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  • We needed a few side-tables along with the dining-room table.

    Arkham Horror Sunday chezmax 2007

  • Popular sellers include smaller antiques, like side-tables, modern furniture from Art Deco to contemporary design and paintings.

    Browsing Brussels: The City's Hidden Art Treasures 2009

  • Blessings upon a fashion which has rescued from the claws of abigails, and the melting-pot of the silversmith, those neglected cimelia, for the benefit of antiquaries and the decoration of side-tables!

    Saint Ronan's Well 2008

  • When Dinny came down to breakfast on the Wednesday morning — the shoot being timed to start at ten — three of the ladies and all the men except Hallorsen were already sitting or wandering to the side-tables.

    Maid in Waiting 2004

  • The room was crowded with tufted plush and imitation-leather chairs, side-tables and corner brackets, a couch and a

    Our Mr. Wrenn 2004

  • A cut-glass chandelier filled with lighted candles hung like a giant stalactite above its centre, radiating over large gilt-framed mirrors, slabs of marble on the tops of side-tables, and heavy gold chairs with crewel worked seats.

    The Man of Property 2004

  • Throughout on the shelves and side-tables were little odds and ends, brought from Rio Janeiro or Belem, those most precious to

    Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon 2003

  • The fire was nice and bright and on one of the side-tables were four very big barmbracks.

    Dubliners 2003

  • The neat legs of the couches and side-tables buried themselves in luxurious fur rugs — some still with the heads on.

    Two For The Lions Davis, Lindsey 1998

  • The rooms housed padded couches with footstools, side-tables positioned for convenience, elegant bronze candelabra; the occasional statuary included one or two busts of the old unnaturally handsome Julio-Claudian imperial family and a smiling head of Vespasian, apparently predating his accession as Emperor.

    Two For The Lions Davis, Lindsey 1998

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