Meaning of chimney-piece | Babel Free

Definitions

Noun. [C1]

Examples

“Went to visit⟳ our good neighbor, Mr. Bohun, whose whole house is a cabinet of all elegancies, especially Indian; [...] [A]bove all, his lady's cabinet is adorned on the fret, ceiling, and chimney-piece with Mr. Gibbons's best carving.”

“As you say⟳, we passengers are to be taxed to pay⟳ all these fineries. I have⟳ often seen a good sideboard, or a marble chimney-piece, though not actually put⟳ in the bill, inflame a reckoning confoundedly.”

“When this information was given, and they had all taken their seats, Mr. Collins was at leisure to look⟳ around him and admire, and he was so much struck with the size and furniture of the apartment, that he declared he might almost have⟳ supposed himself in the small summer breakfast parlour at Rosings; a comparison that did not at first convey much gratification; but when Mrs. Philips understood from him what Rosings was, and who was its proprietor, when she had listened to the description of only one of Lady Catherine’s drawing-rooms, and found that the chimney-piece alone had cost⟳ eight hundred pounds, she felt all the force⟳ of the compliment, and would hardly have⟳ resented a comparison with the housekeeper’s room.”

“The chimney-piece was of party-coloured marble, covered with figures, some of whose faces were beautiful, but generally running off into those grotesque combinations which characterised the peculiar taste⟳ of their time.”

“The Baroness perceived that her entertainer had analyzed material comfort to a sufficiently fine point⟳. And then he possessed the most delightful chinoiseries—trophies of his sojourn in the Celestial Empire: pagodas of ebony and cabinets of ivory; sculptured monsters, grinning and leering on chimney-pieces, in front of beautifully figured hand-screens; […]”

“[...] and the chastest women thought it no shame for their pictures to be exposed in every stationer's shop⟳ or to decorate⟳ the chimney-piece of a platonic counter-jumper.”

“"Crabtree's become⟳ a—a womanthrope," said Tommers. "No—a misowench. There's not been a fresh photo of ankles on his chimney-piece for months."”

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