His blameless underwear lay impeccably folded in his clothespress. From Wordnik.com. [Tied Up in Tinsel]
Then crossing, she opened the bathroom door, and then the clothespress, calling Rosanna's name sharply. From Wordnik.com. [The Girl Scouts at Home, or, Rosanna's Beautiful Day] Reference
As he wuz thinkin ', up comes the girl to git a clean tablecloth out of the clothespress, an' she left the door ajar as she come in. From Wordnik.com. [Public Speaking] Reference
Finally one of them opened the clothespress and started scanning in there, and when he was finished, even started opening the drawers. From Wordnik.com. [Rihannsu: The Bloodwing Voyages] Reference
The whole furniture consisted of a chair, a clothespress, and a large oak case, with squares cut out near the top resembling coach windows. From Wordnik.com. [Wuthering Heights] Reference
Then Arrhae shut the computer down, with a yawn not entirely feigned, went to the clothespress in the main room, and pulled out her carrybag. From Wordnik.com. [Rihannsu: The Bloodwing Voyages] Reference
There was also an immense, carved clothespress, deep rugs over the timbered floor, and an impossibly grand bed with a canopy and fringe attached to the tall carved posts, goat-legged imps running up and down them in vivid detail. From Wordnik.com. [A Girl Possessed]
Her steward was bustling around trying to feed her, and Arrhae had been trying to resist him, while attempting to put right the formal clothes that she had packed—they had all looked good in the clothespress, all these kilts and flowing dark tunics, but now they seemed to require endless belting and pinning to drape as they were meant to. From Wordnik.com. [Rihannsu: The Bloodwing Voyages] Reference
There is a clothespress in the corner, into which Mr. Spear says we may look. From Wordnik.com. [Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 03 Little Journeys to the Homes of American Statesmen] Reference
Hartwick shut himself in the clothespress, and I could hear him laughing and gasping for breath. From Wordnik.com. [Frank Merriwell at Yale] Reference
He began rummaging in the huge clothespress, all the while regaling me with news from the regions below. From Wordnik.com. [A Fool and His Money] Reference
As the two lifted the garments from the carefully packed trunk trays it was Georgiana who found the right places for them in clothespress and bureau drawers. From Wordnik.com. [Under the Country Sky] Reference
In the clothespress were buff trousers and an embroidered coat, and shoes with silver buckles, and several suits of every-day clothes, showing wear and patches. From Wordnik.com. [Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 03 Little Journeys to the Homes of American Statesmen] Reference
Georgiana had smiled at them, had closed the door softly behind them -- and had immediately banged to another conveniently near at hand, one opening into a small clothespress under the stair landing. From Wordnik.com. [Under the Country Sky] Reference
Directly before the door, at about the center of the wall against which it was backed, stood something which loomed tall and dark, and which I took to be either a gigantic clothespress or a closet built into the room. From Wordnik.com. [American Adventures A Second Trip 'Abroad at home'] Reference
"When they were gone Hartwick came out of the clothespress. From Wordnik.com. [Frank Merriwell at Yale] Reference
A little clothespress that stood beside the chimney, and then strode out into the air, giving no heed to Judith, who had gone up the stairs at the side of the passage, and come down again wearing a hideous pannier petticoat under her new frock. From Wordnik.com. [Duffels] Reference
Well what a clothespress!. From Wordnik.com. [The Harvester] Reference
Why should a clothespress be well ventilated?. From Wordnik.com. [Hygienic Physiology : with Special Reference to the Use of Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics] Reference
So it must be the clothespress, Gran'ma! ". From Wordnik.com. [Ohio Arbor Day 1913: Arbor and Bird Day Manual Issued for the Benefit of the Schools of our State] Reference
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