Sentence examples for mantel back from inspiring English sources

"He told her he was going to hold it for ransom and that she wouldn't get it back unless she put the mantel back up," she said.

Take shelter if you must behind David Stockman, but it is time to stand up and take the ideological mantel back from the tax phobic.

Wolf Hall reportedly made £5.4m after it won the Booker in 2009, and sales of Mantel's back catalogue rose by 900%.

That Mantel won for back-to-back novels from the same trilogy suggests a difficulty in seeing beyond the well-known to find the strange voices once celebrated by the Booker.

He gave the saloon a life-sized portrait of himself, which hangs over the mantel in the back room.

In the meantime, all credit to the very literary neo-folk band Mumford & Sons, whose allusive lyrics draw on texts from Mantel and Steinbeck back to Homer's Odyssey.

Mantel could be back in the frame yet again in 2015, when the third and final instalment of her Cromwell trilogy, The Mirror and the Light, is due to hit the shelves.

My wife, Laura, and I own a 1,000-acre 1,000-acrentation, and the main house has several formeraces, including some with hand-carved mantels that date back to 1905.

Fourth Estate; £18.99 With a 21st-century sense of evil mixed with irony, Ms Mantel takes us right back into the 16th-century mind.

The house was decorated with soaring marble mantels and high-back chairs with gargoyles on their arms and tapestried upholstery.

We put the box back on the mantel and raised our glasses.