escritoire

• "Will you have the courage to burn family relics?--Aunt Maria's uncomfortable ottoman, Aunt Elizabeth's escritoire, which is too small to write at, and Aunt Anne's firescreen with strawberries worked in bead-work Oh, I know them all," Margaret said. —  There was a King in Egypt
• I used to peep in at the pretty room sometimes as I went up to bed; there were few notes written at the inlaid escritoire, and the handsomely-bound books were never taken down from the shelves. —  Uncle Max
• But she had been bravely happy all the time Pretty books filled a shelf above her escritoire, and between the candlesticks was a photograph in a filigree silver frame. —  Prose Fancies
• Then he sat himself in his large arm-chair before his escritoire, and began transacting his affairs with the usual But where is that idiot, that dolt, that sluggard, that snail, with my mail?" —  Balcony Stories
• He sat down at the escritoire, and, taking up a gilt pen with a ridiculous silk tassel, began a letter to the same person to whom that day he had already dispatched a missive; but this time it was not so brief: the day of brilliant dies and illuminated addresses had not as yet set in, so he wrote at the top of the little scented sheet, in a bold free hand, the word Crompton! —  Bred in the Bone

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