mantel

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It’s for the mantel, for our boys,’” Song revealed.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 2, 2026

In the once-bare space above the bedroom’s mantel, which holds a Louis XVI-style clock, gold-framed pictures and miniatures of family members and friends hang.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 7, 2026

Picture frames atop the family’s mantel at the home of William Harris, 63, which burned in the Eaton Fire in Altadena.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 11, 2025

He took up the mantel as leader of Fianna Fáil in 2011 and was elected taoiseach in 2020 as part of the three-party coalition agreement.

From BBC • Nov. 28, 2024

She waved a hand at the scrolls with ink-brushed mountains that hung by the fireplace, the glazed pottery horse on the mantel.

From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng