chimney-top

He is not the husband who builds the homestead after his own necessity, from foundation stone to chimney-top and turret, but a tasteful bachelor who collects quaint stair cases and groined ceilings.

Uncollected Prose 2006

Shutter and cast the base slab, fire chamber slab, upper slab and chimney-top slab.

Chapter 3 1994

For a day or two, the old ones feed them on the chimney-top, after which, they conduct them to the dead bough of some tree near at hand, where they continue attending them with the greatest assiduity.

Domestic Pleasures, or, the Happy Fire-side Frances Bowyer Vaux

He endeavours to get out by the chimney, pretending he is "only the smoke"; and all hands rush to clap a cover on the chimney-top, and a big stone on that.

The Eleven Comedies, Volume 2 446? BC-385? BC Aristophanes

And from its chimney-top, ascending and slowly expanding

Elson Grammar School Literature v4 William H. Elson

Do you think he left the remnant of his stocking on the chimney-top?

The Book of Stories for the Story-teller Fanny E. Coe

It even pained hiss weakened eyes: so long the oblong slip of clay running from the cell to the wall had been his share, and the yellow patch of sky and brick chimney-top beyond.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 75, January, 1864 Various

Irishman's house on the marsh at Cambridgeport, which house he built from drain to chimney-top with his own hands?

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 01, November, 1857 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics Various

So were there Dutch predikants who were decidedly anti-British while the British were over the hills and far away; but who fell in love with the Union Jack the moment it arrived; even if they did not set it fluttering from their own chimney-top.

With the Guards' Brigade from Bloemfontein to Koomati Poort and Back Edward P. Lowry

Now, when seemingly countless legions swept by with martial tread, their resounding footsteps and splendid appearance equally with the roll of many drums and the clash of regimental bands stirred the hearts of the multitude thronging the sidewalks, crowding every door-way and gallery, "mounting wall and battlement, yea, even to chimney-top;" not, indeed, to see a "great Cæsar," but to hail with wildest delight

Memories A Record of Personal Experience and Adventure During Four Years of War Fannie A. Beers