On every side the seven gables pointed sharply towards the sky, and presented the aspect of a whole sisterhood of edifices, breathing through the spiracles of one great
chimney.
said I, when I had done my stirring, and was taking a final warm in the
chimney corner before being sent up to bed; "was that great guns, Joe?
She drew her foot as far down the
chimney as she could, and waited till she heard a little animal (she couldn't guess of what sort it was) scratching and scrambling about in the
chimney close above her: then, saying to herself `This is Bill,' she gave one sharp kick, and waited to see what would happen next.
In the dim light it cast he was astonished to see a man standing in his
chimney, but being naturally courageous he seized a stick and made straight for the supposed thief.
Now this is what had been happening to Tom Kitten, and it shows how very unwise it is to go up a
chimney in a very old house, where a person does not know his way, and where there are enormous rats.
He glanced around, looked in the bed, shook the curtains, opened the closets, and finally stopped at the
chimney.
He, however, was careless of the peril, but as wild and restless as the night itself, or as the flame that quivered up the
chimney at each roar of the tempestuous wind.
The body of Mademoiselle L'Espanaye was so firmly wedged in the
chimney that it could not be got down until four or five of the party united their strength.
Hence the phenomena of "jolt" and your "inexplicable collisions" with factory
chimneys.
It can survive a great many things besides climbing out of a
chimney.
He looked at the fire of logs, with its one flame pirouetting on the top in a dying dance after the breakfast-cooking and boiling, and it seemed to jig to his inward tune; also at the two
chimney crooks dangling down from the cotterel or cross-bar, plumed with soot which quivered to the same melody; also at the half-empty kettle whining an accompaniment.
They were walking past the house of the old Patroon, with its squat walls and small square windows compactly grouped about a central
chimney.
This cellar was so damp that the fire was never allowed to go out, even in midsummer; an immense
chimney with a sculptured mantel, all bristling with heavy iron andirons and cooking utensils, with one of those huge fires of mixed wood and peat which at night, in village streets make the reflection of forge windows stand out so red on the opposite walls.
They had indeed discovered the
chimney of the home under the ground.
Tip managed to grasp a
chimney, else he would have been blown off the roof by the terrible breeze raised by the wings.
