MANTELPIECE

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Traducere în limba română

mantelpiece substantiv

cămin; poliţă deasupra căminului.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

As he did so I caught a glimpse of his face in the mirror over the mantelpiece.

(His Last Bow, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

When I entered this room I found the window wide open, and I at once observed that the bust was gone from the mantelpiece.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

His manner was nervous and shy, like that of a sensitive gentleman, and the thin white hand which he laid on the mantelpiece as he rose was that of an artist rather than of a surgeon.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

This parlour looked gloomy: a neglected handful of fire burnt low in the grate; and, leaning over it, with his head supported against the high, old-fashioned mantelpiece, appeared the blind tenant of the room.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

I'll right it up in two minutes, for it only needs to have the hearth brushed, so—and the things made straight on the mantelpiece, so—and the books put here, and the bottles there, and your sofa turned from the light, and the pillows plumped up a bit.

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

I observed the very instant that I entered the room that you have a portrait group of three ladies upon the mantelpiece, one of whom is undoubtedly yourself, while the others are so exceedingly like you that there could be no doubt of the relationship.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

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