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
On the mantelshelf stand statuettes of Goethe and Schiller, remembrances of Weimar; the walls are hung with water-colour sketches by Mdme.
From Notable Women Authors of the Day Biographical Sketches by Helen C. Black
The latter, however, did not go, and took another cigar from the mantelshelf.
From Luck at the Diamond Fields by Dalrymple J. Belgrave
Presently he stopped short before the fireplace, and contemplated the little silver figures standing in the niches of the highcarved mantelshelf.
From Diana Tempest, Volume II (of 3) by Mary Cholmondeley
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