cob-house

This chimney was not made of bricks and mortar, but of sticks and mud, built up from the beam over the fire-place in cob-house fashion, such as was known in those days as a "stick chimney," the best that could be made with the material at hand.

Living in Dryden: If a bear steals your pig... 2004

This chimney was not made of bricks and mortar, but of sticks and mud, built up from the beam over the fire-place in cob-house fashion, such as was known in those days as a "stick chimney," the best that could be made with the material at hand.

Living in Dryden: July 2004 Archives 2004

Their fireplaces and chimneys were built of flat stones for the first few feet, and were 'topped out' with clay, mixed with straw, and held by sticks of wood laid up cob-house fashion.

The New England Magazine, Volume 1, No. 4, Bay State Monthly, Volume 4, No. 4, April, 1886 Various

The seven huts, with thatched roofs and chimneys on the outside, probably in cob-house style, were of hewn planks, not of round logs.

The Women Who Came in the Mayflower Annie Russell Marble

Baked in square pans, rather shallow, cut into bars, crisped, frosted and piled cob-house fashion, it made pens.

Dishes & Beverages of the Old South Martha McCulloch-Williams

Here the large pipe which came through the wall of the room they had just left, led to a number of clusters of smaller pipes that were jointed and doubled back and forth upon each other, cob-house fashion.

Illustrated Science for Boys and Girls Anonymous

When I hear a person criticising a painting, a story, a building, a song who could not draw a straight line, write a sentence correctly, build a cob-house on just proportions, nor keep the key through 'Yankee Doodle,' I long to insist upon his making a practical trial in such things before daring to make a criticism.

All Aboard A Story for Girls Fannie E. Newberry

When this single day's work was ended there remained nothing for David to do but chink and daub the walls with mud, cover the rude rafters of the roof with his shakes, build the chimneys out of short sticks, cob-house fashion, and cement them on the inside with clay to protect them from the flames.

The Redemption of David Corson Charles Frederic Goss

'Cribs' of logs were piled in cob-house fashion, pinned together, and sunk vertically in the stream.

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 2, August, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various

They built the huts up like a baby's cob-house, with the logs fitted in together.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 121, November, 1867 Various