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
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
Pictures of Kody, his older brother and their grandfather — all in their Navy uniforms — rest on the mantelpiece next to the folded flag from Kody’s funeral.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 30, 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
And then Coraline found herself wondering why the other mother would have placed a snow globe on the drawing-room mantelpiece; for the mantelpiece, in Coraline’s world, was quite bare.
From "Coraline" by Neil Gaiman
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