mantelshelf

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Nine years away from the West End stage, frolicsome Actress Sarah Churchill buckled down for her mantelshelf solo as the protagonist in a forthcoming production of Sir James Barrie's Peter Pan.

From Time Magazine Archive

Indeed, one could hardly believe two whole hours had elapsed when Miss Kenton looked up at the clock on the mantelshelf and said she would have to be returning home.

From "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro

Got out my dearest little Sammy's picture and placed it on my mantelshelf.

From Julia Ward Howe 1819-1910 by Elliott, Maud Howe

Now and then he poured himself out a cup of strong coffee from a little cafetière which stood upon the mantelshelf.

From Chance in Chains A Story of Monte Carlo by Gull, Cyril Arthur Edward Ranger

This mantelshelf is a symbol; symbols, too, are the open cupboard, so well furnished that a less industrious artist would have shut it, and the ill-drawn but well-nourished felinity by the fire.

From George Cruikshank by Chesson, W. H.