Sentence example with the word 'mantelpiece'

mantelpiece

Definition n. shelf that projects from wall above fireplace

Last update: October 29, 2015


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When I consider how our houses are built and paid for, or not paid for, and their internal economy managed and sustained, I wonder that the floor does not give way under the visitor while he is admiring the gewgaws upon the mantelpiece, and let him through into the cellar, to some solid and honest though earthy foundation.   [Please select]

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Then she leaned her head down on the mantelpiece.   [Please select]

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What homothetic objects, other than the candlestick, stood on the mantelpiece.   [Please select]

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Cumberly nodded, and pressed a bell beside the mantelpiece.   [Please select]

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Are those photos on the mantelpiece your home folks.   [Please select]

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Bastow, and has buried itself in the mantelpiece.   [Please select]

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We slept in a stuffy, diamond-paned little room with chintz curtains to windows, bed, and mantelpiece.   [Please select]

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Then he dropped them and walked to the fire and, with his back to the room, leaned on the mantelpiece.   [Please select]

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She sought Wiggleswick, whom she found before a blazing fire in the sitting-room, his feet on the mantelpiece, smoking a Havana cigar.   [Please select]

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"The boot hit another clock on the mantelpiece, a Louis Quinze clock, and spoiled it."   [Please select]

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A pair of silver candlesticks on the mantelpiece were stained an iridescent brown.   [Please select]

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