No doubt my adult hankering after Zuber papiers peints, Omega Workshop textiles, and Andre Arbus escritoires germinated at just this moment. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Horrocks, of the guilty ribbons, with a wild air, trying at the presses and escritoires with a bunch of keys. ❋ Unknown (2006)
No modern data-processing or communication equipment was in evidence, but I suspected that most of the antique cabinets, presses, and escritoires furnishing the room had been gutted and stuffed with cyber-ware. ❋ May, Julian (2001)
But the artist was not quite satisfied for later that evening when Campion was sitting in his dressing-gown writing a note at one of the small escritoires which Florence had so thoughtfully provided in her guest bedrooms, he came in again. ❋ Allingham, Margery, 1904-1966 (1989)
A drear, single man's room it was, from wall to wall, despite its fretted ceilings and official pomp of Bramah escritoires and red boxes. ❋ Various (N/A)
Men will watch him with a jealous eye; they will hide their papers from him, and lock up their escritoires. ❋ Unknown (1888)
He says, moreover, that all goods carried from the said islands are mere trifles, from which the land derives no profit -- such as porcelains, escritoires, caskets, fans, and parasols, all flimsy and very unprofitable. ❋ Emma Helen Blair (1884)
Others, moving through the great rooms with a high head, were already condemned out of their own bureaux and escritoires now being rifled by the Emperor's spies. ❋ Henry Seton Merriman (1882)
His rooms were crowded with mosaic cabinets set with jasper, bloodstone, and lapis-lazuli, ormolu escritoires, buhl chiffoniers, ❋ Dutton Cook (1856)
On opening it there were displayed a system of little drawers and pigeon-holes such as we see in more modern escritoires. ❋ Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1843)
The room was crowded with ugly furniture of all kinds, very solid, and chiefly of mahogany; among which were not less than three escritoires, to say nothing of the huge horsehair sofas. ❋ Benjamin Disraeli (1842)
A drear, single man's room it was, from wall to wall, despite its fretted ceilings and official pomp of Brahmah escritoires and red boxes. ❋ Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton (1838)
Pitt's study, where they found Miss Horrocks, of the guilty ribbons, with a wild air, trying at the presses and escritoires with a bunch of keys. ❋ William Makepeace Thackeray (1837)
When the war, of which we shall speak in our third part, breaks out between you and madame, you will always have plenty of ingenious excuses for rummaging in the drawers and escritoires; for if your wife is trying to hide from you some statue of her adoration, it is your interest to know where she has hidden it. ❋ Honor�� De Balzac (1824)
