Sentence examples for a parlor table from inspiring English sources

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A copy of Mr. Bailey's book was lying on a parlor table as Mrs. Cheever gave her recent tour of the house, but she said she had not yet read it.

In a back room is an antiques store with an eclectic inventory: a juke box, old furniture like ladder-back chairs and a parlor table, and smaller treasures tucked into the corners of old desks and on tabletops.

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A negative-controlled treatment trial was conducted for a period of 13 months on 2 commercial dairy herds (one each in New York and Vermont, USA) milking Holstein dairy cows 3 times per day in a milking parlor (Table  1).

Historian Dorothy Kunhardt wrote: "Almost every family who kept a photograph album on the parlor table owned a likeness of John Wilkes Booth of the famous Booth family of actors.

A wonderful, small, round parlor table (probably from New York about 1850-60) haslatelatoptop inlaid with a wreath of colored stones that surrounds a still life of shells.

The parlor table gleamed with a waxy lustre and there was a jar of pussy willows on the windowsill.

It lay there unopened on the parlor table while I thought of further objections.

At his home, astride a hilltop in La Jolla, California, he is an earnest rock gardener, and Publishers' Weekly is apt to be crowded off his parlor table by some lithic journal like Guide for Beginning Fossil Hunters.

He filled his house to overflowing with paintings, sculptures, casts, statues, Roman marbles, busts, engravings, plaster models, fragments of ancient ruins, antiquities and even a limestone sarcophagus from 1279 B.C. Pieces from Mrs. Soane's Coalport tea service still sit on the breakfast parlor table, and the fashionable upholstery of the day covers the drawing room walls.

90 In some instances the open (spine) side of the box was covered with a removable lid, and the label was pasted on one end of the box, indicating that these [End Page 87] boxes were intended to sit, in the bookshop or on the parlor table, so that the books inside were resting on their fore-edges.

Grandma's Victorian-era parlor table with marble top, sadly no.

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