andiron
Example Sentences
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She falls, strikes her head against a fraternity andiron.
From Time Magazine Archive
On display in Manhattan's Robinson Galleries last week went a Wheelock retrospective show that started with the dachshund andiron, ended in 1940 with a crisp, stylized figure of Washington at Valley Forge.
From Time Magazine Archive
God never meant anything to be idle,—not even a brass andiron.
From Sunshine Jane by Warner, Anne
Dom La Taste, the great opponent of Jansenism, alluding to the same circumstance, says, "I do not dispute the fact, that the andiron sunk so deeply that it appeared to penetrate to the very backbone."
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 76, February, 1864 by Various
These show an early advance from the simple andiron, and point to the later developments of the fire-grate with the fast bars which were to come.
From Chats on Household Curios by Burgess, Fred. W. (Frederick William)
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
