Mantelpiece
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I can remember that a black clock was ticking loudly upon the
mantelpiece
, and that every now and then, amid the rumble of the hackney coaches, we could hear boisterous laughter from some inner chamber.
More example sentences with word mantelpiece
This conversation about horses interested him, but he never forgot Anna, and involuntarily listened to the steps in the corridor and glanced at the clock on the
mantelpiece.
The marble washstand, the dressing-table, the couch, the tables, the bronze clock on the mantelpiece, the curtains and door-hangings were all costly and new.
A canary yellow paper, relieved at the top by a garland of pale flowers, was puckered everywhere over the badly stretched canvas; white calico curtains with a red border hung crossways at the length of the window; and on the narrow
mantelpiece
a clock with a head of Hippocrates shone resplendent between two plate candlesticks under oval shades.
She wanted for her
mantelpiece
two large blue glass vases, and some time after an ivory necessaire with a silver-gilt thimble.
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