mantelshelf

But as it happened, Banghurst had left a rook rifle he sometimes played with on the top of the desk, and on the corner of the mantelshelf was a tin with three or four cartridges remaining in it.

Twelve Stories and a Dream, by H. G. Wells Herbert George 2006

On the mantelshelf was a twelve-inch flat boxwood rule, such as engineers use, a piece of soft, red rubber, and a stone bottle of Draper's dichroic ink.

John Thorndyke's Cases related by Christopher Jervis and edited by R. Austin Freeman 1902

On the mantelshelf was a small round alarm clock and some brightly polished tin canisters.

The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists Robert Tressell 1890

The room was very still; its ordered comfort, the measured ticking of the carriage clock on the mantelshelf, the insistent thudding of the sea, all heightened the sense of outrage, the crudity of destruction and hate.

She Closed Her Eyes 2010

Traverse right about fifteen feet with peg protection; step up with difficulty; then on to a small pinnacle block; gam the next ledge by a mantelshelf; climb the groove with the aid of two pegs and one sling to the horizontal crack; follow the groove again to

She Closed Her Eyes 2010

He straightened up just as the clock on the mantelshelf struck the three-quarters.

She Closed Her Eyes 2010

She shifted two vases back to their old familiar position of one at each end of the mantelshelf.

They didn’t read Pitchfork or Stereogum or Gorilla vs. Bear or Hipster Runoff Josh Spilker 2010

Dickens then visits a workroom, featuring coloured prints, a china shepherdess on the mantelshelf, carpets, stuffed chairs and an open fire.

Bedlam Catharine Arnold 2008

Dickens then visits a workroom, featuring coloured prints, a china shepherdess on the mantelshelf, carpets, stuffed chairs and an open fire.

Bedlam Catharine Arnold 2008

She looked along the dusty mantelshelf and sifted through some letters.

Deadly Intent Lynda La Plante 2008