Mantelpiece

Examples

• How very serious--how very solemn you look: and you are as ignorant of the matter as this cameo head (taking one from the mantelpiece). Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• She stood silent, resting her thin elbows on the mantelpiece, her profile reflected in the glass behind her. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• Don't be like Patience on a mantelpiece frowning at Dolls, but sit down, and I'll tell you something that you really will find amusing. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• One of these he placed in his hall in the house at Kennington Road, and the other on the mantelpiece of the surgery at Lower Brixton. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• When I entered this room I found the window wide open, and I at once observed that the bust was gone from the mantelpiece. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• Selden continued to stand near her, leaning against the mantelpiece. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• She cried fit to break her heart; her ringlets fell over her face, and over the marble mantelpiece where she laid it. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• He is the very picture of his sainted mother over the mantelpiece--Griselda of the noble house of Binkie. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• He lit the two candles which stood upon the mantelpiece, and then he proceeded to turn back the corner of the carpet in the neighborhood of the door. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• As he looked up, the light of the candles on the mantelpiece fell full on her face. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• He rested his elbow upon the mantelpiece and his face upon his hand. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Archer mounted the stairs, turned up the light, and put a match to the brackets on each side of the library mantelpiece. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• Then she returned to the drawing-room, where Archer, on re-entering it, found her standing by the mantelpiece, examining herself in the mirror. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• Here his glance fell upon a bottle of wine which stood on the mantelpiece. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• I will take this photograph of Blessington, which I see upon the mantelpiece, as it may help me in my inquiries. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.

Edited by Denny