At the sight of Harrison Smith he removed his feet from the mantelpiece and extended an open armed welcome.
The room was plunged into utter darkness in which could be heard the sound of two men breathing and the zinging of the mantelpiece brasses from the double explosion.
He pointed to a bronze bust of Van Diest which had been placed on the mantelpiece a few days before, presumably to act as a reminder of the influence dominating the apartment.
On the mantelpiece burned a movable electric table--lamp, with twin branched lights.
He observed the silk-covered cord lying across the mantelpiece and disappearing over the further edge; by the side of the lamp was a screwdriver.
For on the other mantelpiece to the right there was a clock, and while staring in the ghostly silence at the footprints, he had fancied that his ear caught the ticking of the clock.
The clock on the mantelpiece struck nine, and the last assistant had fled, and Hugo was left alone with the pink-aproned waitress, who was collecting glasses on a tray.
On the mantelpiece to the left there still stood the electric table-light, and by its side still lay the screwdriver.
Mrs. Grey's eyes were wet, and Guy was so full of affectionate gratitude that it was only by blinking very hard at a small picture of Pauline hanging beside the mantelpiece he was able to keep his own dry.
A shaded lamp upon the big table and candles in ancient sconces upon the mantelpiece afforded dim illumination.
It was heavily carpeted, and over-full of Burmese and Chinese ornaments and curios, and upon the mantelpiece stood several framed photographs which showed this to be the sanctum of a wealthy bachelor who was no misogynist.
I fancy the placing of flowers in vases, on the table or on the mantelpiece attracts birds to rooms, if they are still.
As she stood leaning negligently against the mantelpiece she was surprised to notice that he did not settle himself in his usual chair.
She tottered to the mantelpiece and burst into tears--the first tears she had shed in twenty worldly and scheming years--and the only tears that did attend the rupture of the Pastor-Ladd engagement.
McKenna nodded, gazing at the mantelpiece meditatively, with an expression that was indecipherable.
She saw the look, sprang up from the rug furiously, and leaping toward the mantelpiece seized the offending clock and flung it across the room in a tantrum.
The stone took up its place at once on the mantelpiece as an ornament, and the wearied little man climbed up on to his mother's knee, with a look of such delight and satisfaction as is sweet to be seen on a childish face.
You are sure you were not trying to reach anything off the mantelpiece yesterday evening?
I tried to get down muzzer's screen off the mantelpiece to see if there was some loose ones, but I couldn't reach it.
The lamp on the mantelpiece lighted him up clearly.
When a man wins a race or a competition of any kind, he sticks the prize up on his mantelpiece and takes no further notice of it beyond looking at it occasionally and feeling glad he's got it.
I forgot I couldn't put you on the mantelpiece and leave you there: I had to consider your point of view as well as my own.
The pretty clock on the mantelpiece softly chimed the quarter as he did this, and he started like a thief.
The chimney had a high wooden mantelpiece with a little square of mirror let in, too high up for any purpose but that of giving a glimmer of reflection.
The mantelpiece is true to artistic standards and realises the responsibility of its position as keynote to the room.
The mantelpieceis the connecting link between the architecture and the furnishing of a room.
The wooden mantelpiece in the sitting room is the oldest one in the house, and its disproportionate size indicates that it was made for the large unused chimney breast in the inner hall.
Illustration: The wooden mantelpiece in the Custis bedroom is the oldest in the house, dating from its earliest years.
So far from that, Mrs. Molyneux, who was leaning against the mantelpiece and looking down listlessly into the fire, moved to welcome me with a smile and to offer me a hand startlingly cold.
And old Joseph suddenly laid his arm on the mantelpiece and buried his face upon it, his gaunt figure shaking with sobs.
Candle grease solidified on the mantelpiece and dripped unseen upon the mahogany bookcase--all unnoticed by the dreamy, desolate Bingles.
The Christmas Carol lay on the mantelpiece behind the stove, with Mr. Bingle's reading glasses, both ready for use.
The blank, white monotony of one side of the room was jarred upon by the grate and mantelpiece, iron, painted black, while on the mantelpiece itself stood a little porcelain matchsafe with ribbed sides in the form of a truncated cone.
Turner, very much embarrassed, and not knowing how to answer, bent down to the side of the mantelpiece and turned up the flame of the gas-log a little.
And then something very curious happened: The little picture of Turner Ravis that hung over his mantelpiece caught his glance, looking out at him with her honest eyes and sweet smile.
Miss Letitia Prall, lessee of the mantelpiece already referred to, was a spinster, who, on dress parade, possessed dignity and poise quite commensurate with the quality of her home.
Sir Herbert Binney stood by the massive mantelpiece in the ornate living-room of the Prall apartment.
Instead of troubling to answer him Peter flew round the room, taking the mantelpiece on the way.
You even liked Nana to say that this was just the mantelpiece over here, and that the Neverland was all make-believe.
The fireplace was tiled after the old style, and the mantelpiece consisted of a couple of narrow oak shelves, about a dozen inches apart, connected by small pillars.
Instead of the ordinary wide low mantelpiece one sees in bed-rooms, I am very fond of two narrower shelves over such a fireplace as this.
When she had laid down on the edge of the mantelpiece a little pocket-book bound in garnet velvet, she seated herself in front of him, and they both remained silent, unable to utter a word, smiling at one another.
After giving a hasty greeting and blessing to the lad, who was charmed to see his tutor, the father continued the burning of his papers, drawing them from a cupboard over the mantelpiece wall, which Harry had never seen before.
Butler kept the glass one on his mantelpiece until Pauli's death in 1897.
Catalogue can be identified, and also the following nine items, which are on the mantelpiece or on the wall.
That's good now," ejaculated the visitor, holding tight to the mantelpiece as he fished with his umbrella for a chair.
The visitor held on to the mantelpiece with both hands.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mantelpiece" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
