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
The andiron in question was a thick, roughly shaped bar of iron, bent at both ends, but the front end divided in two, to serve for feet, and furnished with a thick, short knob.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 76, February, 1864 by Various
Carl knocked his pipe empty on the knob of an andiron, sank deeper into his chair, and began to speak slowly.
From The Plastic Age by Marks, Percy
God never meant anything to be idle,—not even a brass andiron.
From Sunshine Jane by Warner, Anne
