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And I got up and dragged out the hair trunk, sithin’ so deep that it wuz dretful to hear, 207 some like the melancholy winter winds howlin’ round a Jonesville chimbly.

From Around the World with Josiah Allen's Wife by Holley, Marietta

Dey was hung on hooks fastened to de chimbly or on cranes what could be swung off de fire when dey wanted to dish up de victuals.

From Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 2 by Work Projects Administration

“I’ll have to warsh that chimbly in a couple o’ years,” he commented as he set the lantern down and reached for a worn and tattered mail-order catalogue in the corner.

From The Fighting Shepherdess by Lockhart, Caroline

You know, may be, the big factory in the thriving town of Longford—the one with a tall chimbly?

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 93, December 3, 1887 by Various

Agin' the chimbly crooknecks hung, An' in amongst 'em rusted The ole queen's arm thet gran'ther Young Fetched back frum Concord busted.

From The Biglow Papers by Hughes, Thomas