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  • Among the tales are some -- and those, perhaps, the most interesting -- which Mr. Dasent justly characterizes as "intensely heathen," and yet in which the Saviour of the world or his apostles appear as interlocutors or actors, which alone unfits the volume for the book-table of the household room.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 23, September, 1859 Various

  • Upon the book-table were a silver ash-tray and cigarette-box.

    The Far Horizon Lucas Malet 1891

  • A couple of large armchairs and a revolving book-table occupied the centre of the room.

    The Far Horizon Lucas Malet 1891

  • And on the wall above the book-table hung a memorandum-slate on which were a number of addresses and dates -- the addresses of some forty boys whom the minister taught on Sunday in one of the Unitarian Sunday schools of Manchester, and visited in the week.

    The History of David Grieve Humphry Ward 1885

  • On the little book-table to his right lay papers of Huxley's, of

    The History of David Grieve Humphry Ward 1885

  • Between the windows stood a small philosophical bookcase, the volumes of it full of small reference slips, and marked from end to end; and on the other side of the room was a revolving book-table crowded with miscellaneous volumes of poets, critics, and novelists -- mainly, however, with the first two.

    Marcella Humphry Ward 1885

  • Our book-table shows seven important works on China and its people -- all interesting.

    Round the World Andrew Carnegie 1877

  • His last present to me was that revolving book-table.

    Doctor Luttrell's First Patient Rosa Nouchette Carey 1874

  • Cecilia glanced at the drawing-room book-table, and then at Mr. Austin, the victim of an unhappy love in his youth, and unhappy about her, as her father had said.

    Beauchamp's Career — Volume 6 George Meredith 1868

  • Cecilia glanced at the drawing-room book-table, and then at Mr. Austin, the victim of an unhappy love in his youth, and unhappy about her, as her father had said.

    Beauchamp's Career — Complete George Meredith 1868

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