reading-table

Not hurrying over the job, I had the fittings knocked together in contriving ways under my own inspection, and here was her bed in a berth with curtains, and there was her reading-table, and here was her writing-desk, and elsewhere was her books in rows upon rows, picters and no picters, bindings and no bindings, gilt-edged and plain, just as I could pick

Doctor Marigold 2007

Not hurrying over the job, I had the fittings knocked together in contriving ways under my own inspection, and here was her bed in a berth with curtains, and there was her reading-table, and here was her writing-desk, and elsewhere was her books in rows upon rows, picters and no picters, bindings and no bindings, gilt-edged and plain, just as I could pick

Doctor Marigold 2007

Wessel returned to his reading-table, opened to the Legend of

Tales of the Jazz Age 2003

He kept the reading-table by his bed well stocked with a variety of the products and invited various callers to try a complimentary sample lot.

Mark Twain: A Biography 2003

Having dashed the stews upon the reading-table before the fire, and rescued a drowning fly [1] from one of them with his least appetizing thumb-nail, the melancholy Irish attendant polished the spoons with his pocket-handkerchief and hurled them on either side of the plates.

Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 17, July 23, 1870 Various

Severely unostentatious was that office, with its two ink-stained desks, shelves of lettered deed-boxes, glass case of law-books in sheep, and vellum-covered reading-table in the centre of the room.

Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 16, July 16, 1870 Various

GOLDEN DAYS are held together by it in the convenient form of a book, which can be kept lying on the reading-table.

Golden Days for Boys and Girls, Vol. XIII, Nov. 28, 1891 Various

Hopewell Drugg furnished bracket lamps, and gave her the benefit of the wholesale discount on a hanging lamp and reflector to light the reading-table.

Janice Day at Poketown Helen Beecher Long

The young man had taken Mr. Jefferson's place before the open fire and now stood leaning against the chimney-piece as he talked, while Mr. Jefferson, sitting beside the reading-table, drew deep whiffs of the fragrant tobacco from his long pipe and listened interestedly to what Calvert had to say, smiling now and then appreciatively.

Calvert of Strathore Carter Goodloe

GOLDEN DAYS are held together by it in the convenient form of a book, which can be kept lying on the reading-table.

Golden Days for Boys and Girls Volume VIII, No 25: May 21, 1887 Various