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Maybe that's because the only thing typically found on my desk is a computer.— doggdot.us
In a drawer of the desk was an automatic pistol and a box of cartridges.— Blacksheep! Blacksheep!
In front of the desk is a group of three gents, one of 'em not over fifty or so; but when I edges up close enough to hear what the debate is about, I finds it has something to do with a scheme for revivin' Italian opera in Boston, and I backs off so sudden I almost bumps into a hook-beaked old dame who is waddlin' up to the letter-box Sorry," says I.— The House of Torchy
As he stood up he yawned and wrinkled his fat face a good deal; but the wrinkles died down into a smile which gave him a meek and mild appearance, the said smile being doubled directly after by his taking a little round shaving-glass out of his desk, propping it up by means of a contrivance behind, and then, by the help of a pocket-comb, proceeding to rearrange his hair, which, from the resistance offered, appeared to be full of knots and kinks The last to leave his desk was a manly-looking young fellow who appeared to be twenty, but who possessed documentary evidence that he was only eighteen.— A Dash from Diamond City
Upon the top of the desk were the two skulls which had first attracted Scott's attention, and which he now regarded rather curiously.— That Mainwaring Affair

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