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
The andiron in question was a thick, roughly shaped bar of iron, bent at both ends, but the front end divided in two, to serve for feet, and furnished with a thick, short knob.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 76, February, 1864 by Various
These show an early advance from the simple andiron, and point to the later developments of the fire-grate with the fast bars which were to come.
From Chats on Household Curios by Burgess, Fred. W. (Frederick William)
Sir Charles, drawing his rapier, sprang to his side, the wounded Captain started up from amidst his pillows and the divine snatched a brass andiron from the fireplace.
From Prisoners of Hope A Tale of Colonial Virginia by Johnston, Mary
