Thereupon he smoothed the nap on his "chimneypot" hat, and blushed furiously.
"Fated to Be Free"
Jean Ingelow
After I had hung fire and cooled my heels on the banks for a while, I was instructed to enter a skiff, which conveyed me and others to a steamship of very meagre dimensions, whereupon owing to the heel of one of my Japan leather shoes becoming implicated in the wire railing that circumvented the desk, I was embarked in a horizontal attitude, and severely deteriorated the tall chimneypot hat which I had assumed to do credit to the hon'ble periodical I represented.
"Baboo Jabberjee, B.A."
F. Anstey
In the street without we heard the crash of a fallen chimneypot.
"The Betrayal"
E. Phillips Oppenheim