"Chimneypiece" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... she meant to do, she dragged the heavy washhand-stand away from the chimneypiece, ...
— The Lodger • Marie Belloc Lowndes
... hanging holly on the walls and bringing bundles and boxes and queer-shaped packages from the other rooms and hiding them under chairs and tables and in out-of-the-way places; and presently a row of stockings was hung from the chimneypiece, and the children clapped their hands and danced round and round the room. And then they threw their arms around their father and mother and kissed them good night and left them that ...
— The Man in Lonely Land • Kate Langley Bosher
... which he had told her to answer. As soon as he had started she went into his room to look for them. If they were not on the chimneypiece they would be in the drawer with ...
— The Romantic • May Sinclair
... myself; but he eyed them dully. There was a set of Solingen razors, marked in Arabic with the days of the week; a cloak of blue-and-white-striped cloth, fit for any prince of Bedouins; and an ormolu clock with a gong inside it that would have graced the chimneypiece of ...
— The Lion of Petra • Talbot Mundy
... life. When that strange and silent meal was over, the old man retired to the warehouse and left the children alone. But that did not disconcert them, as might have been expected. From the first moment they felt at home with each other. Walter was the first to speak. He leaned up against the chimneypiece, and meditatively watched the girl as she began deftly ...
— The Guinea Stamp - A Tale of Modern Glasgow • Annie S. Swan
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