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
God never meant anything to be idle,—not even a brass andiron.
From Sunshine Jane by Anne Warner
Carl knocked his pipe empty on the knob of an andiron, sank deeper into his chair, and began to speak slowly.
From The Plastic Age by Percy Marks
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 Fritz August Gottfried Endell
