chimney
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In an interview with David Rosenberg of Rosenberg Research, Gundlach relayed the story of a 100-year-old silver maple at his house in Buffalo, N.Y., that lost a giant limb, nearly hitting the chimney.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 1, 2026
Multiple people were also believed to be unaccounted for at a factory in Yatsushiro city where the tip of a chimney fell down, NHK reported, citing sources.
From Barron's ● Jul. 28, 2026
Elsewhere in the Kumamoto prefecture, people are reported missing at a paper factory after a chimney collapsed, according to police, who are being cited by NHK.
From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026
Heidegger’s noble guests cavorted as milkmaids, chimney sweeps, gypsies, “Indian kings” and even a “nude” Adam wearing a body stocking and fig leaves.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026
A gust blew down the chimney, threatening the fragile fire.
From "Pax" by Sara Pennypacker
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It pointed out a school also sits about 700m from the incinerator's chimneys.
From BBC ● Jun. 7, 2026
Steam rises from chimneys, from warm patches of river, from mouths.
From Salon ● Mar. 8, 2026
His sculptures, composed of stacked forms and glazed in natural colors, bring to mind chimneys, duct work and totem poles.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 27, 2026
Both require keeping trees well-maintained and at least 10 feet from chimneys.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 13, 2026
It sat on the hill above us, a dark shape crouched against the moonlit sky, its crooked chimneys rising like broken fingers from the roof.
From "The Old Willis Place" by Mary Downing Hahn
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He started at Bunnahabhain in 1978, when the 36 distillery workers all lived in the quaint, chimneyed houses clustered around the distillery.
From New York Times ● Apr. 23, 2018
On Ghika's canvas, Paris' chimneyed rooftops, the jackstraw confusion of a Greek hillside town become strict, disciplined designs blocked in with arbitrary colors.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Even the ugly clutter of tall- chimneyed workshops did not destroy it.
From The Dream Doctor by Arthur B. (Arthur Benjamin) Reeve
Then came a fine square, chimneyed house with sherry-glass-shaped elm-trees about it.
From Aladdin O'Brien by Gouverneur Morris
By night a ridged and chimneyed blackness bestrewed with lights rewards the curious gazer from the deck of a Sound steamboat.
From Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast by Samuel Adams Drake
For the next four hours, All wormed and squirmed his way toward the surface, wedging himself between the walls, chimneying diagonally toward the surface.
From The Guardian ● May 16, 2019
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