The medium was leaning with her elbow on the mantel piece, austere and aloof.

He grasped the mantel piece, pulled it toward him.

The interior of the house features extensive use of a vernacular Greek Revival-style of woodworking, particularly in the mantel pieces.

It was hard to see in the dimness, but tonight someone had put two tapered candles on the mantel piece, each encased in crystal, so they glimmered like jewels.

A spill vase was usually kept on the mantel piece and was filled with rolled paper tapers or very thin wood sticks, called spill.

Over the mottled beige tiled mantel piece, with its brass jar filled with coloured spills, was a glass case of military cap badges mounted in wooden frames.

No ornately carved mantel pieces.

Getting up, she wandered across to the mantel piece, displaced one or two of the ornaments and moved a vase of Michaelmas daisies from its position in the middle of a table, to the extreme corner of the mantelpiece.

To his way of thinking they were just dust collectors to be placed on a mantel piece and be admired for their craftsmanship.

She's ain't on the mantel piece.