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On the mantelpiece above a red-brick crafts movement fireplace, she
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When I get home, I put it on the mantelpiece where I can see it
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By now she had grown accustomed to the weight of her mother’s old engagement ring on her finger and the Chinese style vase stood proudly in its new position on the fireplace mantelpiece
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He tries to focus on the clock above the mantelpiece
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He puts his coat on, picks up his wallet from the mantelpiece where Ken has been testing for dust, and follows the boys out of his top floor flat
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She also knew that her father kept a shotgun above his bed on his mantelpiece every night, but she was too scared to handle that either
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Finally, I came to the mantelpiece and found a litter of things
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"Put it down! Down, this instant, Watson--this instant, I say!" His head sank back upon the pillow and he gave a deep sigh of relief as I replaced the box upon the mantelpiece
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house you will see a small red box on my mantelpiece that
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A medal on the mantelpiece
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There was movement on the mantelpiece, and a small whiskered face with large rounded ears and black button eyes emerged from behind the carriage clock
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Over the opening of that fire-place is a mantelpiece, and near
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Mock-oranges and sea shells decorated the mantelpiece with strings of red bird’s eggs suspended above it
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I settled to the floor and walked over to the fireplace, climbed the stone with claws and feet to perch upon the slates of the mantelpiece
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Taking his keys from the mantelpiece and his cigarettes and lighter from the cupboard he quietly makes his way to the front door
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That explains why my trusty assistant and I were knocking on the door of this modest suburban brick veneer, hoping the articles mentioned would be mounted over the mantelpiece or such
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Eagle eyes failed to find the articles or even a mantelpiece but I did see something on a sideboard that took my interest
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The most significant to my mind, was a bottle of rum, open upon the mantelpiece, with little more than an inch of liquid left
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When the agents had appeared amongst them, guns in hand, Matilda had been the first to react, seizing one of them and dashing his head against the mantelpiece
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Eventually, Bill looked at the old carriage clock on the mantelpiece
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There was a photo on the mantelpiece — two young women
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He didn’t know how long he stood there alone, leaning against the fireplace, his knuckles turned white in their fierce grip of the mantelpiece
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’ Mother wandered over to the mantelpiece, where her bottle stood, half empty
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Family photographs crowded the mantelpiece above the roaring fire
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” The Great Goddess calmed and soothed my anguished spirit and I slept again, but woke to confusion as hands bumped and jostled my painting into the same mantelpiece position it had held in Castle Desiree’s sitting room
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Warmth pumped into the room through vents just beneath the mantelpiece
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Aya shrugged, running a finger across the dusty mantelpiece
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However, he obviously had and there was also a scrap of paper on the mantelpiece with the name Brigit Rolanne and a telephone number scribbled on it
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" She nodded at the framed daguerreotype of her father now back on the mantelpiece
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He stood beside the mantelpiece, its height perfect for resting his elbow, and watched the proceedings with a closed expression
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"I disagree," Jacob said from his usual place by the mantelpiece
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Jacob moved away from the mantelpiece and stood before me
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" He stood by the mantelpiece and held out his hand in a go-on gesture
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He stood by the fireplace, one elbow on the mantelpiece, having not sat down the entire time
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Two candles flickering on the mantelpiece provided a little light, illuminating a mess
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Most of the figurines, candelabras and other objects that had decorated the mantelpiece, walls and tables were either broken or missing although a few had been spared
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“The keys are on the mantelpiece,” replied Linda while pointing to the mantelpiece with her eyes
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Mikhail quickly took Linda’s car keys from the mantelpiece, and confident that the young girls were still fast asleep, he crept out of the cottage
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Then, without any warning, his face contorted and he smashed the glass of the frame against the corner of the mantelpiece, yanked out the photo, and threw it at Rafferty
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on the otherwise bare mantelpiece
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The photograph of his Gran looked down from him on the mantelpiece
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He looked at the clock on the mantelpiece
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Inside, he looked at the photograph of Mae Lin on the mantelpiece over the fire
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As she shut the door he put so many shillings on the mantelpiece
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Here comes Lady Venice displayed like a monument for admiration, but carved in alabaster, to be set on the mantelpiece and never dusted
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Grandage, glancing at the clock on the mantelpiece
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Her father stood leaning his head on the mantelpiece and did not turn as she came in, but her mother stretched out her arms as if for help, and Jo went to comfort her without a word
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In the corner behind the door, shining hob-nailed shoes stood in a row under the slab of the washstand, near a bottle of oil with a feather stuck in its mouth; a Matthieu Laensberg lay on the dusty mantelpiece amid gunflints, candle-ends, and bits of amadou
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When the first cold days set in Emma left her bedroom for the sitting-room, a long apartment with a low ceiling, in which there was on the mantelpiece a large bunch of coral spread out against the looking-glass
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She was thinking how to get out of this when the servant coming in put on the mantelpiece a small roll of blue paper "from Monsieur Derozeray's
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He was in front of the fire, both his feet on the mantelpiece, smoking a pipe
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Felicite held her over the bed while she still kept looking towards the mantelpiece
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Surprised and alarmed they proceeded directly into the room she had just quitted, where they found only Willoughby, who was leaning against the mantelpiece with his back towards them
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It had formerly been Charlotte's, and over the mantelpiece still hung a landscape in coloured silks of her performance, in proof of her having spent seven years at a great school in town to some effect
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In the midst of this pandemonium, William looked up at the big glazed text over the mantelpiece and read distinctly:
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After a while he glanced at the little clock that was ticking on the mantelpiece
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The elder woman rose and sailed stubbornly into the scullery, returning with his candle, which she put on the mantelpiece
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What I'd really like is a nice mantelpiece to hang over, somewhere nice and quiet
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Wong guided Butterfield over to the mantelpiece, where, he said, the microphones were in the lights resting on the mantel
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Ten times, as I told you, he came to see Dantes' father, and offered to receive him in his own house; and the night or two before his death, as I have already said, he left his purse on the mantelpiece, with which they paid the old man's debts, and buried him decently; and so Edmond's father died, as he had lived, without doing harm to any one
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15, ask the porter for the key of the room on the fifth floor, enter the apartment, take from the corner of the mantelpiece a purse netted in red silk, and give it to your father
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15, on the corner of a mantelpiece in a small
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The mantelpiece was of wood painted black and ornamented with jagged streaks of red and yellow, which were supposed to give it the appearance of marble
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At one end was a small range with an oven and a boiler, and a high mantelpiece painted black
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during the day a white-shaded lamp stood as the sole ornament of the mantelpiece
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Hynes leaned against the mantelpiece and asked:
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mantelpiece with the aid of his shoulders, made ready to leave
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After having drank each placed his bottle on the mantelpiece within hand's reach and drew in a long breath of satisfaction
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He had not intended to stay a moment because concerts and artistes bored him considerably but he remained leaning against the mantelpiece
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On the mantelpiece of this little office a little leaden battalion of canisters was drawn up and on the table before the window stood four or five china bowls which were usually half full of a black liquid
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mantelpiece, and withdrew, remarking that they would not need her assistance
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He was so kind and holy and often and often she thought and thought could she work a ruched teacosy with embroidered floral design for him as a present or a clock but they had a clock she noticed on the mantelpiece white and gold with a canarybird that came out of a little house to tell the time the day she went there about the flowers for the forty hours' adoration because it was hard to know what sort of a present to give or perhaps an album of illuminated views of Dublin or some place
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The clock on the mantelpiece in the priest's house cooed where Canon O'Hanlon and Father Conroy and the reverend John Hughes S
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There was a clock on the middle of the mantelpiece, with a picture of a town painted on the bottom half of the glass front, and a round place in the middle of it for the sun, and you could see the pendulum swinging behind it
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Kitty Ricketts, a bony pallid whore in navy costume, doeskin gloves rolled back from a coral wristlet, a chain purse in her hand, sits perched on the edge of the table swinging her leg and glancing at herself in the gilt mirror over the mantelpiece
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What homothetic objects, other than the candlestick, stood on the mantelpiece?
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'What hour?' asked the Rat uneasily, glancing at the clock on the mantelpiece
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One of these he placed in his hall in the house at Kennington Road, and the other on the mantelpiece of the surgery at Lower Brixton
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When I entered this room I found the window wide open, and I at once observed that the bust was gone from the mantelpiece
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it, but I could see some framed group photographs above the mantelpiece, and I could have sworn they were English public school or college
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There in that pleasant dining-room, with etchings on the walls, and a picture of an old lady in a bib above the mantelpiece, I could see nothing to connect them with the moorland desperadoes
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On the left was a large, deep fireplace, with a massive, over-hanging oak mantelpiece
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I see that these candles on the mantelpiece have been lighted
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Then, to my astonishment, Holmes climbed up on to the massive mantelpiece
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He found Holmes leaning languidly against the mantelpiece, resigned and patient, endeavouring to conceal his irrepressible yawns
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It was a cosey, well-furnished apartment, with two candles burning upon the table and two upon the mantelpiece
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But with me there is a limit, and when I find a man who keeps his cigars in the coal-scuttle, his tobacco in the toe end of a Persian slipper, and his unanswered correspondence transfixed by a jack-knife into the very centre of his wooden mantelpiece, then I begin to give myself virtuous airs
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mantelpiece as he rose was that of an artist rather than of a surgeon
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The bed, the carpet, the chairs the mantelpiece, the dead body, and the rope were each in turn examined, until at last he professed himself satisfied, and with my aid and that of the inspector cut down the wretched object and laid it reverently under a sheet
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I will take this photograph of Blessington, which I see upon the mantelpiece, as it may help me in my inquiries
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What would he not give for one such head to place between the two crossed oars above the mantelpiece in his snuggery at the Albany! And yet his reason held him in, for all our exploration of the wonders of this unknown land depended upon our presence being concealed from its inhabitants
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He said, 'I give you five minutes to spare your blushes! Here,' he said, taking a key from the little bag of life and death, 'here is the little bronze key that opens the two ebony caskets on the mantelpiece in the LouisPhilippe room
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wooden bedstead, the waxed mahogany chairs, the chest of drawers, those brasses, the little square antimacassars carefully placed on the backs of the chairs, the clock on the mantelpiece and the harmlesslooking ebony caskets at either end, lastly, the whatnot filled with shells, with red pin-cushions, with mother-of-pearl boats and an enormous ostrich-egg, the whole discreetly lighted by a shaded lamp standing on a
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Erik returned with some little bottles which he placed on the mantelpiece
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Then he left, his car screeching down away from the house, and Patty fetched the shotgun, loaded it, and set it atop the mantelpiece with a scattering of shells
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Patty’s shotgun, that she’d placed so carefully on the front-room mantelpiece, where the girls couldn’t reach it
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In the corner behind the door, shining hob-nailed shoes stood in a row under the slab of the washstand, near a bottle of oil with a feather stuck in its mouth; a Matthieu Laensberg lay on the dusty mantelpiece amid gunflints, candle-ends , and bits of amadou
