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
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 E. W. (Ernest William) Hornung
The candlesticks, the vases upon the chimneypiece, the fire-irons, the ornaments upon the walls, were all such as he had been wont to associate with the remote past.
From The Great Keinplatz Experiment and Other Tales of Twilight and the Unseen by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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 M. F. (Milburg Francisco) Mansfield
Marguerite, give me that vial, there on the chimneypiece.
From The Seven Cardinal Sins: Envy and Indolence by Eug?ne Sue
