What is "andirons"

Usage examples of "andirons".

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.

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.