Word: chimneyed
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...fairy tale, the house was built from the top downwards, first the chimney and last of all the foundations. Even today we do much the same thing. We build our lofty ideal castles in the air, and then the task confronts us of adding to them the foundations which shall make them materialize. Those who can do this are those who achieve success. And it is a hard task. We belong to two worlds, the real and the ideal, and each has its share in our lives. All things have birth in the former; but they must gain their full...
...occupants of Holyoke House were greatly disturbed last night by smoke which filled the entire house. Some one's chimney had become stopped...
...asses laden with woode to serve the house, that he went and tooke one of the greatest asses with al the woode, and layde him on hys back, and went up al the stayrs into the galary, and dyd caste downe the asse with al the woode into the chimney, and the asse's fete upward, whereof the Earl of Foix had great joye, and so had all they that wer ther, and had mervele of his strength...
...paper in the March "Scribner," says at the time of the Lisbon earthquake in 1755 "John Winthrop, then professor of physics and astronomy in Harvard College, in 1755 one of the few eminent American men of science of the eighteenth century, states that the bricks from the chimney of his house, in Cambridge, the top of which was thirty-two feet from the ground, were thrown to a point thirty feet from the base of the structure...
Twenty years ago at Amherst College a sophomore, who is now a distinguished Western lawyer, introduced a new method of hazing. At midnight, accompanied by ten or twelve of his classmates, he would enter a freshman's room with a basket of young chimney swallows. When his companions had seated themselves solemnly in a circle, he proceeded to open the baskets and let the swallows fly. The fun then consisted in witnessing the poor freshman's attempts to catch them which often lasted until dawn. [Harpers Weekly...