cabinet of

• “It was here that he began that exquisite statue of a Cupid that passed for an antique, and found its way into the cabinet of the Duchess of Mantua.”

  Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Painters

• “He leant forward over his knees for a moment, then pushed himself upright and moved across the room to an ancient, worm-eaten cabinet of time-blackened wood.”

  O Jerusalem

• “I was not present at their interview, being at that moment occupied in the little cabinet of the Rue Chantereine.”

  The Memoirs of Napoleon

• “During the administration of our first President, his cabinet of four members was equally divided by as marked an opposition of principle as monarchism and republicanism could bring into conflict.”

  Letters

• ““Celebration time,” he announces and walks toward a safe in the corner of the room, an intimidating-looking cabinet of steel, a perfect place for top official secrets.”

  Simon & Schuster: A Mountain of Crumbs

• “After my return to this habitation, I amused myself in decorating the terrace, which was already shaded by two rows of linden trees; I added two others to make a cabinet of verdure, and placed in it a table and stone benches: I surrounded it with lilies, syringa and woodbines, and had a beautiful border of flowers parallel with the two rows of trees.”

  The Confessions of J J Rousseau

• “But what your methods, so plausible in effect, certainly do show is how easy it may be to confabulate an explanation that goes no deeper than a phrenological reading of cranial bumps or than a séance in the cabinet of a palmist.”

  The Journal of Abnormal Psychology

• “With a connoisseur's envy, the novelist describes to Eve the interior, the elegantly furnished dining-room in carved oak, the café-au-lait/upholstered drawing-room, with its superb Chinese vases of fragrant flowers, its cabinet of curiosities, its Delacroix pictures, its rosewood piano, and the portrait of the authoress by Calamatta.”

  Balzac

• “This is not altogether the fault of the general, for the emperor insists on retaining absolute control of the army in his own hands, and of exercising its command in every particular, no appointment being made without his initiative and sanction, while everything is done through Count Hahnke as supreme head of the military cabinet of his majesty.”

  The Secret Memoirs of the Courts of Europe

• “He alleged that the First Consul, Bonaparte, in authorising Baudin's expedition, had given to it a scientific semblance with the object of disguising its real intent from the Governments of Europe, and especially from the cabinet of Great Britain.”

  The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders

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