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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These show an early advance from the simple andiron, and point to the later developments of the fire-grate with the fast bars which were to come.
From Chats on Household Curios by Burgess, Fred. W. (Frederick William)
Feeling his way along the hearth he came on nothing greater than his stocking which was tied to the andiron.
From Chimney-Pot Papers by Endell, Fritz August Gottfried
His interference, however, had nearly been productive of most unfortunate consequences; for a massive andiron, with round brazen head, whizzed past him, within a hair's-breadth of his ear.
From Fanshawe by Hawthorne, Nathaniel
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