andiron
Example Sentences
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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
She falls, strikes her head against a fraternity andiron.
From Time Magazine Archive
I have wondered sometimes why the philosophers have not hit upon the andiron as a particularly fitting subject for pleasurable rumination.
From Making a Fireplace by Saylor, Henry H. (Henry Hodgman)
"Let us return his fire, Hugh," said the person whom he addressed, composedly lifting the andiron.
From Fanshawe by Hawthorne, Nathaniel
Bessie, as she afterwards declared, was almost ready to faint at this announcement, but on turning to look she saw indeed, hanging by a chain to keep the gate closed, a dumpy, rusty, cast-iron andiron.
From The House that Jill Built after Jack's had proved a failure by Gardner, E. C. (Eugene Clarence)
