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Rosseau, (their squabbles are forgotten in the roll of fame), you see him perched on mantel, bracket, _ecritoire_, and bookcase: in short, their effigies are as common as the plaster figures of Shakspeare and
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 384, August 8, 1829 Various
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Henry Rayne's handsome _ecritoire, _ she drew from a tiny drawer a delicate sheet of note paper, upon which her trembling hand, traced nervously --
Honor Edgeworth Ottawa's Present Tense [pseud.] Vera
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He was seated in a luxurious arm-chair, writing at a mahogany ecritoire, while his daughter, a lovely young girl of seventeen summers, plied her crochet-needle on an ottoman beside him.
Condensed Novels Bret Harte 1869
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