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

It was one of the deadly brace that we had seen on the colonel's chimneypiece in the middle of the night.

From Witching Hill by Hornung, E. W. (Ernest William)

He drew back from her, and leaned against the chimneypiece and looked at her more intently than before.

From The Immortal Moment The Story of Kitty Tailleur by Sinclair, May

The candlesticks, the vases upon the chimneypiece, the fire-irons, the ornaments upon the walls, were all such as he had been wont to associate with the remote past.

From The Great Keinplatz Experiment and Other Tales of Twilight and the Unseen by Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir

One side of the chimneypiece here is called "The Actor's Pillar," so richly is it adorned with the names of actors; Edmund Kean's signature being among them, and still legible.

From Shakespeare's England by Winter, William