andiron
Example Sentences
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She falls, strikes her head against a fraternity andiron.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
Nicholas knocked his pipe against the andiron, and rose, to lay it carefully on the shelf.
From Tiverton Tales by Brown, Alice
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)
He hit it against the andiron to knock the ashes off, and plunged it into the mixture.
From Ben Comee A Tale of Rogers's Rangers, 1758-59 by Canavan, M. J. (Michael Joseph)
