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)

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 Delannoy, Burford

In both provinces chimneys are seen without the 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

"Yes, but consider the beauty of a tower of canvas compared to that yellow chimney pot," said I. "The Carthusian!"

From A Marriage at Sea by Russell, W. Clark (William Clark)