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?”

  There was a King in Egypt

• “I was awakened one night from a sound sleep by a noise in my chamber, and starting up in affright, I beheld by the light of a lamp which was burning near the bed, a boy in the act of forcing open my escritoire, with a small instrument which caused the noise.”

  City Crimes or Life in New York and Boston

• “After a moment's consultation with her daughter, Mrs. Franklin left the room to get the money from her escritoire.”

  City Crimes or Life in New York and Boston

• “Nothing had been disturbed -- the old cabinet with the lions 'heads stood opposite the window; the little escritoire, behind which he had crouched on the fatal night, was pushed back against the wall; the chairs, the tables, thick with dust, stood just as they had been standing for many years.”

  The Inn at the Red Oak

• “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, withn my mail?”

  Balcony Stories

• “The floor, the chairs--not common ones but of the early Queen Anne fashion with leathern seats -- an old escritoire, were strewn with papers.”

  Madame Flirt A Romance of 'The Beggar's Opera'

• “She rose, and went hunting in a littered sort of escritoire in a corner of the room.”

  Fictionaut: Movie Night

• “She put down her cigarette, rose, and went to an escritoire against the wall.”

  Fictionaut: Isabelle

• “Dela garde watched her seat herself at the little escritoire in the corner, and draw a sheaf of crested paper towards her.”

  Fictionaut: Gatlinburg

• “She had her heart set on that Louis Seize escritoire -- but she'll have to make do without it.”

  Erica Jong: A Busted Father Writes to His Kids

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