IT is a strange thing, when I feel most fervently and most deeply, my hands and my tongue seem alike tied, so that I cannot rightly describe or accurately portray the thoughts that are rising within me; and yet I am a painter; my eye tells me as much as that, and all my friends ...
27．What goes up the chimney down, but can't go down the chimney up?A: An umbrella 28．What is is that you will break even when you name it?A: Silence 29．What fastens two people yet touches only one?A: A wedding ring 30．What is it the more you take away the larger it ...
The reason for this is that during a wood firing, the flame travels around the kiln in particular pathways. If you think about a fire sliding up a chimney, it tends to stick to the same pathway. During a wood firing, the pottery comes into direct contact with the flame. Because of ...
Falls from horses were common, leading to injury or death, and even a long time in the saddle could be painful. Travel by sea, even over relatively short distances, was fraught with danger, not only from the vagaries of the weather, but also the condition and seaworthiness of the vessel....
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IT was yesterday, in the morning twilight”—these are the words the Moon told me—“in the great city no chimney was yet smoking—and it was just at the chimneys that I was looking. Suddenly a little head emerged from one of them, and then half a body, the arms resting on the rim...
It was the little chimney-sweeper, who had for the first time in his life crept through a chimney, and stuck out his head at the top. ‘Ya-hip! ya-hip’ Yes, certainly that was a very different thing to creeping about in the dark narrow chimneys! the air blew so fresh, and he ...
A ridged structure made of two adjoining triangular pieces covered with flashing or roofing material and built at the upper intersection of a roof and chimney to divert water and prevent the accumulation of snow and debris. Also called saddle. Football The inflated oval ball, slightly pointed at...
A ridged structure made of two adjoining triangular pieces covered with flashing or roofing material and built at the upper intersection of a roof and chimney to divert water and prevent the accumulation of snow and debris. Also called saddle. Locust Any of the grasshoppers, often polyphenic and...
A relatively small area of a roof constructed to divert water from a horizontal intersection of the roof with a chimney, wall, expansion joint, or other projection. Croquet A game in which players hit a wooden ball through a series of hoops; the winner is the first to traverse all the ho...