Snow fluttering down through the chimney holes sizzled and hissed in the hot air.

Faint daylight was seeping through the chimney hole in the roof when Rap was jerked away by a snowy boot being wiped on his face.

Through the chimney hole at one end rose a sluggish column of smoke that smelled of peat.

At night, the old man and his pageboys are said to ride over the roofs, eavesdropping in chimney holes and dropping presents when deserved.

The hut had no other exit, no windows, and only a small chimney hole in the roof.

And now snow in the clearing . . ." The keeper threw her jacket on the floor and looked up at the chimney hole.

It had stopped snowing, but the bit of sky he could glimpse through the chimney hole was gray and threatening.

A little light came in through the chimney hole high above to fall on a kettle, loose ash and burned wood.

It rose halfway toward the chimney hole, then faltered.