Each roundel acted as a chimney, with a fire at its base and bundles of hops laid in overhead rooms to be dried.

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He made his way, at the age of nine, to France to join his two brothers, and worked in Paris as a chimney sweep and paper boy.

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The fire quickly took hold as the stairwell acted like a chimney, forcing many of the occupants to jump from the building or climb down drainpipes.

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And not even white smoke from the Vatican chimney that signaled selection of a new pope as the talks occurred.

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