"She can't have run away home, can she?" he said to himself, as he paused before the hat-tree. ❋ Unknown (1950)
He noticed some sort of a hat-tree in the hall, and as they walked toward the back he saw the doors of several rooms which opened off the lower hall. ❋ Willard F. Baker (N/A)
How well I remembered the hat-tree that sheltered my caps in youth, beneath the protecting foliage of the paternal greatcoat and the maternal bonnet! ❋ Walter Prichard Eaton (1917)
Again I cautioned him, and we set out on our walk leaving the litter on the floor; and as we tramped through the marvelous sky-scraper wilderness which is Manhattan, we talked of hat-trees, and the futility of human effort, and sighed for a new Carlyle to write the philosophy of the hat-tree drawer. ❋ Walter Prichard Eaton (1917)
At present I have no hat-tree, because I live in an old farm house where there is a square piano and a hall closet, and we don't need one. ❋ Walter Prichard Eaton (1917)
In New York I never had one, either, because there is never room in the hall-way of a modern apartment both for a hat-tree and a passage-way. ❋ Walter Prichard Eaton (1917)
The problem of a satisfactory hat-tree, which baffled the genius of Chippendale, is still unsolved in Grand Rapids, and it probably will remain unsolved to the end of time, unless Eden should be found again, where the hat-tree is the least of the arboreal troubles. ❋ Walter Prichard Eaton (1917)
My own method is to reflect that the ideal hat-tree has never been constructed. ❋ Walter Prichard Eaton (1917)
As the figure passed the hat-tree he saw the arm reach out and catch the rose-coloured scarf, flinging it over one shoulder. ❋ Unknown (1912)
An old-fashioned hat-tree just opposite the rear door was hung full with hats. ❋ Unknown (1912)
"Tutt," said Mr. Tutt, entering the offices of Tutt & Tutt and hanging his antediluvian stovepipe on the hat-tree in the corner, "I see by the morning paper that Payson Clifford has departed this life." ❋ Arthur Cheney Train (1910)
Passing the hat-tree, she was tempted to grab the Morrison's coat and waistcoat and run into the mill with them, dodging Mac Tavish and his paper-weights in spite of what she knew of his threats regarding the use he proposed to make of them in case of need. ❋ Holman Day (1900)
A high wainscoting ran along the sides; at the front door stood an old-fashioned hat-tree, with no hats upon it; for the professor had ❋ Julian Hawthorne (1890)
He sprang up the steps, across the balcony, traversed the hall with a quick tramp that shook the house, snatched his hat from the old hat-tree, came down upon the porch-step (which creaked in a paroxysm of reproach at his unaccustomed weight), and, in another moment, stood outside the ❋ Julian Hawthorne (1890)
The truth was that Larry, being deserted by his natural guardian, dropped behind the rest, and wriggled into the hat-tree to wait for her, having no notion of walking unprotected into the jaws of ❋ Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin (1889)
The truth was that Larry, being deserted by his natural guardian, dropped behind the rest, and wriggled into the hat-tree to wait for her, having no notion of walking unprotected into the jaws of a fashionable entertainment. ❋ Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin (1889)
A hat-tree in the corner had, perched upon it, a stuffed crow, a hawk and ❋ Unknown (1887)
The truth was that Larry, being deserted by his natural guardian, dropped behind the rest, and wriggled into the hat-tree to wait for her, having no notion of walking unprotected into the jaws of a dinner-party. ❋ Unknown (1886)
In the front hall was a vast china cane-holder; a turretted Calcutta hat hung on the hat-tree; a heavy, varnished Chinese umbrella stood in a corner; a long and handsome settee from Java stood against the wall. ❋ Heman White Chaplin (1885)
"So help me gracious!" said Mr. Isaacs, turning the articles over; "I suppose there 's some policemen just so wicked and soospicious to say I must know those garments are stolen -- scooped off some hat-tree, the last winter, at one grab." ❋ Heman White Chaplin (1885)
