What is "andiron"

Usage examples of "andiron".

Maigret stood up, saw two men wrestling on the floor on the other side of the overturned table, while the woman was in the act of picking up an andiron from the fireplace.

As he carried the hides and the meat out to the snow, he heard a clank as Mordec thrust the andiron into the forge to heat it again.

Have we not shivered with cold, all the glowering, gloomy month of May, because, the august front-parlor having undergone the spring cleaning, the andirons were snugly tied up in tissue-paper, and an elegant frill of the same material was trembling before the mouth of the once glowing fireplace?

A fire sizzled and crackled across the long, low-raftered room of gray stone, where logs of fragrant incense-wood blazed on brazen andirons wrought in the likeness of grinning gargoyles.

He had constructed andirons for the fireplace out of excess bomb parts and had filled them with stout silver logs, and he had framed with stained wood the photographs of girls with big breasts he had torn out of cheesecake magazines and hung over the mantelpiece.

The girls could see it, going to classes, and it called to their minds afternoons they had spent there, sitting in strait-backed chairs, all on their best behavior, while a wood fire burned merrily on the shining brass andirons in the white fireplace.

At length they reached a round chamber, some fifty feet across, scattered with low tables and tiny benches round a central open hearth, where a low fire burned and a huge kettle hung from a pair of andirons and a cross-bar.

On two new brass andirons in the center of the big fireplace were two small, uncharred logs crossed at an angle of 45 degrees.

They were andirons, you know, and now the factories are so much cleaner.

Some hours later Peggy was gone, and before the crackling logs on the andirons in the library Mary Cary, on her knees, held out her hands to their blaze and nodded to the dancing flames.

Mary Cary had drawn the curtains, straightened chairs and books, rearranged the flowers, refilled the inkstand on her open desk, brushed the bits of charred wood under the logs on the andirons, turned on every light, and then, seeing nothing else to do that would permit of movement, had taken her seat near the table.

On the hearth of the big river-rock fireplace were gleaming brass andirons, and on the mantel was an old clock with two bronze stags rearing up on their hind legs.

You want, first, a large backlog, which does not rest on the andirons.

In fact, I remembered everything-from the tall French windows that opened upon the side terrace and were framed in dusky red draperies threaded with gold, to the burnished brass scrollwork of andirons on the white marble base of the hearth.

Her living room had a tan figured rug, white-and-rose chairs, a black marble fireplace with tall brass andirons, very high bookcases built back into the walls, rough cream-colored drapes against shades of the same color.