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
Tom got out his chiefest jewel, a brass knob from the top of an andiron, and passed it around her so that she could see it, and said: "Please, Becky, won't you take it?"
From The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Part 2. by Twain, Mark
I stayed down stairs, and, to kind o' break up my sorrer, I chucked my head aginst the knob that was atop o' the andiron!
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 121, November, 1867 by Various
With one foot on top of the andiron and a hand resting on his knee, he stood gazing into the embers.
From The Wonderful Adventures of Nils by Howard, Velma Swanston
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
