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
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
The officials, seeing the marvellous work that he had put into it, sent the money to his shop; and he sent them the other andiron.
From Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects Vol. 04 (of 10), Filippino Lippi to Domenico Puligo by De Vere, Gaston du C.
