andiron
Example Sentences
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She falls, strikes her head against a fraternity andiron.
From Time Magazine Archive
On display in Manhattan's Robinson Galleries last week went a Wheelock retrospective show that started with the dachshund andiron, ended in 1940 with a crisp, stylized figure of Washington at Valley Forge.
From Time Magazine Archive
I saw ye andiron leap into ye pott and dance, and leap out, and again leap in, and leap on a table and there abide.
From The Bay State Monthly, Volume 3, No. 4 by Various
He hit it against the andiron to knock the ashes off, and plunged it into the mixture.
From Ben Comee A Tale of Rogers's Rangers, 1758-59 by M. J. (Michael Joseph) Canavan
One early 17th-century andiron recovered is attractively decorated with a cherub’s head in relief.
From New Discoveries at Jamestown Site of the First Successful English Settlement in America by John L. Cotter
