night-table

Some of the most memorable images, though, are the most fleeting: curtains curving gently in a breeze; a newborn's tiny foot surrounded by a father's hand; a mother's lyrical dance of joy; a father switching off the night-table light in his young son's bedroom.

A Towering 'Tree,' Out on a Limb Joe Morgenstern 2011

I was lying in my bed with the night-table lamp still on.

Promise Me Richard Paul Evans 2010

Once the police had done their paperwork and the snake ring had come home again, Mummy put him in his red velvet ring box, snapped the lid shut on his emerald eyes, and tucked him in the very back of her night-table drawer.

Land Divers Messud, Claire 2009

What are two things on your night-table (or next to your bed)?

TGIF - SciFiChick.com 2006

What are two things on your night-table (or next to your bed)?

2006 October - SciFiChick.com 2006

A gaunt, painted wooden bedstead, of the kind seen in school dormitories, a night-table, picked up cheaply somewhere, and a couple of horsehair armchairs, filled the further end of the room.

A Distinguished Provincial at Paris 2007

What are two things on your night-table or next to your bed?

Friday Memes 2006

What are two things on your night-table or next to your bed?

Archive 2006-10-01 2006

I mean when you come at your regular hour into the sickroom where you have watched for months and find the medicine-bottles all gone, the night-table removed, the bed stripped…the room cold, stark, vacant—& you catch your breath & realize what has happened.

Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005

I mean when you come at your regular hour into the sickroom where you have watched for months and find the medicine-bottles all gone, the night-table removed, the bed stripped…the room cold, stark, vacant—& you catch your breath & realize what has happened.

Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005