This was the first example of a wooden mantel made to replicate the look of cast iron, common in Victorian times. From LearnThat.org. [www.yourdictionary.com]
In England they call a mantel a chimneypiece. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
A Gold Glove on his mantel is proof he can field as well as hit. From Wordnik.com. [USATODAY.com - Baseball Weekly picks Team 2002] Reference
The exquisite white marble mantel is Italian, not French, of the time of Louis XVI. From Wordnik.com. [The Art of Interior Decoration] Reference
The border of the Virgin's mantel is carved to resemble brocade and painted gold, while the inside has been painted red. From Wordnik.com. [Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany] Reference
The bookshelves are packed with stuffed animals and books, and the mantel is lined with photographs of the children who live here. From Wordnik.com. [In S. Africa's Orphanages, Is Doing Good Really Bad?] Reference
Over the mantel was a pair of very large deer's antlers. From Wordnik.com. [A Little Girl in Old Boston] Reference
On the mantel was the model of a ship that tradition said the. From Wordnik.com. [The Comings of Cousin Ann] Reference
On the mantel was the Kodak picture of Katherine, and he paused to look at it. From Wordnik.com. [The Short Line War] Reference
In a glass case on the mantel was the monkey charm which she had lost in the barn. From Wordnik.com. [The Cat in Grandfather's House] Reference
Geena Davis: That Oscar on her mantel is a pretty good indicator that she could handle. From Wordnik.com. [EW.com: Today's Latest Headlines] Reference
On the mantel was a jade leopard with eyes of obsidian and a gold ormolu clock, unwound. From Wordnik.com. [Call Of The Heart]
Above the mantel was a picture of a dog pointing, over the bed another of a dog retrieving. From Wordnik.com. [Frank of Freedom Hill] Reference
Near the mantel was a pipe-rack filled with fine specimens of briar-wood and meerschaum pipes. From Wordnik.com. [At the Time Appointed] Reference
On the mantel was a large photograph; Anita's heart leaped as she recognized it to be Broussard. From Wordnik.com. [Betty at Fort Blizzard] Reference
Among objects which cluttered the mantel was a miniature Aphrodite A FEAST FOR THE GODS of Milos. From Wordnik.com. [The Unicorn Trade]
A stone fireplace faced the door, and on the mantel was a cluster of silver frames with photographs. From Wordnik.com. [One White Rose]
On the mantel was a plaster-of-Paris cat at one end and a bunch of crystallized flowers at the other. From Wordnik.com. [Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 7 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Orators] Reference
On the mantel was a row of books, and Sartre imagined the day when all the books would bear his name. From Wordnik.com. [Ottawa Sun] Reference
In the west parlor over the mantel is a beautiful picture in water colors of Othello wooing Desdemona. From Wordnik.com. [Frederick Douglass The Orator. Containing an Account of His Life; His Eminent Public Services; His Brilliant Career as Orator; Selections from His Speeches and Writings] Reference
Over the mantel was the picture of a handsome man in the uniform of a soldier of some twenty years back. From Wordnik.com. [For Love of Country A Story of Land and Sea in the Days of the Revolution] Reference
On the mantel was a deep bowl of roses that he remembered watching her cut -- was it yesterday or centuries ago?. From Wordnik.com. [Sisters] Reference
On the mantel was a saucer containing the fast oxidizing cores of several apples and a half-eaten box of oatmeal biscuits. From Wordnik.com. [The Man Who Rocked the Earth] Reference
Over the fireplace on the mantel was a baby's shoe, a little brown shoe picked up on the street of a town that was being destroyed. From Wordnik.com. [Kings, Queens and Pawns An American Woman at the Front] Reference
The mantel was a bank of blood-red roses, and they also bloomed and died a fragant death in great bowls set here and there about the floor. From Wordnik.com. [A Village Ophelia and Other Stories] Reference
Your mantel is just lovely, Lady Lydia!. From Wordnik.com. [Your Links] Reference
On the mantel I observed a picture of an old lady. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
I wash the coin and drop it into a cup on the mantel. From Wordnik.com. [Live Sacrifice] Reference
Three full jars are perched along the fireplace mantel. From Wordnik.com. [Gathering] Reference
She moved to the bric-a-brac lining the mantel. From Wordnik.com. [Roanne's Dream] Reference
Other pictures, of children who died here, line the mantel. From Wordnik.com. [10 Million Orphans] Reference
He's placed a family heirloom silver pitcher on the fireplace mantel. From Wordnik.com. [Spin Doctors In Love] Reference
He nodded to the beveled mirror above the mantel then caught her dark eyes. From Wordnik.com. [Easy to Show] Reference
"Paper cards meet a different need -- 'I want to put you up on the mantel'.". From Wordnik.com. [Sorryyourdogdied.Com] Reference
Her photo is large on the mantel, eyes wide as if her wedding dress is too tight. From Wordnik.com. [Touch Me] Reference
I mean, they can claim a certain kind of prophetic mantel, and I grant them that. From Wordnik.com. [Scholar Signals The End Of The Black Church] Reference
That senseless love, which made of her a toy, a mantel ornament, made her ashamed. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
I am going to put it on the mantel of my boarded-up fireplace, and I am going to wait. From Wordnik.com. [The Heart Jar] Reference
The room was empty except for bric-a-brac lining the top of a mantel against the far wall. From Wordnik.com. [Roanne's Dream] Reference
Then another, one more — and she reached out andsweptthose glass figurines off the mantel. From Wordnik.com. [Roanne's Dream] Reference
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