- A
chimney is an
architectural ventilation structure made of masonry, clay or
metal that
isolates hot
toxic exhaust gases or
smoke produced by a boiler...
- built. They might, with care, have been
taken down whole, but all the fine
chimnies, and
ornaments were
pulled down with ropes, and
crushed to
pieces in a...
- Dwelling-Houses More
Comfortable and Salubrious, and
Effectually to
Prevent Chimnies from Smoking.
Illustrated with Engravings, (1796).
Collected Works of Count...
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treated with
great brutality … they are
thrust up
narrow and
sometimes hot
chimnies [sic],
where they are
bruised burned and
almost suffocated; and when they...
- swallow,
though called the chimney-swallow, by no
means builds altogether in
chimnies [sic], but
often within barns and out-houses
against the rafters ... In...
-
treated with
great brutality ... they are
thrust up
narrow and
sometimes hot
chimnies, [sic]
where they are
bruised burned and
almost suffocated; and when they...
- I
shall do likewise: and if he
looks to his
ricks I
shall look to my
chimnies and
those of my neighbours" He
opposed repeal of the Corn Laws but thought...
- use IE conceit→conciet, deceive→deciev –EY
pronounced /iː/ use –Y chimney→
chimny, money→mony GH
pronounced /f/ use F, drop the
silent letter in the foregoing...
- to the
Saltmarket Street in the City of Glasgow; and for
regulating the
Chimnies of
Steam Engines, and
other Works, in the said City and
Suburbs thereof...
-
seemed to rock and reel and
crack as if it
would fall in
ruins about us.
Chimnies were shatter'd by it
within one mile of my
Fathers house. "Cape Ann, M****achusetts"...
