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
"Let us return his fire, Hugh," said the person whom he addressed, composedly lifting the andiron.
From Fanshawe by Nathaniel Hawthorne
He set a foot, shod in red leather reversed with ermine, upon an andiron, and, leaning an elbow on the carved overmantel, rested his brow against his hand.
From The Historical Nights' Entertainment Second Series by Rafael Sabatini
The daughter took her foot from the andiron; her eyes lighted up aggressively.
From The Grandissimes by George Washington Cable
