But you do not grasp the full connection between these houses of the dead and the living, the unnatural marriage of stately sepulchres and squalid houses, till, lower down, where the road has sunk far below the surface of the cemetery, and the very roofs are scarcely on a level with its wall, you observe that a proprietor has taken advantage of a tall monument and trained a chimney-stack against its back. ❋ Unknown (2005)
He took off his overcoat to allow himself more freedom of action; the manuscript, now an encumbrance, must precede him over the chimney-stack, and there was only one way of effecting that. ❋ Unknown (2003)
But at length there was a shout from the top of the chimney-stack. ❋ Unknown (2003)
There was a violent wind, as well as thunder, and either one or the other split a tree off at the corner of the building: a huge bough fell across the roof, and knocked down a portion of the east chimney-stack, sending a clatter of stones and soot into the kitchen fire. ❋ Unknown (2002)
A North of England lady last week climbed to the top of the chimney-stack of a large munition works and affixed a silver coin in the masonry. ❋ Various (N/A)
Seated on it, against no more romantic object than a blackened chimney-stack, over which some humble creeper had been trained, they both pored over one book, while a basket of common fruit, and another basket of strings of beads and tinsel scraps were lying near. ❋ Kate Dickinson Sweetser (N/A)
The body of it, long and low, with a high-pitched roof and with a massive chimney-stack buttressing one end, is said to be of the time of Henry ❋ Cecil Walter Charles Hallett (N/A)
'Twas cheerier within than without, for the walls were thick and kept the wind at bay, the wood fires were lively with hissing logs, and scarce heeded a chance buffet from the down draught lying in ambush within the open chimney-stack. ❋ Howard Pease (N/A)
Two mocking-birds, one perched on the chimney-stack of the house, and the other on a straggling spray of the wild-orange hedge, vied with each other in imitating the medley of bird-language which made the air vocal on every side, pouring a rich flood of melody through the open windows and into the appreciative ears of the ladies who sat within. ❋ Various (N/A)
A huge chimney-stack protruded some three feet into the room, and in it was a hole which admitted the pipe of a rusty air-tight stove that gave out just enough heat to take the chill edge off the damp, heavy atmosphere. ❋ Various (N/A)
Among them all there was but one of two floors, a substantial red-brick little house with a most grandiloquent chimney-stack. ❋ Maurice Henry Hewlett (N/A)
The chimney-stack is of circular section, 7.50 meters (24 ft. 6 in.) diameter at the bottom, and tapering to 3.50 meters diameter (11 ft. 6 in.) at the top, and is 120.50 meters (395 ft.) high. ❋ Barkham Burroughs (N/A)
On applying heat, the mercury was volatilized and carried into a chimney-stack, where it condensed and flowed back into a reservoir, and then was led in pipes into another kettle outside. ❋ David Widger (N/A)
Both men kept a sharp look-out, knowing well that to encounter a branch of a tree or a chimney-stack might at any moment bring the voyage, the aeroplane, and themselves to an untimely end. ❋ Herbert Strang (N/A)
The finding of a second stone, the dedication slab of an altar, in a chimney-stack, also seemed to confirm the idea that the building, with its nave, its chancel arch, and its chancel, was the chapel dedicated in 1056 by Earl Odda. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
And as though in answer to her mental question, from behind the chimney-stack at the farther end of the roof a white form noiselessly emerged -- a form that, in the moonlight, was recognisably ❋ Aldous Huxley (1928)
I twisted it into a double rope, and secured the end to the iron stanchion of a chimney-stack. ❋ Dorothy Leigh (1923)
One was caught in the gutter just above Thipps's bathroom window, another in a crack of the stone parapet just over it, and the rest came from the chimney-stack behind, where they had caught in an iron stanchion. ❋ Dorothy Leigh (1923)
"Nothing," she said, leaning back against the chimney-stack. ❋ M. Leonora Eyles (1924)
That girl may be dying of [cancer] but she gives a [wicked] [chimney stack]. ❋ EDaviz (2009)
When my wife [passed out] after a night of drinks [i left] a Ballymena Chimney Stack for when she [wakes] up ❋ Hellbender1690 (2019)
