I wanted a whole grilled fish, and a glistening striped bass was presented, then deftly boned by Dimitri table-side, drizzled with olive oil and lemon, then placed center-table on a bed of saffron rice. ❋ Jay Weston (2010)
You gonna say anything? asked the once-pretty woman as she maneuvered around the island center-table, setting down two saucers and two cups, and plopped onto the far end of the bay of couches. ❋ Jack Ales-Oruam (2011)
On a golden-oak center-table was a large lamp with a mosaic shade, and through its mingled bits of green and red and pearl glass stormed the brilliance of a mantle-light. ❋ Unknown (2004)
He stumblingly lugged a heavy pile of dishes from the center-table to the kitchen, shook and beat and folded the table-cover, stuck the chairs atop the table, and began to sweep. ❋ Unknown (2004)
They settled themselves about the glowing, glancing, glittering, golden-oak center-table. ❋ Unknown (2004)
He locked the door and spread the paper out on the little center-table. ❋ Various (N/A)
"Jonathan Jackson, if you don't get married again before long I don't know what'll become of you," she remarked, as she wrote her name with the end of her finger in the dust on the center-table. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
Susan was too familiar with Clematis traditions not to know that the books on the center-table were seldom of a sort one would care to open, but as she lifted the nearest volume and saw that it was a collections of poems, she felt a comforting certainty that luck was with her. ❋ Harriet L. Smith (N/A)
The lamp on the center-table is made of a hawthorn jar, with a flaring shade. ❋ Elsie De Wolfe (N/A)
Moving to the center-table, he switched on the electric lamp, and looked at the blur again. ❋ Bannister Merwin (N/A)
She returned the book to the chilly front room, adjusting it to the proper angle on the center-table, as if it had been a part of a geometrical diagram, And finally, after locking the door and hanging the key where Persis, or any other arrival, would immediately notice it, she turned her downcast face toward home. ❋ Harriet L. Smith (N/A)
In the room were dirty red hangings, two chairs, a couch, and a small square center-table. ❋ Bannister Merwin (N/A)
For in papa's library, or on mamma's center-table, I have no doubt you can find more than one book which he has written. ❋ Various (N/A)
With nothing particularly pleasant to say to the Robinsons, Garrison approached a center-table and turned the pages of a book. ❋ Jack Steele (N/A)
There was no center-table, no crayon portraits of different members of the family, no easels, or scarves thrown over the corners of the pictures. ❋ F. Graham [Illustrator] Cootes (N/A)
She clasped her dimpled hands together, like a child in enjoyment, and then sprang up to roll the little center-table near the grate. ❋ Various (N/A)
A large desk, off one side, bespoke brain work; a solid center-table, strewn with books and magazines, made one long for the glow of the big lamp and the leisure of the evening, while Constance's grand piano seemed to stir the very air with a dream of harmony. ❋ Elizabeth Strong Worthington (N/A)
