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For one thing, the sluts all had their dressing-tables and mirrors and wardrobes, stuffed with silks and satins and gowns and under-clothes and hats and stockings and shoes and garters and ribbons and jewellery and cosmetics and wigs and masks and gloves and God knows what beside-there were several enormous chests which Susie called "equipment", and which, if they'd burst open in public, would have led to the intervention of the police.
Isabelle Estelle Bruno 2010
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You'd be surprised at the stuff people stow in their dressing-tables ... some of them had hundreds of pounds in cash.
Hard Frost Wingfield, R. D. 1995
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The folder on hotel dressing-tables full of astoundingly dull information.
The Meaning of Liff Adams, Douglas, 1952- 1983
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For one thing, the sluts all had their dressing-tables and mirrors and wardrobes, stuffed with silks and satins and gowns and under-clothes and hats and stockings and shoes and garters and ribbons and jewellery and cosmetics and wigs and masks and gloves and God knows what beside-there were several enormous chests which Susie called "equipment", and which, if they'd burst open in public, would have led to the intervention of the police.
Flashman and The Redskins Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1982
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For one thing, the sluts all had their dressing-tables and mirrors and wardrobes, stuffed with silks and satins and gowns and under-clothes and hats and stockings and shoes and garters and ribbons and jewellery and cosmetics and wigs and masks and gloves and God knows what beside-there were several enormous chests which Susie called "equipment", and which, if they'd burst open in public, would have led to the intervention of the police.
Flashman And The Redskins Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1982
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All her dressing-tables have their legs swathed in chintz.
Sleeping Murder Christie, Agatha, 1890-1976 1976
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The big dormitories Were full of girls putting away their things, hanging up their dresses and putting photographs out on their little dressing-tables.
The Twins At St Clare's Blyton, Enid, 1898?-1968 1967
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These are made of taffeta with lace covers on top, and in outline are exactly like the simple dotted-swiss dressing-tables with which every one is familiar, -- the usual variety, so easily made by placing a wooden packing box on its side.
The Art of Interior Decoration Grace Wood
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Sheraton made a specialty of pieces of furniture designed to serve several purposes, and therefore adapted for use in small rooms; such as dressing-tables with folding mirrors, library step-ladders convertible into tables, etc.
The Art of Interior Decoration Grace Wood
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Beds and dressing-tables, mostly of Henry III's time, were elaborately canopied in the hideous crude draperies of that primitive epoch.
In and out of Three Normady Inns Anna Bowman Dodd
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