Word: mantels
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...mantel bed, just the thing for college rooms can be obtained for ten dollars and upwards; at Paine's furniture manufactory, 48 Canal street, Boston. Send for circular...
...mantel bed, just the thing for college rooms can be obtained for ten dollars and upwards; at Pame's furniture manufactory, 48 Canal street, Boston. Send for circular...
...feet long by 3 1/2 feet wide, are placed at regular intervals over the hall. Each table is to be provided with an adjustable standard, to facilitate the use of reference books. At the north end of the room is a large brick fire-place with carved mantel. The windows are small, but arranged in such a manner that the light admitted is just where it is most needed. A railing separates the reading room from the librarian's room, which will be fitted with all the modern appliances now in ure among librarians to secure the quick delivery...
...before him in the morning, they invariably use his wash-rag, and the consequence is that Phillpot's heart leaps for joy whenever he visits strangers and has a wash-rag all to himself; and then Phillpot has been strongly impressed by the portrait of Mrs. Butterfield over the mantel-piece in the spare-room and had taken pains to speak of it in the hearing of Mrs. Butterfield, who had taken more than usual pains with her saleratus biscuits and coffee, and the Rev. Jenkyns Phillpot had been more than usually "thankful for what we are about to receive...
...portrait of Mrs. Butterfield and her younger brother, at the respective ages of ten and six, hangs over the mantel-piece. Mrs. Butterfield is represented in low neck and short sleeves, with one hand sliding from her brother's shoulder, and the other, abnormally developed, hanging almost to the hem of her skirt. Both figures look unsteady and unhappy, as though they had been trying to see which could hold its breath longest and were both about ready to give...