secretaire

She walked into the front drawing room and opened the small secretaire.

Also, the general public usually calls this kind of desk a secretary, or secretaire.

The center of their activity was a huge secretaire brought up from the basement.

The duke walked away to the secretaire in the corner of.

I have always had a great admiration for the secretaire in the drawing-room.

Elinor said, "There are some chairs in the same style as the secretaire."

I'll remember about the secretaire and the chairs.

Then he turned away, and went to the French secretaire to pour himself a full tumbler of whisky.

Suppressing a hollow sense of loss, Burke examined the opened secretaire.

When she saw the phone on the secretaire, she hesitated and glanced toward the bedroom.

The secretaire was locked, as was the writing bureau.

Outside, after quietly pulling the door shut, he used the spare key from the secretaire to engage both dead bolts.

I replied, "I know nothing about it, except that it was in your secretaire."

I checked the clock over the secretaire.

The drawing room still includes Ruskin's secretaire, bookcase and shell-cabinet.

The drawing room of the house contains a secretaire designed by Ernest Barnsley.

There was a secretaire with little space for a sheet of paper but plenty of small drawers, both visible and concealed.

They were basically a smaller version of a French form called Secretaire en portefeuille.

Unlike Catherine's bedroom, there wasn't a book in sight, not even in the mahogany secretaire.

He strode to the secretaire, seized the decanter, and splashed brandy into his glass.

A grandfather clock, for example, should not be placed next to the bookcase or secretaire, because they both compete for the eye's attention.

-- I kept the four millions and a half in Dutch bonds in a secretaire for a week.

Mrs. Greenhow got up from her sofa and crossed to a secretaire, where she wrote a few words on a slip of paper.

Two bookcases and a matching secretaire.