| 单词 | chimney breast |
| 例句 | When the producers called me, I was on a rooftop, doing some lead flashing around a chimney breast. 'I forgot who I was': how Big Brother changed my life 2020-06-12T04:00:00Z The chimney breast in the study is also wet and a bit smelly. Diaries Volume II: 1992-1997 by Edwina Currie – review 2012-09-28T21:54:01Z Opposite the cedar in the entrance hall, a quartzite wall rises to the second level, where it becomes the living area’s fireplace surround and chimney breast. Take in an Aspen Home's Spectacular View 2015-05-05T04:00:00Z A couple have tracked down relatives of a man after finding his birth certificate - dating from the 1800s - in a chimney breast. Birth certificate from 1882 found in Nottingham chimney 2022-06-11T04:00:00Z Staff at The Venue said a neighbouring building's chimney breast had collapsed and fallen onto the roof, causing it to cave in. Damage and disruption as Strom Ciara blows in 2020-02-09T05:00:00Z The color was introduced in the living room, on the shelves alongside the chimney breast, and was continued into the hall, on the baseboards and the door frames. The Luxury Paint Company Creating a New Kind of Decorating Anxiety 2019-03-11T04:00:00Z The power for Louis's secret love-lift was supplied by a chap in a chimney breast, standing ready to haul on a rope when required. How the lift transformed the shape of our cities - BBC News 2017-05-28T04:00:00Z Builders made the discovery in a chimney breast at the property, which is set to open as a wedding venue. Father Christmas letter from the 1930s found up Powys chimney - BBC News 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z She said: "We found it hidden in the back room in the right hand side of the chimney breast." Birth certificate from 1882 found in Nottingham chimney 2022-06-11T04:00:00Z The high square room is plain around the lower part, save for a chimney breast covered in plaster flames. Murals by the Artist Robert Winthrop Chanler 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z Anything resembling the human breast, or bosom; the front or forward part of anything; as, a chimney breast; a plow breast; the breast of a hill. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) 2012-03-24T02:00:19.387Z He was dragged backward and knew that he was going through a secret panel near the chimney breast. The Bradys' Chinese Clew The Secrect Dens of Pell Street 2011-08-17T02:00:26.867Z A large chimney has been introduced into the inner wall, with brick mantel and chimney breast, and big enough to hold a six-foot log. Remodeled Farmhouses All openings are dog-eared, as well as the panels of the chimney breasts. Seaport in Virginia George Washington's Alexandria The chimney breasts and hearthstones of his principal rooms were seven feet wide. The Continental Dragoon A Love Story of Philipse Manor-House in 1778 Its excellence is due not to superiority of detail, but to better proportion, the breadth of the chimney breast being sufficient to make the overmantel panel practically square. The Colonial Architecture of Philadelphia The chimney breast may be stepped back at the shelf height to form a narrow stone ledge, or the breast left without any shelf. Making a Fireplace Both these rooms have ventilators in the same chimney breast, and the small one may be warmed by a stove leading thereto. Woodward's Country Homes Again, the only sound to be heard in the room was the soft whick-whicker of the burning coal as the flames licked the chimney breast, or the occasional rustle of falling ash. A Son of the City A Story of Boy Life Fireplaces generally require more depth than can be provided in the thickness of the wall, and therefore necessitate a projection to contain the fireplace and flues, called the "chimney breast." Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" Toward the end of the eighteenth century and for some years thereafter, mantels with a shelf, but without any overmantel treatment of the chimney breast, became the rule. The Colonial Architecture of Philadelphia Frequently the mantel is done away with entirely and the chimney breast treated independently as a whole. Making a Fireplace The sight of her standing a-tiptoe to touch off the candles on the chimney breast set the old lovespell at work to make my heart beat faster. The Master of Appleby A Novel Tale Concerning Itself in Part with the Great Struggle in the Two Carolinas; but Chiefly with the Adventures Therein of Two Gentlemen Who Loved One and the Same Lady The recessed spaces on each side of the chimney breast hold small semi-circular tables of marquetry, with a pair of long Adam mirrors hanging above them. The House in Good Taste The interior of a chimney breast behind the stove should always be filled in solid with concrete or brickwork. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" She would have liked to flit back to the side of yonder great chimney breast, the spot where she had been surprised while sounding the panel work, but this was no time for postponable risks. Kincaid's Battery Many simple variations with the informal brick chimney breast will occur to everyone. Making a Fireplace That evening the sorrowing friends sat with their hostess beside the large fire, Knight in the recess formed by the chimney breast, where he was in shade. A Pair of Blue Eyes Hanging his hat upon the candle hook on one side of the chimney breast and his cloak on the other, he stood revealed a well-dressed officer, in the uniform of a Continental colonel. Janice Meredith Brereton had been stooping over the fire, as it gained fresh life, but with one spring he was behind the chimney breast. Janice Meredith Janice pulled one of the chairs nearer to the chimney breast, and then returned to the quilting-frame, at which she had been working when the interruption came. Janice Meredith |
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