Meanings of high mantelpiece in English

Jervaise turned round and leaned his forehead against the high mantelpiece.

She did too, her hands pressed against the huge high mantelpiece.

He was leaning against the high mantelpiece, and his face was hidden from her.

He was gripping the high mantelpiece with both hands.

There was the same high mantelpiece, rather less narrow, and the same little cupboard let into the massive chimney.

At one end was a small range with an oven and a boiler, and a high mantelpiece painted black.

He propped himself against the high mantelpiece and stared morosely out before him to the pine-clad slopes of the park.

I came first into the kitchen, where was a large fireplace blackened with the smoke of long-dead fires, and a narrow, high mantelpiece.

Ralph stood there and listened, his head pressed against the high mantelpiece, and his fingers stretching and closing mechanically to supple the stiffened joints.

"Oh." She beat on the high mantelpiece with her palms, ignoring the elegant plasterwork and etched mirror above it.

"The bust of General de Prerolles, no doubt?" he added, inquiringly, scrutinizing a marble statuette placed on the high mantelpiece.