Emily glanced up at her friend as if she caught a new tone in her voice, then turned to the fire again with a wise little nod, as if confiding some secret to the reflection of herself in the bright brass andiron.
"Kitty's Class Day And Other Stories"
Louisa M. Alcott
A table, a chair, or an andiron, manifesting all the usual signs of indwelling vitality, consciousness, intelligence, self-willed action, and of possessing animal senses and capacities, testifies to its being operated upon by some unseen intelligence more convincingly than can the lips of the wisest and truest man the world contains testify to any fact whatsoever which seems supernatural.
"Witchcraft of New England Explained by Modern Spiritualism"
Allen Putnam
The Squire rapped out his pipe ashes against an andiron.
"When Egypt Went Broke"
Holman Day