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  • He took out the fire-board from the old-fashioned chimneyplace, so as to give ingress to Santa Clans when the reindeers of that good saint should land upon the Corner House roof.

    The Corner House Girls at School Grace Brooks Hill 1917

  • Maurice blew a puff of smoke into the chimneyplace and watched it sail upward and vanish.

    The Puppet Crown Harold MacGrath 1901

  • There was a fire of driftwood smouldering in a wide clay chimneyplace, and

    Carette of Sark John Oxenham 1896

  • Underwood stared moodily at the glowing logs in the open chimneyplace.

    The Third Degree A Narrative of Metropolitan Life Charles Klein 1891

  • Jacoba, as was her wont, sat on her couch on which she was carried, at the upper end of the table near the chimneyplace, next to which a smaller table was spread, where Kubbeling and Uhlwurm took their seats as though they had never sat elsewhere in their lives; and in truth old

    Margery — Complete Georg Ebers 1867

  • Aunt Jacoba, as was her wont, sat on her couch on which she was carried, at the upper end of the table near the chimneyplace, next to which a smaller table was spread, where Kubbeling and Uhlwurm took their seats as though they had never sat elsewhere in their lives; and in truth old Jordan had taken his meals in that same place, and whenever they came to the Lodge the serving people knew right well what was due to them and their fellows.

    Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works Georg Ebers 1867

  • Aunt Jacoba, as was her wont, sat on her couch on which she was carried, at the upper end of the table near the chimneyplace, next to which a smaller table was spread, where Kubbeling and Uhlwurm took their seats as though they had never sat elsewhere in their lives; and in truth old Jordan had taken his meals in that same place, and whenever they came to the Lodge the serving people knew right well what was due to them and their fellows.

    Margery — Volume 06 Georg Ebers 1867

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