I had only just time to shove the jug behind the photograph of Uncle Tom on the mantelpiece before the door opened and in came Gussie, curveting like a circus horse.

The jug was standing on the mantelpiece, for all eyes to behold.

Mr. Clarkson took some letters from the mantelpiece and held them up.

He closed the door and, putting the wine and a couple of glasses on the mantelpiece, took a chair by Mr. Culpepper and prepared to spend the evening.

" He hung his cap on a vase on the mantelpiece that reeled under the shock, and, dropping into his chair again, crossed his legs and eyed her sternly.

Then she went back into the parlour, and standing before the mantelpiece, looked long and earnestly into the mirror.

Yes, I am convinced of it; it was that bunch of yellow ragwort on the mantelpiece in my bedroom.

At last, just as it touched the picture of the Good Shepherd which hung over the mantelpiece, I heard my aunt snoring in her room, and knew that I was free.

A handsome timepiece and a quartette of begilt candelabra decked the white marble mantelpiece, and were duplicated in the large pier glass.

Following the direction of his eyes, he saw that he was gazing with much satisfaction at a photograph of Miss Nugent which graced the mantelpiece.

The steward, with a pitiable look of anxiety on his pallid features, was leaning awkwardly against the mantelpiece, and opposite him Mrs. Silk sat in an easy-chair, dissolved in tears.

she said presently, pointing to a conspicuous portrait of a young man on the mantelpiece.

Everything is Louis XV. and Louis XVI., but it doesn't go so well in the saloon as it might, because the panelling is old oak, with the Foljambe coats of arms still all round the frieze, and over the mantelpiece, which is Elizabethan.

She had photographs of all three on the mantelpiece, in silver frames,that of her aunt standing in the middle, and one of the men on either side.

One hand rested on the mantelpiece, with the other she touched the artificial gardenia in her bodice.

He did not move, and she came and stood near him, leaning her elbows upon the mantelpiece and turning to him.

Her eyes turned to the old warm-toned furniture beneath the pictures, and to her own idle image in the mirror above the mantelpiece.

These facts disposed her favourably toward her husband, and deepened the sense of well-being with whichaccording to her invariable habitshe walked up to the mirror above the mantelpiece and studied the image it reflected.

He wiped his sweating brow, tingeing it with a still deeper black, and, catching sight of himself in a servant's looking-glass over the mantelpiece, he said, "There is no doubt man was intended by nature to be a coloured race.

But those in the Sultan's harem of Rabat are remarkable for the fact that, while designed on current European models, they are proportioned in size to the Imperial dignity, so that a Dutch "grandfather" becomes a wardrobe, and the box-clock of the European mantelpiece a cupboard that has to be set on the floor.

It was a comfortable little place, with pictures on the walls and antimacassars on all the chairs, and a row of pink vases on the mantelpiece.

"I dreamt I saw one on your mantelpiece, I s'pose.

She stuck it up on the mantelpiece, and the things she said about Ginger's kindness and generosity made Peter Russet spend good money that he wanted for 'imself on a painted flower-pot next evening.

The noisy little clock on the mantelpiece announced the fact, and, by its frantic ticking, seemed as anxious as I to get the consultation hours over.

It used to stand on the mantelpiece in his old rooms in Jermyn Street.