chimney pot

Example Sentences

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Because it was nearly dusk and suppertime, blue smoke rose from every chimney pot in the village they had left, and in the low places mist began to rise.

From "The Door in the Wall" by Marguerite de Angeli

"Yes, but consider the beauty of a tower of canvas compared to that yellow chimney pot," said I. "The Carthusian!"

From A Marriage at Sea by Russell, W. Clark (William Clark)

Sibvu´ A bottomless earthen vessel serving as a chimney pot.

From A Study of Pueblo Architecture: Tusayan and Cibola Eighth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1886-1887, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 3-228 by Nichols, Henry Hobart

With all my eyes I watched my mistress build up a chimney pot of straw and things.

From The Promised Land by Antin, Mary

After picking and diving their way beneath the trembling lines of underwear, pillowcases, sheets, and what not, they paused in front of a tall chimney pot.

From Yekl A tale of the New York ghetto by Cahan, Abraham