Crossword-Solution: MANTLEPIECES 12 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 18

The red berries were just as abundant on the holly, and he and Maggie had dressed all the windows and mantlepieces and picture-frames on Christmas eve with as much taste as ever, wedding the thick-set scarlet clusters with branches of the black-berried ivy.

The stems of encrinites, or "stone-lilies," corals, brachiopods (_e.g._ _Productus_, _Orthis_, etc.), and Mollusca, including some Cephalopods, like _Goniatites_ and the straight Nautilus (_Orthoceras_), with fish teeth, etc., go to compose this tough, bluish-grey limestone which is largely quarried for marble mantlepieces, etc.

The mantlepieces were so preposterously high that not even a giant could have sat at the fireplace and put his feet on them.

And if they had held clocks, as mantlepieces do, a telescope would have been necessary to discern the hour.

The staircase, the iron gate—brought from Lochindorb—the great baronial kitchen, partly hewn out of the rock, the massive tower walls, the ample stone mantlepieces, carved with quaint devices, the old furniture, and particularly the old mirrors and tapestry, carry one back many a long year into the social life of the past.