"Mantel" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... something to do with him, in a sense; but don't ask me any more." And I leaned my forehead on the high oak mantel-piece, and ...
— Dead Men Tell No Tales • E. W. Hornung
... off," answered Gering sullenly. Iberville forbore to point a moral, but walked to the mantel, above which hung two swords of finest steel, with richly-chased handles. He had noted them as soon as he had entered the room. "By the governor's leave," he said, and took them down. "Since we are to ruffle him ...
— The Judgment House • Gilbert Parker
... cigar into the fire. Stepping to the mantel, he took from it a small metal casket, builded to hold jewels. What should be those gems of price which the metal box protected? Richard did not strike one as the man to nurse a weakness for barbaric adornment. ...
— The President - A novel • Alfred Henry Lewis
... The young man took a turn about the room and came back to the fire. Standing by the mantel he lit another cigarette before going on ...
— A Collection of Stories, Reviews and Essays • Willa Cather
... from his cigar sail towards the long box of geraniums on the sill of the open window. He whistled to the canary that swung in a brass cage above the foliage. Then his glance wandered about the room, over the bookcases, the bric-a-brac on the mantel, the—— ...
— Every Man for Himself • Hopkins Moorhouse
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