chimneypiece

Example Sentences

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The huge chimneypiece was cracked, though, and the hearth was empty.

From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman

But, when you don't know the secret, you must first lift up the whole chimneypiece, looking-glass, marble and all in a lump, it seems.

From 813 by Leblanc, Maurice

At a quarter past seven, by the cuckoo clock on the chimneypiece, there came a knock at the outer door of the room which opened on the street.

From The Sailor by Snaith, J. C.

‘Fixed as the look the young fellow meets is, there is yet in it some strange power of suddenly including the sketch over the chimneypiece.’

From The Problem of 'Edwin Drood' A Study in the Methods of Dickens by Nicoll, W. Robertson

He wheeled round, and looked at himself in the large glass over the chimneypiece.

From At Large by Hornung, E. W. (Ernest William)