Desk

Examples

• My Lady Steyne, he said, once more will you have the goodness to go to the desk and write that card for your dinner on Friday? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Miss March, come to the desk. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• He took a notebook from the drawer of his desk. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• She darted across to a writing-desk, unlocked it, and drew out a long blue envelope. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• Now Fred, said Caleb, you will have some desk-work. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Mr. Moore put them by in the inner drawer of his desk. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Fred felt an awkward movement of the heart; he had not thought of desk-work; but he was in a resolute mood, and not going to shrink. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• In the corner, stooping over a desk, there sat what appeared to be a little girl. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• This paper, now, 'Synoptical Tabulation' and so on, 'for the use of Mrs. Casaubon,' it was locked up in the desk with the will. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• The officer drew a powerful glass from his desk and examined all three specimens carefully, making notations meanwhile upon a pad of paper. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• Archer looked back to the President of the United States, and then down at his desk and at the papers scattered on it. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• The stove stood near my desk, he attacked it; the little iron door was nearly dashed from its hinges, the fuel was made to fly. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Mention has been made of a combined folding desk and extensible table. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• All was exactly as I left it, save only that the papers which had been committed to my care had been taken from the desk on which they lay. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• If we were in the other room, said Emma, if I had my writing-desk, I am sure I could produce a specimen. Jane Austen. Emma.
• But I cast my eyes over things in the desks and drawers--there was nothing--nothing but deep subjects, you know--besides the will. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• There was very little in the room except a couple of walnut roller-top desks--which were very generally used in American offices at that time. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• When light from any luminous object falls upon books, desks, or dishes, it meets rough surfaces, and hence undergoes diffuse reflection, and is scattered irregularly in all directions. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Drawers, desks, pockets, all things belonging to him, Mr. Bucket examines. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• A long room with three long rows of desks, and six of forms, and bristling all round with pegs for hats and slates. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Much ingenuity has been displayed in the construction of desks, to save and economise space. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The shabbiest desk of all the desks? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• The desks were littered with catkins, hazel and willow, which the children had been sketching. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• The congregation of hat-boxes, and Bramah desks, and dressing-cases was prodigious. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Then he went in among the desks, to see the scholars' books. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• We began the search at once; Mr. Jorkins unlocking the drawers and desks, and we all taking out the papers. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Some silkworms' houses, made of the same materials, are scattered over the desks. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.

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