| 单词 | mantelpiece |
| 例句 | It was stiflingly warm, and the fire that was burning under the crowded mantelpiece was giving off a heavy, sickly sort of perfume as it heated a large copper kettle. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z Get knocked into it with a fist of fatigue to avoid a night of noisy silence, empty birdcages that don’t need wrapping in cloth, of bold unsmiling girls staring from the mantelpiece. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Father kept the bayonet hanging over the mantelpiece. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “My nails are a sight from all that scouring,” she said, taking a long file off the mantelpiece and smoothing a frayed thumbnail. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z “I know, Mary Anne. That’s true. I used to be a little kid. I used to believe in Santa Claus and leave him milk and cookies on the mantelpiece.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Harry clambered up onto the mantelpiece and through the hole behind Ariana’s portrait. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z At first he put it on the mantelpiece, but suddenly he removed it and stuck it in his pocket. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Grandma sleeps in a big bed upstairs with a picture of the Sacred Heart of Jesus over her head and a statue of the Sacred Heart on the mantelpiece. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z She dumped them in the hearth and grabbed a book of matches from the mantelpiece. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z This parlour looked gloomy: a neglected handful of fire burnt low in the grate; and, leaning over it, with his head supported against the high, old-fashioned mantelpiece, appeared the blind tenant of the room. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z He staggered back and clutched at the mantelpiece. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Then years later there was the time Antonapoulos took the rent money from the vase on the mantelpiece and spent it all on the slot machines. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Harry glanced at the carriage clock on the mantelpiece. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z The scrolled legs under the dining table were dust catchers, and so were the kinds of objects—doodads, my mother called them—other people kept on their mantelpieces. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z On the mantelpiece in the dining-room and sticking up behind the hatrack there were bright yellow leaves. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z I would of laid a bet that when she got on him about it, Camp had looked down at the floor instead of at the mantelpiece. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Instinctively I had looked for them, thinking there would be one photograph at least beside his bed, or in the middle of the mantelpiece. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z The flowers on the mantelpiece were drooping, many of them dead. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z He was standing by the mantelpiece, his hands in his pockets. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z Loma said the board walls in there were painted a bright yellow, and everything else was white: mantelpiece, door and window frames, iron bed, night stand, dresser, wardrobe, wicker chair—all white. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z After she had returned with the chair and a little picnic cooler of ice cubes, she arranged her best jelly glasses on the mantelpiece before her mother’s picture. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z It won’t be dark for hours yet, but I light the candles on the mantelpiece and open the second bottle of Merlot to let it breathe. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z He looked at the clock on the mantelpiece. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z “It’s not? Then this Laughing Gas must be catching! Hi—whoa there, look out for the mantelpiece!” Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z He took Ignatius over to the mantelpiece and showed him a bud vase containing one red, one white, and one blue rose. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The mantelpiece in the drawing room back home was quite empty. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z A pile of newspapers sits in the corner of the living room; there are dirty mugs on the coffee table and the mantelpiece. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘There on the mantelpiece. Well, no! Here it is in my pocket! ’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z A mantelpiece bare of ornaments save for an enormous block of white marble shaped like a bear, a piece of modern sculpture in which was inset a clock. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z Thick books lined all the walls and cluttered a mantelpiece overhanging another fireplace. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z “You keep everything so clean,” she said at last, running a finger along the mantelpiece. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z And Ma’s ‘Yard of Yellow Roses’ picture is hangin’ over the mantelpiece. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Mr. Birdsong unfolded his new collapsible casket stand and set it up right in front of the white mantelpiece that Uncle Camp had painted. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z So indeed was the entire mantelpiece around the fireplace in the living-room, a splendid design of fruit and foliage and intertwining branches carved in oak. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z It had a stone mantelpiece and a slate hearthstone on which Francie could draw pictures with chalk. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The clock on the mantelpiece struck ten o’clock. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z On the mantelpiece, was a small jar, and Miss Spink took off the top of the jar and began to pull things out of it. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z An old-fashioned glass clock with a twelve-hour face was ticking away on the mantelpiece. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z ‘Put it on the mantelpiece. It will be safe enough there, till Frodo comes. I shall wait for him.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z His grandma’s precious clock, hanging over the mantelpiece, the pendulum swinging back and forth, back and forth, like it was getting on with its own, private life, not caring about Conor at all. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z As she passed the mantelpiece, she looked up at the framed doggerel. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z Two wax candles stood lighted on the table, and two on the mantelpiece; basking in the light and heat of a superb fire, lay Pilot—Adèle knelt near him. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z He stood there by the mantelpiece, his eyes wide and staring, looking in front of him, not seeing anything. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z I could drape it over the head of the china cat that adorned the mantelpiece, but if Hattie woke early, she could rescue it before anyone saw. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z The old-fashioned clock with the twelve-hour face was ticking away on the mantelpiece. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z He put his two hands on the mantelpiece and his forehead on his hands. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z General Macarthur stood with his back to the mantelpiece. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z Santa picked up the photograph lying facedown on the mantelpiece and showed it to her two guests. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I see a few photographs on the mantelpiece. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z The clock on the mantelpiece says it’s not even seven, and there’s a violent rain lashing against the big picture window, half-revealed by parted curtains. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Katie’s crucifix hung high on the wall over the mantelpiece at home. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z A fire was crackling under an elaborately carved mantelpiece ahead of them, and several Slyth- erins were silhouetted around it in high-backed chairs. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z Other than that, the room was empty: there were no knickknacks on the mantelpiece, no statues or clocks; nothing that made it feel comfortable or lived-in. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z They had gone to college and were engaged to pretty, clean girls whose pictures were already standing on the rough cement mantelpiece of Orr’s fireplace. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Harry’s attention was caught by something on the mantelpiece: a small, rectangular mirror propped on top of it, right beneath the portrait of the girl. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z He noticed that the clock on the mantelpiece said nine, meaning twenty-one. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Sucking some pieces of parsley and onion from between her teeth, she said to the picture of her mother on the mantelpiece, “They gonna love that. Nobody makes a good potatis salad like Santa.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Albert was sleeping beneath a blanket, his face turned towards the portrait of Oberon, with Billy’s urn still on the mantelpiece below it. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z Aunt Florence moved to the mantelpiece and put her handbag down near the metal serpent. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z Books were piled on the three desks and on the low table before the sofa and along the mantelpiece. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z Swaddled in blankets and bandages, she glanced at the clock on the mantelpiece. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Henry paces over to the elaborately carved fireplace across the room and leans on the mantelpiece. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z “Good. You shall play checkers with me,” he said, taking a wooden box of pieces from the mantelpiece, and shaking them out onto the table. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z Then she put the snow globe back on the mantelpiece, and carried on looking for her true parents and for a way out. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z He had barely resumed his seat, and arranged his face into what he hoped was a relaxed and unfazed expression, when bright green flames burst into life in the empty grate beneath his marble mantelpiece. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z And he dropped his eyes to the mantelpiece, lifting one by one the objects that adorned it. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z The little clock ticked on the mantelpiece, and the boys played tennis in the garden. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z On the mantelpiece were photographs of two schoolboys with round, smiling faces. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z Only the photographs on the mantelpiece really showed how much time had passed. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z She turned her attention to the largest print, which had been stuck up alone over the mantelpiece. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Mrs. Platt’s circumnavigation of her supper table completed, she began to revolve around the parlor, the plates being lain on the mantelpiece or the gaming table. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z I could not see myself sitting ever in those chairs, standing before that carved mantelpiece, throwing books down on to the tables. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z Without waiting to see what would happen, Coraline reached up to the mantelpiece and closed her hand around the snow globe, pushing it deep into the pocket of her dressing gown. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z “So things will go on just the same,” thought Francie, a little surprised, as she took the Bible from the mantelpiece. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Dusty trophies lined the top of a mantelpiece. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z He glanced up at the framed nursery rhyme over the mantelpiece. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z He went and stood over by the mantelpiece. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z Santa grabbed the picture on the mantelpiece, a photograph of an ancient and hostile-looking woman in a black dress and black stockings standing in a dark alley paved with oyster shells. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z She went to the mantelpiece and took the vases. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z Without wiping off the mantelpiece at all, Uncle Camp had painted around a tin matchbox and right over a cockroach, a pencil stub, and a shirt button. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z The shifting light from the candles enhances the indistinct quality about his face, so she looks away before she replies, turning her attention to the contents of the mantelpiece. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Jane’s eyes and Michael’s popped with astonishment, but they were not given much time to wonder, for Mary Poppins, having put the miraculous bottle on the mantelpiece, turned to them. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z She was already starting, as quietly as she could, step by step, to back away toward the mantelpiece. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z The Nursery clock ticked loudly from the mantelpiece. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z The clock on the mantelpiece shaved minutes into seconds. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z ‘This is my card, with my direct phone number. I’ll leave it here on the mantelpiece. If Salim comes home or gets in touch, or if you have any further thoughts, call me.’ The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z Looking up, he could see his mother through the large curtainless windows inspecting a fine old mantelpiece in the living room. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z These somewhat unrelated sentiments decorated either side of the mantelpiece, obscured a little by the silver candlesticks. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z She shuts the box and puts it on the mantelpiece. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Frodo took the envelope from the mantelpiece, and glanced at it, but did not open it. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z She always said if a house looked neat, folks didn’t notice cobwebs in the corners or dust on the mantelpiece. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Politely he admires the plaster cove moldings, the ceiling medallions, the marble mantelpieces, things he knows how to speak intelligently and at length about. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z The lodge had turrets with round rooms and medieval doors, hand-carved from African olive wood, and the living room boasted an immense fireplace with a carved mantelpiece. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Mam puts the boiled onion pot up on the mantelpiece for fear a mouse or rat might be at it. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z The mantelpiece held, in brave confusion, photographs, greeting cards, flowered mottoes, two silver candlesticks that held no candles, and a green metal serpent, poised to strike. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z “It’s only just on one now,” said Mr. Crawley, “according to the clock on the mantelpiece.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z This was to Michael, who had suddenly risen from the floor and was swooping through the air, roaring with laughter, and just grazing the china ornaments on the mantelpiece as he passed. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z Then deliberately he took his silver pencil from his pocket and leaned over the mantelpiece to write a note. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z She takes a moment to look around—at the ornate mantelpiece above the fireplace, the decorated oak moldings and brass chandelier. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z There’s a dried flower arrangement on either end of the mantelpiece, and a vase of real daffodils on the polished marquetry end table beside the sofa. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z Lancelot kicked the log- thoughtfully, one arm on the mantelpiece, looking into the ashy glow. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z A ball of glass, up on the mantelpiece. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z A naked light bulb burned on a cord swinging from the ceiling, casting sharp shadows on the wall behind the mantelpiece, and in the corner where Calpurnia sat. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z A high-pitched, gold clock in a glass case ticked very fast on the mantelpiece. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z Even if Mrs. Danvers did put the flowers on the mantelpiece and the sheets upon the bed, they would not bring her back. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z Hanging over the mantelpiece was his grandma’s prize clock, which no one but her could ever touch. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z She glanced at Granny’s clock on the mantelpiece. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z A thin ray of sun struck the prisms of a candelabrum on the mantelpiece, throwing brilliant, trembling shards of light that were distorted by the slant of the dormer walls. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Gatsby, his hands still in his pockets, was reclining against the mantelpiece in a strained counterfeit of perfect ease, even of boredom. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z I went over to the mantelpiece and picked up Detective Inspector Pearce’s card. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z I must not look at the mantelpiece, she thought. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z Now she stood in the center of the room, between Coraline and the mantelpiece, and looked down at Coraline with black button eyes. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z On the mantelpiece an ornate gold clock with a domed glass front ticks loudly. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z From over the mantelpiece, she took down the crucifix and the picture of her and Neeley on Confirmation Day. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Their great warm faces looked down upon me from the mantelpiece, they floated in a bowl upon the table by the sofa, they stood, lean and graceful, on the writing desk beside the golden candlesticks. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z He was leaning against the mantelpiece, looking down at her. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z Books were stacked three deep on the mantelpiece, books with titles like Charm Your Own Cheese, Enchantment in Baking, and One Minute Feasts — It’s Magic! Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z A rough mantelpiece teemed with small bright objets d’art made of plaster, porcelain, clay, and milk glass. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z Illumination came from a roaring fire beneath a handsome marble mantelpiece surmounted by a gilded mirror. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z Above her mantelpiece was a meadow full of sheep. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z The two little coal-black eyes scowled down at her from the mantelpiece as she stomped gaily out of the room. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Granny’s clock on the mantelpiece struck the hour. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Take tuppence and leave the rest of the shilling on the mantelpiece downstairs so that she can send out for a loaf of bread for the tea. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z And another time a kewpie doll with feather skirts was on the mantelpiece when he came home, and Daisy was gentle and hard and would not put it away. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z The old man’s eyes traveled to the painting of the girl over the mantelpiece. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z "Peace on Earth," with its rows of Delftware-like plates and vases on an elaborate three-shelved wooden mantelpiece, tips its hat to Dutch humanist utopianism. New at the Henry Art Gallery: Jeffry Mitchell, Laurie Anderson and more 2012-11-20T21:29:03Z This is the main picture of her my parents still display on their mantelpiece. Ten airport horror stories that will make you never want to fly again 2014-07-02T04:00:00Z Received wisdom says that the award lacks the clout of yesteryear, when Frank Skinner and Steve Coogan displayed it on their mantelpieces. Brian Logan on the Foster's Edinburgh Comedy award 2010-06-02T20:45:00Z To get this look, drape garland down tge length of the mantelpiece. Dressed-Up Christmas Mantels 2010-12-06T16:06:00Z Welcome back to Dancing With the Stars, where each week we are getting ever closer to sending someone home with a Mirror Ball Trophy to squish onto their mantelpiece. 'Dancing With the Stars' Recap: Top 7 Dance Through the Ages 2015-04-27T04:00:00Z The renovation spared the restaurant’s vintage Art Deco tile floor and the marble mantelpiece around the original fireplace. Overnighter: Finding Solitude at Monet’s Gardens 2013-06-06T15:25:59Z The thing that sits on my mantelpiece isn’t defined by a Brit award or this or that – the thing I’m most proud of in my life is my sobriety.” Marti Pellow on success, songwriting and sobriety: 'Every day I punch addiction in the face!' 2021-03-29T04:00:00Z One and three years later, Capes smoked a cigar standing by the mantelpiece. Digested classic: Ann Veronica by HG Wells 2010-03-26T14:06:00Z What was worse, those same neighbours, with cupboards and shelves and mantelpieces full to bursting with our possessions, now skulked behind our hastily rehung curtains, showing off their spoils. George Craig: Shuttered Windows 2011-07-22T22:02:01Z But time is marching on and Day-Lewis, who is retiring after Phantom Thread, already has three best actor Oscars; Darkest Hour is Oldman’s best chance of decorating his mantelpiece. Gary Oldman: will Churchill prove to be his finest hour? | The Observer profile 2017-12-30T05:00:00Z Figurines of angry family members echo the sentimental statuary that upstanding Victorians kept on their mantelpieces. Antiques: Antiques: ?Playing House? Exhibition at Brooklyn Museum 2012-02-23T23:23:42Z One college contemporary, who was in the habit of arranging his loose change in neat piles on the mantelpiece, recalls how Tom used to love knocking them over in pure relish of chaos. Tom Lubbock obituary 2011-01-10T18:34:36Z He starts by having Ron Cook bustling around in drag as a theatrical landlady dusting visibly painted mantelpieces. Trelawny of the Wells - review 2013-02-27T00:47:00Z They are far enough from childhood to be fully formed but not yet coarsened by adulthood, as delicate of limb and feature as mantelpiece figurines. Review: ‘He Brought Her Heart Back,’ Adrienne Kennedy’s Beautiful Nightmare 2018-01-30T05:00:00Z I remember it as the arid one where we unpacked tea chests and quickly laid out the family collection of fox figurines on the new mantelpiece, just as our mother had once done. Remember the bad and the good times to build your future 2019-01-26T05:00:00Z I love the rocking chair and the old clock on the mantelpiece. Modern life is rubbish! The people whose homes are portals to the past 2021-01-12T05:00:00Z "It gives one a certain status," Grant twinklingly remarked as he propped it on his studio mantelpiece. Pablo Picasso and his influence on British art 2012-02-10T22:55:13Z Neither JK Rowling, for her first adult novel, nor EL James for her Fifty Shades trilogy, will be adding the bad sex trophy to their mantelpieces. Bad sex awards 2012 shortlist leaves out JK Rowling and EL James 2012-11-20T18:49:55Z The mantelpiece arrived in Milan in many pieces, in the trunk of my car. | The Narrative of Home 2014-05-06T15:28:42Z Begin trolling at the vast warehouse where Architectural Artifacts trades in decorative building castoffs from wrought iron railings and wooden mantelpieces to terra cotta gargoyles as well as more portable art tiles and juggling pins. 36 Hours in Chicago 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z That same greenery accented the mantelpieces and serving tables and ran the length of the old draper’s table at which the guests sat. In the British Countryside, a Holiday Feast With Sofa-Shaped Butter 2021-12-20T05:00:00Z For that I was deservedly awarded the Birkenhead prize, which still takes pride of place on my mantelpiece. Digested read: Memoirs by William Rees-Mogg 2011-07-11T20:30:02Z For a while, he rather cockily propped her postcard on the mantelpiece, and in the letter to Geri he signs himself Leonardo Vincenzo. The man who stole the Mona Lisa 2011-08-05T21:55:04Z The freshly borrowed antiques at Gracie are distributed in formal rooms awash in floral upholstery, gilded mirrors, carved mantelpieces, wallpaper with scenes of aristocrats frolicking and crystal light fixtures. Gracie Mansion Updates Its Art With Diversity 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z From that meeting, I have a signed picture of him that sits on my mantelpiece, next to the clock. Hardrock Gunter obituary 2013-03-28T16:22:54Z Firth had the statuette on his mantelpiece from the first time he opened the script – it’s a wonder the other nominees even bothered to show up. Mark Kermode’s Secrets of Cinema – from Oscar-winning strategies to 007’s debt to Hitchcock 2020-03-15T04:00:00Z In the best supporting actor category, for example, there is not one candidate who has not one or more Oscars already adorning their mantelpiece. Oscars 2013: Snubs and surprises 2013-01-10T16:19:32Z It looks pretty convincing, at first glance, on my mantelpiece. Lucy Walker: My Oscars diary 2011-03-06T00:13:02Z It's a case of another awards weekend, another award for Colin Firth, who adds the Screen Actors Guild statue to his groaning mantelpiece. The Directors Guild and Screen Actors Guild awards - in pictures 2011-01-31T17:49:51Z Baldwin probably doesn't have any room left on his mantelpiece for another award, anyway. Live blog: The Golden Globes ? live! 2011-01-17T00:25:41Z My brother and father found typed notes waiting on the mantelpiece when they came home unsuspectingly. When parents split up – your stories 2014-09-20T04:00:00Z German woodworkers in Ohio adapted blocky Biedermeier fashions into American maple settees, and their English neighbors made ceramic dog figurines as mantelpiece decorations based on Staffordshire factory methods. Antiques: Americana Shows That Keep It Local 2011-03-31T20:37:29Z On Monday, she secured a mantelpiece full of Emmys; on Tuesday, Phoebe Waller-Bridge got a brand new TV deal. Fleabag creator seals exclusive Amazon Prime deal 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z By Tim Masters Entertainment correspondent, BBC News With four shiny Oscar statues already sitting on his mantelpiece, Wallace and Gromit creator Nick Park could be forgiven for being slightly nonchalant about his latest nomination. 2010-02-02T17:48:00Z A bronze head of CLR James looks down from the mantelpiece, surrounded by photos of James, Nina and their collie dogs. A life in writing: Selma James 2012-06-08T21:45:05Z This is where the provisional government held its last meeting: on the mantelpiece, the clock is stopped at 2.10am – the moment the Winter Palace was taken by the Bolsheviks. Searching for signs of the Soviets in St Petersburg 2016-10-22T04:00:00Z If there were an Oscar for long-suffering, Blunt would need a new mantelpiece. What cinema showed us in 2012 2012-12-27T07:00:00Z Around the same time that the tree goes up, a neat row of a dozen or so Santa Claus figurines take their place on the mantelpiece. Embracing my family's quirky holiday traditions from far away 2021-12-25T05:00:00Z In Edgar Allan Poe's story The Purloined Letter a document is concealed by not being concealed – it lies on a mantelpiece in full view. Jimmy Savile was hiding in the light 2012-10-04T16:21:10Z De Waal is well aware that for many, porcelain means a knickknack on Grandma's mantelpiece. 'The White Road' is an obsessive journey into the world of porcelain 2015-11-26T05:00:00Z Even today, years after the Christmases they were intended to celebrate, his cards still adorn many mantelpieces. Letter: Michael Gough obituary 2011-04-06T17:07:02Z The question is: how is the growing art market that is celebrated here good for those of us who see our art in museums, as opposed to above the mantelpiece? Frieze Masters: a window to a secret world 2012-10-10T16:34:12Z One day he remembered the loveletter in the drift bottle on his mantelpiece: I love you, I love you, I love you. Sea Story by AS Byatt 2013-03-15T13:58:58Z I know how strongly I resemble the man in the photo on the mantelpiece. The pleasant-looking killers who took my father’s life 2015-12-05T05:00:00Z Wiseman's voluptuous cascades of lily of the valley, porcelain branches and bell-shaped flowers dangle over mantelpieces and spill across ceilings in Christian Dior stores in Shanghai, Tokyo and New York. T Magazine: The Secret Gardener 2012-10-05T14:00:44Z Jampol compares the legacy of an artist to a dark, empty fireplace with a half-dozen matches lying on the mantelpiece. What We Know About Prince's Death, His Estate and His Trove of Unreleased Music 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z The picture of a young man in his Royal Air Force uniform had always stood in the centre of the mantelpiece of my childhood home. The pleasant-looking killers who took my father’s life 2015-12-05T05:00:00Z In the tiny ground-floor lounge, a midcentury-modern cabinet holds art books while a huge portrait of artists Gilbert & George hangs above the mantelpiece. The Luxury of Roughing It 2010-02-25T07:55:00Z Place it, in all its leafy glory, in prime position on your living room mantelpiece? Jacques Audiard: ‘I wanted to give migrants a name, a shape… a violence of their own’ 2016-04-03T04:00:00Z We see paintbrushes and palettes, easels and ironwork, African masks and unfinished busts, mantelpieces covered with objets d'art. Portraits of the artists 2011-03-05T00:07:22Z Standing in the living room, the writer noticed a small Oriental urn on the mantelpiece. True Hollywood story: The producer and the Black Panther 2012-06-09T19:00:00Z Will Alfonso pull his groin putting the trophy on his mantelpiece? Dancing With the Stars Watch: And the Winner Is ... 2014-11-25T05:00:00Z If there were awards for understatement, Tony's assertion would probably win Absolute yet another statuette to join the dozens already perched atop the boardroom mantelpiece. Absolute Radio: a day in the life with Peter Robinson 2013-01-26T05:59:01Z Right: behind an antique silver lantern and a 1950s coral-shaped vase sits the Empire mantelpiece that Cibrario says completed her home. | The Narrative of Home 2014-05-06T15:28:42Z Ironically, its very reductivism—a preference for simplicity, stripped-down geometric form and a disdain for the exquisitely made objet d’art destined for a rich collector’s mantelpiece—often meant an increase in scale. Gigantism 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z Throughout the rooms, dramatic boughs of foliage tickle the low ceiling, or droop from mantelpieces towards the floor. How one Cape Cod home kept its faded glory 2018-11-17T05:00:00Z You could tell the producer wanted the "Crying Boy" painting above the mantelpiece somehow to speak for the emotional experiences of the young George, but it didn't. Rewind TV: Panda Makers; Operation Mincemeat; The House That Made Me; The Day John Lennon Died; The Nation's Favourite Abba Song 2010-12-12T00:06:00Z In this scene, Catherine views the girl as a trinket -- "I want to have this little package on our mantelpiece," she whispers to her husband, freshly returned from slaughtering every ungulate in the region. Forget "Top Gun." "RRR" is the ultimate summer movie – explosive, inspiring & with catchy dance beat 2022-06-08T04:00:00Z What new mantelpiece ornament/appliance/cooking implement/garden tool will be used as a murder weapon next week? 'Boardwalk Empire' Recap: Casualties of War 2014-10-19T04:00:00Z The artifacts were given to museums, or sold at auction, or kept by soldiers for their mantelpieces. This Art Was Looted 123 Years Ago. Will It Ever Be Returned? 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z The invitations on Dawson’s mantelpiece tell a social story all by themselves. T Magazine: The Aesthetes 2014-04-11T18:32:15Z Three teenagers, pale and clutching electric guitars, played All My Loving on a little stage by the mantelpiece. The death and life of the great British pub | Tom Lamont 2015-10-13T04:00:00Z People put a pendulum clock on every mantelpiece; they are wrong; what a lugubrious fashion. The lap of luxury 2011-07-29T22:55:02Z In the poem “Mantel,” the speaker recalls how the two ends of a mantelpiece became “big shoulders,” and her grandfather “often felt someone tapping/ on his back/ when he rested/ against it.” Review | What does it mean to be an American? A poet reflects on race in a divided nation. 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z To get this look, drape down tge length of the mantelpiece.Next, nestle in the garland, one on each end of the mantel for symmetry.Finally, hang above the hearth. Dressed-Up Christmas Mantels 2010-12-17T21:50:09.863Z Since Venice, the Golden Lion has sat on the mantelpiece in Goldin’s apartment. Nan Goldin and Laura Poitras: Two Artists, One Devastating Film 2022-11-16T05:00:00Z Almost 800 years later, his humble tableau has been transformed into everything from miniature toy sets that grace mantelpieces around the world, to gigantic plastic lawn ornaments and theme-park sized attractions. The world's best – and most controversial – nativity designs 2012-12-20T15:12:08Z Art Car Boot Fair, London Time to clear some space on the mantelpiece/lounge wall/back of the loo door: the annual Vauxhall Art Car Boot Fair rolls into London's Brick Lane next Saturday. This week's new events 2010-06-04T23:06:00Z Shonibare's work is the sort of thing one might come across in a coastal shopping mall, and it sits on the plinth as though on a mantelpiece. Message in a bottle 2010-05-24T13:27:00Z "I'm just taking away all the wallpaper and mantelpieces, all the kind of pompous stuff we associate with grand Shakespeare productions, and try to go as simple as possible." Bloom, Rashad in Broadway's 'Romeo and Juliet' 2013-04-01T14:43:07Z Books on the shelves, and in the cupboard books, Worthless and rare –Books on the mantelpiece – wheree'er one looks Books everywhere! Poem of the week: Among His Books by Edith Nesbit 2012-10-01T12:07:58Z To this day, having survived all my wanderings as a refugee, this flat little bottle—the old monk’s small miracle—still stands on my Parisian mantelpiece. Stepping Across the Ice: Teffi (1872-1952) 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z Everyone pays lip service to the idea that comedy is the toughest gig in show business, but when it comes to scooping up jewelry for the mantelpiece, the tragedians have it all over the clowns. Nathan Lane, Hamming It Up As Few Can 2010-05-26T17:15:00Z Students of Chekhov should also take note of the gun on the mantelpiece. Cannes 2013: Les Salauds – first look review 2013-05-21T17:05:19Z Photograph: akg-images I keep a photograph of Anton Chekhov on my mantelpiece. Anton Chekhov: a lifetime of lovers 2013-03-01T17:30:01Z Good thing he didn’t win; might not have been room for the trophies on his mantelpiece after he won four as outstanding lead actor in a drama for, of course, “Breaking Bad.” The 2015 Emmy Awards 2015-09-20T04:00:00Z His sister Rose lives in the urn on the mantelpiece after dying in a terrorist attack over five years ago. My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece, by Annabel Pitcher - review 2011-04-04T10:25:37Z Hamming it up in the photos, Nicky had been looking ahead, imagining the print in a frame on a prominent mantelpiece. After 40 years I finally tracked down my dead brother 2017-04-08T04:00:00Z Any writer would be proud to have it on the mantelpiece. The Magazine Business, From the Coolest Place to the Coldest One 2022-05-10T04:00:00Z It’s like a mantelpiece glittering with snapshots from the ages with works by Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms and others that showcase Ms. Mutter’s honeyed tone. Classical Playlist: Bruckner, Richard Reed Parry, Brahms and More 2014-08-13T04:00:00Z And these actors are much more celebrated than Lindsay Lohan – so even if Tarantino does decide to give her a boost, she probably shouldn't start clearing any Oscar spaces on her mantelpiece yet. Could Lindsay Lohan benefit from a Tarantino career resurrection? 2010-04-12T10:32:00Z Perhaps to fit into an oval frame, where it still remains on the family mantelpiece. Why do we love to look at strangers’ family photographs? 2013-04-11T16:58:00Z Tip-top Topiaries In the Drummonds' charming living room, dry-in-place rose topiaries displayed on the mantelpiece echo the floral theme of the sofa fabric. Shortcuts to Spring Bouquets 2010-03-18T00:06:00Z This product is about 4 inches long, with a string for hanging from your rearview mirror or mantelpiece. 19 clever white elephant gifts worth a laugh and a steal 2023-11-01T04:00:00Z The floral arrangements atop the mantelpiece mirror the artistic display on the ottoman below, featuring generous swathes of twiggy sprays that cascade from the vase, while rich reds, oranges and yellows create an autumnal bouquet. Create a stunning fall display on your mantel 2023-10-17T04:00:00Z A fallen tree’s “live edge” can make a nice mantelpiece or floating shelf, Elfline suggests. Go green — and save money — by using salvage when you remodel 2023-07-14T04:00:00Z Pictures of Kody, his older brother and their grandfather — all in their Navy uniforms — rest on the mantelpiece next to the folded flag from Kody’s funeral. US Navy deploys more chaplains for suicide prevention 2023-03-30T04:00:00Z Jean Cocteau, arriving to pay tribute to the late author, spotted the manuscript resting on the mantelpiece — a pile of papers “still alive, like watches ticking on the wrists of dead soldiers.” Perspective | Proust’s death, 100 years ago, was an ending but not the end 2022-11-17T05:00:00Z Often when all seven siblings get together with their mother, the mother wants a new “family shot” taken for her mantelpiece. Advice | Carolyn Hax: They watched ‘The Affair,’ then the accusations began 2022-09-26T04:00:00Z She said her medal would be going "straight on the mantelpiece" in Nonnatus House, the fictional convent in her hit TV show. Queen’s Jubilee birthday honours: Damian Lewis, Stella McCartney and Clare Balding on list 2022-06-01T04:00:00Z Sitting on their sofa, I look up at the photos of Star - with her large blue eyes - on the walls and the mantelpiece. Star Hobson: Why do these child deaths keep happening? 2022-05-27T04:00:00Z "I have the awards on my mantelpiece but I have to tell you that when I'm going through anything in my life, that don't help me," she said. Viola Davis responds to critics of her Michelle Obama portrayal 2022-04-25T04:00:00Z "On behalf of the cast, we hope it hangs on the mantelpiece," McFadden said. Charles and Camilla visit Eastenders set 2022-04-02T04:00:00Z Her painting of a “wacky-looking lion” — which had drawn family ridicule for as long as it had rested on her mantelpiece — spurred a “wild bidding war among the children” of her group, Ito said. Buy Nothing groups offer an antidote to waste and isolation, with a world of free stuff 2021-12-10T05:00:00Z Mr Knight said they planned to frame the notice and put it on the mantelpiece. Bus lane camera mistakes woman's sweater for number plate 2021-10-18T04:00:00Z "I didn't know what to do with it. I didn't want it sat on my mantelpiece," she told BBC Sport. I kept WBO belt under my bed - Marshall 2021-10-16T04:00:00Z His world is utter hooey, but he finds satisfaction in small pleasures, like a properly dusted mantelpiece. The Mystery of My Obsession With Agatha Christie 2021-07-27T04:00:00Z "And she's got a photograph of me driving a freight train up on the mantelpiece, which she insists everyone who walks in the room takes a look at." 'Talk to me': A train driver asking men to open up 2021-05-11T04:00:00Z Four bedrooms, one bath, center hall with large gathering rooms, original woodworking, walls and floors; four fireplaces with original mantelpieces, 2,072 square feet. Donald Trump, the ‘shadow president’ 2021-04-15T04:00:00Z She stands before a mantelpiece on which is a bust and a lush bouquet of white flowers. Eight years after JFK’s assassination, Jackie Kennedy slipped into the White House for one last visit 2021-02-03T05:00:00Z Ms. Cheshire took the glass home and put it on her mantelpiece. Maxine Cheshire, Post reporter and columnist with ‘the guts of a cat burglar,’ dies at 90 2021-01-28T05:00:00Z "My son still hasn't kicked the ball outside and it has a place on his mantelpiece in his bedroom." Your last game before lockdown 2020-11-10T05:00:00Z In the Rose Double Parlors, Fulcher’s design suggested that a mantelpiece could fill the space by cascading to the floor. Woman honored to be finalist for Governor’s Mansion contest 2020-10-10T04:00:00Z “I wanted to knock all the stuff I had off my mantelpiece and put each and every one of them on my mantelpiece as someone I should commemorate, cherish, respect and honour. They’re my heroes.” Black power: new film remembers the fists and the fury that shook America | Sean Ingle 2020-08-31T04:00:00Z He gestures now to one of the pictures crammed on to his mantelpiece. 'I was found wrapped in my mum's coat - but who am I?' 2020-07-18T04:00:00Z The first time alcohol touched my lips, I wasn’t as tall as the mantelpiece: a can of cheap lager, handed to me by my mum. Terri White: 'On good nights, I lost my phone. On bad nights, I lost my sanity' 2020-06-27T04:00:00Z Today’s is a kind of European special, featuring news from Italy, Spain, Germany, Russia and Scotland, with special focus on the embarrassing contents of my bedroom mantelpiece. Leicester City v Brighton: Premier League – live! 2020-06-23T04:00:00Z “There’s no stained glass, just Victoriana: ‘The grained woodwork, the ornamental mirrors behind the bar, the cast-iron fireplaces, the florid ceiling stained dark yellow by tobacco-smoke, the stuffed bull’s head over the mantelpiece.’” It is not just loved ones I miss, but the joy of hanging out with casual friends | Zoe Williams 2020-05-15T04:00:00Z My own face is staring back at me on the mantelpiece. The Cloud Heart 2020-04-28T04:00:00Z He apparently considers that last one his masterpiece, but then he hasn’t yet attempted a standing leap on to a mantelpiece. From marble racing to balcony marathons: the sports that are filling the void | Andy Bull 2020-04-01T04:00:00Z Sheila Atim would not call it a shrine, exactly, but in her London flat, there is a mantelpiece on which she has placed a few commemorative bits and bobs. Sheila Atim: ‘I had impostor syndrome until I picked up my MBE 2020-02-08T05:00:00Z A photograph on the living-room mantelpiece shows the Gibsons’ son, Graeme, in aviators and a military jacket; nearby, a drawing of their daughter, Claire, hangs on the wall. How William Gibson Keeps His Science Fiction Real 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z Photographs of her grandchildren and great-grandchildren and the cleaner’s grandchildren were propped at random behind ornaments on the drawing-room mantelpiece; there were sacks of birdseed on the teak sideboard in the dining room. “The Bunty Club” 2019-10-21T04:00:00Z A pretty good addition to his mantelpiece which mostly consists of the shattered hopes and dreams of his opposition. The new fastest man on earth this Southern Miss punt returner - Golf Digest 2019-09-11T04:00:00Z Jagger added, “I want to bring it back on put it on our mantelpiece.” Rolling Stones get a little piece of Mars to call their own 2019-08-23T04:00:00Z When I visited him in the foreign ministry, I spotted on his mantelpiece a bottle of a Czech vodka called Stalin’s Tears. Why we must not let Europe break apart 2019-05-09T04:00:00Z She fetches down a skull from her mantelpiece and shows me its several trepanned holes. Amanda Feilding: ‘LSD can get deep down and reset the brain – like shaking up a snow globe’ 2019-02-10T05:00:00Z Flickering candles sit on tables and the long mantelpiece, but the best and most romantic seats are in front of the wood-burning fireplace. Live life to the coziest: These bars with fireplaces and warm drinks will get you through the winter 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z Freud, catching his image in a shaving mirror or one above a mantelpiece, depicted what he saw as if it was someone else, or just a fleshy object. Masters and machines: the best art and architecture of 2019 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z She found an “ornamental bronze bell” on the mantelpiece, picked it up and struck him on his face, splitting his forehead open and knocking loose two teeth. Inside the horrors of Howard Hughes' Hollywood sexcapades 2018-12-12T05:00:00Z And so that bottle of Stalin’s Tears stands on my mantelpiece in Oxford as I write. Why we must not let Europe break apart 2019-05-09T04:00:00Z Also on display are the traditional gingerbread house; custom mantelpieces showcasing the skylines of New York City, St. Louis, Chicago and San Francisco; and the traditional White House tree, which soars at 18 feet tall. Melania Trump’s dream of a red Christmas trees invokes visions of “Handmaid’s Tale” acros... 2018-11-27T05:00:00Z This year’s theme highlights “America’s Treasures,” and decorations include intricate cutout renderings gracing the mantelpieces of the East Room that depict some of the nation’s loveliest city skylines. There’s only one Trump building amid the White House holiday decorations 2018-11-26T05:00:00Z The White House says decorations include a tree trimmed by Gold Star families, an array of topiary trees and mantelpieces featuring the skylines of New York City, St. Louis, Chicago and San Francisco. Melania Trump unveils White House Christmas decorations 2018-11-26T05:00:00Z For the kid from Stevenage, who these days calls Monte Carlo home, it would be another brick in the empire, another one for the mantelpiece. Lewis Hamilton goes for F1 title glory in US GP – live! 2018-10-21T04:00:00Z It has pride of place over the mantelpiece. Home is where the art is: what Paula Rego, Lubaina Himid and other artists hang on their walls 2018-08-26T04:00:00Z A photograph of the Duke looked out from the mantelpiece, over elderly couples eating their lunch in silence and parents feeding their babies. The British Heat Wave and Aerial Archeology 2018-08-05T04:00:00Z Inside homes, paint peels off the walls and shattered photo frames are strewn across mantelpieces. House to house, Greece searches for missing in wildfire aftermath 2018-07-25T04:00:00Z Plus, the scene in my memory resembles two early photos that used to sit on my auntie’s mantelpiece – one with me as a baby, the other without me in it. Sunflowers and Santa Claus: Guardian writers and readers on how their first memory changed them 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z With his long blond locks and his cigarette holder, leaning against the mantelpiece in his plush home, Donnie is a sight to behold. Gus Van Sant’s Semi-Surreal “Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far on Foot” 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z I know people who keep that bit of pie – green and mouldy – on their mantelpiece for the whole year, for luck. Unleash the Burryman! Britain's weirdest folk rituals 2018-04-30T04:00:00Z Hogstrom tells the AFP an amateur collector probably took it, or it may have been "someone that just wants to have a fossil sitting on their mantelpiece." Giant Ancient Shark Tooth Mysteriously Stolen 2018-03-14T04:00:00Z His family had once had it framed and put on the mantelpiece. A rare copy of the Declaration of Independence survived the Civil War hidden behind wallpaper. Later it was tossed in a box. 2018-02-19T05:00:00Z No wonder Robert Mitchum had a mantelpiece bare of prizes. The 20 greatest Oscar snubs ever – Ranked! 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z It was a ritual that felt as simple and beautiful as a piece of origami folded by a child and placed on a mantelpiece. Why I prefer Christmas Eve to Christmas Day 2017-12-23T05:00:00Z Cedar, fir, maple, walnut and exotic hardwoods such as parota and monkey pod are all great choices for floating shelves or a mantelpiece. Standout trends in wood wall treatments | Provided By Issaquah Cedar and Lumber 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z The cabinet card was made to be held, cherished, or displayed on the mantelpiece. The Bizarre Ritual of the 19th Century Wedding Photo 2017-06-23T04:00:00Z In the library, the mantelpiece is made from “dent marble,” a fossilized limestone popular during the Victorian era. House Hunting in … the Lake District, England 2017-06-21T04:00:00Z Two dusty Emmy Award statues perch on the living room mantelpiece. The artist who makes giant protest signs of famous women is back for the Climate March 2017-04-28T04:00:00Z And maybe the old certainties really are the best, folded and placed on the mantelpiece. Why I prefer Christmas Eve to Christmas Day 2017-12-23T05:00:00Z Inside are rich parquet wood floors, gracefully curving molding, mirrors built into the space above the marble mantelpieces and pictures seemingly painted directly onto the wall above the carved double doors between rooms. Stripped Village Homes Expose a Hollowing Out of France’s Heritage 2017-04-16T04:00:00Z A clock on the mantelpiece reads 10:18. “Herman Melville, Volume I” 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z He has made of this mantelpiece an altar, and he holds before it Sunday services for his congregation. The Scrolls from the Dead Sea 1955-05-06T04:00:00Z Alan Spears, the National Parks Conservation Association’s cultural-resources director, said in an interview that the designations demonstrate how the administration “is placing more of our shared history on the collective mantelpiece” of American history. Obama names five new national monuments, including Southern civil rights sites 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z "Cool people put their Baftas and things in the downstairs loo but mine are on the mantelpiece." Olivia Colman 'gutted' to miss Globes ceremony - BBC News 2017-01-09T05:00:00Z But there is a broader market for such relatively commonplace items as antique tile floors, wood paneling, mantelpieces and chimneys, and sometimes even for staircases. Stripped Village Homes Expose a Hollowing Out of France’s Heritage 2017-04-16T04:00:00Z Nativity scenes are the art we see at Christmas, often on cards that put a masterpiece on the mantelpiece. Look closer at nativity paintings – and see visions of apocalypse 2016-12-23T05:00:00Z But on the mantelpiece was a Syrian prayer book underneath a painting of Christ, and on one side of the fireplace hung a glowing, ruby-studded crosier. The Scrolls from the Dead Sea 1955-05-06T04:00:00Z A brace of pistols that the Marquis de Lafayette had given to George Washington were on the mantelpiece, a gift to Jackson from the Washington family. Our Populist Prologue 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z What are they going to do with the statue, put it on the mantelpiece? Stolen statue of beloved Istanbul cat returned - BBC News 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z Perhaps in an unconscious echo of the Inca custom of keeping the mummies of deceased family members, Huamanrimanchi’s 79-year-old father, Mariano, proudly displays the skulls of his mother, sister and brother on the mantelpiece. Peru's royal pedigree: direct descendants trace roots to Incan emperor and kin 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z I keep these fairy jars on the mantelpiece in my living room because I gave Harper the nickname Tinks after Tinkerbell because she was so tiny. Treasured items kept by parents who have lost a baby - BBC News 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z “There was none of this,” he said, motioning toward finely brocaded upholstery, plush silks and a mantelpiece crowded with photographs of world leaders the king had known. Glimpses behind the exalted persona of Thailand's king 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z I was gently wiping a porcelain Bo Peep figurine on the mantelpiece near the death certificate when my elbow knocked a glass candlestick. What the cleaner saw | Lizzie Feidelson 2016-09-28T04:00:00Z "We won't make it too literal. It's not like you'll see fake mantelpieces and crown molding in the living room section." Why West Hollywood is a great place to spend the day shopping away 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z When she went to see him in his dacha outside Moscow on March 19, 2010, he kept her waiting in front of a ceramic mantelpiece, facing a forest of cameras and boom microphones. Russia, Suspected in Hacking, Has Uneasy History With Hillary Clinton 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z A few rooms had signs of settlement – carefully made dividing curtains, photographs on a mantelpiece, neat racks of clothing – but most reflected the transience of their inhabitants. Love’s runaways: the gay Ugandans forced into exile | Mark Gevisser 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z Not many, though, are returning to the festival with a Cesar on their mantelpiece, won for the film that last occasioned their visit to the event. Kristen Stewart talks film, fame and France - BBC News 2016-05-17T04:00:00Z His office was covered in Broadway playbills, tacked to the wall and strung across the mantelpiece like holiday greeting cards. What the cleaner saw | Lizzie Feidelson 2016-09-28T04:00:00Z The mantelpiece in her living room, which used to display crystal vases and porcelain figurines. Elderly couple’s $4 million suit accuses caregivers of major household theft 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z There were also two six-foot loaves of French bread on the mantelpiece and a banner with a strange device: a white skull, a key, a leaf, a woman’s slipper and the letters DALI. See 10 of the Most Surreal Portraits of Salvador Dali 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z Over Koch’s colossal mantelpiece hangs a Hudson River School painting whose looming, shining vision of western mountains revealing their pristine glory to trekkers expresses a seductive myth of America: limitless, capacious and sublime. For sale: Bill Koch’s $80m Aspen ranch, the wild west made very comfortable 2016-03-05T05:00:00Z A source said that a group ended up back with Fr Crossan after a party and found Nazi memorabilia including flags, hats and an eagle with a swastika on a plinth on his mantelpiece. Catholic priest Fr Stephen Crossan 'caught snorting cocaine in Nazi room' - BBC News 2016-02-29T05:00:00Z Photograph: Andrea Comas/Reuters Two footballs, covered in the autographs of Real Madrid and Granada players, sit prominently on the mantelpiece of his living room. Stories of 2015: Syrian refugee tripped by Hungarian camera operator 2016-01-03T05:00:00Z He recalled going to the house and seeing it, hanging over the kitchen mantelpiece. 'Hallucinogenic' Lucian Freud drawing on sale after being off radar since 1948 2015-10-11T04:00:00Z It's like a little ornament you would put on the mantelpiece. Wood lifts lid on England Ashes party 2015-08-25T04:00:00Z They offer a photogenic souvenir tourists can take home, frame and mount on their mantelpieces. New York City’s bizarre uproar over topless women 2015-08-24T04:00:00Z And brought psychedelic art to George Harrison’s home, painting a mantelpiece. From Downton Abbey To Rock And Roll: Rolls-Royce Wraith Inspired By Music 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z He had disconnected a gas line from the back of the fireplace, turned it up toward the mantelpiece, and lit it. Lafayette shooting: those who knew John Houser say they are not surprised 2015-07-26T04:00:00Z "It can have two different meanings – the trophies you put on a wall or a mantelpiece," and the sort of deals which stand the test of time, resulting in a more secure world, he notes. A (Not So) Lame Duck 2015-07-24T04:00:00Z Awards clutter her mantelpiece; presumably, she put up a new shelf to accommodate her most recent haul of eight Billboard gongs. Apple royalties U-turn: is Taylor Swift the most powerful woman in music? 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z For example, he said, the team bought a three-ton mantelpiece from a castle in France, which traveled halfway across the Atlantic Ocean before they determined the floors could not handle its weight. Unique, and uniquely expensive, Baltimore hotel to open soon 2015-06-07T04:00:00Z I came home from work one evening in 1976 and on the mantelpiece was a brown envelope. World War Two veterans: 'The people who say they weren’t frightened are liars’ 2015-06-06T04:00:00Z Whether you are talking about a Silicon Valley Roundabout, Fen or Wadi - there is no shortage of countries looking to adorn their mantelpieces with a hi-tech hub. Ghana’s burgeoning tech start-ups 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z He was a grown man with thousands of Twitter followers and many an award on his mantelpiece. A Talented Acquaintance at the Gym 2015-01-28T05:00:00Z Last November, as his mother was looking at the urn filled with her son's ashes sitting on the mantelpiece, she decided that she wanted to send him on a journey. The man whose ashes are scattered in more than 100 countries 2014-11-30T05:00:00Z Objects were piled on the floor, on tables and chairs, leaning against the walls, propped on the mantelpiece. A is for abacus, O is for outhouse seat: Educator donates collection to Smithsonian Open trophy that now sits proudly on a mantelpiece in his Zagreb home. Cilic cannot get enough of seeing his new friend 2014-11-02T04:00:00Z There is no knighthood on the family mantelpiece or statue outside Anfield to commemorate one of Liverpool's true legends, but Paisley was never one for personal plaudits or making a fuss. Reluctant hero: How Bob Paisley began a revolution 2014-08-17T04:00:00Z I have some of Charles's origami pieces on the mantelpiece. Defending the indefensible? Lawyers on representing clients accused of nightmarish crimes 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z “There were my personal items on a mantelpiece,” Ms. Unwin said. The Appraisal: Long Fight to Keep a Grand Address on the Upper West Side 2014-05-13T03:36:12Z It's still on my dad's mantelpiece to this day. 'It was the first game I ever saw in colour' 2014-02-28T12:51:59Z The 2010 Olympic final was a masterpiece suitable for framing, though because of the outcome the Americans are inclined to let it gather dust in a closet rather than display it over the mantelpiece. Shot at Redemption Comes a Round Early for U.S. Men’s Hockey Team 2014-02-20T17:25:02Z In the meantime, Orkney Library and Archive have promised not to leave it on another mantelpiece. Son's war letter 98-year delivery 2014-02-13T15:47:53Z Clancy added that she would be keeping her trophy "on the mantelpiece, so everyone can see it". Strictly final watched by 12.6m 2013-12-22T13:04:37Z Clancy said she would keep it "on the mantelpiece, so everyone can see it." In pictures: The 2013 Strictly final 2013-12-22T10:49:54Z If your friends are also friends with each other they will see "their" card on each other's mantelpieces. 10 common Christmas card dilemmas 2013-12-16T03:06:32Z They’re absorbed in their conversation and don’t notice a box of tea that floats off the mantelpiece and hovers for a few seconds before falling to the ground. Perception and the Paranormal: The Tea Box Ghost 2013-09-12T14:18:11.403Z I sat down in the living room, the only sounds being those of the wood clock on the mantelpiece, and the distant murmur of my wife and children chattering away in the other room. Well: Waiting to Hear From the Doctor 2013-08-22T15:36:58Z Your eyes are drawn to the Oscar on the mantelpiece. Delegates discover the Shaw thing 2013-06-21T10:54:19Z They look like men posing for a photograph which they intend to display on the mantelpiece in years to come. How Israel keeps Holocaust memories alive 2013-06-18T23:43:30Z So, what are the chances of this piggy bank falling off the mantelpiece and smashing in a thousand bits? Floyd Mayweather Jr expected to do the business against Robert Guerrero 2013-05-03T12:02:53Z And he is eager to make room for another Kentucky Derby trophy on his mantelpiece. Gary Stevens: 'Everybody knows the Kentucky Derby. It's America's race' 2013-04-03T15:20:00Z The no-frills charm of the school photo – pleaser of grandparents, source of hilarity for almost everyone else – follows us from mantelpieces down the years. Embarrassing old school photos are history: smile for a smart studio shot 2013-03-12T18:20:33Z They also sell stuffed arctic foxes, bears, hats made from racoons with their faces left on, chairs made from old guns, and even a Barbie-sized canoe paddled by three stuffed squirrels – perfect for the mantelpiece. A guide to Jackson Hole: the serious skiers' and snowboarders' resort 2013-01-19T07:00:00Z Missing from the company mantelpiece, however, has been a trophy that it could well pick up in the coming weeks: the bringing down of a national government. Walmart’s Passage to India 2012-09-24T05:00:00Z He returned home with a once-a-week packet of football stickers, which he propped up on the mantelpiece. Decoding Dad's black-and-white world 2012-08-17T23:04:01Z On the mantelpiece there is a sign saying ‘All the Way with LBJ’. Meeting Elvis 2012-08-04T18:00:00Z The Today programme asked its listeners to send in photos of their mantelpiece to mark the anniversary of the Mass Observation project that asked people the same question 75 years ago. In pictures: What's on your mantelpiece? 2012-07-02T11:44:49Z "Sadly, he ran into the wrong people and he is now on someone's mantelpiece somewhere probably," he said. Prince hits out at rhino poachers 2012-06-19T09:00:47Z "Sadly he ran into the wrong people and he is now on someone's mantelpiece somewhere probably," he said. Prince William condemns rhino poachers 2012-06-19T05:04:16Z His family were gathered around a television set, watching a Bollywood release while pictures of Hindu gods adorned the mantelpiece. India seeks wider footprint in 'untapped' Burma 2012-05-29T18:19:43Z After 12 months on the job he would likely argue Juventus remain a work in progress, yet there is already a Scudetto on the mantelpiece. The Bandinis 2012: an utterly exhaustive review of the Serie A season 2012-05-23T12:05:32Z As torchbearer Andrew Bell says, "It is nearly a metre long and looks weird on the mantelpiece." So what can you do with a leftover Olympic torch? 2012-05-21T18:00:02Z Reporters at the event were keen to know whether the musical maestro would put it on the mantelpiece - or even in the toilet. Lloyd Webber on Jesus and Profumo 2012-05-20T00:12:04Z And pictures marking significant milestones - birthdays or their first day of school - are a mainstay of mantelpieces. The baby time-lapse trend 2012-05-17T01:11:02Z Maudie gave a most spirited performance, kicking up her legs and stamping until the ornaments on the mantelpiece rattled. The Early Life and Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett 2012-04-26T02:00:17.327Z While they talked, each availed herself of any chance of investigating the other's face—a shy swift glance, instantaneously deflected to the teacups or the mantelpiece, if a head turned to meet it. Mrs. Thompson A Novel 2012-04-25T02:01:10.557Z There was also a lute upon one of the tables, and ten long glasses, with a vein of gold in their taper stalks, ranged in battle array upon the mantelpiece. The Huguenot: (Volumes I-III) A Tale of the French Protestants. 2012-04-25T02:00:59.637Z Why, by a couple of ordinary candles placed on a side-table, while on the mantelpiece at the back remain a couple of silver candelabra, filled with candles which remain all the time unlighted. Punch, or the London Charivari, November 25, 1893 2012-04-23T02:00:30.783Z The fire-place had a high mantelpiece with countless china objects upon it, and a large dresser with blue and white plates stood against the inner wall. Mushroom Town 2012-04-21T02:00:25.923Z Articles of considerable value, such as clocks, opera-glasses, and ornaments for the mantelpiece, one need never have any anxiety about. Sidelights on Chinese Life 2012-04-21T02:00:23.993Z A letter from cook, conspicuously displayed on the dining-room mantelpiece, explained matters. Mrs. Thompson A Novel 2012-04-25T02:01:10.557Z The mantelpiece was of staring white marble; and on each side of this was a tall bookcase of solid black walnut highly varnished and overladen with misplaced ornament. Vistas of New York 2012-04-14T02:00:25.810Z "With pleasure," she said, taking from the mantelpiece one that she had sent her mother about a month ago. The Vanity Girl 2012-04-12T02:00:26.883Z An old man of the labouring class, named Fowler, used to sit to him at Bath; on the studio mantelpiece stood a child's skull, the gift of a medical friend. Gainsborough 2012-04-11T02:00:34.933Z Mr. Hutton stood leaning his back against the mantelpiece. Mortal Coils 2012-04-06T02:00:30.740Z "What is the time?" and she glanced at the clock on the carved stone mantelpiece. Mrs. Thompson A Novel 2012-04-25T02:01:10.557Z Sir Hector had been on the verge of prodding one of the pears, but at his niece's warning he drew back in alarm; and just then the clock on the mantelpiece struck nine. Rich Relatives 2012-04-05T02:00:45.670Z The young man leaned his arm on the mantelpiece, fixing a meditative eye on his niece as she crawled up his leg. The Tree of Knowledge A Novel 2012-04-05T02:00:35.603Z "Of the need I am sure," he repeated, as Basset's eye sought the cheap clock on the mantelpiece. The Great House 2012-03-30T02:00:14.973Z Mr. Tillotson was standing by the empty grate, one elbow resting on the mantelpiece, one leg crossed over the other in a jaunty and gentlemanly attitude. Mortal Coils 2012-04-06T02:00:30.740Z A clock on the mantelpiece chimed the hour of six. The Everlasting Arms 2012-03-22T02:00:37.327Z He sat looking at the clock, which was but dimly visible upon the mantelpiece through the clouds of tobacco-smoke with which the room was filled. Across the Cameroons A Story of War and Adventure 2012-03-19T02:00:28.667Z On the mantelpiece in the Duke's cabinet also is a beautiful marble bust of her. Pencillings by the Way Written During Some Years of Residence and Travel in Europe 2012-03-19T02:00:26.650Z The number 6 stands upon the mantelpiece, for the recital is drawing to a close. A Safety Match 2012-03-19T02:00:23.817Z Two large bees were buzzing about, very busy apparently, but as there were no flowers on the table or mantelpiece, Clodagh wondered sleepily what could have attracted them. Fairies Afield 2012-03-18T02:00:20.790Z The little china clock on the mantelpiece ticked time away like a hurrying heart, and Nancy suddenly realized that life was passing quickly, and that she was not living. The Devourers 2012-03-16T02:00:23.493Z I tinkle all the candlesticks Upon the mantelpiece: They wave long after I have gone, And never seem to cease. Kensington Rhymes 2012-03-15T02:00:28.607Z At present the twins were sitting on the headboard of the bed, and Fairy was making unsuccessful endeavors to climb up on the mantelpiece. The Dorrance Domain 2012-03-10T03:00:14.767Z His hand falls upon the corner of the mantelpiece, but encounters nothing there but a framed photograph of a sun-burned young man on a polo-pony—Uncle Ally, to be precise. A Safety Match 2012-03-19T02:00:23.817Z The mantelpiece and inlaid grate were of black marble, faintly relieved with gold, and within the polished bars of the grate a small fire was burning. Mr. Marx's Secret 2012-03-02T03:00:10.327Z But my eyes were on this mirror"--he touched an oval glass in a Venetian frame which stood on the mantelpiece--"and I saw quite clearly. Laid up in Lavender 2012-02-28T03:00:28.157Z He said: "You don't want to put it somewhere too show-offy, like in the hall or on your mantelpiece." Harry Styles to keep Brit in loo 2012-02-24T14:08:53Z There were a marble mantelpiece, a clock, and lace curtains. Eye Spy Afield with Nature Among Flowers and Animate Things 2012-02-24T03:00:23.760Z Then she rose and took down a pipe from a rack on the mantelpiece. A Safety Match 2012-03-19T02:00:23.817Z Mr. Marx was seated in an easy-chair, talking somewhat earnestly to a slim, dark young man, who was leaning against the mantelpiece. Mr. Marx's Secret 2012-03-02T03:00:10.327Z Even the girl who loved him shrank back, clutching the mantelpiece in the first spasm of doubt, and fear, and anguish. Laid up in Lavender 2012-02-28T03:00:28.157Z Perhaps his thoughts had gone off to his own matters, for his hand shook a little as he adjusted the date-case over the mantelpiece. For the Cause 2012-02-19T03:00:18.033Z Costly toys and embroidered nothings, vinaigrettes and scent-bottles, lay scattered everywhere; and on other tables, on the mantelpiece, on the floor, a litter of similar trifles elbowed and jostled the gloomy tokens of illness. Chippinge Borough 2012-02-15T03:00:32.210Z There were no "decorations," except two portraits of his grandparents and a small reproduction of one of the great cow-faced gods of the Haktites which stood on the mantelpiece above the fireplace. Comrade Yetta 2012-02-15T03:00:24.213Z Leaning against the mantelpiece, with his face towards us, was Cis, whose likeness to Lady Beatrice was so remarkable that I liked him heartily before we had exchanged a word. Mr. Marx's Secret 2012-03-02T03:00:10.327Z On a morning early in the spring of last year, two men stood leaning against the mantelpiece of a room in one of the Government offices. Laid up in Lavender 2012-02-28T03:00:28.157Z Dr. Bevary was near the mantelpiece, apparently paying no attention to either of them. A Life's Secret A Novel 2012-02-13T03:00:17.060Z And we will put it on the end of the mantelpiece in the nursery, up high where the baby can’t reach it. Black-Eyed Susan 2012-02-13T03:00:16.587Z On the mantelpiece of his old room, where she lived, a snapshot of the white men of the Expedition leaned against the cow-faced god of the Haktites. Comrade Yetta 2012-02-15T03:00:24.213Z Miss Hart walked up to the mantelpiece and Cecil and I remained looking round. Mr. Marx's Secret 2012-03-02T03:00:10.327Z "Well, the funny part of it is," he said lightly, his shoulders pressed against the mantelpiece, "that I am dining at the Burton Smiths' this evening!" Laid up in Lavender 2012-02-28T03:00:28.157Z On the mantelpiece is a silver cigarette case presented, in 1933, to the then governor of the islands to mark the 100th anniversary of British sovereignty. The Falklands egg shortage 2012-02-11T11:58:10Z It was a stormy autumn afternoon, and Phil sat in his rocking-chair before the red coal fire watching the clock upon the mantelpiece. Black-Eyed Susan 2012-02-13T03:00:16.587Z He rose and went to the mantelpiece to choose a pipe. Second String 2012-02-11T03:03:54.390Z “It was there on the mantelpiece this afternoon and now, when we came in to look at it, it has gone!” Mr. Marx's Secret 2012-03-02T03:00:10.327Z "What?" she exclaimed, when I had finished the story, to which she had listened, with her face turned from me, and her arm on the mantelpiece, "is that all, father?" Laid up in Lavender 2012-02-28T03:00:28.157Z "Well, yes, Master Ralph; it always stood on the mantelpiece in my mistress' room, and I dusted it myself most regularly." The Little Princess of Tower Hill 2012-02-06T03:00:11.547Z The crepe veil was not in evidence, but on the mantelpiece lay the new Bible, black and shiny, and smelling powerfully of leather. Black-Eyed Susan 2012-02-13T03:00:16.587Z Mrs. Freere leant against the mantelpiece, smiling down at him in the armchair. Second String 2012-02-11T03:03:54.390Z Instead, he moved only a step from the mantelpiece and stood upright, his arms folded. Running Sands 2012-02-05T03:00:08.983Z It was near to my elbow, however, on the mantelpiece, and I refilled my own glass. Lawrence Clavering 2012-02-01T03:00:11.667Z He reached up and hung it on the mirror over his mantelpiece. A Romance of Wastdale 2012-02-01T03:00:11.227Z He pulled out his chronometer, comparing it with the clock on the mantelpiece. The Black Moth A Romance of the XVIIIth Century 2012-01-31T03:00:13.827Z He rose to his feet and stood facing her, both of them by the mantelpiece. Second String 2012-02-11T03:03:54.390Z Newberry had risen and gone to the mantelpiece to seek a fresh cigarette. Running Sands 2012-02-05T03:00:08.983Z A couple of candles were burning on the mantelpiece, and Mary Tyson was arranging the bed. Lawrence Clavering 2012-02-01T03:00:11.667Z There were two large shields with the coats-of-arms of the University and Trinity College over the mantelpiece. Peter Binney A Novel 2012-01-29T03:00:10.423Z Then he drew his hand across his forehead, and, walking slowly to the mantelpiece, leaned his hands on it in a broken attitude and so stared at the clock again. Parson Kelly 2012-01-28T03:00:30.303Z "Lead us not into temptation" was all very well in church; in secular life, if you suspected a servant of dishonesty, you marked a florin and left it on the mantelpiece. Second String 2012-02-11T03:03:54.390Z He came back to the fire, and leaning an elbow on the mantelpiece stared into the coals. The Truants 2012-01-28T03:00:26.257Z There was a gilt clock on the mantelpiece and two coloured glass vases. The Eldest Son 2012-01-24T03:00:28.780Z This and the blue room were adorned by fine sculptured mantelpieces, the work of a young sculptor named Thomas Crawford, who was just coming into notice. Julia Ward Howe 1819-1910 2012-01-24T03:00:23.377Z Now, Mr. Kelly was standing almost at the centre of the mantelpiece, Lady Oxford at one end; and they faced one another. Parson Kelly 2012-01-28T03:00:30.303Z He had to leave his marked florin on the mantelpiece. Second String 2012-02-11T03:03:54.390Z The clock chimed upon the mantelpiece a few seconds after he was standing in the drawing-room of the Villa Pontignard, and before the clock had stopped chiming Mrs. Mardale came in to him. The Truants 2012-01-28T03:00:26.257Z "Well, Twankies," he said affably, as they went up to the mantelpiece and stood one on either side of the fire, "what's the news with you?" The Eldest Son 2012-01-24T03:00:28.780Z Two wax-candles stood on the high carved mantelpiece, and the large oak table behind Lady Level was dark with age. The Story of Charles Strange Vol. 1 (of 3) A Novel 2012-01-22T03:00:26.330Z I asked, not taking the chair, but standing with my elbow on the mantelpiece. The Story of Charles Strange, Vol. 3 (of 3) A Novel 2012-01-22T03:00:22.303Z Chance had put a marked florin on the mantelpiece for Wellgood; what were the chances of its being stolen, and of the theft being traced? Second String 2012-02-11T03:03:54.390Z The door between the two rooms had been locked, and the key was lying in the corner of the mantelpiece. The Story of Charles Strange Vol. 2 (of 3) A Novel 2012-01-22T03:00:21.457Z There is a great variety of old Dresden china on the mantelpieces; a Japanese screen stands near the further door. Notable Women Authors of the Day Biographical Sketches 2012-01-19T03:00:21.017Z Jack Layton, strolling idly now across the smoking-room, whose panelled walls and carved furniture had been Redesdale's pride and joy, glanced up at the mantelpiece, over which hung a portrait of the dead man. Christina 2012-01-16T03:00:06.507Z He came up to her and put his arm around her, as she stood with her elbow on the mantelpiece. The White Peacock 2012-01-14T03:00:21.627Z Over the mantelpiece was a picture of his dead mother. Emmy Lou's Road to Grace Being a Little Pilgrim's Progress 2012-01-12T03:00:14.550Z With the whir-r-r that it always made, the clock on the mantelpiece began to strike ten. The Story of Charles Strange Vol. 2 (of 3) A Novel 2012-01-22T03:00:21.457Z But the glory of the room is the mantelpiece, reaching to the roof. Notable Women Authors of the Day Biographical Sketches 2012-01-19T03:00:21.017Z Seedy sort of adventurers," Rupert repeated slowly, turning, as if by chance, to survey his own reflection in the mirror over the mantelpiece; "there are adventurers and adventurers. Christina 2012-01-16T03:00:06.507Z He stood on the hearthrug as he rubbed himself, and surveyed his reflection in the mirror above the high mantelpiece; he looked at himself and smiled. The White Peacock 2012-01-14T03:00:21.627Z I put six tickets on the mantelpiece where at the most we will need only five. Emmy Lou's Road to Grace Being a Little Pilgrim's Progress 2012-01-12T03:00:14.550Z Lambrequin, lam′bre-kin, n. a strip of cloth, leather, &c., hanging from a window, doorway, or mantelpiece, as a drapery: an ornamental covering, as of cloth, attached to a helmet. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) 2012-01-11T03:00:23.770Z Ten o'clock struck upon the clock on the mantelpiece—half-past ten—eleven. The Beckoning Hand and Other Stories 2012-01-10T03:00:17.100Z The studio was more than comfortable—it was even luxurious, with its beautiful Renaissance mantelpiece of carved oak, its rich oriental rugs and curtains and hanging eastern lamps. Woman and Artist 2012-01-10T03:00:14.960Z Then he pointed to the mantelpiece and continued, "If I were you, Aunt, I should wrap those two Chinese vases in cotton-wool, and put them away." A Drake by George! 2012-01-09T03:00:22.163Z Even though she was going to the picnic, there was comfort in the thought those tickets yet on the mantelpiece were hers. Emmy Lou's Road to Grace Being a Little Pilgrim's Progress 2012-01-12T03:00:14.550Z Fragile vases, hand-painted fans, perfume bottles, silver trifles of unimagined uses, sofa pillows and gilt clocks crowded the tables and overflowed onto the floor and mantelpiece. And So They Were Married 2012-01-05T03:00:34.437Z The mantelpiece and all other receptacles having an army of occupation, vases and bowls were mobilising on the floor. Lord John in New York 2012-01-04T03:00:30.077Z On the mantelpiece, half hidden by various fashion magazines, was a small roulette wheel, a real one, used undoubtedly in studying out and trying various theories. The Enemies of Women (Los enemigos de la mujer) 2012-01-02T03:00:27.980Z She takes an ornament from the mantelpiece, and when she tries to put it back she misjudges the distance. A Drake by George! 2012-01-09T03:00:22.163Z Don't fail to send on Will Temple's letters to him and to Herbert Mason, which I left in one of the library's mantelpiece jars, to use the Portuguese idiom. Notes of a Son and Brother 2011-12-29T03:00:14.087Z He turned as white as the mantelpiece—his heart seemed to jump into his mouth. The Fourth Estate, vol.1 2011-12-25T03:00:10.170Z No, I don't think much of your taste in mantelpiece ornaments, Philip. A Knight on Wheels 2011-12-24T03:08:07.830Z Then that little clock perched over the mantelpiece tinkles the hour of ten. The Happy Warrior 2011-12-18T03:00:18.863Z The remarkable object occupying the centre of the mantelpiece is a Russian Ikon. A Drake by George! 2012-01-09T03:00:22.163Z "I shouldn't exactly call it alone up here on the mantelpiece of the world in broad daylight," Persis smiled. What Will People Say? A novel 2011-12-17T03:00:18.490Z I burst out—jumping up, and playing, in great excitement, with the things on the mantelpiece, unable to keep still. A Witch of the Hills, v. 2-2 2011-12-15T03:00:17.253Z He rose, and leaning gloomily against the mantelpiece, glowered his disapprobation of his beloved's ill-timed levity. A Knight on Wheels 2011-12-24T03:08:07.830Z She found her purse on the mantelpiece and took it and left the house without being noticed—or thinking to escape or to give notice. The Happy Warrior 2011-12-18T03:00:18.863Z Mrs. Drake continued, waddling to the mantelpiece and flicking a disreputable blowfly from one of the vases. A Drake by George! 2012-01-09T03:00:22.163Z On the north wall was the fireplace—wide, high, old-fashioned and warm—with a discoloured white marble mantelpiece, decorated with fat bewigged Georgian cupids. A Witch of the Hills, v. 1-2 2011-12-15T03:00:15.700Z She named the beautiful countess whose portrait I had seen on Scott's mantelpiece on the morning when I visited him at his chambers. A Witch of the Hills, v. 2-2 2011-12-15T03:00:17.253Z Philip stood with an elbow upon the mantelpiece, looking down upon his love. A Knight on Wheels 2011-12-24T03:08:07.830Z He stood near the mantelpiece as I entered, and bowed with almost stage politeness. Wild Life in the Land of the Giants A Tale of Two Brothers 2011-12-12T03:00:34.923Z George was not thinking about honours much; for he had glanced towards the mantelpiece and discovered that the pair of vases were missing. A Drake by George! 2012-01-09T03:00:22.163Z The climax of her pleasure was the discovery of the cup and saucer on the mantelpiece. A Witch of the Hills, v. 1-2 2011-12-15T03:00:15.700Z “Won’t you sit down!” she said, and he had shaken his head without speaking, and remained standing with his back to the fire, leaning against the mantelpiece, where he could watch her face the better. Paddy-The-Next-Best-Thing 2011-12-08T03:00:28.210Z "I must now pull myself together," he announced, turning to survey an appallingly tight white waistcoat with immense satisfaction in the glass over the mantelpiece, "and pass along quietly." A Knight on Wheels 2011-12-24T03:08:07.830Z There was a cupboard or two also, and there were brackets and flower-stands, and a mirror or two, and nick-nacks on the mantelpiece as well. Shireen and her Friends Pages from the Life of a Persian Cat 2011-12-08T03:00:24.107Z Vases to Kezia and Bessie were—vases; that is to say, conspicuous objects set upon either end of mantelpiece or dresser, to be replaced by others when broken. A Drake by George! 2012-01-09T03:00:22.163Z Above the mantelpiece a black iron oil lamp is burning, with old-fashioned wicks made from peeled and dried rushes. Kenneth McAlpine A Tale of Mountain, Moorland and Sea 2011-12-05T03:00:48.967Z When all his hunting came to nothing he leaned his elbows on the mantelpiece and shut his eyes, as if suffering physical pain. A Woman Perfected 2011-12-02T03:00:24.420Z Whose photograph," she enquired, "does a man eventually plant in the middle of his mantelpiece? A Knight on Wheels 2011-12-24T03:08:07.830Z His gaze, travelling round the pretty room, fell on his own photograph in uniform on the mantelpiece. The Stronger Influence 2011-12-02T03:00:23.630Z Any way, beckon to him he did, and having set down the taper on the high mantelpiece, seated himself beside the fire and began meditatively to toast his embroidered morocco pumps. The Passionate Elopement 2011-12-02T03:00:19.930Z And then, while collecting what he required, his thoughts went again to the thing he had deposited within the vase on the mantelpiece. The Heath Hover Mystery 2011-12-01T03:00:22.357Z When she went into the bedroom her husband was still standing with his elbows on the mantelpiece and his face to the wall. A Woman Perfected 2011-12-02T03:00:24.420Z Then she tiptoed across to the mantelpiece, and proceeded to ornament the Meldrum Carburettor with a floral device. A Knight on Wheels 2011-12-24T03:08:07.830Z She wanted to look in the glass over the mantelpiece; but her sense of dignity and the fitness of things kept her glued to her seat. The Stronger Influence 2011-12-02T03:00:23.630Z There was a brief silence during which both still figures remained so rigidly quiet that the subdued ticking of the dresden clock on the mantelpiece sounded intrusively loud in the stillness. Grit Lawless 2011-12-01T03:00:18.137Z For one dazed moment he stood gazing at the thing, then went over to the mantelpiece and dropped it into one of the queer old vases of quaint ware that stood thereon. The Heath Hover Mystery 2011-12-01T03:00:22.357Z So soon as he was through the door he saw the letter-case upon the mantelpiece, where Mr. Morgan had left it. A Woman Perfected 2011-12-02T03:00:24.420Z The sole ornament, upon his mantelpiece was a model of the Meldrum Carburettor, recently perfected and patented. A Knight on Wheels 2011-12-24T03:08:07.830Z The minutes ticked on relentlessly, and the clock on the mantelpiece chimed the half-hour after one. The Stronger Influence 2011-12-02T03:00:23.630Z Peeping in, as curious children will, something on a corner of the mantelpiece caught his eye. A Master of Deception 2011-11-30T03:00:12.357Z She caught up the frame from the mantelpiece, and pressed her red warm lips passionately against the cold glass, murmuring words of love and tenderness. The Heath Hover Mystery 2011-12-01T03:00:22.357Z On the mantelpiece between two tall brass candle-sticks stood a beautiful marble bust. The Automobile Girls at Palm Beach Proving Their Mettle Under Southern Skies 2011-11-26T03:00:16.047Z One hand was at her heart, the other fumbled at the mantelpiece for support. A Knight on Wheels 2011-12-24T03:08:07.830Z But that functionary only shrugged his shoulders and replaced the Guide upon the mantelpiece. On Secret Service Detective-Mystery Stories Based on Real Cases Solved By Government Agents 2011-11-26T03:00:14.947Z He was lounging at Rachel's side, with an elbow on the mantelpiece, pulling his moustache meditatively; and he did not move. A Mere Chance, Vol. 1 of 3 A Novel 2011-11-24T03:00:44.097Z He looked on the floor, under the couch, in cupboards, and drawers; not omitting the old vases of quaint ware that stood on the mantelpiece. The Heath Hover Mystery 2011-12-01T03:00:22.357Z In a few moments the young count was leaning gracefully against the mantelpiece. The Automobile Girls at Palm Beach Proving Their Mettle Under Southern Skies 2011-11-26T03:00:16.047Z "And all the time you would rather be at home with your feet on the mantelpiece?" A Knight on Wheels 2011-12-24T03:08:07.830Z When Miss Johnson had gone Margaret Wallace went and stood before a photograph which hung over the mantelpiece--the photograph of a man. A Duel 2011-11-20T03:00:13.840Z The dados, which are being designed at home, are to be of carved wood, most of them; mantelpieces to match. A Mere Chance, Vol. 1 of 3 A Novel 2011-11-24T03:00:44.097Z My dear papa," she replied, smiling, and leaning her back against the old carved mantelpiece, "try, by all means. The World Masters 2011-11-18T03:00:31.543Z To one side hangs the bellows, with the tongs near by, while above, underneath the mantelpiece, is suspended an old flint-lock rifle. Contemporary One-Act Plays 2011-11-12T03:00:36.860Z Supposing, as I sat with my feet on the mantelpiece, that some one—some one particular—came into the room and tapped me on the shoulder, and said: 'Now then, wake up! A Knight on Wheels 2011-12-24T03:08:07.830Z She glanced at a silver clock which stood upon the mantelpiece. A Duel 2011-11-20T03:00:13.840Z Archie, who was a person of much pink and monogrammed correspondence, would probably have left his address behind him, stuck in the glass of the mantelpiece, as his manner was. Diana Tempest, Volume III (of 3) 2011-11-12T03:00:34.213Z As I put down my implements and received Christianson's report that the fourth hut was ready for occupation, the clock on the mantelpiece of my sitting room struck a quarter to one. The Beautiful White Devil 2011-11-11T03:00:24.760Z The next external thing that I was fully awake to was that from the typewriting-room there came the single "Ting" of the small clock on the mantelpiece. In Accordance with the Evidence 2011-11-06T02:00:12.393Z Having done this, she surveyed herself intently in the mirror over the mantelpiece. A Knight on Wheels 2011-12-24T03:08:07.830Z There is the mantelpiece; it is made of wood--carved wood. A Duel 2011-11-20T03:00:13.840Z He longed to throw the book at the foolish Dresden shepherdess that stood on the mantelpiece. Across the Stream 2011-11-05T02:00:11.673Z It may be guessed how anxiously I watched the hands of the clock upon my mantelpiece. The Beautiful White Devil 2011-11-11T03:00:24.760Z The door was painted yellow and grained—but a pair of handsome silver candlesticks stood on the mantelpiece. In Accordance with the Evidence 2011-11-06T02:00:12.393Z There, with one devastating sweep of his arm, he rendered the mantelpiece a solitude. A Knight on Wheels 2011-12-24T03:08:07.830Z I have made a drawing of the mantelpiece, just as you see it, and as I see it, and as it is. A Duel 2011-11-20T03:00:13.840Z "Oh, dear, I did want to see James," said Harry, leaning his elbows on the mantelpiece, and burying his face in his hands to hide his tears of disappointment. The Whirligig of Time 2011-11-04T02:00:23.063Z Her elbow caught her cup of cocoa; it spilt, and ran in a little stream from the corner of the mantelpiece.... The Story of Louie 2011-10-26T02:00:27.053Z I answered that it was not, and Evie, who had removed her hat and coat and was now tidying her hair before the mantelpiece mirror, laughed. In Accordance with the Evidence 2011-11-06T02:00:12.393Z Colonel Meldrum rose to his feet, and laid his pipe upon the mantelpiece with a slight clatter. A Knight on Wheels 2011-12-24T03:08:07.830Z That is a picture of the pillar which is on the left-hand side of the mantelpiece as you stand in front of it--you will remember, on the left-hand side. A Duel 2011-11-20T03:00:13.840Z On the mantelpiece stood a small clock—apparently a sort of humble presentation piece, the body of the clock being set in a horse-shoe frame, with crossed whips behind it. Chronicles of Martin Hewitt 2011-10-24T02:00:16.617Z Kitty was condescendingly appraising her furniture again; on the mantelpiece lay a piece of blank card; it seemed to be there almost for a purpose, and furtively Louie took it. The Story of Louie 2011-10-26T02:00:27.053Z I remained standing, with my hat in my hand, at the other corner of the mantelpiece. In Accordance with the Evidence 2011-11-06T02:00:12.393Z But one framed photograph stood on the mantelpiece, the man in it, smiling and debonair, looking gaily out at Annette and the world in general. Notwithstanding 2011-10-19T02:00:22.340Z All that remains is that you slide that whole side of the mantelpiece to the left. A Duel 2011-11-20T03:00:13.840Z The mantelpiece is peopled with little Japanese dolls, little bronzes and brasses, and figures carved in yellow ivory. The Phil May Album 2011-10-17T02:00:17.247Z Louie was standing by the end of the mantelpiece, stirring a cup of cocoa. The Story of Louie 2011-10-26T02:00:27.053Z After several moments of increasingly rapid talk, we were both standing, he defiantly with one hand on the edge of the mantelpiece, I at the other end of the hearth. In Accordance with the Evidence 2011-11-06T02:00:12.393Z She glanced for a moment at the photograph of her husband on the mantelpiece, with his hair brushed forward over his ears. Notwithstanding 2011-10-19T02:00:22.340Z As for the mantelpiece, I've been bothered all along by a feeling that there was something about it which I ought to understand, and didn't. A Duel 2011-11-20T03:00:13.840Z A spray brought in to decorate the mantelpiece lasts till Christmas holly displaces it. Trees Worth Knowing 2011-10-13T02:00:48.357Z On the left a recessed fireplace, in which are ferns; on the mantelpiece are some large blue and white beakers and vases. The Brass Bottle A Farcical Fantastic Play in Four Acts 2011-10-11T02:01:04.737Z But before I did any of these things I tiptoed to the mirror over the mantelpiece in order to see whether I bled. In Accordance with the Evidence 2011-11-06T02:00:12.393Z The tapestry-parlour is an apartment of special interest, the mantelpiece particularly fixing the attention. Victor Hugo: His Life and Works 2011-10-07T02:00:23.887Z He stood a moment leaning against the mantelpiece and very much tempted to say to Mrs. Freer that she was a vulgar-minded old woman. Lady Barbarina The Siege of London, An International Episode and Other Tales 2011-10-06T02:00:37.063Z The looting propensities of the Prussians were satirized in a sketch showing two Prussian officers looking greedily at a clock on the mantelpiece in a French ch�teau. The History of the Nineteenth Century in Caricature 2011-10-04T02:00:18.533Z I put it inside one of the vases on the mantelpiece, for safety. The Brass Bottle A Farcical Fantastic Play in Four Acts 2011-10-11T02:01:04.737Z Then, striding back to the mantelpiece, he stood watching her as if he had paid for a seat in a playhouse and had found standing-room only. A Crooked Mile 2011-10-03T02:00:26.870Z The mantelpiece—a marvellous piece of work, represents the sacrifice of Isaac. Victor Hugo: His Life and Works 2011-10-07T02:00:23.887Z A jolly little robin was twittering in a bush, enjoying himself no end; his bright red breast reminded me of the holly I had stuck over Father’s mantelpiece, and I began to feel sad again. The Fairies and the Christmas Child 2011-09-29T02:00:12.583Z |
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