Turning to re-enter the house, they were startled by the howl of a dog, answered instantly by a scream from Herod, roosting on one of the arched chimney tops.
Of the factory nothing was to be seen save the dark top of the chimneytowering above the roof of the house in front.
When she reached up in all her glory to raise the chimney from the hanging lamp, he uttered a second and more audible "the devil.
The roof was painted red, there was an imitation chimney and a double open doorway in front trimmed with green.
At the same time it blew over the chimney on its top.
It was of rough, whitewashed stone, and had a steep roof, with a huge chimney at one end.
Right there where the remains of that stone chimney are standing.
Right by the chimney that Harry Ware had indicated was a confused pile of boards and scantlings.
Every one does his work while puffing white clouds of smoke from his mouth as if he were the chimney of a factory, and, instead of the cigar being a distraction, it is a stimulus and a help to labor.
Up in the loft the mice nibbled away at their endless rations of old boots, and a big red-headed woodpecker pounded away on the wall back by the chimney without.
About dark, a thin blue smoke, as from burning paper, curled up from thechimney of the Parsonage, and the Parson came slowly forth.
Jack drove as close as the underbrush would allow, and they proceeded on foot until they were standing before a small log cabin, windowless, doorless, a huge flat stone for a doorstep, and a chimney built of irregular stones.
The wharf and bridge in the foreground form the steam-boat and ferry landing at Chimney Point.
The bricks of the chimneyare the small, imported kind which distinguished many of the edifices in the old states, that were constructed about a century ago.
He kept the flags flying, and remained upon the spot until his little flotilla was consumed, and then, with the small remnant of his brave soldiers, marched off through the woods toward Chimney Point, and reached Crown Point in safety.
Chimney Point is in the southwestern corner of Addison town, Vermont, and is the proper landing-place for those who desire to visit the ruins of Crown Point fortress, on the opposite side of the lake.
The objects by the figure in the foreground are the balustrade and chimney of the hotel, now (1848) a summer boarding-house for strangers.
We left Chimney Point in the evening, a cool, gentle breeze blowing from the northwest.
We caught a last glimpse of the gray ruins as our boat sped by, and before nine o'clock we landed at Chimney Point, opposite Crown Point, where the lake is only half a mile wide.
When the French settlement atChimney Point was broken up on the approach of General Amherst in 1799.
The French, who afterward settled at Chimney Point, on Lake Champlain, frequently visited this lake, and gave it the name of Sacrament, its pure waters suggesting the idea.
The ruins are sufficiently explored; let us pass over to Chimney Point and dine, for the steamer will soon come down the lake to convey us to our Sabbath resting-place at Burlington.
The same year in which the French settled at Chimney Point, they built a strong fort upon the shore opposite, and called it Fort St. Frederic, in honor of Frederic Maurepas, the then Secretary of State.
For many years the chimneys of their deserted dwellings on the eastern shore were standing, and gave the name of Chimney Point to the bold promontory.
One passed into the building, just over the north door, and, crossing a staircase, hit a chimney and fell to the floor.
A glance down the chimney was not reassuring, no gleam of light being visible, yet I was desperate enough to take the chance of discovering some opening below.
A dozen steps took us beyond the chimney jog, and to the top of the back stairs.
If any chimney was there, the stones were protected by wooden casing, which, covered by the red paper, was effectively concealed.
The chimney had apparently never been used, the interior being clear of soot, and was built of a single layer of stone, Southern fashion, the irregular fragments mortared together, and plastered smoothly on the inside.
This could be easily pried away, leaving the chimney itself open to attack.
This they found intact, but smoky and entirely dark,--the avalanche had smothered the chimney and shut out the light from the window.
I forbade Julius ever to speak to him, but if anyone could do my boy good, I should welcome him, even if he were a chimney sweep.
Some bricks from the chimney loosened as they approached, and they heard them clatter down the roof and fall with a dull thud on the beach below.
A half-waned moon shone through the perforations in a round terra-cotta chimney into the street's angular greenish shadow.
When one leaned to put a bundle of sticks on the fire one could see up the chimney an oblong patch of blackness spangled with stars.
It is unfortunate, but true, that the first glimpses we get of the spires of Oxford are in conjunction with the tall red-brick chimney and not elegant University paper-mills.
At the Victoria Dock are now located the furnace and chimney which jointly make up "the Queen's Pipe.
The gigantic chimney served by this fireplace presents a remarkable and picturesque appearance as seen from the road.
When Falstaff wants to use the chimney as a hiding-place, Mrs. Page says, that they always use to discharge their birding-pieces up the chimney.
BILLY BEG AND HIS BULL[1] [Footnote 1: Adapted from In Chimney Corners, by Seumas McManus.
Richards; and to Mr Seumas McManus for Billy Beg and his Bull, from In Chimney Corners.
Then the wolf was very angry indeed, and tried to get down the chimney in order to eat up the little pig.
The roof and chimney of Venn's caravan showed behind the tracery and tangles of the brake.
At the other side of the chimney stood the settle, which is the necessary supplement to a fire so open that nothing less than a strong breeze will carry up the smoke.
The steam came from his leggings and ascended the chimney with the smoke, while he thought of those who were upstairs.
Under the chimney sat a servant, who held in one hand a piece of roast meat, and with the other lifted a mouthful toward his mouth, which never reached it; when it was just in front of his mouth, he had also been turned to stone.
Hard by, a cottage chimney smokes From betwixt two aged oaks, Where Corydon and Thyrsis, met, Are at their savory dinner set.
All these heroes stepped from the novel on to the stage; and the whole London public, from peers to chimney sweeps, were interested about a set of ruffians whose occupations are thievery, murder, and prostitution.
A door gives light, ventilation and access to the interior, a tiny chimney sticking out of the ground above carries off the extra fumes of smoke.
The unsightly factory chimney is beginning to sprout up in the suburbs; old and narrow streets are making way for broader and better; and insanitary quarters giving place to modern hygiene.
A chimney may not be a decorative object, but then it does not profess to be a spire or a pinnacle far in the spiritual city.
The chimney consumed Palmer also; and he gave place to another.
I had felt every knob on the fireplace and chimneypiece, and every stone up the chimney as far as I could reach.
I sent back in answer to ask her to try all the stones and bricks as far up the chimney as she could reach.
We examined the walls closely, but without any result, the only opening being a small hole near the roof, about four inches square, and evidently leading into the kitchen chimney for the purpose of ventilation.
The proportions, indeed, of the apartment would admit of no larger party, as its area was little more than twelve feet by eight, and of this circumscribed space, a wide chimney and a window occupied a large share.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "chimney" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
