kitchen-chimney

It seems ungrateful to my kitchen-chimney not to know the cost of sweeping it; and I trust that many a man who reads this, and muses on it, will feel, like the writer, ashamed of himself, and hang down his head humbly.

Roundabout Papers 2006

Firstly, Benito-whom he normally had to roust out of bed-had woken him in the pitch-black; then made him dress in the dark and climb out of a tiny window next to the kitchen-chimney.

The Shadow Of The Lion Lackey, Mercedes 2002

No, -- yes, -- there is a faint stream of blue smoke from the kitchen-chimney, and half a window-blind open in some distant back-part of the house.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864 Various

The fact was, that a trifling domestic incident -- no other than the smoking of a kitchen-chimney -- had turned my attention to the conditions of atmospheric changes.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 71, September, 1863 Various

They, however, got possession of the plate in the following manner: -- The boy was a favourite with the cook of the house, and she would have no other to sweep her kitchen-chimney; a matter of business which was performed the last Saturday in every month.

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 576, November 17, 1832 Various

Why should not so invaluable and simple a remedy for disease, such a preservative of health, such a comfort, such a stimulus, be considered as much a matter-of-course in a house as a kitchen-chimney?

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864 Various

Stephen Yarrow waited near the bridge, the smoke was curling out of the kitchen-chimney where the cook was making ready the cashier's beefsteak, and the old man was crawling out of bed.

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

Breakfast-time arrived, but no Ruthy came up from the quarter; no smoke curled upward from the kitchen-chimney; a more hopeless, dismal party could not well be imagined than the three women who walked from room to room among the _débris_, neither noticing or caring for the losses, only intensely anxious regarding the helpless prisoner, who was surely suffering, but whom they could not hope to relieve.

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

As she saw it, and thought how soon now it would ice itself anew, the remembrance rushed over her, like a warm breath, of the winter's night after their escape from its freezing pool, when Beltran sat with them roasting chestnuts and spicing ale before the fire that so gayly crackled up the kitchen-chimney, a night of cheer.

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

From cowl on the chimney-pot -- the kitchen-chimney smoked; I thought it would be inconvenient -- to the bunch of honeysuckle on the table.

Mrs. Day's Daughters Mary E. Mann