It took his fancy immensely, and he put it on his mantlepiece as an article of virtue, so it was rather a failure after all.
Books and papers everywhere, a broken meerschaum, and an old flute over the mantlepiece as if done with, a ragged bird without any tail chirped on one window seat, and a box of white mice adorned the other.
The mantlepiece was draped in red serge, ball fringed.
In the gold-rimmed mirror that was over his mantlepiece he saw himself diminishing, diminishing, diminishing .
The little old gilt clock on the mantlepiece that so quickly, cruelly ticked away their hour.
On the high mantlepiece stood several large and astonished china dogs with groups of roughly cast, crudely tinted pottery including Lord Nelson and Elijah, all set in a thicket of brass candle-sticks.
There were steel engravings of this or that pillared Theatre Royal, stuck round with menus of long-digested suppers; and on the mantlepiece was a row of champagne corks whose glad explosions happened years ago.
Over the mantlepiece of the principal room Jenny saw Mona Lisa and drew back so quickly that she trod on Lilli's foot.
Of her old furniture and old knick-knacks, Juliette had kept only the terra cotta statue of Love which again took its place of honor on the mantlepiece in the parlor.
From the mantlepiece she took a large shell and put it to her ear.
A flower on the mantlepiece is there, withering, and a whiff of its dying fragrance reaches me.
By the side of the bed was a little strip of carpeting; and on the mantlepiece a zinc clock between two blue glass vases.
As the clock on the mantlepiece struck half-past ten, he started and stopped.
In the evening before leaving the office he peered at himself in the mirror over the mantlepiece in the room where customers were received.
Round the mirror over the mantlepiece were stuck various parish announcements, thrust between the glass and the gilding.
He went over to the mantlepiece to hunt for a match, as his cigarette had gone out.
In the gold-rimmed mirror that was over his mantlepiece he saw himself diminishing, diminishing, diminishing.
I stood the tongs against the marblemantlepiece and drew back from the flame.
He said it in a gently searching way, as an old grandfather, seeking about blindly on the mantlepiece might say, "My spectacles!
She gave them over into my keeping that day; and the next morning we found her settled back among her pillows, imagining that all her brothers and sisters were flying above the mantlepiece and that the Chinese vase was in danger.
His portrait, a lithograph by Rothenstein, hangs over my mantlepiece among portraits of other friends.
A reproduction of his portrait by Watts hangs over my mantlepiece with Henley's, and those of other friends.
The Prince had been leaning on the mantlepiece without speaking for some moments, listening to Tamara's conversation, but now he joined in, and sinking into a chair beside her, answered from there.
Then the clock on the mantlepiece chimed one, and she started to her feet.
Over the mantlepiece a famous Rembrandt frowned, and another from the opposite wall.
Monsieur de Lessay set his cup on the mantlepiece and quietly observed, "'Your Bonaparte was a blackguard!
She placed the coin on the mantlepiece after counting the remainder.
The mantlepiece was bare save for the signed photograph of some magnificent foreign-looking athlete, nude to the waist.
Edward was standing near the mantlepiece immersed in the paper.
At half-past nine the door opened and Betty came in; the room was in darkness, but something oppressed her; she went to the mantlepiece to look for the matches, her fingers trembling.
She looked up to express her thanks, but he was watching Olga's face, and soon after walked to the mantlepiece and stood leaning, with his elbow upon it.
Shall I set you on the mantlepiece between the china kittens, and the glass lambs, right under the sharp nose of my grandmother's portrait, where her great solemn eyes will keep you in order?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mantlepiece" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
