Italian Renaissance fireplace and overmantel, modern 8.    From Wordnik.com.  [Furnishing the Home of Good Taste A Brief Sketch of the Period Styles in Interior Decoration with Suggestions as to Their Employment in the Homes of Today] Reference

A Victorian overmantel reached from the mantelpiece to the ceiling.    From Wordnik.com.  [Through the Wall]

For example, there is a statuette of a kneeling cupid on the overmantel.    From Wordnik.com.  [Royal Flash]

The other three stood by the fireplace, Rudi leaning against the overmantel.    From Wordnik.com.  [Royal Flash]

Inch by inch his eyes moved until they reached the top shelf of the overmantel and stopped.    From Wordnik.com.  [Leonie of the Jungle] Reference

Inside there is a quaint overmantel, with Elizabethan carving, and E.R. in the centre panel.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Gloucester [2nd ed.] A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Espicopal See] Reference

"There's where it was," she said softly and pointed to a deep niche cut into the surface of the stone overmantel.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ralestone Luck] Reference

The overmantel usually had a carved panel, but later, during the sixteenth century, this was sometimes replaced by a picture.    From Wordnik.com.  [Furnishing the Home of Good Taste A Brief Sketch of the Period Styles in Interior Decoration with Suggestions as to Their Employment in the Homes of Today] Reference

He found what he wanted presently, in a little blue cup on the overmantel, and in a few minutes he had fixed the switch to the wall.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Slave of Silence] Reference

And the tremendous skull of the great hog of Oakham hung, a portentous ivory overmantel, with a Chinese jar in either eye socket, snout down above the fire.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Food of the Gods and how it came to Earth] Reference

Andre-Louis glanced at the timepiece on the overmantel.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scaramouche] Reference

She withdrew her hand, and tidied her hair in the mirror of the overmantel.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne : a Novel] Reference

Lord Lashmore retied his stock, standing before the small mirror set in the overmantel.    From Wordnik.com.  [Brood of the Witch-Queen] Reference

The large mirrors of the wardrobe and overmantel were filling with vague lights and shadows.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Mummer's Tale] Reference

"It is an overmantel, my dear," she had said to dubious Anastasia, when it was brought home.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Nebuly Coat] Reference

Her sitting-room fireplace is the most ornate, with a limestone surround, mantel and overmantel.    From Wordnik.com.  [chicagotribune.com -] Reference

Her long thin frame, bent low to work the bellows under the enormous overmantel, she assented: ` ` Perhaps!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rover] Reference

"Oh, am I not tidy now?" asked Kitty, jumping up and running to the glass in the overmantel to survey herself.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wild Kitty] Reference

It was like the fixed overmantel one finds sometimes in small modern villas, only it wasn't over the mantelpiece.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Master Detective Being Some Further Investigations of Christopher Quarles] Reference

Interior combines a Colonial Revival stair and Neo-Classical mantel with a mirrored overmantel in the front parlor.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

All went to the timber yard -- every bit except some little pieces worked up in the Lady Chapel, and 'ere in this overmantel.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Thin Ghost and Others] Reference

He leaned his elbow on the overmantel and rested his brow against his clenched right hand, and stood so awhile in moody thought.    From Wordnik.com.  [Saint Martin's Summer] Reference

A very lofty arched ceiling of rather unusual construction is beautifully decorated, and the overmantel and fireplace are exquisite.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Strand District The Fascination of London] Reference

Though not a great beauty, Madame Stoyanova looked appealingly pretty in white with a blue overmantel and her hair tied up à la Grecque.    From Wordnik.com.  [Opera Today] Reference

Standing by the hearth, one foot on the stone kerb, one elbow leaning lightly on the overmantel, she proceeded leisurely to remove her gloves.    From Wordnik.com.  [Saint Martin's Summer] Reference

"Father will be here in a few minutes," she said, as going to a small overmantel she deftly re-coiled her hair, which had a way of becoming loose.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tom Gerrard] Reference

In one of the corners of the overmantel there was still a sprig of withered laurel left forgotten, and his eye fell on it now with grim satisfaction.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vice Versa or A Lesson to Fathers] Reference

She pushed her aunt away with such force that the old woman staggered backwards and to save herself had to catch hold of the overmantel above her head.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rover] Reference

He set a foot, shod in red leather reversed with ermine, upon an andiron, and, leaning an elbow on the carved overmantel, rested his brow against his hand.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Historical Nights' Entertainment Second Series] Reference

Then he paced slowly back, not to the place he had lately occupied at table, but to the hearth, where he took his stand with his shoulders squared to the overmantel.    From Wordnik.com.  [Saint Martin's Summer] Reference

"It must be nearly eight o'clock," she remarked, as she rose from her chair a few minutes later, going at once to look in the mirror which formed part of the overmantel.    From Wordnik.com.  [Enter Bridget] Reference

Elnora followed down the hall and entered a long room with high panelled wainscoting, old English fireplace with an overmantel and closets of peculiar china filling the corners.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Girl of the Limberlost] Reference

"There's where it was, '' she said softly and pointed to a deep niche cut into the surface of the stone overmantel.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ralestone Luck]

Knows me too well, unfortunately, "and Mr. Moss, taking a squint at himself in the overmantel, laughed -- well enough pleased.    From Wordnik.com.  [Once Aboard the Lugger] Reference

She glanced at the timepiece on the overmantel.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scaramouche] Reference

Lady's chair, gent's chair, sofa, and four uprights, with chiffonnier, and overmantel, and all.    From Wordnik.com.  [Flaming June] Reference