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The revelation which I had experienced put me in such high spirits at the glorious prospects before me that I could not think of going to bed when eleven o'clock sounded from the mantel-tree.

The Love Story of Abner Stone Edwin Carlile Litsey 1922

"You can take that piece in the candlestick on the mantel-tree piece, if it's long enough."

Freaks of Fortune or, Half Round the World Oliver Optic 1859

I opened a book; touched the instrument; surveyed the vases on the mantel-tree; the figures on the hangings, and the print of Apollo and the Sibyl, taken from Salvator, and hung over the chimney.

Arthur Mervyn Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 Charles Brockden Brown 1790

She has left to us more than one clear, perfect picture of these formal little routs in the great low-raftered chamber, softly alight with candles on mantel-tree and in sconces; with Lucinda, the black maid, "shrilly piping;" and rows of demure little girls of Boston Brahmin blood, in high rolls and feathers, discreetly partaking of hot and cold punch, and soberly walking and curtsying through the minuet; fantastic in costume, but proper and seemly in demeanor, models of correct deportment as were their elegant mammas.

Diary of Anna Green Winslow A Boston School Girl of 1771 Anna Green Winslow 1881

How clear the picture: can you not see it -- the low raftered chamber softly alight with candles on mantel-tree and in sconces; the two fiddles soberly squeaking: the rows of demure little Boston maids, all of New England Brahmin blood, in high rolls, with nodding plumes and sparkling combs, with ruffles and mitts, little miniatures of their elegant mammas, soberly walking and curtseying through the stately minuet "with no rudeness I can assure you;" and discreetly partaking of hot and cold punch afterward.

Customs and Fashions in Old New England Alice Morse Earle 1881