chimney
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There is also a nearly £1 million maintenance project to replace aging asphalt and cracked lead roofing at Buckingham Palace, including repairs to 14 chimney stacks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026
Heidegger’s noble guests cavorted as milkmaids, chimney sweeps, gypsies, “Indian kings” and even a “nude” Adam wearing a body stocking and fig leaves.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026
"The house wasn't there, it was just bits of bricks and a chimney."
From BBC ● Apr. 4, 2026
Once you create a chimney that stands alone, “it always signals that absence.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 10, 2026
The fear of losing Joe’s confidence, and of thenceforth sitting in the chimney corner at night staring drearily at my forever lost companion and friend, tied up my tongue.
From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens
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It pointed out a school also sits about 700m from the incinerator's chimneys.
From BBC ● Jun. 7, 2026
Steam rises from chimneys, from warm patches of river, from mouths.
From Salon ● Mar. 8, 2026
His sculptures, composed of stacked forms and glazed in natural colors, bring to mind chimneys, duct work and totem poles.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 27, 2026
Some sealed up chimneys and doors with tape.
From Barron's ● Feb. 25, 2026
It was pocked with multiple points of entry—vents, chimneys, small glass domes designed to let in the light.
From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo
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He started at Bunnahabhain in 1978, when the 36 distillery workers all lived in the quaint, chimneyed houses clustered around the distillery.
From New York Times ● Apr. 23, 2018
On Ghika's canvas, Paris' chimneyed rooftops, the jackstraw confusion of a Greek hillside town become strict, disciplined designs blocked in with arbitrary colors.
From Time Magazine Archive
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By night a ridged and chimneyed blackness bestrewed with lights rewards the curious gazer from the deck of a Sound steamboat.
From Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast by Drake, Samuel Adams
Even the ugly clutter of tall- chimneyed workshops did not destroy it.
From The Dream Doctor by Reeve, Arthur B. (Arthur Benjamin)
Over against the west, a little to the north, the gray heavens were visible—a lightning seemed to run over them—a ghastly red lightning—sharply silhouetting the chimneyed housetops.
From The Nine-Tenths by Oppenheim, James
For the next four hours, All wormed and squirmed his way toward the surface, wedging himself between the walls, chimneying diagonally toward the surface.
From The Guardian ● May 16, 2019
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