centre-table

Between a grand piano and a centre-table piled high with books was space for a half a dozen to walk abreast, yet he essayed it with trepidation.

Chapter 1 2010

The centre-table should be a sensible, substantial piece of furniture, at which three or four people will be able to sit and read comfortably.

Archive 2005-11-01 2005

The centre-table should be a sensible, substantial piece of furniture, at which three or four people will be able to sit and read comfortably.

Suggestions for Decorating a Parlor in a Modest Home 2005

While he removed from the centre-table to the side-board a few pamphlets and periodicals, I ran my eye along the shelves of the book-case nearest me.

The Professor, by Charlotte Bronte 2006

“There,” she said, mechanically pointing to a small centre-table where the letter lay conspicuous on a large book.

Jennie Gerhardt 2004

The two brothers, in two arm-chairs that matched, one on each side of the centre-table, stared in front of them, in similar attitudes full of dissimilar expressions.

Pierre And Jean 2003

The seats were always in precisely the same order, some against the wall and some round the circular centre-table.

Pierre And Jean 2003

There is the little domestic scenery of the well-known apartment; the chairs, with each its separate individuality; the centre-table, sustaining a work-basket, a volume or two, and an extinguished lamp; the sofa; the book-case; the picture on the wall — all these details, so completely seen, are so spiritualised by the unusual light, that they seem to lose their actual substance, and become things of intellect.

The Scarlet Letter 2002

I drew two chairs towards the centre-table, lighted the argand, and seated myself with the young officer to examine and admire the beautiful forms in which the gifted artist has clothed the words rather than the thoughts of the writer, -- out of the coarse real, lifting the scenes into the sweet ideal, -- and out of the commonest, rudest New-England life, bringing the purest and most charming idyllic song.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 42, April, 1861 Various

Two seamstresses sat chattering around the centre-table; while a ruddy young man, with greenish brown moustaches and sandy hair, rested his clumsy boots on the fender, holding an open music-book in his lap and a flute in his ill-kept and gaudily-ringed hands.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 19, May, 1859 Various