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
An early 17th-century andiron in the Jamestown collection.
From New Discoveries at Jamestown Site of the First Successful English Settlement in America by Cotter, John L.
Feeling his way along the hearth he came on nothing greater than his stocking which was tied to the andiron.
From Chimney-Pot Papers by Endell, Fritz August Gottfried
Dom La Taste, the great opponent of Jansenism, alluding to the same circumstance, says, "I do not dispute the fact, that the andiron sunk so deeply that it appeared to penetrate to the very backbone."
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 76, February, 1864 by Various
