Word: chimneyed
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...Carter giveth and the Lord taketh away. I know where my $50 rebate is going-right up the chimney. The economy cannot improve much if all the money is going to one place: the fuel companies...
Students in the rooms involved this year left fireplace dampers open, letting cold air in through the chimney and bringing the temperature below freezing, Scialabba maintained...
Adds Cloud: "I imagine it is not unlike covering the election of a new Pope, waiting for the puffs of smoke that rise from the Vatican chimney when a decision has been made...
Pile up the fire half-chimney high...
...above ground. On the perimeter of the valley, at Denikulu and Kaymakli, the Byzantines tunnelled down into the soft tufa and constructed underground cities eight levels deep and a mile wide, fit to house 10,000 people, their animals and their stores. The inhabitants cooked and ate communally. Special chimney systems were designed to conceal the smoke; ventilation shafts provided air. The various rooms are all connected by a labyrinthine network of stairs and corridors. These troglodytes wheeled mammoth stones across the entrance and holed themselves up for six months at a time...