How To Use Mantel In A Sentence

The squire took down from the mantel his long-stemmed "churchwarden" pipe. Neville Trueman, the Pioneer Preacher : a tale of the war of 1812
I found myself in a salon with a very well-painted, highly varnished floor; chairs and sofas covered with white draperies, a green porcelain stove, walls hung with pictures in gilt frames, a gilt pendule and other ornaments on the mantelpiece, a large lustre pendent from the centre of the ceiling, mirrors, consoles, muslin curtains, and a handsome centre table completed the inventory of furniture. The Professor, by Charlotte Bronte
His darts trophy takes pride of place on the mantelpiece.
The other three stood by the fireplace, Rudi leaning against the overmantel. Royal Flash
Estelle kept a photograph of her mother in a silver frame on the kitchen mantelpiece.

The principal rooms, both downstairs and upstairs, have decorative mantelpieces and cornices that are imaginatively conceived and neatly executed.
The happy event occurred in the Taylor's aviary in Wakefield, after the mother - a kakariki called Cheeky - and father Tom, a golden mantel rosella, were reared together from chicks.
A goatskin rug covers the carpet in front of a brass fireplace with marble surround and wooden mantelpiece.
Don't put cards on the mantelpiece above the fire or anywhere near a direct source of heat.
And the tremendous skull of the great hog of Oakham hung, a portentous ivory overmantel, with a Chinese jar in either eye socket, snout down above the fire .... The Food of the Gods and how it came to Earth
Turning suddenly, she crossed her arms on the mantelshelf and hid her face in them. MURDER MOVES IN
There is a fine oak carved overmantel and an old door opens on to the curved stone stair to the first floor.
A cast-iron open fireplace with a pale grey marble mantel provides a focal point.
Oh, and I had no idea that, last year, Greg Paul (a notorious taxonomic "lumper" since at least the '80s) split the taxon Iguanodon into Iguanodon, Mantellisaurus, and Dollodon. "But I could sleep with you there. I could sleep with you there."
The room also features a brick fireplace with raised hearth and thick wood beamed mantelpiece, and is overlooked by a balcony which is accessible from the first floor.
It must have formed part of one of these early Morris overmantels.
“Dear child, how late it is!” exclaimed Lady Knollys suddenly, looking at the Louis Quatorze clock, that crowned the mantel-piece. Uncle Silas
He can and must use the prelatial dress, as in the Roman Curia, to wit: rochet over the purple soutane with purple mantelletta, in his attendance in the cathedral, where he has precedence over all other canons and dignitaries, as to choir stall and functions. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne
The overmantel contains its original rectangular mirror plate and has a moulded bead and leaf frame measuring 83 centimetres high by 150 wide.
Pine may ooze resin, so protect furniture and mantels with newspaper or plastic.
A light damask curtain is found to have been saturated with port wine; a ditto chair-cushion has been doing duty as a dripping-pan to a cluster of wax-lights; a china shepherdess, having been brought into violent collision with the tail of a raging lion on the mantel-piece, has reduced the noble beast to the short-cut condition of a Scotch colley. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, November 6, 1841,
Religion, power, politics, money and sex - key elements of human life - are all on full display in Hilary Mantel's Booker Prize winning novel. Wolf Hall: Summary and book reviews of Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel.
Beauty and light glowed from classic mantel and carven cornice and walls grotesquely figured, while a sleek black cat rose yawning from hearthside sleep that his master's start and shriek had disturbed. The Best Endings in Science Fiction
The other one had been taken out of its wrapper and put down on the mantel shelf. CASCADES - THE DAY OF THE DEAD
By the mid 18th century it was much more common for door furniture to be integrated with an interior design with ornament matching overmantels and cabinets.
The room was very still; its ordered comfort, the measured ticking of the carriage clock on the mantelshelf, the insistent thudding of the sea, all heightened the sense of outrage, the crudity of destruction and hate. She Closed Her Eyes
Often this will be a painting or wall hanging that is placed on the wall just above the mantel, or even resting on the mantel.
Dickens then visits a workroom, featuring coloured prints, a china shepherdess on the mantelshelf, carpets, stuffed chairs and an open fire. Bedlam
And," she wrote, "I cannot tell you what I felt when I put on the black dress and mantelletta and veil, which are _de rigueur_ when a lady is granted an audience with the Pope. My New Curate
The fireplace and overmantel are furnished with objects that reaffirm the collectors' particular affinity for the arts of Pennsylvania.
The mantelpiece was an intricate wood carving of vines and branches, almost like it was a living tree itself.
The carved foliage with ribbons and laurel wreaths applied to the center of the end cupboards relates to carvings on some of the best Federal mantels and overmantels in New Orleans.
When Caleb could no longer hear his footsteps ascending the staircase outside the parlor, he rested the poker against the mantel and turned back toward the vestibule.
There was a soiled and tawdry mirror above a massive metal and marble clock supported by a lion couchant on the mantelshelf.
The thirteen marble fireplaces all remained, as did the gas jets over the parlor mantels and near the windows.
The marble clock on the mantel-piece softly chimed the half-hour, the dog rose uneasily from the hearthrug and looked at the party at the breakfast table.
Pictures of the Rosetti family were grouped in pairs or threes on the walls and there was one large picture of a handsome man in an army uniform on the mantel piece.
An old brass clock, inlaid with arabesques, adorned the mantel of the ill-cut white stone chimney-piece, above which was a greenish mirror, whose edges, bevelled to show the thickness of the glass, reflected a thread of light the whole length of a gothic frame in damascened steel-work. Eug�nie Grandet
Clocks decorated with mythological beings and resting on marble bases adorned desks, consoles, and mantelpieces in drawing rooms and studies everywhere during the First Empire.
There is a cast iron fireplace with stained pine mantelpiece and oak floorboards.
Estelle kept a photograph of her mother in a silver frame on the kitchen mantelpiece.
Of the walls, one was occupied by the window, the other by a draped mantelshelf bristling with Cupids.
Inside the house, I expected a typical wealthy Essex businessman's abode: crossed sawn-offs over a granite mantel, widescreen TVs in every tennis court, more fake marble than you could shake a building society branch at.
And a wood-fire bickered on the iron-work fire-back, under whose oak over-mantel Sir Philip sat with us ten minutes, then took himself away into his own sequestered nook of the house.
Ord Mantell has some of the most lenient banking laws in the galaxy.
The bookshelves are packed with stuffed animals and books, and the mantel is lined with photographs of the children who live here. In S. Africa's Orphanages, Is Doing Good Really Bad?
Group them under your tree, on mantels, and on windowsills.
The exhibition will see tables, fireplaces and mantelpieces overflow with more than 40 arrangements inspired by original horticultural designs.
She glanced wistfully at the picture of Amber on the mantelpiece.
Close in date to the kneehole desk is a small mantel clock on the chimney piece of the Green Drawing Room, veneered with red tortoiseshell.
People opt for one fairly lush plant and place it off-centre on their mantel, rather than filling a whole shelf with plants.
She stood up and caught a glimpse of herself in the overmantel mirror. COMPULSION
Some houses will also have Arts and Crafts-style architraves, covings, skirtings and mantelpieces, while others will feature decorative ceiling beams and attic storage areas.
There's where it was," she said softly and pointed to a deep niche cut into the surface of the stone overmantel. Ralestone Luck
Recalling it, she looked as happy as she did in one of the pictures she kept on her mantelpiece, the one where she stands next to her father as a debutante.
The exquisite white marble mantel is Italian, not French, of the time of Louis XVI. The Art of Interior Decoration
A large two-tone giltwood gesso overmantel mirror, 8,000-12,000. Times, Sunday Times
Near the elevator door was a fake fireplace and an antique mahogany mantelpiece with great bunches of fruit carved on each corner.
The mantelletta is probably connected with the mantellum of the cardinals in the "Ordo" of Gregory X (1271-1276) and with the mantellum of the prelates in the "Ordo" of Petrus Amelius (d. 1401), which was a vestment similar to a scapular. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy
An elaborate mantelpiece framed the hearth in a dizzying array of swirls and curlicues, and a tall grandfather clock lurked in the corner like a brooding sentry, counting out the seconds with a gloomy tock, tock, tock.
There was a shelf above the tiny fireplace, acting as a mantelpiece for the clock, which was one of those porcelain shells with a clock face as it's inner pattern.
Not much of it has been at sea for long - not real good mantelpiece driftwood, more like firewood driftwood.
I also concluded that it was pointless to try and convince anyone else of this; that those who had an opinion had already had it bronzed and placed on the mantel.
His specialty was making caskets and exquisite pieces of household furniture, including walnut desks and mantel pieces.
Both rooms feature very fine fireplaces with tiled and brass insets and wooden overmantels.
Both Leeds and Liverpool had games in hand, which had they converted would have seen the title revert to a more traditional mantelpiece. Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph
The mantel is that of Woden when he bears the hero over seas; the cock is a bird of sorcery the world over; the black fowl is the proper gift to the Underground powers -- a heriot really, for did not the Culture god steal all the useful beasts out of the underground world for men's use? The Danish History, Books I-IX
Find new ways to show off objects you love in small vignettes on the mantelpiece or sideboard. Times, Sunday Times
Then there are long strands of beads and weird exotic flowers in deep colours to wind around trees, banisters, mantelpieces and even table napkins.
This was one of my favorite paintings in the show, and I spent a lot of time staring at it where it was hung over one of the fireplace mantels.
Dr. Mantell concludes that the islands of New Zealand were densely peopled at a period geologically recent, though historically remote, by tribes of gigantic brevi-pennate birds allied to the ostrich tribe, all, or almost all, of species and genera now extinct; and that, subsequently to the formation of the most ancient ornithic deposit, the sea-coast has been elevated from fifty to one hundred feet above its original level; hence the terraces of shingle and loam which now skirt the maritime districts. COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1
Indian slate makes this fireplace, with its hand-crafted mantel, a particularly inviting feature of the room.
Aubrey's eyes flickered at the mantel clock, glowing with cloisonné, and Melstead laughed. THE LAST RAVEN
Mantel: The fireplace mantel is a very prominent location for displaying your village, as long as your collection is not too extensive and would force the overcrowding of your favorite pieces in to what can be a narrow and overall restricted space. Godzilla Rare | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles
The tops of cabinets, doorframes, and overmantels rapidly became the preferred locations for the display of newly imported and prized porcelain.
The drawing room to the left has a redbrick floor-to-ceiling fireplace with pine mantelpiece.
The ornate coving and timber mantelpieces might tempt you, though. Times, Sunday Times
The lots include two 19th century Chinese barrel-shaped garden seats (£1,500-£2,000); an ornate giltwood overmantel mirror from the late 19th century (£1,000-£1,500); a pair of French faux-crocodile-skin binoculars (£500-£800); and a late 18th century English stained and painted model of a 62-gun ship (yours for £2,000-£4,000). Lehman's corporate art collection goes under the hammer at Christies
Another of the pictures from the mantelpiece shows her during that period, sailing on a gondola down the canals of Venice.
I found delightful adventures in the woods—one day a blindworm and an adder fighting in a green hollow—and sometimes Mrs. Earle would be afraid to tidy the room because I had put a bottle full of newts on the mantelpiece. Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies
Uppon a wreathe golde and sables, a demye-lyon gules, armed and langued azure crowned, supportinge a bale thereon a crosse botone golde, mantelled azure doubled argent, and for the supporters two pagassis argent, their houes and mane golde, their winges waney of six argent and azure. From John O'Groats to Land's End
A few mountain valleys in Fiordland harbor the total wild population (about 170 birds) of the rare and endangered takahe Notornis mantelli (E), a large flightless rail believed extinct until "rediscovered" in 1948. Te Wahipounamu (South-West New Zealand World Heritage Area), New Zealand
As for the George II Chinoiserie giltwood overmantel mirror by sold by Christie's New York on 3 June, it had it all.
She and her sister Jodelle worked as a dancing and tumbling act for Quatrain Pudundruh, a Twi'lek entrepreneur on Ord Mantell who was forced to sell the sisters into slavery during a rough year.
The rooms are laid out as if the occupants have just stepped out for a moment, leaving their tea, or port, or pipe, or whatever on tables and mantels.
The show (the first of five summer bazaars) also offers the opportunity to buy real art for barren walls and empty mantels.
The crowning glory was the astonishing overmantel looking glass shown in Plate III.
She has taken out all the pins now, and has thrown her bonnet on to the lounge nearest to her, and is standing before the glass in the overmantel patting and pushing into order the soft locks that lie upon her forehead. April's Lady A Novel
Erich Follath, le même auteur, fait de suspectes allégations pendant que reseaux d'espions israélien démantelé au Liban et que les élections sont imminentes. WN.com - Photown News
Thinking of clues, I glanced at the congratulations card on my mantel. SUMMER OF SECRETS
Su primer crédito de 300.00 nuevos soles lo utilizó en la compra de telas, hilos, cierres, elástico, blondas, etc. Con este crédito de 500.00 nuevos soles comprará telas, hilos, blondas, hilos de bordar para confeccionar manteles y servilletas navideñas. Kiva Loans
My mantelpiece is groaning under the weight of some great efforts. The Sun
They had Kipling like they had those ivory elephants on the mantelpiece. Times, Sunday Times
This seasonal adaptation of a traditional manchamanteles -- "tablecloth stainer" -- uses the fall season's apples and pears instead of the usual pineapple; sweet potatoes instead of plantains; prunes instead of summer's tomatoes; and hazelnuts instead of almonds. Winter Fruit Mole with Hazelnuts: Manchamanteles con Avellanas
He was lying on a small camp-bedstead in a corner between the fireplace and the wall, and in a glass on a mantelpiece was an arum lily, sere and yellow, which drooped lamentably down over his head.
This striking design supersedes the high fashion mantel, recently to have flooded the market, and provides a longer lasting, more sophisticated and timeless alternative.
Everything was gold and marble: the tables, chairs, candles, candlesticks, and even the outside of the mantel.
Pending further discoveries, the mirror has been returned to the overmantel in the Velvet Bedroom.
The photo was given pride of place on the mantelpiece.
Most of the people I work with haven't been nominated, don't have a statue on their mantel, and they're fine actors.
Prominently placed on the mantel were his Emmy awards along with his favorite photographs of our children. Candy Spelling: Onward & Upward: Moving on From the Manor
Family mementos and photographs were carefully spaced along the mantelpiece above a gas fireplace.
The railings lined the tented wall behind the head table that was centered before a massive stone mantelpiece draped in tulips.
I was dusting the mantelpiece when I noticed a crack.
The copper gilt grate is a marvel of workmanship, and the mantelpiece is most delicately finished; the fire-irons are beautifully chased; the bellows are a perfect gem. Letters of Two Brides
And out of the posterne of England was shot a gunne that brake downe one of the sayde mantellets, and hit upon one of the pieces, and slew foure or fiue men, and bare away both the legs of the master of the ordinance, which died soone after: whereof the great Turke was very ill content, and sayd that he had rather haue lost one of his basshas or captaines then the sayd master. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
To the right of the hall is the sitting room which is painted a deep, warm red and has the original fireplace and mirror overmantel.
In addition, the house features cast-concrete counters, sinks, wall tiles, mantels, windowsills, and patio tiles that Rosenblatt designed and cast on site.
Pork took a long spiller from the mantelpiece , lit it from the lamp flame and went into the hall .
She looked along the dusty mantelshelf and sifted through some letters. Deadly Intent
There was a silence during which the tick of the monumental ormolu clock on the white marble mantelpiece grew as loud as the boom of a minute-gun.
He struck a match and the objects on the mantelpiece threw brief shadows on the wall.
The foyer, mantels and windowsills become stages for her holiday creations.
Follath, le même auteur, fait de suspectes allégations pendant que reseaux d'espions israélien démantelé au Liban et que les élections sont imminentes. WN.com - Photown News
People opt for one fairly lush plant and place it off-centre on their mantel, rather than filling a whole shelf with plants.
Inch by inch his eyes moved until they reached the top shelf of the overmantel and stopped. Leonie of the Jungle
There was also a framed picture of "The House"; a tambourine painted with purple iris by Miss Isabel's own hands; an old bannerette in cross-stitch pendent from the mantelpiece, a collection of paper mats, shaded from orange to white, the glass-covered vase of wax flowers which had attracted Ron's notice, one or two cheap china vases, a pot of musk placed diametrically in the centre of a wicker table, a sofa, and two Big Game A Story for Girls
A thought struck her, and she leapt up to peer into the mirror over the mantelpiece.
Choose flowers with large heads like gerbera, lilies, orchids or sunflowers, add one stem per bottle and line them up on your mantelpiece for instant glamour.
This parlor had hardwood floors inlaid with cherry, a frescoed ceiling with flowers, bowknots, etc., and two large white marble mantel-pieces with yellow onyx columns, and large mirrors with carved walnut frames reaching to the ceiling.
The fire charred the ceiling above the mantelpiece
It's like having ivory on your mantelpiece and crocodile shoes in your closet.
The room had been originally intended for a drawing-room, as was evident from the inevitable white and gold wall-paper and the tarnished gilt beading round the doors and window shutters; the mantelpiece, too, was of white marble, and the gaselier fitted with dingy crystal lustres. Vice Versa or A Lesson to Fathers
By the second quarter of the century, dwellings in Paris flaunted brilliant crystal chandeliers and small, exquisitely carved marble mantels with large mirror panels, or painted overmantels called trumeaus.
Each probably already demanding to be the one to hand up the traditional Holy Tax-Inspector Immersion Day decorations, such as the withered bunch of daffodils hung upside down from the mantelpiece, the buttered goat in the hallway, the precise traditional arrangement of liquorice allsorts on the top surface of the DVD Player. Archive 2009-05-01
Laurie turns back to the fireplace, looking into the small mirror hanging above the mantelpiece.
The plates are handed to Him by prelates of _mantelletta_, and during the ceremony one of His chaplains reads a spiritual book. The Ceremonies of the Holy-Week at Rome
A lamp on a low table can wear a shorter shade than a lamp on a mantelpiece because you can't see underneath a shade below eye level.
In the corner behind the door, shining hob-nailed shoes stood in a row under the slab of the washstand, near a bottle of oil with a feather stuck in its mouth; a Matthieu Laensberg lay on the dusty mantelpiece amid gunflints, candle-ends, and bits of amadou. Madame Bovary
Our products stand out because they could be as at home on a mantelpiece as they are on a bedside table. The Sun
Let us at least go back, fill up once more, and raise a mantelet against the bolts, for they have an arbalist which shoots both straight and hard. Sir Nigel
There, strapped to William's back and out of sight, was his father's battleaxe from above the mantelpiece in their parlor.
It's in the ornamental frame on the mantelpiece in your own bedroom, ma'am.
Estelle kept a photograph of her mother in a silver frame on the kitchen mantelpiece.
The mottled gray marble was probably quarried at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania; the mantels in the less formal rooms are wooden.
Hilary Mantel was born in 1952 and brought up in an unpicturesque village in Derbyshire, in the northwest of England.
But as it happened, Banghurst had left a rook rifle he sometimes played with on the top of the desk, and on the corner of the mantelshelf was a tin with three or four cartridges remaining in it. Twelve Stories and a Dream, by H. G. Wells
Her dentures grin at her, gargling water on the mantelpiece.
There are jars of tea leaves, a basketball, an unmade bed, desk, shelf, mirror on the mantelpiece.
The fireplace has a mantel and hearth incorporating a copper insert and remote-control living flame gas fire.
The only sounds filling the room was the soft scraping of his knife and fork across his serving dish and the tick of a mahogany clock atop a mantel.
The result of all their effort is a mantelpiece full of awards. The Sun
Close in date to the kneehole desk is a small mantel clock on the chimneypiece of the Green Drawing Room, veneered with red tortoiseshell and surmounted by a figure of Fame.
A silver vase stood on the mantelpiece.
He straightened up just as the clock on the mantelshelf struck the three-quarters. She Closed Her Eyes
To the left is the sitting room, which is decorated in cream and includes an antique-style fireplace with a tiled surround and inset, as well as a wooden mantelpiece.
Thermometers, hypodermic syringes bistouries and spatulas were scattered about both on the mantelpiece and on the central table on either side of the sloping desk. Round the Red Lamp
Tuck a few little eggs in the middle, and display as a centerpiece or on a mantel.
They leave things, too: cracked makeup cases and spent strings of firecrackers and graded arithmetic homework and dustless circles on a mantel where statuettes once stood. Memory Wall
There was a soiled and tawdry mirror above a massive metal and marble clock supported by a lion couchant on the mantelshelf.
These mantels can be ordered in a wide spectrum of colors to complement most decors.
In 1980 the overmantel was the subject of a six-month campaign of conservation, when the failing plaster was stabilized and most of the paint from the ornamentation was removed.
Sterne then wrote a letter puffing his work which he passed off as the spontaneous praise of the young singer, Catherine Fourmantel, then his mistress.
Toys, including dolls and teddy bears, were stored in boxes and there were several trophies, some crayons and a child's cough medicine on the mantelpiece nearby.
Before Banks, commissions for sculptures in Britain produced busts, public statues, church monuments and decorative reliefs for overmantels and overdoors.
A gilded New England chimney glass of about 1835 provides a handsome backdrop for the Paris porcelain garniture, about 1820 to 1825, on the mantel.
On the mantelpiece his wife, Nancy, smiled from her photo, her wavy brown hair tousled, and her freckled nose slightly pink with sunburn. Excerpt: Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simonson
Tuck a few little eggs in the middle, and display as a centerpiece or on a mantel.
Key fauna protection programs run by the Department of Conservation in the area focus on species present on the predator-free islands, including tuatara, native frogs, kakapo (Strigops habroptilus CR), the endangered takahe (Porphyrio mantelli), and little spotted kiwi (Apteryx owenii VU). Richmond temperate forests
A mantel kit usually comes partially assembled with a surround that you can cut to suit the dimensions of your fireplace.
Scaife bought sporting prints, a couple of Detaille's lithographs, and an easy-chair, known to dwellers upon the Hill as a "frowst;" Kinloch hung upon his side of the wall four pretty reproductions of French engravings, and with the help of three yards of velveteen and some cheap lace he made a very passable imitation of the mantel-cover in his mother's London boudoir; John scorned velveteen, lace, "frowsts," and French engravings. The Hill A Romance of Friendship
The Bunclody Horticultural Society will give a floral demonstration before Christmas featuring the festive season with decorating items for mantels, table arrangements, swags, wreaths and more.
In the kitchen the original tins stand on the mantelshelf, an Edwardian overhead drying rack is operated by a pulley, and her father's old Gulbransen radio is on the table.
Below the gallery he divided the long wall into three sections with two Empire chimneypieces and overmantels.
The old double-barreled ten-gauge with the rabbit-ear hammers still hung above the mantel on pegs, loaded, ready for action. AMAGANSETT
Resting on the mantelpiece above a gas fire is an enlarged, slightly blurred photograph of a group of Indian or maybe Sri Lankan soldiers, handguns to the ready, holding a leopard on a chain.
She tried to read my congrats card without actually touching it, by resting her chin on the edge of the mantel. SUMMER OF SECRETS
They were named Skinner, Mr. and Mrs. Skinner, and Mr. Bensington interviewed them in a small room with hermetically sealed windows, a spotted overmantel looking-glass, and some ailing calceolarias. The Food of the Gods and how it came to Earth
If the free domain email pawl phoronid is deviously legendary for unlikely ileitis, mantel of protozoan are in gleicheniaceae. cropper is poroporo dumps merchant economics and says they chanting mater of thermometer from corporate and immotile botulinum ventose. Rational Review
All the above-mentioned prelates are entitled to wear the mantelletta and rochet; The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman
The attic space in each house is illuminated by three fitted Velux windows and there are limestone fireplaces and marble mantelpieces throughout.
It was called a manta, and was contrived somewhat on the principle of the mantelets used in the wars of the Middle Ages. History of the Conquest of Mexico, with a Preliminary View of Ancient Mexican Civilization, and the Life of the Conqueror, Hernando Cortes
The clock on the mantelpiece said twelve o'clock.
One of the most successful styles adopted by carvers of rococo overmantels was chinoiserie.
Some candlestick on the Gothic mantelpiece, that when he pulls will cause the concealed door to slide? THE CHEEK PERFORATION DANCE
December 19, 2007 at 3:04 pm sombodee needz to skritchy dis kitteh on hims back rite bai hims tail…den kitteh stanz on back tippee toesees…an den hims slides off mantel facee firstee! NOPE– - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
Then there are long strands of beads and weird exotic flowers in deep colours to wind around trees, banisters, mantelpieces and even table napkins.
Manufacturers offer ready-made mantels in a variety of sizes as well as custom-size units.
Then one day a little tentacle of the octopus, just to amuse itself, ingurgitated Dawe's capital, and he moved to the Gramercy Park neighborhood where one, for a few groats per week, may sit upon one's trunk under eight-branched chandeliers and opposite Carrara marble mantels and watch the mice play upon the floor. Strictly business: more stories of the four million
There was a clock on the mantelpiece.
Near the mantelpiece is an oak reclining chair made by Morris, Marshall, Faulkner and Company Designed by Philip Webb based on a sketch by G. Warington Taylor (Pl. VIII), this chair was available, usually ebonized, beginning about 1866.
In the centre of the mantel was a stuffed bird-of-paradise, while about the room were scattered gorgeous shells from the southern seas, delicate sprays of coral sprouting from barnacled pi-pi shells and cased in glass, assegais from South Africa, stone axes from New Guinea, huge SAMUEL
Sitting in the middle of his mantelpiece was an object of gold, about eight inches tall and six wide, shaped like a cross with a loop at the top.
There were invitation cards and calling cards arranged along his mantelpiece, apparently casually but giving no doubt of his social success.
There was an old standish on the mantelshelf containing a dusty apology for all three. Barnaby Rudge
There's nothing like a little golden statuette on the mantelpiece to burnish a fragile ego.
She trotted softly through the passageway letting out on the living room, and entered it and stood before the fireplace mantel.
She glanced at a photo on the mantelpiece of a man in a soutane standing in front of a gloomy Gothic pile. THE ONLY GAME
If the canon be a bishop he should wear the rochet and mantelletta over his purple cassock. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux
The wood of the hawthorn is one of our finest hardwoods, and mantelpieces and furniture made from it are very beautiful and durable.
White candles and roses were perfectly placed along the fireplace mantel and down the center of the long table which was set with the finest white china I had ever seen.
A fire leaped in the hearth under a marble mantelpiece identical to the one in her own flat.
For example, stocking stuffers used to mean little curiosa and candies to decorate the mantel the night before Christmas. Richard Bromfield, Ph.D.: Avoiding the Last Minute Holiday Crazies
Mantels made from noncombustible materials such as plaster, concrete, and stone can be built close to the firebox opening without an intervening surround of marble, slate, or tile.
In the overmantel mirror as she passed she paused to check her appearance. COMPULSION
She noticed an open fireplace with an ornate mantelshelf in black marble.
Inside the house, I expected a typical wealthy Essex businessman's abode: crossed sawn-offs over a granite mantel, widescreen TVs in every tennis court, more fake marble than you could shake a building society branch at.
Traverse right about fifteen feet with peg protection; step up with difficulty; then on to a small pinnacle block; gam the next ledge by a mantelshelf; climb the groove with the aid of two pegs and one sling to the horizontal crack; follow the groove again to She Closed Her Eyes
a fragment out of the marble mantelpiece, and, picking it up, eagerly examined it, as if in search of a hackly fracture. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, March 7, 1891
I can send it in planks for skating floors, in statuettes for the mantel, in shavings for juleps, or in solution for ice cream and general purposes. Storytelling

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