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 Robertson, W. Graham (Walford Graham)
"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 Dickens, Charles
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
They wore “Champagne Charley” coats, fancy waistcoats, frilled-fronted shirts, relic of the lace and ruffles of Elizabeth’s days; velvet smoking caps, embroidered slippers, elastic-side boots and chimney pot hats.
From Fifty Years of Railway Life in England, Scotland and Ireland by Tatlow, Joseph
