6 Verbs to Use for the Word mantelpiece

Patricia looked in vain for her grandiose plush-covered chairs, her immaculate "tidies," and the proud yellow lambrequin, embroidered in high relief with white gardenias, which had formerly adorned the mantelpiece.

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

"I like flowers of many kinds if the colors are harmoniously arranged, and I like a mantelpiece banked with the kind of flowers that give you pleasure when you see them in masses in the garden or the greenhouse.

" At night I would frequently sally forth to a cracked up village behind, and perhaps procure half a mantelpiece and an old clog to stoke our "furnace" with.

I might have been put outby half-a-dozenbut I'd have taken the mantelpiece and a few other things with me.

The young man sat down, leaning back in his chair, and tapped the marble mantelpiece with his idle fingers.

6 Verbs to Use for the Word  mantelpiece