Sentence examples for parlor table from inspiring English sources

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Even the lacquered parlor tables, from the estate of Joan Crawford, are a loving reference to her role in the 1932 movie "Grand Hotel".

Walking or driving down Chapman Avenue, less than a block east of historical Orange Plaza, old-fashioned ice-cream parlor tables and chairs on the sidewalk will spark your curiosity.

The bright, stained-glass lamps above the ice-cream-parlor tables gave the room a carousel air.

A clump of pink cloth flowers sat in a pot on the parlor coffee table, and the only other ornament in the room was a giant 2003 campaign-poster portrait of Kagame.

His 14 children watched Kennedys go in and out of the gold-carpeted parlor, played table tennis and pool in the basement, slept on the third floor and played sports with their father in Prospect Park.