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  • - The little Table which used to stand there, has most conveniently taken itself off into the best bed-room, & we are now in want only of the chiffoniere, which is neither finished nor come.

    Jane Austen's Letters To Her Sister Cassandra and Others 1796

  • My dear four of them and Caroline behind the chiffoniere attacking with the poker and when disarmed prize-fighting with her double fists, and down and up and up and down and dreadful!

    Mrs. Lirriper's Lodgings 2007

  • My dear four of them and Caroline behind the chiffoniere attacking with the poker and when disarmed prize-fighting with her double fists, and down and up and up and down and dreadful!

    Mrs. Lirriper's Lodgings 2007

  • Three or four hours after the wedding ceremony, Frances, divested of her bridal snow, and attired in a pretty lilac gown of warmer materials, a piquant black silk apron, and a lace collar with some finishing decoration of lilac ribbon, was kneeling on the carpet of a neatly furnished though not spacious parlour, arranging on the shelves of a chiffoniere some books, which I handed to her from the table.

    The Professor, by Charlotte Bronte 2006

  • There was an unaccountable scarcity both of books and book-cases; none were to be seen except that, in a chiffoniere in the drawing-room, there was a row in gilded bindings, chiefly Pope, Gray, and the like; and one which Albinia took out had pages which stuck together, a little pale blue string, faded at the end, and in the garlanded fly-leaf the inscription, 'To

    The Young Step-Mother Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862

  • My dear four of them and Caroline behind the chiffoniere attacking with the poker and when disarmed prize-fighting with her double fists, and down and up and up and down and dreadful!

    Mrs. Lirriper's Lodgings Charles Dickens 1841

  • Johnny's fingers are extremely strong for his age -- but, adding that babies will catch at whatever is very bright and beautiful, such as gold and jewels and Mr. Poole's eyes, administers to the wounded orb so soothing a lotion of pity and admiration that Poole growls out quite mildly: "Nonsense, blarney -- by the by, I did not say this morning that you should not have the rosewood chiffoniere!"

    What Will He Do with It? — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • Johnny's fingers are extremely strong for his age -- but, adding that babies will catch at whatever is very bright and beautiful, such as gold and jewels and Mr. Poole's eyes, administers to the wounded orb so soothing a lotion of pity and admiration that Poole growls out quite mildly: "Nonsense, blarney -- by the by, I did not say this morning that you should not have the rosewood chiffoniere!"

    What Will He Do with It? — Volume 07 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

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