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Example sentences from the Web for mantelpieceAnd she said, “No, you are on fire,” and my arm had caught on fire from a candle on this mantelpiece. Stephen Merchant Talks ‘Hello Ladies’ movie, the Nicole Kidman Cameo, and Legacy of ‘The Office’|Marlow Stern|November 22, 2014|DAILY BEAST Each of those women had a sepia photograph on the mantelpiece, of a young man in uniform. The Tragic, Heroic Women of World War I|Jacqueline Winspear|June 29, 2014|DAILY BEAST Over the mantelpiece, that was Henry Irving, the 19th-century actor-manager who was the first English actor to be knighted. Spending a Day With Peter O’Toole|Malcolm Jones|December 16, 2013|DAILY BEAST "Sadly he ran into the wrong people and he is now on someone's mantelpiece somewhere probably," he said. William Attacks 'Selfish and Ignorant' Rhino Poachers|Tom Sykes|June 19, 2012|DAILY BEAST
Miss Winstead, the governess, resumed her letter, and a clock on the mantelpiece struck out seven silvery chimes. She rose and walked to the fireplace, her elbows on the mantelpiece, and her head back. The Daffodil Mystery|Edgar Wallace He always in the end sank down into his box or clambered back to his mantelpiece. The Art of Letters|Robert Lynd She turned away sharply, rested her elbows on the mantelpiece and her head in her hands. The Rake's Progress|Marjorie Bowen As he turned, his gaze encountered an oil-painting hanging above the mantelpiece. The Kingdom Round the Corner|Coningsby Dawson
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nounAlso called: mantel shelf, chimneypiece a shelf above a fireplace often forming part of the mantel another word for mantel (def. 1) Words nearby mantelpiecemantel, mantelboard, mantelet, mantelletta, mantellone, mantelpiece, mantelshelf, manteltree, mantic, manticore, mantid Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to mantelpiececounter, cupboard, rack, ledge, ridge, reef, mantle, shallow, bracket, shoal, rock, console, bank, chimneypiece, fireboard, mantelshelf |