Which preposition to use with mantelpiece

in Occurrences 14%

He walked past her and leaned against the mantelpiece in the pose of easy familiarity which he had maintained during the first portion of their interview.

of Occurrences 8%

If the inmates be courteous, and good liquors flow like the conduits at an old coronation, if they can talk sensibly and feel properly, I have no need to stand staring upon the gilded looking-glass (that strained my friend's purse-strings in the purchase), nor his five-shilling print over the mantelpiece of old Nabbs the carrier (which only betrays his false taste).

with Occurrences 8%

It sits on the mantelpiece with some layers of paper under one corner where the mantel is warped.

for Occurrences 3%

She had risen to her feet and was gripping the mantelpiece for support.

along Occurrences 1%

Well, she's gone off since, that's all; but I wonder at old Mr. TEAK letting it go out of the family, instead of putting it on his mantelpiece along with the lustres and the two chiny dogs.

on Occurrences 1%

It passed out of sight together with the portion of the marble mantelpiece on which it rested.

over Occurrences 1%

Firstly: On the mantelpiece over the old stove I saw a collection of many kinds of regimental badges, with a quantity of English magazines.

from Occurrences 1%

"You know the secret of the cupboard," said he, laughing, "and must be prepared for other mysteries"; and he opened a wardrobe, which he usually kept locked, but from which he now took out two or three dresses and wigs of different colours, and a couple of swords, a military coat and cloak, and a farmer's smock, and placed them in the large hole over the mantelpiece from which the papers had been taken.

AT Occurrences 1%

COURTYARD GATES.TOMB OF COLONEL WILLIAM BYRD THE DRAWING-ROOM MANTELPIECE AT WESTOVER TOMBS IN THE OLD WESTOVER CHURCHYARD (In the foreground is the tomb of Evelyn Byrd) A TRAPPER'S HOME BY THE RIVER BANK."OFTEN ...

before Occurrences 1%

Half-mechanically he reached out and took her tea-cup, setting it down on the mantelpiece before her.

beside Occurrences 1%

He was to have no tête-à-tête, however, for Jimmy Danvers who felt it was his turn to say something to the coming bride came now, and leant upon the mantelpiece beside them.

Which preposition to use with  mantelpiece