chimneypiece

Example Sentences

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The huge chimneypiece was cracked, though, and the hearth was empty.

From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman

One side of the chimneypiece here is called "The Actor's Pillar," so richly is it adorned with the names of actors; Edmund Kean's signature being among them, and still legible.

From Shakespeare's England by Winter, William

He had wished for salamanders, which were very popular at Villers-Cotterêts, being the crest of François I., and who had them sculptured on every chimneypiece in the château.

From Dumas' Paris by Mansfield, M. F. (Milburg Francisco)

Mais regardez ce 246 beau gar�on leaning against the chimneypiece.

From Paris and the Parisians in 1835 (Vol. 1 of 2) by Trollope, Frances Milton

It was one of the deadly brace that we had seen on the colonel's chimneypiece in the middle of the night.

From Witching Hill by Hornung, E. W. (Ernest William)