He had a roll-top sweater and a peaked cap and glasses. From Wordnik.com. [Getting Away with It for Forty-Four Years] Reference
British Forces in France there is not a single roll-top desk!. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, October 14, 1914] Reference
I removed the roll-top completely and pulled out the drawers. From Wordnik.com. [literature] Reference
"Although I suppose that big roll-top desk is the most logical place.". From Wordnik.com. [The Secret Of The Mansion]
Found some wonderful socks last year which have a roll-top so not tight!. From Wordnik.com. [Secondary Raynaud's, circulation, socks and Sock Dreams] Reference
I found an old Mobile Press Register clipping today in my roll-top desk. From Wordnik.com. [New news: The fear factor « BuzzMachine] Reference
Ginny swept her hand over a massive roll-top desk covered in bric-a-brac. From Wordnik.com. [MORE FROM GINNY BATES: SETTING UP HOUSE] Reference
I focused on the wrong thing--your roll-top desk and how much I've always wanted one. From Wordnik.com. [Friday Cat Blogging: Post-Grading Edition] Reference
Phoebe's mother says it's time to give that roll-top away, time for them all to "move on.". From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-06-01] Reference
This was a giant roll-top piece of furniture pocked with pigeon holes full of dusty papers. From Wordnik.com. [AGoodManIsHardToFindAndOtherStories]
Cheong sat sideways on the high-backed wooden chair in front of the Colonel's roll-top desk. From Wordnik.com. [The Ninja]
The doors of these shops are corrugated iron and are raised up like the cover of a roll-top desk. From Wordnik.com. [Birdseye Views of Far Lands] Reference
He lifted one of the crutches that lay in his lap and aimed it at a roll-top desk across the room. From Wordnik.com. [Fateful Journeys] Reference
Will the people who rack the toilet paper so it rolls from the bottom refuse to buy that roll-top tissue?. From Wordnik.com. [Got a Problem With Roman Polanksi? See The Ghost Writer Anyway. It's A Masterpiece.] Reference
Next he noticed a bewhiskered, youthful-looking man, sitting at a roll-top desk, who regarded him curiously. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 33] Reference
Between Arabella and that other door, at a huge roll-top desk, sat a big man in a sombrero, with his back to her. From Wordnik.com. [Salvage for the Saint]
He thought he realised the meaning of "business" as it was viewed by the men up above, the men at the roll-top desks. From Wordnik.com. [Swirling Waters] Reference
She was surprised to see him slumped over his roll-top desk, a scowl on his ruddy face and a worried look in his brown eyes. From Wordnik.com. [Murder Canyon]
The huge roll-top desk was fuzzy with mold, and mice had obviously been nesting in the upholstery of the leather-covered sofa. From Wordnik.com. [The Secret Of The Mansion]
The roll-top desk stood alongside one of the big windows, so that by simply turning her head she could look out across the lawns. From Wordnik.com. [The Thorn Birds]
He kicked open his office door and gestured toward a chair, then plopped into a squeaky wooden swivel in front of a roll-top desk. From Wordnik.com. [Clean Kill]
One did not, he realized dimly, normally wear a roll-top sweater with a smart pin-striped suit of the pattern fancied by city gents. From Wordnik.com. [Of Time and Stars]
The big roll-top desk, the Dictaphone, and some of the other items on exhibit here appear in old photographs showing London at work. From Wordnik.com. [Jack London State Park: Museum House of Happy Walls] Reference
Desks were much used and were conveniently arranged with drawers, pigeon-holes and shelves, and roll-top desks were made at this time. From Wordnik.com. [Furnishing the Home of Good Taste A Brief Sketch of the Period Styles in Interior Decoration with Suggestions as to Their Employment in the Homes of Today] Reference
Dark shades in the windows reduced the light across Mr. Wintermuth's obsolete roll-top desk to never more than that of a dull afternoon. From Wordnik.com. [White Ashes] Reference
Zwelfinger was talking on the phone at an old-fashioned mahogany roll-top desk, which had probably belonged to the founder of the dynasty. From Wordnik.com. [Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine]
I like the long flat tables or small desks much better than the huge roll-top affairs or the heavy desks built after the fashion of the old. From Wordnik.com. [The House in Good Taste] Reference
With his back to Carl, the dean was writing at a roll-top desk. From Wordnik.com. [The Trail of the Hawk A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life] Reference
On the roll-top of his desk he kept a letter spread out in front of him. From Wordnik.com. [Sally of Missouri] Reference
At the same time, he leaned over and turned a knob at the side of a large roll-top desk. From Wordnik.com. [The Exploits of Elaine] Reference
There are six elegant ensuite bedrooms with plush furnishings, roll-top baths and DVD players. From Wordnik.com. [Travel news, travel guides and reviews | guardian.co.uk] Reference
An old-fashioned roll-top desk that must have been John's sat in one corner of the living room. From Wordnik.com. [Wraithbait] Reference
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