reading-stand

Here, having placed a candle upon a reading-stand at the bed-head, and having made an attempt to peruse some pages of the "Omnipresence of the Deity," I unfortunately fell asleep in less than twenty seconds, leaving the light burning as it was.

Archive 2008-12-01 2008

His reading-stand had been decorated with flowers and palm-leaves by some of the ladies of the city.

Speeches: Literary and Social 2007

He smote the enormous Bible on the reading-stand, vociferated, “Come, let us reason together,” delivered a prayer informing Almighty

Main Street 2004

But the varnished oak pews and the new red carpet and the three large chairs on the platform, behind the bare reading-stand, were all of

Main Street 2004

And turned towards it was a large chair with a mahogany reading-stand attached, on which a yellowish and folded copy of The Times, dated July 6, 1914, the day Timothy first failed to come down, as if in preparation for the war, seemed waiting for him still.

To Let 2004

On the small rock platform stood an old bronze lectern or reading-stand, groaning under a great German Bible.

The Complete Father Brown 2003

His last words were inaudible, but he closed the book reverently and, being nearly blind, made a groping movement and gripped the reading-stand.

The Complete Father Brown 2003

On the small rock platform stood an old bronze lectern or reading-stand, groaning under a great German Bible.

The Complete Father Brown 2003

His last words were inaudible, but he closed the book reverently and, being nearly blind, made a groping movement and gripped the reading-stand.

The Complete Father Brown 2003

For twenty minutes Mr. Wimperis alternately fluted and boomed from the pulpit, wrestled with the reading-stand and summoned the country to industrial peace.

The Complete Stories Waugh, Evelyn 1998