chimney pot

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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

Sibvu´ A bottomless earthen vessel serving as a chimney pot.

From A Study of Pueblo Architecture: Tusayan and Cibola Eighth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1886-1887, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 3-228 by Nichols, Henry Hobart

Mr. Tutt sat down, carefully placed his old chimney pot upside down on the window ledge, and stacked in it the bundle of papers he was carrying.

From By Advice of Counsel by Train, Arthur Cheney

There was a man, and he had naught, And robbers came to rob him; He crept up to the chimney pot, And then they thought they had him.

From The Nursery Rhymes of England by Various

We, with our nobler civic sentiment, model ours on a chimney pot; the ensign of civilisation.

From The Napoleon of Notting Hill by Robertson, W. Graham (Walford Graham)