Lexicographical Neighbors of Chumleys
Literary usage of Chumleys
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1830)
"... and crib, cabin, and confine him in a back parlour in some dingy town, commanding
a view o' a score o' smoky chumleys, and then look into his eyes, ..."
2. The Different West as Seen by a Transplanted Easterner by Arthur Elmore Bostwick (1913)
"The same thing has been done over and over again in the Mother Country, with
its " Beech- urns," its " chumleys," and all the rest. ..."
3. Noctes Ambrosianæ by John Wilson, Robert Shelton Mackenzie, James Hogg (1863)
"... and crib, cabin, and confine him in a back parlour in some dingy town, commanding
a view o' a score o' smoky chumleys, and then louk into his eyes, ..."
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