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Mantelshelf

Mantelshelf \Man"tel*shelf`\, n. The shelf of a mantel.

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mantelshelf

n. A shelf above a fireplace.

Usage examples of "mantelshelf".

Over the painted mantelshelf, between two ostrich-feather fans and two pieces of Coalport china, was a large glass frame containing a spread of theatrical programmes and seeing that he had noticed them her grey eyes smiled and her little mouth twitched so that she looked neither mediaeval nor young-old-maidish, but rather pretty.

Nelson glanced at the carriage clock on the mantelshelf of his living room for the umpteenth time.

Tearing towards the fire, knocking the cat from the back of the chair he ran his arm along the mantelshelf in a single powerful sweep sending porcelain figures, the clock and a bowl of filberts crashing into the stone-flagged hearth.

Almost the only portable objects were a great porcelain bowl of a wonderful blue on the table, a clock and some cigar boxes on the mantelshelf, and a movable telephone standard on the top of the desk.

And this kettle was stowed way up high on the mantelshelf so I could snooze there snug and warm out of harm's way, soothed by the delicious odours and appetising sounds of the preparation of nourishment, and there I cooed my way through babyhood above that kitchen as if I were its household deity high in my tiny shrine.

It was not the Orthlundyn way idly to grace tables, mantelshelves, window-sills and any other convenient horizontal surfaces with a few fond ornaments.

Lizard-like saurians darted on bat's wings from fiery nests to mantelshelves, their lithe forms armored in copper scales.