His thoughts were busily occupied in quite an opposite direction from his eyes, for turning presently, he laid down the sugar bowl he had picked up, and went rapidly to the mantel piece, where he took down a photograph of Roger Adams.
Not much," she went over to the mantel and glanced carelessly at the picture in his hand.
A mirror was placed over the mantel and she looked closely into it, meeting her profound gaze and the poetic charm which hung like an atmosphere about her delicate figure.
They heard him enter the room and feel on the mantel for his pipe, and a moment later he appeared at the Lion's window and leaned on the sill, looking down into the street below and blowing whiffs of smoke up into the warm night-air.
She stood there for a very long time looking slowly about her, and then she took a photograph of the Captain from the frame on the mantel and slipped it into her pocket, and when she went out again her veil was down, and she was crying.
Opposite the double doors was the great fireplace with high over-mantel of carved stone.
Each side of the mantelwere windows, high and not large.
Josephine, which caused Bell, with a little pout on her lip, to leave the piano and commence tapping the cheap bronzes on the mantel with the end of her parasol, by way of discovering whether they were metal or plaster.
He also leaned against the mantel on the other corner from Carroll, and endeavored to assume an unconcerned air, as if it were quite the usual thing for him to drop into the house and encounter such a nondescript company.
The gas log was almost hidden by dried palm leaves, a cigarette stump lay on the fender; on the mantel above were several photographs of men and at the other side an open door revealed a bedroom.
The clock on the mantel struck three; his train was to leave at five.
Two chairs were overturned, and one of them was broken; a siphon of vichy lay on the floor beside a crushed glass and two or three of the cheap ornaments that had been swept off the mantel and broken on the gaudy tiles of the hearth.
The mantel was in white marble, and over the mantel was an oil portrait of the Admiral's wife painted in '76.
There was a fireplace, a winged chair, a broad couch, a big desk of dark seasoned mahogany, and over the mantel a steel engraving of Robert E.
On the mantel piece, place a few books that she may read, if she wishes, before sleeping.
Have upon the mantel piece a box of matches, and if the room is not lighted by gas, have also a supply of candles in a box, and a candlestick.
On the mantel ticked a small wooden clock between two brass candlesticks, such as are used at all Irish wakes to stand at the head of the coffin.
She pointed to a pair of old silver candlesticks on the mantel shelf.
But there was the picture looking at him from the mantel shelf.
Then he realized that there was a painting of a girl over the mantel and that the girl was Mary Ogden.
He glanced at the wide mantel whereon sat seven worn stone images, grinning widely over the room.
That the seven stone gods had sat, grinning, upon the mantel only the evening previous, was true; but they were not on the mantel now.
The first step in such a course of practical wisdom would be to put Cytherea out of his life, dislodge her finally from his thoughts, and the over-mantel downstairs.
What a vanity of nonsense his thoughts had led him back into: Cytherea, a thing of wax, was on the over-mantel beyond the hall; Cuba beyond the sea.
So they went through the drawing-room, entered the library, and placed their candlesticks on the mantel where the light would best illuminate the portrait of the Lovely Lady.
The fourth side of the room was practically devoted to another huge fireplace, and over the mantel hung another portrait.
After that they removed all the breakable ornaments from the mantel and drew another chair close to the fireplace.
On the mantel was the Kodak picture of Katherine, and he paused to look at it.
As she entered the clock on the mantel struck two.
Why, Mrs. Mantel is a member of the Red Cross herself," said Mrs. Crothers sharply.
Madame" Mantel had crossed the path of the girl of the Red Mill again.
I went to dinner last night with Madame Mantel at that little cafe of the Chou-rouge.
The question of how Mrs. Mantel had obtained this place under the Red Cross did not trouble Ruth at all.
Nor did I consider that I did wrong in saying nothing about Mrs. Mantelat the time, when I had nothing but suspicion against her.
She feared the girl might say something regarding the Robinsburg fire that would start an official inquiry here in France regarding Mrs. Mantel and her particular friends.
Mrs. Mantel said he had moved recently, but she did not know where to.
Mrs. Mantel was a quick-witted woman, if she was nothing else commendable.
If a conspiracy had been discovered for the robbing of the Red Cross Supply Department, were not Mrs. Mantel and Legrand and Jose engaged in it?
It was evident that even Mrs. Mantel was not to be allowed to escape the police net.
Mrs. Mantel seemed horror-stricken when she saw the charred remains of her desk and the file cabinet.
Ruth's thoughts were divided between the conspiracy, in which Mrs. Mantel was engaged, and her worry regarding Tom Cameron.
And Ruth knew in her heart that Mrs. Mantel was not an honest woman.
I reached to the mantel for a box of cigars and passed one to Bert, along with a candle, for I had no lamp in the dining-room as yet, nor any candles for the table.
It was not alone bed hangings which were subjects of New England crewelwork; there were mantel valances, which covered the plain wooden mantels and hung at a safe distance above the generous household fires.
They wandered up and down the long room while he showed her tiles for mantel decoration, bronze cats' heads for door-knobs, and curious and lovely figures for lamps and ash-trays.
I had an idea of putting them on the corners of a mantel to light a piece of low relief," he explained, "but I never got at the relief.
There was a beautiful portrait of the duchess on the wall; and on the mantel a bust of the duke, the work of Felicia Ruys, which had received the honor of a medal of the first class at the recent Salon.
I had passed my plate a second time, I say, and had just raised the spoon to my lips, when it fell from my palsied hand; for the little bronze clock upon the mantel struck one.
I heard distinctly; moreover, the mantel shook a little with the concussion.
And before the portrait on the other side of the mantel he thought, challengingly and affectionately: "And you?
Outside of the shadow were the familiar window draperies, the white mantel with its old candlesticks, the exquisite crayon portrait of Jim at three, and Derry a delicious eighteen-months- old.
Of some of these things the woman who sat idly before the library fire was thinking, as the quiet evening wore on, and the purring of the flames and the ticking of the little mantel clock accented rather than disturbed the stillness.
Rachael had replaced its dull red rep with modern tapestries, had had it papered in peacock and gray, had covered the old, dark woodwork with cream-colored enamel and replaced the black marble mantel with a simply carved one of white stone.
There was silence while the old clock on the mantel wheezed out a lugubrious eight strokes.
The cottager's desire to possess a mantelclock satisfied.
The Great Series of English Table or Mantel Clocks.
Frawley, picking up a paper-cutter, stood by the manteltapping his palm.
On the mantel in the center I saw at once a large photograph of the Hon.
The old fireplace lost itself in callas, ferns, and ivies, while the mantel blossomed out into tube-roses and mosses.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mantel" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
