mantelshelf
Americannoun
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mantelshelvesEtymology
Origin of mantelshelf
Example Sentences
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Nine years away from the West End stage, frolicsome Actress Sarah Churchill buckled down for her mantelshelf solo as the protagonist in a forthcoming production of Sir James Barrie's Peter Pan.
From Time Magazine Archive
Indeed, one could hardly believe two whole hours had elapsed when Miss Kenton looked up at the clock on the mantelshelf and said she would have to be returning home.
From "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro
On the mantelshelf stand statuettes of Goethe and Schiller, remembrances of Weimar; the walls are hung with water-colour sketches by Mdme.
From Notable Women Authors of the Day Biographical Sketches by Black, Helen C.
The latter, however, did not go, and took another cigar from the mantelshelf.
From Luck at the Diamond Fields by Belgrave, Dalrymple J.
Finally, he took a large meerschaum pipe from the mantelshelf in the smoking-room and smoked it in the drawing-room, a thing he would not have dared to do--very properly--if Miss Maynard had been at home.
From Between the Dark and the Daylight by Marsh, Richard
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