119 Verbs to Use for the Word chimney

He was sweeping the chimney with his long, beautiful tail.

Gain may be temporary and uncertain; but, ever while you live, Expense is constant and certain: and 'tis easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel, as Poor RICHARD says.

"The fire, with well-dried logs supplied, Went roaring up the chimney wide; The huge hall-table's oaken face, Scrubb'd till it shone, the day to grace, Bore then, upon its massive board, No mark to part the squire and lord.

If you aren't, just reach up that chimney a bit!" Mike stared.

In every city, therefore, were men known as "sweeps," whose business it was to clean chimneys.

Verty carefully attended to his horse, and then ascended the hill toward the hut, from whose chimney a delicate smoke ascended.

When I came down on the ice the first time after you'd camped, and I looked up and saw your solid stone chimney" (he glanced at Mac), "I didn't know what a House-Warming it would make; but already, from far off across the ice and snow, that chimney warmed my heart.

What for, Andy?" "Well, I smashed the desk and pulled down the chimney at the schoolhouse, you know.

Against one end of the house, and occupying half its width, there stood a huge brick chimney: the crumbling mortar had left large cracks between the bricks; the bricks themselves had begun to scale off in large flakes, leaving the chimney sprinkled with unsightly blotches.

may not a man steal in at the window with a ladder of ropes, or come down the chimney, have a false key, or get in when he is asleep?

Jud, risking a moment's delay, knocked the chimney off the lamp before he dived.

At last at one end of the room I found a chimney, one of those big stone affairs as big as all outdoors.

" And, rising, Ralph went to the door, opened it, and looked out cautiously, after which, he closed it, and turned the key in the lock; then he went to the fire-place, and looked up the chimney with a solemn air of precaution, which was very striking.

Boys were kidnapped, and sold to cruel masters, who forced them to climb high chimneys filled with soot and smoke.

It was easier for this Jones to rhyme in heroics than to handle a trowel or construct a chimney.

Indeed I was often in a house having up to twenty chimneys.

In the flue boiler the furnaces are set within the boiler, and the flues proceeding from them wind backwards and forwards within the boiler until finally they meet and enter the chimney.

'I thought I heard someone at the door,' I answered; 'did you not feel a cold wind as if it was open?' 'It is but the night is sharp, the spring sets in very chill; slip the bolt, and sit down again,' and he flung a fresh log on the fire, that sent a cloud of sparks crackling up the chimney and out into the room.

More than ever Mr. Punch welcomes the coming of Santa Klaus: Thou who on earth was namèd Nicholas There be dull clods who doubt thy magic power To tour the sleeping world in half-an-hour, And pop down all the chimneys as you pass With woolly lambs and dolls of frabjous size For grubby hands and wonder-laden eyes.

In getting up his new chimney, Mr. Bayle has utilized these principles as follows: Round-burner lamps have, as well known, two currents of airan internal current which traverses the small tube that carries the wick, and an external one which passes under the chimney-holder externally to the wick.

Only the place in which they sat was illumined by the two lamps, and the forward part of the room, nearer the street, was a sea of shadows, wavering when the wind stirred the flame in one of the lamps or sent it smoking up the chimney.

A reference to the agreement between Moore and Murray became necessary, but for a long time that document could not be found; it was at length discovered, but only after the decision to commit the manuscript to the flames had been made and carried out, and the party remained until the last sheet of Lord Byron's Memoirs had vanished in smoke up the Albemarle Street chimney.

House after house he visited, like some unholy inspector: peering up chimneys, prodding under carpets, and staying a long time in cellars where there was cider.

If it can be avoided, never wash the chimneys of a lamp, as it causes them to crack when they become hot.

A gust of wind blew down the chimney, and scattered a cloud of dust over the hearth.

119 Verbs to Use for the Word  chimney