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
Over the chimneypiece there was a gun that took Mick's fancy.
From The Weans at Rowallan by Kathleen Fitzpatrick
He wheeled round, and looked at himself in the large glass over the chimneypiece.
From At Large by E. W. (Ernest William) Hornung
I was about to be frightened when a man arose and restlessly moved toward the chimneypiece, not because there was anything there he desired to see, but because he couldn't continue to sit still.
From The High Heart by Basil King
‘Fixed as the look the young fellow meets is, there is yet in it some strange power of suddenly including the sketch over the chimneypiece.’
From The Problem of 'Edwin Drood' A Study in the Methods of Dickens by W. Robertson Nicoll
