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
"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)
"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
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
