The fireplace mantel is carved walnut with polished brass andirons.
There was a white birch fireplace screened by a brass curtain with heavy brass andirons.
A few of the DeWints' possessions remain, including a flintlock rifle, a table, a kitchen cabinet and a pair of brass andirons.
On the hearth of the big river-rock fireplace were gleaming brass andirons, and on the mantel was an old clock with two bronze stags rearing up on their hind legs.
She shuffled onto the floor-level flagstone hearth and then to the right, past the firebox and the brass andiron, past the deep mantel.
And then to return to the ticking clock and the brass andirons and the playing cards laid out upon the table.
In the appropriate months a fake fire glowed within, casting flickering lights upon a prodigious pair of brass andirons.
Silk took an interest in brass andirons.
Two red Victorian sofas set at a welcoming angle flanked the fireplace with its polished brass andirons and tools.
The great brass andirons on the wide hearth stood like sentinels proclaiming and guarding the dignity of the family.