andiron
Example Sentences
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On display in Manhattan's Robinson Galleries last week went a Wheelock retrospective show that started with the dachshund andiron, ended in 1940 with a crisp, stylized figure of Washington at Valley Forge.
From Time Magazine Archive
She falls, strikes her head against a fraternity andiron.
From Time Magazine Archive
Bessie, as she afterwards declared, was almost ready to faint at this announcement, but on turning to look she saw indeed, hanging by a chain to keep the gate closed, a dumpy, rusty, cast-iron andiron.
From The House that Jill Built after Jack's had proved a failure by Gardner, E. C. (Eugene Clarence)
I saw ye andiron leap into ye pott and dance, and leap out, and again leap in, and leap on a table and there abide.
From The Bay State Monthly, Volume 3, No. 4 by Various
"That's strange," muttered Goody Brown, as she sat before the buried fire with a foot planted on each andiron, meditating on the conversation she had just held.
From Silent Struggles by Stephens, Ann S. (Ann Sophia)
