Sentences with phrase «as chimney»

The bathroom layout has been changed completely as the chimney breast and fireplace has now been removed to fit in a roll - top bath.

Start by choosing a colourful botanical - print wallpaper on one prominent wall, such as the chimney breast here, then pick one or two key shades from within your wallpaper design.

You might find it easy to begin with a small area, such as a chimney breast, to build up your confidence before you tackle a whole room.

To make matters worse, the towering Kunlun, Himalayan and Karakorum ranges that surround the plateau act as a chimney for water vapour — which has a stronger greenhouse gas effect than carbon dioxide — to be convected high into the stratosphere.

Hearst Castle closed as Californian wildfires spread Firefighters have been battling to protect the historic property and art collection at Hearst Castle, as the Chimney blaze continues to burn in the surrounding area.

From the culinary mecca of downtown Asheville to surrounding attractions such as Chimney Rock Park and The Biltmore Estate, this city offer buyers beautiful scenery and tons to do.

Topping the list is Alan Bradley's latest delightfully dark mystery starring the pint - sized sleuth Flavia de Luce, As Chimney Sweepers Come to Dust.

Only a few strides off the old dirt road, they are beneath a tall red oak, thick as a chimney, bearded with gray bark; the tree is a gentle old presence.

Surrounded by open space, they built a town so dense it lacked streets and doorways; the residents climbed over their neighbors» roofs to their own and then dropped in through a hole that also served as a chimney.

Take Shakespeare's «Dirge,» for example, Golden lads and girls all must, As chimney - sweepers, come to dust.Humorous and....

Rundel suspects that the fluctuations in carbon emissions are in part due to tree - fall gaps in the forest that act as chimneys for gas loss.

If solar rooftop arrays became as ubiquitous in home design as chimneys, the U.S. grid could indeed cease to exist — an end to power lines, electrical substations and transformers atop equally archaic wooden utility poles.

The vertical shafts — stairs, ducts, and elevators — tend to act as chimneys during a fire and have to be specially protected.

Keep screens on windows and cover small openings, such as chimneys, furnace ducts and eaves.

Not exact matches

And threading that needle may prove to be as difficult as shimmying down a chimney flue with a sack full of toys.

(Not so) Fun fact: In 2010, years after Immelt's time at Dartmouth and as president, the frat house burned down «due to a chimney issue,» according to the fraternity's blog.

File photo: Chimneys billow smoke at the Rio Tinto alumina refinery in Gove, also known as...

... i know your book says don't believe anything else before or after to protect its place in history, but just as you would read greek mythology and have incredulous thoughts about multigods ruling the earth water and the undergrounds, those who are not stuck on your wavelength, read your mythology and think how anyone in their right minds could ever fall for those idolatric stories... your belief in your creationist god is as unfathomable as an adult looking up the chimney and feeling the power of Santa Clause in them... does the power of Santa Clause compel you?

There was a sense of disintegration in the air of the Church - as if things were somehow falling apart, even though it was still possible to rally large numbers to St Peter «sSquare to observe the white smoke coming out of the chimney and to cheer the new Pope as he arrived on the balcony.

Far from being regarded as a great gift, they were sent to the mill houses and up chimneys at an early age.

There is as much chance that the rapture will happen as finding Santa Claus in your chimney

A man finds his dwelling - place distasteful, either because the chimney smokes, or for any other reason whatsoever; so he leaves it, but he does not move out, he does not engage a new dwelling, he continues to regard the old one as his habitation; he reckons that the offense will pass away.

We may as well be seriously debating the rules by which Santa Claus decides which chimneys to come down.

Which is why Santa is figured to look the way he is, as a man, and why it isn't Jesus popping down your chimney leaving presents for you.

At last I perceived a beam of light glimmering at time top of the house (for such I may call the body I had been inclosed in), whither ascending, I gently let myself» down through a kind of chimney, and issued out at the nostrils as the window was wide open, I sallied forth into the open air: but, to my great astonishment, found myself unable to fly, which I had always during my habitation in the body conceived of spirits; however, I came so lightly to the ground that I did not hurt myself and, though I had not the gift of flying (owing probably to my having neither feathers nor wings), I was capable of hopping such a prodigious way at once, that it served my turn almost as well.

He feels his way forward with his foot and as he finally plants his foot and takes a step, he immediately looks about at the clouds, notes the way the wind blows, and whether the smoke goes straight up from the chimney.

A two - hour bus ride to the mysterious, exotic East End of Montreal (the all - Francophone area, into which they never ventured otherwise); where everything was interesting and new, from the dark plumes of smoke that snaked across the sky from factory chimneys to the stray newspapers and empty plastic bags that swished across the neglected streets to the staccato joual that echoed down the alleys as they drove by.

Some of the fowls have black bones, and are called «kalu maskulalo» by the natives; and Malabar fowls (Gallus bankiva), their plumage is a sooty - grey, aptly described as looking like a white fowl dragged down a chimney.

I need to know such things as how much smoke they produce out of the chimney, what sort of fire hazard they present, price and what sort of stripped down version might be more economical to ship.

Beccy often takes unloved or «ugly» things and encourages people to take a second look — such as these jugs inspired by industrial chimneys

I'm currently studying wind turbines, which cause the same sort of reaction in people as power station chimneys.

It just seems reassuring to know that Seaman and Steel aren't like those people we all know, who constantly remind friends (and strangers) that their children only eat organic and talk about their household ban on fast / junk food as if some insidious junk food cartel were trying to force it down their chimney at night as they sleep.

No, a chimney is a great idea to have a proper heat ventilation for your fireplace, but it isn't necessary as long as you have other forms of well - functioning ventilation.

A sense of mastery is also very valuable to kids with diagnoses such as reactive attachment disorder, bipolar, cognitive learning disorders, and autism, says Michael Kaufmann, director of farm and wildlife at Green Chimneys, a therapeutic day school and residential treatment center in Putnam County, New York.

The chancellor reminded his audience that the Liberals of the 19th century failed to support Conservative attempts to protect chimney sweeps — a barely concealed reference to Mr Cable's description of right - wing Tories as «descendants of those who sent children up chimneys».

10:57 - Brooks uses her «Vatican chimney» story, in which the Sun indicated its political support by pumping red smoke out of its Wapping offices, as a way of lightening the mood.

The Lanes, now a labyrinth of tapas, fruity ciders and cerebral crockery, used to be the city's slum area and it was here we learnt about Harry Cowley the chimney sweep and social activist, who created the Brighton Vigilantes and fought the fascists, as well as helping to rehouse homeless people following the war.

SAN FRANCISCO — The «hot spot» of volcanic activity that created Hawaii, long regarded as a fixed plume of magma from deep inside Earth, might have swayed like chimney smoke in a gentle breeze between 80 million and 50 million years ago.

The seafloor along the Alarcón Rise is covered in young, fresh lava, and the fluids spewing out of the vents are very hot (up to 360 degrees Celsius) and rich in metal sulfides that form dark, crumbly chimneys known as «black smokers.»

The temperature of the water inside the «chimneys» can be as high as 400 °C.

The «black smoker» chimneys are often colonized by giant tubeworms in the genus Riftia, which grow over two meters (six feet) long, as well as limpets, crabs, squat lobsters, and Alvinella palmworms.

Then, looming out of the dark and into the sub's tight halo of floodlight, through curtains of rising bubbles that made it seem as if the sub were driving through champagne, Seifert saw chimneys — black, knobby spires, the tallest rising more than 13 feet off the seafloor.

Silver - colored storage tanks and giant chimneys painted in red and white indicate its status as one of the top three oil refining centers in the world.

Some of those gases in the chimney system such as chlorofluorocarbons (found in refrigerants and aerosols) and bromine compounds (found in products such as fire extinguishers) are man - made and can become trapped in the stratosphere, lingering there for years.

Another principal investigator for the project, Laura Pan, senior scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo., believes storm clusters over this area of the Pacific are likely to influence climate in new ways, especially as the warm ocean temperatures (which feed the storms and chimney) continue to heat up and atmospheric patterns continue to evolve.

As far back as the 1820s, French gastronome Jean Anthelme Brillat - Savarin proposed that «smell and taste are in fact but a single sense, whose laboratory is in the mouth and whose chimney is in the nose»As far back as the 1820s, French gastronome Jean Anthelme Brillat - Savarin proposed that «smell and taste are in fact but a single sense, whose laboratory is in the mouth and whose chimney is in the nose»as the 1820s, French gastronome Jean Anthelme Brillat - Savarin proposed that «smell and taste are in fact but a single sense, whose laboratory is in the mouth and whose chimney is in the nose».

As the plume from the hot spring struck the surrounding near - freezing seawater, some of it was flash - freezing to form tall, stalagmite - like chimneys.

More than 40 researchers recently visited a sparsely populated part of the western tropical Pacific Ocean — near the island of Guam — known as the «global chimney.»

Their chemical gardens at the Jet Propulsion Lab in Pasadena, California, have already confirmed that hydrothermal vents can provide that all - important proton gradient, measured as electrical potential between the inside and outside of a chimney.

Russell has since embellished his theory, adding that a mineral called green rust, which can form in vent chimneys, can exploit the flow of protons at a vent in much the same way as ATP synthase.