chimney pot
Example Sentences
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Because it was nearly dusk and suppertime, blue smoke rose from every chimney pot in the village they had left, and in the low places mist began to rise.
From "The Door in the Wall" by Marguerite de Angeli
We, with our nobler civic sentiment, model ours on a chimney pot; the ensign of civilisation.
From The Napoleon of Notting Hill by W. Graham (Walford Graham) Robertson
With all my eyes I watched my mistress build up a chimney pot of straw and things.
From The Promised Land by Mary Antin
He went in and bought a light colored cutaway coat and vest and soft cap—he had worn black clothing and the regulation chimney pot hat for the last thirty years of his life.
From '?19,000' by Burford Delannoy
"I have been sitting in front of the fire," replied the fat boy, who had indeed heated himself to the color of a new chimney pot in the course of an hour's nap.
From Dickens' Stories About Children Every Child Can Read by Charles Dickens
