This luxurious decoration, little in keeping with the habits of Monsieur Grandet, had been, together with the steel pier-glass, the tapestries, and the buffets, which were of rose-wood, included in the purchase of the house. ❋ Unknown (2007)
A well-made chintz-covered lounge, although a much more economical, and a far more comfortable piece of furniture than a modern rose-wood sofa, will be found to have an equally agreeable effect in the room. ❋ Unknown (2005)
Never again eat a devilled kidney at that rose-wood table, after a roll in the sheets and a hot bath. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Floor-tokening shelves, cupboards, backlighting, and a drop-down “Murphy bar” in rose-wood to match our sixties hi-fi cabinet. ❋ Cynthia Rowley (2002)
Winchester, and in another city in another state the daughter of an ex-governor, handing me a silver-tipped brush and opening a rose-wood snuff-box richly inlaid with gold, politely asked me to 'dip' with her, expressing the belief that friendship would always follow. ❋ E. R. Billings (N/A)
We have heard of some uninformed _parvenus_, grown suddenly rich, who have first ordered a magnificent library room fitted with rose-wood, marble and gilded trappings, and then ordered it to be filled with splendidly bound volumes at so much per volume. ❋ Ainsworth Rand Spofford (N/A)
The pipe is of rose-wood, of jasmin, or of rhododendrum wood: great ❋ Abd Salam Shabeeny (N/A)
I went back into what was the dining-room of the house; on the table lay a rose-wood box, containing a sword, sash, spurs, etc., and round about the table were grouped Mrs. Grant, Nelly, and one or two of the boys. ❋ David Widger (N/A)
Her pretty rose-wood bed was hung with lace that seemed like frost-work, instead of the orange silk drapery that fell like an avalanche of gold over the couch on which Mrs. Farnham took her nightly repose. ❋ Ann S. Stephens (N/A)
Supposing that the case contained rose-wood and a color. ❋ Unknown (1914)
Lawford rose and put the key of the door on his wife's little rose-wood prayer-desk at her elbow, and deliberately sat down again. ❋ Walter De La Mare (1914)
Man Shaw had every one of them, tied up with one of her old blue hair ribbons, and kept in her mother's little rose-wood work-box in the parlour. ❋ Unknown (1908)
A few shabby garments in the old wardrobe, the miniature on the shelf, a stack of well-worn books, and the violin in its rose-wood case. ❋ Alice Caldwell Hegan Rice (1906)
Their people met them with drum-beating and with chanting, bringing rose-wood poles for carrying the meat. ❋ Frederick O'Brien (1900)
