“My escritoire will do beautifully here,” she said. From Wordnik.com. [The Thorn Birds]
She was sitting at a little desk, an escritoire really. From Wordnik.com. [Farthing] Reference
There was money in a drawer of the escritoire, enough money. From Wordnik.com. [Heartless]
Blood crossed the room to an inlaid escritoire; after a time. From Wordnik.com. [Calde of the Long Sun]
She sat at the escritoire in the morning room and wrote them both. From Wordnik.com. [Unforgiven]
They were in a tiny study, a small escritoire by the french doors. From Wordnik.com. [Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine]
Next to the kitchen was a small escritoire with a fold-down desk top. From Wordnik.com. [The Key to Rebecca]
'But, yes, Madame la Baronne, but they were locked in the escritoire.'. From Wordnik.com. [Despair's Last Journey] Reference
Croyden got up and went to the escritoire: the drawers were in confusion. From Wordnik.com. [In Her Own Right] Reference
Croyden went to the escritoire and took the bonds from one of the drawers. From Wordnik.com. [In Her Own Right] Reference
In the ebony box by the right hand of the escritoire opposite the window. From Wordnik.com. [Between the Acts] Reference
He looked away, got himself under control, grabbed papers off his escritoire. From Wordnik.com. [Cold Copper Tears]
Then he sat down at an escritoire, unlocked a drawer and took out some papers. From Wordnik.com. [Greenmantle] Reference
An old mahogany slant-top escritoire, in the corner by the window, caught his eye. From Wordnik.com. [In Her Own Right] Reference
His head, I remember, lay under the escritoire from which he had taken my passport. From Wordnik.com. [Greenmantle] Reference
She went out again after spending some time at her escritoire writing a few letters. From Wordnik.com. [Irresistible]
She rose, and went hunting in a littered sort of escritoire in a corner of the room. From Wordnik.com. [Movie Night] Reference
You will find your exchequer in the escritoire-drawer in the cabinet across the hall. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 79, May, 1864] Reference
Queen Anne fashion with leathern seats -- an old escritoire, were strewn with papers. From Wordnik.com. [Madame Flirt A Romance of 'The Beggar's Opera'] Reference
He went to see Fee, where she sat at the escritoire staring mutely down at her hands. From Wordnik.com. [The Thorn Birds]
The spinet, the Persian carpets, the Louis Quinze sofa and chairs, the Regency escritoire. From Wordnik.com. [The Thorn Birds]
She had her heart set on that Louis Seize escritoire -- but she'll have to make do without it. From Wordnik.com. [Erica Jong: A Busted Father Writes to His Kids] Reference
He remembered the escritoire it's a writing desk because they'd had it in for a quite a while. From Wordnik.com. [Some by Fire]
Mr. Somerby said that when he started bidding for the escritoire he couldn't believe his luck. From Wordnik.com. [Some by Fire]
Slowly she raised her right arm, and with extended finger pointed to the old and faded escritoire. From Wordnik.com. [Nick Baba's Last Drink and Other Sketches] Reference
On the opposite side was an escritoire with writing implements, and a few scattered sheets of paper. From Wordnik.com. [In Direst Peril] Reference
There are correspondences within this escritoire, worth all the wisdom of all the ministers of earth. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845] Reference
They ask each other what theyve been doing, said Hannah, tucking the tiny book inside her escritoire. From Wordnik.com. [The House at Riverton] Reference
When I go home, to-night, I shall return the letter to the escritoire where I found it, and forget it. From Wordnik.com. [In Her Own Right] Reference
A very fine Moorish couch inlaid with ivory, a japanned escritoire that you'd like, and a mirrored bed. '. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Honour]
There was a chest of drawers with an escritoire top, for Uriah to read or write at of an evening; there was. From Wordnik.com. [David Copperfield] Reference
On more than one occasion I had found the beginnings of a letter in her escritoire, but none was ever posted. From Wordnik.com. [The House at Riverton] Reference
A room with modern escritoire equipment served as reading and writing room for the members of the German press. From Wordnik.com. [Final Report of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Commission] Reference
He rose with unusual vivacity, and, throwing open an escritoire, took from it a disorderly little pile of papers. From Wordnik.com. [In Direst Peril] Reference
Instead, she turned away and moved across the room to a small black escritoire which stood against the white wall. From Wordnik.com. [Afterwards] Reference
"I found him on the parlour sofa, the little window and the escritoire open!". From Wordnik.com. [Lady Hester, or, Ursula's Narrative] Reference
Mrs. Ryder was busy at her escritoire looking over a mass of household accounts. From Wordnik.com. [The Lion and the Mouse; a Story of an American Life] Reference
Florence turned, and going to an escritoire sat down and wrote a few lines on a card. From Wordnik.com. [Love, the Fiddler] Reference
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