Chimneypieces

Word CHIMNEYPIECES
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What do we mean by chimneypieces?

A mantelpiece.

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The word "chimneypieces" in example sentences

Pausing a moment from eliminating chimneypieces, 'Her Majesty' then removed and sold the ornate and unusual bronze and stained glass chandelier that had hung in the reception hall, since the house had been built. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Rooms come with handsome chimneypieces and exquisite shellwork, and there is a turret-top eyrie for ship-watching. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Mattresses and bedding appear in the dining – room; the glass and china get into the conservatory; the great dinner service is set out in heaps on the long divan in the large drawing – room; and the stair – wires, made into fasces, decorate the marble chimneypieces. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Several centuries later, the castle, called Seton Castle, retains the period detail, with astragal windows, ceiling plasterwork and unique chimneypieces. ❋ Unknown (2006)

And the more she thought of it, the more repugnant it became to think of Archie Banks carrying off her books to South Kensington and removing the chimneypieces and, as he threatened, writing an essay about the house for the Architectural Review. ❋ Waugh, Evelyn (1998)

He spent most of his time photographing the Fleacetown chimneypieces and the moulding of the doors. ❋ Waugh, Evelyn (1998)

Historians loudly condemn the royal and noble thieves who plundered the Coliseum and the Pantheon to build palaces, yet there are men in our times, who would, if they could, take Dr. Johnson's hint to pound St. Paul's Church into atoms, and with it macadamize their roads; or fetch it away by piecemeal to build bridges with its stones, and saw up its marble monuments into chimneypieces. ❋ Various (N/A)

The full-length portrait of the King was visible on three chimneypieces; she was at great pains to make a merit of it, and call for thanks. ❋ Various (N/A)

The whole of the chimneypieces in the interior are carried out from the architect's special design; those in the drawing-rooms being of mahogany, finished in rosewood color, and those in dining-rooms of oak, stained with ammonia and dull wax polished. ❋ Various (N/A)

"It's a pity you haven't a proper, handsome house, with long windows from the ceiling to the floor and a high roof and a carved front door and with black marble chimneypieces instead of these rough stone fireplaces," Chloe would sigh, for she thought that the elegance of that time was none too good for the people she loved. ❋ Cornelia Meigs (1928)

Wood and peat fires were burning everywhere; the great chimneypieces in the drawing-room, the arms of ❋ Ward, Mrs Humphry (1918)

It was a handsome house inside, with wonderful oak staircases and Adams chimneypieces; and there was an air of great stateliness about it, and of very little luxury. ❋ Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler (1894)

Its suites of handsome rooms, the inlaid marble chimneypieces of which reach up to the frieze of the heavily moulded ceilings, its wide passages and stairways, their carved balusters and newel-posts, the treasures of its library -- now overflowing the capacity of the two rooms originally designed for them, and filling ranges of bookcases between the bay windows of the Long ❋ Lucas Malet (1891)

Some of them are said to have "richly carved ceilings, wainscoted, panelled rooms, chimneypieces with paintings framed in the over - mantel, dentilled cornices, and pedimented doors," and I could well believe it, as I passed them with an envious heart. ❋ William Dean Howells (1878)

The upper parts of the chimneypieces and the ceiling were done by F.ancis Cleyn, who decorated much at Versailles; and when the chimneypieces came down, in 1850, G.F. Watts, R.A., painted the gilt figures on the upper portions. ❋ Walter Besant (1868)

Mattresses and bedding appear in the dining-room; the glass and china get into the conservatory; the great dinner service is set out in heaps on the long divan in the large drawing-room; and the stair-wires, made into fasces, decorate the marble chimneypieces. ❋ Charles Dickens (1841)

Correctly priced and well-presented, in a spare architectural setting, such apparently unlikely objects as Georgian chimneypieces can obtain a premium. ❋ Clive Aslet (2012)

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