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

The daughter took her foot from the andiron; her eyes lighted up aggressively.

From The Grandissimes by Cable, George Washington

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

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 Marks, Percy