10 BÜCHER, DIE MIT «MANTELTREE» IM ZUSAMMENHANG STEHEN
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The Power of Words: Essays in Lexicography, Lexicology and ...
A piece of timber or stone supporting the masonry above a fireplace; =
MANTELTREE n. 1. Obs. Recorded earliest in mantel-stone, sense 3. b. An
ornamental structure of wood, marble, etc., above and around a fireplace; the
manteltree of a ...
Graham D. Caie, Carole Hough, Irené Wotherspoon, 2006
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The Linguistics of Speech
... chimney box 1 mantel columns 1 chimneypiece 5 chimney breast 1
mantelstone 1 mantels 5 lambrequin 2 manteltree 1 NA 5 lamp shelf 2 manteltree
shelf 1 clock 4 little shelf 2 the shelf 1 fireboards 4 mantelboards 2 tussock 1
mantelpieces ...
William A. Kretzschmar, 2009
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Illustrated Dictionary of Historic Architecture
The beam or arch which serves as a support for the masonry above a fireplace;
also called a manteltree. 2. All the work or facing around a fireplace. 3. A
mantelshelf. mantelpiece 1. The fittings and decorative elements of a mantel,
including ...
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Roots of Home: Our Journey to a New Old House
A stout oak manteltree beam spans the fireplace to support the stone chimney.
Lest we think that the house walls are made of lightweight studs, Sunderland has
left exposed the corner posts and beams of the original timber frame. Heavy oak
...
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An illustrated glossary of early southern architecture and ...
MANTELTREE 223 1692 John Custis bequeathed to his grandson "the great
Dutch presse and gilded lookeing glasse in the dineing roome of my mansion
house Arlington." Northampton Co.. Va., Court Order and Will Book 1689-1698.
Carl Lounsbury, Vanessa Elizabeth Patrick, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, 1994
Writhing with dragons and shapes of Hell Grinning and stony and leering is he —
The little god on my manteltree. Pot-bellied, slant eyed, sly old mouth This
powerful god of the Eastern South Far-fetched, ferried from lands over sea My
little ...
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Description of the Cityhouse of Amsterdam, with an ...
Theflornishes and other ornaments ' of the chimneyzare; supporz ted by' sour
marble pillars, two round and two flat. r'lihe freeseof the Manteltree is - adztzggd
with 1smaldlz &epresenz ti _,- , 'tri Up) _ . in: oximm Rxhgman Coniiillg.n si '* a: ...
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Lancashire: Its Puritanism and Nonconformity
... over the manteltree, a pack of new cards, nobody being there, I opened them
and took out the four knaves and burnt them, and laid them together again.“ So
for Want of such knaves his gaming was marred, and never did he play in my ...
She hung blue and white linen curtains at the windows and a red-fringed
chimney cloth over the manteltree and polished the old Dutch andirons until the
brass gleamed. Her sweet-gum kas was stocked with linen sheets and damask ...
Firth Haring Fabend, 2008
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Uncle Tom's Cabin, Or, Life Among the Lowly ; The Minister's ...
... when I opened my eyes, and saw the roses and asparagus-bushes on the
manteltree-piece, I had to ask myself, 'Where have I been?' Oh, Miss Scudder,
her afflictions have been sanctified to her! — and really, when I see her going on
so, ...
Harriet Beecher Stowe, 1982
