mantelpiece

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The density of the ornament is matched only by its cheapness, with chalices lined up on the mantelpiece like the decorator raided the trophy case of a middle-school gymnasium.

From Slate • Aug. 5, 2025

The clock on the mantelpiece in the Cabinet Room ticks surprisingly loudly, marking every half-second.

From BBC • Sep. 14, 2024

This product is about 4 inches long, with a string for hanging from your rearview mirror or mantelpiece.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 1, 2023

Jean Cocteau, arriving to pay tribute to the late author, spotted the manuscript resting on the mantelpiece — a pile of papers “still alive, like watches ticking on the wrists of dead soldiers.”

From Washington Post • Nov. 17, 2022

Their great warm faces looked down upon me from the mantelpiece, they floated in a bowl upon the table by the sofa, they stood, lean and graceful, on the writing desk beside the golden candlesticks.

From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier