andiron
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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.
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She falls, strikes her head against a fraternity andiron.
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God never meant anything to be idle,—not even a brass andiron.
From Sunshine Jane by Warner, Anne
I have wondered sometimes why the philosophers have not hit upon the andiron as a particularly fitting subject for pleasurable rumination.
From Making a Fireplace by Saylor, Henry H. (Henry Hodgman)
Tom got out his chiefest jewel, a brass knob from the top of an andiron, and passed it around her so that she could see it, and said: "Please, Becky, won't you take it?"
From The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Part 2. by Twain, Mark