, in the manner then prevalent, by making a fire in the chimney place on the first floor, in order to burn out the débris.

From As I Remember Recollections of American Society during the Nineteenth Century by Gouverneur, Marian

A wood fire was smouldering on the andirons in the wide brick chimney place.

From A Daughter of the Sioux A Tale of the Indian frontier by Deming, Edwin Willard