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
"Let us return his fire, Hugh," said the person whom he addressed, composedly lifting the andiron.
From Fanshawe by Hawthorne, Nathaniel
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 Canavan, M. J. (Michael Joseph)
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 Cotter, John L.
