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

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)

And then they looked up to the portrait gazing down at them from the chimneypiece, seeming almost to smile sadly upon them as they watched the skilful limning of the beloved features.

From By Birth a Lady by Fenn, George Manville

I had felt every knob on the fireplace and chimneypiece, and every stone up the chimney as far as I could reach.

From A Search For A Secret (Vol 2 of 3) A Novel by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)