The nest of a swift is made of twigs, buds, moss, or feathers and is glued with its sticky saliva to the wall of a cave or the inside of a chimney, rock crack, or hollow tree.
Six days a week, enslaved men toiled endlessly in rags not fit to clean the inside of a chimney.
His tent is mid-range real estate for Tent City, large and tarp covered, on a wooden platform, with a wood stove inside and a chimney peaking out.
Fuad Akhundov, a local amateur historian, wrote that travelers compared visiting Black Town to stepping inside a chimney.
They fled to an apartment building, where Mr. Maleki had enough time to hide his camera inside a chimney before members of the militia arrested them.
"Otherwise, you're going to get a lot of creosote buildup in the chimney," he said, referring to the tarlike substance that can collect on the inside of the chimney walls and result in a chimney fire.
And what could be simpler than the idea of generating electricity from the updraft of a chimney by putting turbines inside that chimney?
He was a sophisticated trickster, a bourgeois gentilhomme with a geek inside, hacking into everyday life and planting little weirdness bugs: legs sprouting from shirt collars, a choo-choo coming out of a chimney, words having lives of their own.
This was tossed over the top of a chimney by a deep-sea vehicle steered by remote control from the surface; once dropped, cables inside the device were tightened around the chimney.
The darkness reveals … a chimney.
J.P. is married to a chimney sweep.
