Chimney-stacks Sentence Examples

In modern times pumping engines have replaced windmills, and the typical old Dutch landscape with its countless hooded heads and swinging arms has been greatly transformed by the advent of the chimney stacks of the pumping-stations.

The main tasks are to make repairs to both chimney stacks at the ends of the building.

On all sides there were waste spaces with only stoves and chimney stacks still standing, and here and there the blackened walls of some brick houses.

The picturesqueness of the chimney stacks and tumble-down walls of the burned-out quarters of the town, stretching out and concealing one another, reminded him of the Rhine and the Colosseum.

Because the dreaded damp comes from above, it seems like folly to redecorate without first titivating the roof and chimney-stacks.