The floors of one row are about level with the tops of the chimnies immediately in front; so that a person standing at his door may look down the chimnies of the neighbourhood below.
The church is so singularly situated, from being placed on a rising ground, that persons in the churchyard can almost look down the chimnies of the houses.
The Stack of Chimnies mentioned in this Report (which were placed over the Stone Passage leading to the Boxes) are actually taken down.
Minnes through our house; and so we sent, and their chimnies have been swept this morning, and the noise was that, and nothing else.
On the left hand where the vine covered hills receded from the river, lay a small town, the industry of whose inhabitants was testified by the smoking chimnies of many factories, and the roaring and clashing of the water engines.
Come to think of it, I know myself that the little girl at The Chimnies has had no dentistry done in several years.
Breakfast at The Chimnies that morning was a rather hectic meal.
Fully half of Jacqueline's pretty wardrobe was to be left at The Chimnies and some of the most valuable of her trinkets.
But she was not half so happy as was Caroline, all clean and fresh in clothes that were her very own, not Jacqueline's, as she sat at the table in the softly lighted dining room at The Chimnies and beamed at Aunt Eunice and Cousin Penelope.
While Caroline was rolling homeward to The Chimnies in the limousine, Jacqueline was trudging along the same road on foot.
Insects seem to be most acceptable, though it did not refuse raw flesh when offered: so that the notion that bats go down chimnies and gnaw men's bacon, seems no improbable story.
But what struck me most was, that, from the time they began to congregate, forsaking the chimnies and houses, they roosted every night in the osier-beds of the sits of that river.
It hasn’t come down our chimniesin such a shocking way since we had a death in the house.
The fall of a stack of chimnies had impressed every one with a belief of the extreme danger of venturing within its crazy walls, lest they should fall and engulf the rash intruder in their ruins.
The youthful widow longs to be supplied; } But first the lover is by lawyers tied, } To settle jointure-chimnies on the bride.
Chimnies which generally draw well, do, nevertheless, sometimes give smoke into the room, it being driven down by strong winds passing over the tops of their flues, though not descending from any commanding eminence.
Another cause of smoky chimnies is too short a funnel, as, in this case, the ascending current will not always have sufficient power to direct the smoke up the flue.
Chimnies otherwise drawing well are sometimes made to smoke by the improper and inconvenient situation of a door.
If, instead of being in one room, the two chimniesare in two different rooms communicating by a door, the case is the same whenever that door is open.
Another very common cause of the smoking of chimnies is, their overpowering one another.
This however will very seldom be found to be the case, for the throats of chimnies are in general too high.
Smoky chimnies in a new house, are such, frequently, for want of air.
In introducing the improvements proposed, in Chimnies already built, there can be no question in regard to the height of the throat of the Chimney, for its place will be determined by the height of the mantle.
And first with regard to smoking Chimnies: There are various causes by which Chimnies may be prevented from carrying smoke; but there are none that may not easily be discovered and completely removed.
There is however one cause of smoking Chimnies which I think it is necessary to mention more particularly.
Of chimnies which affect and cause each other to smoke.
Remedies proposed for all the defects that have been discovered inchimnies and their open fire-places.
The whole mystery, therefore, of curing smoking Chimnies is comprised in this simple direction.
The immoderate size of the throats of chimnies the principal cause of all their imperfections.
If an attempt be made to light fires in both Chimnies at the same time, it will be found to be very difficult to get the fires to burn, and the rooms will both be filled with Smoke.
The soot of chimnies where coal is burned contains both sulphate and carbonate of ammonia, and was extensively employed, at one time, to manufacture these salts.
In chimnies made of wrought iron, like those of steam boats, the refrigeration is considerable, and causes a diminution of velocity far greater than what occurs in a factory stalk of well-built brick work.
At the two extremities of the furnace are two chimnies E, for the purpose of diffusing the heat more equably over the body of the crayons.
The fashion of thus decorating the backs of chimnies was introduced into this country soon after the arrival of William the Third, and continued till about fifty years ago.
Chimnies thus ornamented are frequently to be met with in country houses, particularly in bed-rooms; but in London, where almost every body enters on a new fashion as soon as it appears, there are fewer specimens left.
If the Committee were to make an excursion into the smoke-manufacturing parts of the Metropolis, they would see here and there factory chimnies from which less smoke issues than from private houses.
They will not find, I think, that these smokeless chimnies belong to unimportant factories.
Massa Cavin had 'bout four hunerd acres and builded us all good quarters with chimnies and fireplaces, and good beds and plenty food.
They say old hospitalitie kept chimnies smoking still; Now what your chimnies want of that, our smoking noses will.
Hence it is that chimnies so often smoke when too large a quantity of fresh coals is put upon the fire.
By a distribution so easy to be established, a single stove may supply the place of all the chimnies of a house.
Chimnies of an inch square, made in the thickness of the plaster of ceilings or walls, tubes even of gummed silk would answer this purpose.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "chimnies" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
