chimney place

American  

noun

1. an open hearth.

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chimney place

Harding Powell was sitting between the drawn blinds, alone in the black hollow of the chimney place.

From The Flaw in the Crystal by Sinclair, May

The eyes of the guests were turned half in wonder toward the old chimney place, and half smilingly toward the bride.

From Dorothy Dale in the City by Penrose, Margaret

Crowding round the chimney place to dry their clothes now stiff with ice, the bushrangers learned from the Indian women that Schenectady lay completely unguarded.

From Canada: the Empire of the North Being the Romantic Story of the New Dominion's Growth from Colony to Kingdom by Laut, Agnes C. (Agnes Christina)

She breaks loose and flies back again to the chimney place, where she stands at bay.

From Dramatic Technique by Baker, George Pierce

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