Benches

Examples

• Up in the top loft of the factory we stored those machines, and at night we put up the benches and got everything all ready. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The drawing benches resemble long tables, with a bench on either side, at one end of which is an iron box secured to the table. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• There are a couple of benches and a higher bench by way of table. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• I'll bet they throw the benches at you, Ettore said. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• The lamps and candles were all extinguished, when Elliston threw himself along the benches in the pit. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• He appears to be very strong and lifts heavy benches about as if he had no idea what weight was. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• There were benches behind a rail that looked down on the white table and the lights. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• Evidently not: it is more reasonable and practical to keep park benches out of the shadows and to plague unescorted prostitutes. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• On the other side of the lawn, facing the targets, was pitched a real tent, with benches and garden-seats about it. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• I threw six benches myself. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• The workmen all stand on high benches, up from the floor, and under the hogs we find troughs to keep any scraps from getting under the workmen’s feet. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Everything is stone, and stone of the heaviest--floors, stairways, mantels, benches--everything. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• They upset buckets and benches, so that he might break his shins over them, which he never failed to do. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Everywhere he goes they throw the benches at him. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• The immense veins of magnetic ore lie close to the surface and are mined or quarried by working along a series of benches or ledges. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• I saw Pablo say something to Cuatro Dedos and he moved over two tables and some benches and the guards stood behind them with their shotguns. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• All he knows how to say is throw benches. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• When used for transportation of troops, it will accommodate a company of infantry seated on camp stools or benches. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• It was a long room, with crimson-covered benches, and wax candles in glass chandeliers. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Adrian, who was beside me, hastened to him, and jumping down the benches, was at his side in a moment. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Did you hear how they threw the benches at him in Modena? Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• I'd like to be there to see them throw the benches at you. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• When I had regained my feet I raised her in my arms and bore her to one of the benches at the side of the room. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• Long lines of benches were arranged in the close-shorn fields round the school. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• They threw the benches at him, Ettore said. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.

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