mantelpiece• The china money jar on the kitchenmantelpiece that contained their emergency funds lay shattered and empty on the floor.• Through the slate-floored living-room, with its exposedbeams, open grate and massive heart-of-oak mantelpiece, was the kitchen.• Evans had gone through into the lounge and was standing leaning against the mantelpiece in the classicpose of grief.• Silvercups - golfing trophies - crammed the mantelpiece over a hugearchedbrick fireplace.• She emptied the dustpan and searched for something else to do, straightening the Christmas cards on the mantelpiece as she passed.• He noticed the picture frames on the mantelpiece had been turned to the wall.• On the mantelpiece she displayedphotographs of dead people, propped up in their coffins, looking glum.• On the mantelpiece there was a small lamp with a crimsonshade and I switched it on.