Sentence examples for stove pipe from inspiring English sources

We are told, for example, that not telling the truth was a capital offense in ancient China, and that violators were tied to a heated stove pipe.

She quotes Ralph Ellison, in "Invisible Man," describing a food cart "from which a stove pipe reeled off a thin spiral of smoke that drifted the odor of baking yams slowly to me, bringing a stab of swift nostalgia".

They are the dreams of dead men: a hat comb, a drinking cup that would not dribble in bed, a stove pipe screw and a flower stand, quietly archived in the United States Patent and Trademark Office for the last century.

While still flightless, three or four chicks were housed in a screen-protected box that was erected on a high ledge, with a stove pipe extending from the top of the cliff to the box so that humans could feed them unseen.

The previous owners had created a ski house look by taking out the upstairs bedroom and bathroom over the living room and adding giant, diamond-shaped windows, a cathedral ceiling and a pot-bellied stove with a 20-foot stove pipe.

Kenney also devised a medicine tube out of a stove pipe to spray medicine down Shamu's blow hole when the killer whale had such a nasty cold that it was blowing enormous gobs of mucus on anyone within range.

"The intelligence community was a bunch of stove pipes," says Ahmad Ishaq, A-Space's project manager.

Chimneys, stove pipes and furnaces should be inspected and cleaned annually, preferably before the start of the heating season.

He rigged the dryers to stove pipes that led to a furnace where the hot air was pushed upward by fans turned by teams of bicyclists.

As we drove on, the road turned into a rocky track, wound up the slope of a pretty, wooded valley, thin streams of smoke rising from stove pipes, ducks in puddles.

C&A and new wave westerns, hatters from hell: stove pipes, floppy shapeless somethings, and, on Daniel Craig: anti-forehead wear.