The story as told formerly amongst schoolboys was as follows: Jack had decided to go to sea, but before doing so he went to see his fairy godmother, who had a strange looking old coffee-mill on the mantelshelf in her kitchen.
When they reached home they were looked upon as too valuable to be placed on the rockeries and retained the sole possession of a mantelshelffor many years.
Liberty’s or the Baker Street Bazaar will furnish more than one mantelshelf delightfully.
And then place on the mantelshelf first a candlestick, choosing the pretty small embossed brass ones that Maple used to have at 2s.
There was something so tragic in his ugly face, that Chris' hand fell limply, and he turned away, leaning his arms on the mantelshelf and hiding his face.
Chris lounged against the mantelshelf and stared up at the ceiling.
What's Ugus but one of your cypher words, and you must needs stick it up on your mantelshelf for all the world to see?
Over the fireplace hung a large steel engraving of His Majesty, and on the mantelshelf some signed portraits of celebrities.
The clock on the littlemantelshelf chimed the half-hour.
John went out of the room, and Dacent Smith moved to the mantelshelf and looked for a moment at the photograph of a girl of eighteen, a girl who looked scarcely more than a child.
His hands were long and thin--the hands of a musician--and the one on which his chin rested as he leaned against the mantelshelf trembled slightly.
The silver clock on the mantelshelf struck five, and Nell, worn out at last, and still apparently far away from any solution of the problem which she had set herself, flung herself on the bed.
She left the room, and Drake leaned against the mantelshelf with his hands in his pockets, his head sunk on his breast; and in a minute or two the door opened again, and Luce glided toward him with outstretched hands.
Once more we searched amongst the rubbish and succeeded, eventually, in recovering some seven or eight small fragments of the broken spectacle-glasses, which Thorndyke laid on the mantelshelf beside the little sticks.
On the mantelshelf in the bedroom I found a small glass-stoppered jar containing about an ounce of solid opium, and another, larger jar containing wood charcoal broken up into small fragments.
On the mantelshelf stand statuettes of Goethe and Schiller, remembrances of Weimar; the walls are hung with water-colour sketches by Mdme.
Drake watched her set a foot upon the rail of the fender, lay her hand upon the mantelshelf and support her forehead upon it.
He hesitated in his speech, searching for the best way to begin his explanation, and he caught sight of a cigar-box on the mantelshelf above his head.
At his elbow the clock ticked upon the mantelshelf spacing the seconds, and the fire was hot upon his limbs.
The hours dragged on, and though the marble clock on the mantelshelf chimed six, seven, and even eight o'clock, still she did not return.
As I entered his cosy private room in the Calle de Alcala, and he rose to greet me, my gaze became fixed upon the mantelshelf behind him, for upon it stood two cabinet photographs of a man and a woman.
Among the decorations on the mantelshelf is the smallest of clocks, in a case of wood, carved most likely by Swiss hands.
The ornaments on the mantelshelf were ugly figures in dark wood and stone.
Something that the old man loves lies behind this screen, which is so arranged that the pictures on the mantelshelf and the roses and the ornaments of paper flowers can be seen by the person lying there.
Thresk rose from his seat and crossed to the mantelshelf on which a box of cigars was laid.
I have knocked the clock off the mantelshelf with my elbow, Humphreys," he said.
Upon the mantelshelf some photographs were arranged, a box of cigars stood at one end, a book or two lay between some delicate ornaments of china, and a small engraving in a thin gilt frame was propped at the back against the wall.
Humphreys was quite right; the clock upon the mantelshelf had gained fourteen minutes upon all our watches.
He looked at his reflection in the mirror above the mantelshelfand yawned.
He crossed to the mantelshelf and rested his elbow there, taking his cheek in his hand; the little pale light was yet enough to disclose the languid reckless beauty of his face.
He was beside her instantly; a slender eager figure he looked leaning against the wide mantelshelf with the golden candle-light over him.
He lit with a waxen match a waxen taper, which was coiled into a brazen cup; he brought it from the mantelshelf to the table; he took a slip of paper and a pen.
Mr. Macdonald had moved from his chair in the window, and now stood with one hand on the mantelshelf looking into the fire.
The blue vases had gone from the mantelshelf and two tall candlesticks and a strip of embroidery took their place.
The high clock on the mantelshelf hummed and gurgled, and with much deliberation struck one.
Some time ago I noticed a pile of very small red ants on the wall above the left-hand vase, passing upward and downward between the mantelshelf and a small hole near the ceiling, at a point where a picture nail had been driven.
In half an hour the wall above the mantelshelf was cleared of ants.
She pointed to another violin beside the mantelshelf in the adjoining room.
The clock on Eileen's mantelshelf struck midnight, slowly and clearly.
The fire died down and went out, the clock upon the mantelshelf chimed hour after hour on its musical bell, but I heeded not time.
The wood of themantelshelf was the same tone, and so was that of a plain piano that stood to the left of the fireplace, in the only nook that was not books from floor to ceiling; but the books began again over the piano.
Two tall wax-candles upon the mantelshelf were reflected in a tall mirror in tall silver sticks; the gold-colored walls were pictureless, and crimson damask was draperied and festooned at the shuttered window.
The man must have glanced at the pair of vases on his mantelshelf before sleeping, but he, of course, never dreamed that he was gazing upon the infernal contrivance that he had placed in the Minister's room with his own hand.
On entering he, quick as lightning, took down one of the vases from the mantelshelf and replaced it by another exactly similar which he drew from beneath the light coat thrown over his arm.
The striking of the little gilt clock upon the mantelshelf presently aroused her, and, rising, she switched off the light and, creeping upon tiptoe, slowly opened her bedroom door and listened attentively.
As soon as Ella entered hers, she was astonished to see upon the mantelshelf a pair of the same blue-and-white vases as those her father had asked her to match!
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mantelshelf" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: hob; ledge; retable; shelf; shoulder
