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chimneys
«The south-wind strengthens to a gale, / Across the moon the clouds fly fast, / The house is smitten as with a flail, / The chimney shudders to the blast.»
Author: Robert Bridges
(Physician, Poet)
| Keywords:
blast, chimney, chimneys, flail, flailing, gale, gales, shuddered, shuddering, shudders, smites, smiting, smitten, south wind, strengthens, The Clouds, the South
«There is in every American, I think, something of the old Daniel Boone -- who, when he could see the smoke from another chimney, felt himself too crowded and moved further out into the wilderness.»
Author: Hubert H. Humphrey
(Vice President)
| Keywords:
Boone, chimney, chimneys, crowded, Daniel, Daniel Boone, far-out, the Wilderness
«Therefore they shall be as the morning cloud and as the early dew that passeth away, as the chaff that is driven with the whirlwind out of the floor, and as the smoke out of the chimney.»
Author: Bible
| Keywords:
chimney, chimneys, dew, drive away, floor, smoke out, The Whirlwind, whirlwinds
«Gain may be temporary and uncertain; but ever while you live, expense is constant and certain: and it is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel.»
«The sky was dark and gloomy, the air was damp and raw, the streets were wet and sloppy. The smoke hung sluggishly above the chimney-tops as if it lacked the courage to rise, and the rain came slowly and doggedly down, as if it had not even the spirit to pour.»
«Of all the ruinous and desolate places my uncle had ever beheld, this was the most so. It looked as if it had once been a large house of entertainment; but the roof had fallen in, in many places, and the stairs were steep, rugged, and broken. There was a huge fire-place in the room into which they walked, and the chimney was blackened with smoke; but no warm blaze lighted it up now. The white feathery dust of burnt wood was still strewed over the hearth, but the stove was cold, and all was dark and gloomy.»
Author: Charles Dickens
| Keywords:
beheld, blacken, blackened, blackens, blaze, burnt, chimney, chimneys, Cold Fire, Dark Room, desolate, entertainment, fall into place, feathery, gloomy, hearth, hearths, his uncle, huge, large white, lighted, roof, rugged, ruinous, smoking room, stairs, steep, stove, strewed, The Dark Room, This Was, uncle, uncles
«One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever come to sit by it. Passersby see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on the way.»
«Golden lads and girls all must, as chimney - sweepers, come to dust»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
chimney, chimneys, lads, sweeper, sweepers
