chimneypot

And both have fantastic coloured ceramic finials and chimneypots worthy of comparison with those of Antoni Gaudi (Fig.

of caulkless houses / among the charley noble chimneypots / of rooftop

A few days ago as I was walking in the early morning along the bank of the Hudson River, I heard the most beautiful chirruping and warbling, as sweet as the songs of the merle on the chimneypots in Paris and more intricately woven than the composition of a nightingale in the thickets of a gulch in Catalonia.

I felt that something was waiting for me beyond the houses and the chimneypots: I should find it where earth and sky meet.

Avila's buildings are beautifully preserved, with storks nesting on chimneypots.

When one looks up to refresh one's eye with a view of the Georgian rooftops and chimneypots that make the vistas in this city so delightful, the view these days is all too likely to be intruded upon by a building crane wheeling across the sky like some genetically altered praying mantis.

What won us over was, I think, the thrilling concept of an open-air rooftop pool in which swimmers in spa water could gaze over the roofs and chimneypots towards the great central tower of Bath Abbey.