mantelpiece
mantlepiece
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mantleshelf

I asked him how he had got to my mantelpiece.

She went over to the mantelpiece in the other room.

Yes, or as something on a mantelpiece in which a child could hear the sea.

She stood with her back to the fire, one hand on the mantelpiece.

On the mantelpiece, above and between them, stood his father's photograph.

You see, I need to balance the look of my mantelpiece.

He got out of the chair and went to the mantelpiece.

Or they will be placed on the mantelpiece in the morning room.

Then he got up again to study the photographs on the mantelpiece.

He wanted to look at one of the photographs on the mantelpiece.

But then, what have you in common with the child of five whose photograph your mother keeps on the mantelpiece?

Hours, he thought, and looked at the clock over the mantelpiece.

There were some at the farther end of the mantelpiece.

He rose from the chair and walked to the mantelpiece.

She looked at her image in the mirror above the mantelpiece.

There was a mirror over the mantelpiece and he could see the door in it.

She died, it is said, by striking her head upon a mantelpiece.

One day I had left a five pound note on the mantelpiece.

He walked to the mantelpiece, and leaned his back against it.

Above it was a mantelpiece of the same native stone.

I bowed to the man who was standing by the mantelpiece.

A vase on the end of the mantelpiece began to rock.

He rose, and looked at the clock on the mantelpiece.

In the wall to his left was the heavy white marble mantelpiece.

And the mantelpiece in the drawing room back home was quite empty.

Then the card sat on the mantlepiece for two weeks.

As a result, it is delightful to see the many varieties light up my mantlepiece!

Keep matches locked away, not on the mantlepiece,' he added.

Panoramas were often cut to fit around a mantlepiece or a window.

He rose and went to the fire, laying a hand on the ornate mantlepiece.

I said, assuming a mantle that belonged on the mantlepiece.

"Everybody, after all, can recognize a Renoir over the mantlepiece."

He stared at the clock on the kitchen mantlepiece: five after eleven.

He stopped by the hearth, and leaned his arms on the stone mantlepiece.

The skull was kept as an ornament on the mantlepiece above the fireplace at his home.

"Hot water and the row of mugs on my mantlepiece," he replied quickly.

Curious, she took the candelabra from the mantlepiece and stepped up to the wall.

Pol took a step closer, bracing his hands against the mantlepiece.

These include an 18th-century mantlepiece and several rooms not on the original specifications.

She was standing by the fireplace, staring at the photographs that were crowded along the mantlepiece top.

She stood up and crushed out her cigarette in a tiny ashtray on the mantlepiece.

There was one oil painting over the mantlepiece.

My dad's mother had his in a goldfish bowl way up on a mantlepiece, and I've never held it."

What I'd really like is a nice mantlepiece to hang over, somewhere nice and quiet.

She supposed she must have risen at some point to light a candle on the mantlepiece.

I mean that insolent devil who H was leaning against the mantlepiece!

Griselda was sitting in the queen's place in the middle of the mantlepiece.

Five china cups with a blue pattern about the rim rested upside down on the mantlepiece.

Does he reach for a paper clip on a desk or a match on the mantlepiece while you're talking?

On the mantlepiece lay the most interesting souvenir of his travels: a large yellow crystal.

Or maybe just a note left on the mantelshelf, the easy way out.

She looked at the small electric clock on the mantelshelf in the living room.

He found a mat doing nothing on the mantelshelf and set the bowl back in place again.

He did not return to his desk, but stood leaning against the mantelshelf.

He stood by the mantelshelf, close to the fire.

His wife crossed herself before the plastic Virgin on the mantelshelf.

Put them on the mantelshelf, if you please, Young John.

There's more than one of Mother on the mantelshelf."

I pointed to some passport photos pinned above the mantelshelf.

Mum got me to reach down a tall vase from the mantelshelf.

The clock on the mantelshelf showed that it was eleven-fifteen.

But the door opened again before Shiv had reached for the pot on the mantelshelf.

She noticed an open fireplace with an ornate mantelshelf in black marble.

He straightened up just as the clock on the mantelshelf struck the three-quarters.

Neville took the card and placed it with its eight identical brothers upon the mantelshelf.

The clock on the mantelshelf gave a faint chime of quarter past midnight.

A French clock on the mantelshelf struck eleven, twice.

He emptied his glass, got up, and stood at the side of the fire, with his heavy brown hand on the mantelshelf.

A tiny portable transistor radio stood precariously on the mantelshelf.

You know the picture on the mantelshelf?

Sylvester shrugged, and turned away to lean his arm along the mantelshelf. '

The clock on the mantelshelf behind her was ticking with insentient monotony.

As he turned to leave the room, his glance swept the mantelshelf and he stopped in astonishment.

He clenched his hands on the mantelshelf.

The General shook his head irritably, then lifted a sheet of paper from the mantelshelf and handed it to me.

I don't tell her or she'll take on the mantleshelf.

Eva looked unhappily at a china figurine on the mantleshelf.

From the top of the pinnacle step onto the wall and, using the thin cracks, effect a mantleshelf move into the horizontal break.

It was eight twenty-five by the clock on the mantleshelf when Walter Stone's real terror began.

I put six lighted candles in a row on the mantleshelf and sat a long while in an armchair, trying to think things out.

He went to the fireplace, and selected a pipe from a collection on the mantleshelf, and took the lid off an old fashioned tobacco-jar.

'Look here upon this picture and on this,'" quoted Villiers dramatically, taking down Alwyn's portrait from the mantleshelf, and mentally comparing it with the smiling original.

The next pitch, stepping from the exposed top of the pinnacle block, is again a bold exercise, one immediately followed by a forced mantleshelf move to gain a horizontal weakness in the smooth wall.

In his youth he had spent his every summer holiday competing in tournaments, and to his frequent success the row of trophies upon the mantleshelf in his dining-room bore testimony.

She took her best outfit from the paper carrier on the mantleshelf, shook it to get rid of the creases, and soon was all dressed up and ready to go with her red lipstick, her pretty pinned-up hair and her fancy black peep-toe shoes.

Then he turned over a chair and a small table to give the appearance of a struggle, and threw down a candlestick, a figurine, and the clock from the mantleshelf over the fireplace, making sure that the clock was broken and showed the correct time.