mantel-clock

Slow seconds ticked past on the antique mantel-clock.

Jason Stoddard, Strange and Happy » Blog Archive » Eternal Franchise, 1.3 of 31.1 2009

"One! two!" chimed the mantel-clock, and we parted for the night, while I lay awake a long time musing upon the "Sambo" of my imagination and the "Sambo" of the experiences of Captain S----.

Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, August, 1878 Various

Commodore Nutt is to M. Bihin in this respect as a little, fast-ticking mantel-clock is to an old-fashioned, solemn-clicking, upright time-piece.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 67, May, 1863 Various

I was base enough to take out my watch, a very fine Poitevin, and make an advertisement of that pledge under pretence of comparing time with the mantel-clock.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 33, December, 1873 Various

I slept on the floor of the house, but the night was so bitter cold that I got up by the fire several times, and when it burned low I rekindled it with an old mantel-clock and the wreck of a bedstead which stood in a corner of the room -- the only act of vandalism that I recall done by myself personally during the war.

Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals David Widger

I sprang to the fireplace, hoping that, against my orders, someone had started the mantel-clock.

The Secret of the Night Gaston Leroux 1897

"I will not keep his lordship waiting," said the doctor, quietly going on with his tying; and Aunt Hannah toddled back to look at the drawing-room mantel-clock.

The Weathercock Being the Adventures of a Boy with a Bias George Manville Fenn 1870

I slept on the floor of the house, but the night was so bitter cold that I got up by the fire several times, and when it burned low I rekindled it with an old mantel-clock and the wreck of a bedstead which stood in a corner of the room -- the only act of vandalism that I recall done by myself personally during the war.

Memoirs of Gen. William T. Sherman — Volume 2 1855

I slept on the floor of the house, but the night was so bitter cold that I got up by the fire several times, and when it burned low I rekindled it with an old mantel-clock and the wreck of a bedstead which stood in a corner of the room -- the only act of vandalism that I recall done by myself personally during the war.

The Memoirs of General W. T. Sherman, Volume II., Part 4 1855

I slept on the floor of the house, but the night was so bitter cold that I got up by the fire several times, and when it burned low I rekindled it with an old mantel-clock and the wreck of a bedstead which stood in a corner of the room -- the only act of vandalism that I recall done by myself personally during the war.

Memoirs of Gen. William T. Sherman — Complete 1855