Sentence examples for mantel off from inspiring English sources

Instead, he handed the contractor $5, pried the mantel off the wall with a crowbar, and had it shipped to his home at 1332 Bergen Street in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, and installed around his own hearth.

The previous owner made an unsuccessful stab at repairing the wall over the fireplace, "so I started probing and now I have half of the plaster over the mantel ripped off," he said.

Mantel beat off competition from James Meek's The Heart Broke In and Stephen May's Life! Death!

Taking up where her previous novel, "Wolf Hall," left off, Mantel makes the story of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn newly fascinating and suspenseful.

Taking up where her previous novel, "Wolf Hall," left off, Mantel makes the seemingly worn-out story of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn newly fascinating and suspenseful.

The nation's booksellers will heave a sigh of relief if Mantel carries it off for a second time, but that would be a remarkable outcome.

The mantel of what exactly?

In high school I found a teenage version of mantel jumping by leaping off high rocky cliffs with my friends into the ocean below.

Mantel would never have kicked off that way.

Thomas Cromwell has seen off Robert Langdon after Hilary Mantel's Booker prize win on Tuesday night sent her novel Wolf Hall soaring ahead of Dan Brown in Amazon's bestseller charts.

Far from being a problem, he said, a nonworking fireplace can enhance the price of your home, particularly if it is set off with an attractive mantel.