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  • But like the Nobel committee in Stockholm, touts also had their eyes on the Swedish poet Tomas Tranströmer, a hometown favorite with a mantel's worth of Scandinavian literary prizes, who has been on critics' Nobel shortlists for almost two decades.

    Poetry Defeats Politics Michael Moynihan 2011

  • And it touched the mantel's splendor, where the wax fruit used to be,

    Cape Cod Ballads, and Other Verse Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907

  • The mantel's chastely severe outline was ingloriously veiled behind some pert drapery drawn rakishly askew like the sashes of the Amazonian ballet.

    The Four Million O. Henry 1886

  • The colonel leaned back against the mantel's edge as if for support.

    Kennedy Square Francis Hopkinson Smith 1876

  • Rules of thumb dictate, for example, that a mantel's height should be based on objects at eye level.

    chicagotribune.com - News 2011

  • The set of red candles in their crystal candlesticks formed a desirable trio to anchor the mantel's right side when Twigger-Shaw borrowed a brass and bell glass candleholder from the living room.

    unknown title 2009

  • My main hang-up with upholstered headboards is their tendency to appear too fussy and overdone, so I decided to leave most of the mantel's worn original finish untouched for a more casual look.

    Apartment Therapy Main 2009

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