chimney pot

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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

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

From The Promised Land by Antin, Mary

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

We, with our nobler civic sentiment, model ours on a chimney pot; the ensign of civilisation.

From The Napoleon of Notting Hill by Robertson, W. Graham (Walford Graham)

They wore “Champagne Charley” coats, fancy waistcoats, frilled-fronted shirts, relic of the lace and ruffles of Elizabeth’s days; velvet smoking caps, embroidered slippers, elastic-side boots and chimney pot hats.

From Fifty Years of Railway Life in England, Scotland and Ireland by Tatlow, Joseph