The library, though not the most cheerful room I have ever seen, still, for a man's house, is not so bad--books all around from floor to ceiling, with the overflow in piles on floor and table and mantelpiece; half a dozen abysmal leather chairs and a rug or so, with another black marble mantelpiece, but this time containing a crackling wood fire. By way of bric-a-brac, he has a stuffed pelican and a crane with a frog in its mouth, also a raccoon sitting on a log, and a varnished tarpon. A faint suggestion of iodoform floats in the air.英文原著 · 《Dear Enemy》
- Water all right again in the cistern. James, of Sutton, called in the afternoon. She and Carrie draped the mantelpiece in the drawing-room, and put little toy spiders, frogs and beetles all over it, as Mrs. James says it's quite the fashion. It was Mrs. James' suggestion, and of course Carrie always does what Mrs. James suggests. For my part, I preferred the mantelpiece as it was; but there, I'm a plain man, and don't pretend to be in the fashion.英文原著 · 《The Diary of a Nobody》
A heap of frightful sweepings replaces the heaps of cinders. No looking glass on the mantelpiece, but a picture of varnished canvas representing a nude negro at the knees of a white woman in a decollet��e ball dress in an arbour. Opposite the mantelpiece, a man's cap and a woman's bonnet hang from nails on either side of a cracked mirror.英文原著 · 《The Memoirs of Victor Hugo》
I shall see to it."
Trent swung him out of the way - a single contemptuous turn of the wrist, and Da Souza reeled against the mantelpiece. He held out his hand to Monty and they left the room together.英文原著 · 《A Millionaire of Yesterday》
ARBUTHNOT. Later on, later on. [Exeunt HESTER and GERALD. ARBUTHNOT goes towards door L.C. Stops at looking-glass over mantelpiece and looks into it. Enter ALICE R.C.]英文原著 · 《A Woman of No Importance》
But she could see that he was tired; so she told him it was too important a matter to start upon so late. She would talk about herself to-morrow. It would be Sunday. "Do you still go to the chapel?" she asked him a little hesitatingly. "Yes," he answered. "One lives by habit."
"It is the only Temple I know," he continued after a moment. "Perhaps God, one day, will find me there."
He rose and lit the gas, and a letter on the mantelpiece caught his eye. "Have you heard from Arthur?" he asked, suddenly turning to her.英文原著 · 《All Roads Lead to Calvary》
Okay, now holding sides of hearth in position, Lower mantelpiece assembly onto top tabs.美剧 · 《The Big Bang Theory》