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mantel
noun as in fireplace
Example Sentences
Her mantel is adorned with a taper candle in a clay wine bottle alongside pillars and food-shaped candles on each side.
If you opt for a caricature, make room on the fireplace mantel for a cartoonish rendering of your masked face.
Matthew would fly to our mantel, pick up in his talons a small soapstone bear, fly over Sam and drop it on her head.
However, before you make room on the mantel for a framed image of your Vietnamese pangolin or Tasmanian devil, some research is required.
Some rest flush against a mantel, while others are made by graduating the ribbon, loop by loop, to make very large bows.
In her memoir, Giving Up the Ghost, Mantel writes of her own childhood encounters with the paranormal.
Mantel did live in Saudi Arabia with her husband for nearly a decade, and this piece was originally published as memoir.
Author Hilary Mantel is under fire for writing a story about killing Margaret Thatcher.
His mantel is chock full of Oscars and Grammys (three of each).
Nick Lord, 25, wins commission to paint Booker Prize winner Hilary Mantel for a portrait which will hang in the British Library.
When he was gone, Isaacson stood by the mantel-piece for nearly five minutes, thinking and motionless.
The lady of the roses went to the mirror over the untidy mantel piece, and looked at herself, as she answered.
Over the mantel in our parlor we have a picture of the lion's den, and it is one of the choicest of our family treasures.
We don't even have real big prizes—just a dinky little spoon sitting up on the mantel-piece to excite us as if it was a tiara.
Moodily he stood there, one hand on the high mantel shelf, one foot upon an andiron, his eyes upon the flames.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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