trestle-table

• “There was a trestle-table next to the cooking fire; they went to it at last.”

  When the Lion Feeds

• “A trestle-table had been rigged up in the middle of the smithy and, on it, as if they bore witness to some successful parish fete, were many little heaps of money.”

  Death of a Fool

• “The building was lined with white glazed brick, and two straight burdens lay on a trestle-table.”

  Women of the Country

• “A trestle-table, on which the fish are killed and cleaned, completes the equipment of the fish-wives.”

  Denmark

• “Then she drew her chair to the nearest trestle-table, sought for her notebook and pencil, and for the next ten minutes she was writing as fast as she could.”

  Death at the Opera

• “Carolyn and Meyer sat opposite each other, halfway down the long trestle-table.”

  Vintage Murder

• “Out on the stage the hands put up a trestle-table and covered it with a white cloth.”

  Vintage Murder

• “Greatly daring, she put one of the low, flat vases she had found in her cabin in the center of the men's trestle-table, and filled it with her treasure-trove.”

  I've Married Marjorie

• “It was lying under the trestle-table, just where he dropped it before going on leave.”

  Now It Can Be Told

• “She slouched forward, wiping her hands upon her hips as she came, and pulled out a stool for me at the long trestle-table that ran down the middle of the floor.”

  The Strolling Saint; being the confessions of the high and mighty Agostino D'Anguissola, tyrant of Mondolfo and Lord of Carmina in the state of Piacenza

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