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Those blessed girls! They could have cleared up after themselves! Still, the cleaner will make short shrift of the mess; you’d better dust the sideboard before doing the floor
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Harry set out the platter and directed an assistant from the offices to set the coffee urn and cups on the sideboard of the conference room
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Reia recounted how when she was brushed aside by the most frustrated and exasperated lackey, she inadvertently strew all the things from the top of the sideboard that broke her fall
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Reia continued, “I haven't brought it up because it's just so improbable, but this is what happened: Yeah, I bumped the sideboard, and yes everything was strewn on the floor, and yes, I got busy putting everything back as quickly as I could
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He took his laptop from its usual resting place in the sideboard drawer and booted up
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sideboard and knocked the receiver off the hook
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It wasn't on the table, and when he looked in the sideboard drawer it wasn't there either
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The walls were painted white - Rosemary's white - and the furniture was all wickerwork, two fireside chairs, a small round table, with four chairs tucked in under it and a delicate wicker sideboard
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Gilarene stepped down from the stool she was using to dust the sideboard, Around thirty and pretty with it, her green eyes glowed set against her dark red, titian hair
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Hurriedly, she scanned the sideboard, found the items and rushed across the room to the mistress before her mood could change
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On a sideboard, dinner: lobster, wild rice and a fresh salad, and to his left, a bottle of white wine on ice
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A dining area took up one section of the room, complete with a circular table with four chairs around it and a sideboard against the wall, and a corner by the windows boasted a sitting area with small sofa—a settee, really—and an overstuffed chair that was perfect for curling up with one of the throws that were scattered about
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placed a lump of coal on the sideboard by my stool
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bacon! On the sideboard stood a plate full of boiled potatoes
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I waved him over to the sideboard for a second fill-up, which I was doing myself
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Finding it hard to keep her eyes off him, Lorna managed to eat most of what was on her plate but finally had to refuse the array of cream pastries waiting on the sideboard nearby
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drawers of the old sideboard in the garage and made that old iron blade
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In front of them, a heavy wooden table and chairs, a sideboard and glass doors standing open
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” Bill pointed vaguely to a heavy-looking implement on the kitchen sideboard
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The living room had one chair and a bean bag, an old twenty one inch CRT colour television, a portable radio / cassette player resting on an old pine sideboard
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Eagle eyes failed to find the articles or even a mantelpiece but I did see something on a sideboard that took my interest
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Max leapt at Rafael and as they fell awkwardly to the floor, Rafael’s temple collided with the sharp corner of a massive sideboard
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Above the sideboard on the rear there were two portraits juxtaposed, one of God and another Satan
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He walked to the sideboard, grabbed the red rump of a hind, and swung it into Luka’s chest
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’ On a small sideboard she had half a dozen framed family photographs, and he handed me
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He took them over to the sideboard, where a quart size,
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a bottle of cognac on the sideboard
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the Bergers’ household, this sideboard had been the pride and joy of
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more thing: there is a very old antique sideboard, dating
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On the sideboard next to the computer next to where we had congregated there was a DVD with my name on in italics, I opened the rectangular box and found the latest I phone
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And when my shameful head reappeared above the table and I got on to my feet and carried the ruins to a sideboard, murmuring hysterical apologies as I went, he pointed with a lean finger to what had once been a jug and said with an owlish solemnity and weightiness of utterance I have never heard equalled, 'It was very expensive
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There was a big bright fire, and a sideboard loaded with shining electro-plated empty soup-tureens, and enormous dish-covers which covered nothing, and she thought the food much better than any she got at home
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In her capacious pockets, in the drawer of the table, on the sideboard crowded with tins of Ovaltine, of Sanatogen, of Oxo, of Benger's Food, of the many different preparations with which she plied her gifted brother to keep his strength up, she searched
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A heavy sideboard and serving-table stood against opposite walls
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But would she, herself, presently be photographed too and enlarged and hung there? There was room next to Vera, room for just one more before the sideboard began
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I buttered a piece of toast and took two eggs from the sideboard and joined her at the table
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It was a karaoke type bar thus Bob was able to exchange Figaro driving his cavalier for Beelzebub and the devils’ sideboard
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The younger one held a torch while James looked in the sideboard for a picture of Emma
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Elijah picked a key off the sideboard
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on the sideboard by the jade wall
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I could wait no longer and went over to the sideboard to pour myself a drink
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He saw his Gran’s old sideboard and realised he was in the spare bedroom
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He put the hammer in the sideboard next to the television and locked the door
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an Arts and Crafts sideboard at the local furniture gallery, but it’s priced beyond
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On the right side of Duke, lying half way out of the canvas and over the broken sideboard was the head and front leg of a giant black panther
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She likewise set up housekeeping in the sideboard, and managed a microscopic cooking stove with a skill that brought tears of pride to Hannah's eyes, while Demi learned his letters with his grandfather, who invented a new mode of teaching the alphabet by forming letters with his arms and legs, thus uniting gymnastics for head and heels
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She put back into the basket the apricots scattered on the sideboard
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He went deliberately into the saloon and removed from the sideboard two big heavy, silver-plated lamps, which he carried to the fore-end of the ship and stood symmetrically on the knight-heads
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She wouldn't understand the hint, but followed me to a sideboard, where I went to lay my bonnet, and importuned me in a whisper to give her directly what I had brought
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else, at length pulled off her mask and went to the sideboard; where,
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On the sideboard were arrayed dishes and plates, and glasses and bundles of knives and forks and spoons
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The top of the closed square piano served also as a sideboard for viands and sweets
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At a smaller sideboard in one
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A sofa upholstered in prune plush had been translocated from opposite the door to the ingleside near the compactly furled Union Jack (an alteration which he had frequently intended to execute): the blue and white checker inlaid majolicatopped table had been placed opposite the door in the place vacated by the prune plush sofa: the walnut sideboard (a projecting angle of which had momentarily arrested his ingress) had been moved from its position beside the door to a more advantageous but more perilous position in front of the door: two chairs had been moved from right and left of the ingleside to the position originally occupied by the blue and white checker inlaid majolicatopped table
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What occupied the position originally occupied by the sideboard?
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gunfire for the men to cross the lines and the warden marching with his keys to lock the gates and the bagpipes and only captain Groves and father talking about Rorkes drift and Plevna and sir Garnet Wolseley and Gordon at Khartoum lighting their pipes for them everytime they went out drunken old devil with his grog on the windowsill catch him leaving any of it picking his nose trying to think of some other dirty story to tell up in a corner but he never forgot himself when I was there sending me out of the room on some blind excuse paying his compliments the Bushmills whisky talking of course but hed do the same to the next woman that came along I suppose he died of galloping drink ages ago the days like years not a letter from a living soul except the odd few I posted to myself with bits of paper in them so bored sometimes I could fight with my nails listening to that old Arab with the one eye and his heass of an instrument singing his heah heah aheah all my compriments on your hotchapotch of your heass as bad as now with the hands hanging off me looking out of the window if there was a nice fellow even in the opposite house that medical in Holles street the nurse was after when I put on my gloves and hat at the window to show I was going out not a notion what I meant arent they thick never understand what you say even youd want to print it up on a big poster for them not even if you shake hands twice with the left he didnt recognise me either when I half frowned at him outside Westland row chapel where does their great intelligence come in Id like to know grey matter they have it all in their tail if you ask me those country gougers up in the City Arms intelligence they had a damn sight less than the bulls and cows they were selling the meat and the coalmans bell that noisy bugger trying to swindle me with the wrong bill he took out of his hat what a pair of paws and pots and pans and kettles to mend any broken bottles for a poor man today and no visitors or post ever except his cheques or some advertisement like that wonderworker they sent him addressed dear Madam only his letter and the card from Milly this morning see she wrote a letter to him who did I get the last letter from O Mrs Dwenn now what possessed her to write from Canada after so many years to know the recipe I had for pisto madrileno Floey Dillon since she wrote to say she was married to a very rich architect if Im to believe all I hear with a villa and eight rooms her father was an awfully nice man he was near seventy always goodhumoured well now Miss Tweedy or Miss Gillespie theres the piannyer that was a solid silver coffee service he had too on the mahogany sideboard then dying so far away I hate people that have always their poor story to tell everybody has their own troubles that poor Nancy Blake died a month ago of acute neumonia well I didnt know her so well as all that she was Floeys friend more than mine poor Nancy its a bother having to answer he always tells me the wrong things and no stops to say like making a speech your sad bereavement symphathy I always make that mistake and newphew with 2 double yous in I hope hell write me a longer letter the next time if its a thing he really likes me O thanks be to the great God I got somebody to give me what I badly wanted to put some heart up into me youve no chances at all in this place like you used long ago I wish somebody would write me a loveletter his wasnt much and I told him he could write what he liked yours ever Hugh Boylan in old Madrid stuff silly women believe love is sighing I am dying still if he wrote it I suppose thered be some truth in it true or no it fills up your whole day and life always something to think about every moment and see it all
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Merthin went to the sideboard and poured from a jug
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The house had been swept, and there were daffodils in a jug on the sideboard
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Madge went to the sideboard, where there were cups and a jug, but instead of offering Caris a drink she stood staring at the wall
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Madge staggered, and clutched the sideboard for support
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When I opened my eyes I found that they had collected the silver from the sideboard, and they had drawn a bottle of wine which stood there
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There was a bottle of wine on the sideboard, and I opened it and poured a little between Mary's lips, for she was half dead with the shock
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As soon as he was dismounted, Louisa sprung up, shook her petticoats, and running up to me, gave me a kiss, and drew me to the sideboard, to which she was herself handed by her gallant, where they made me pledge them in a glass of wine, and toast a droll health of Louisa's proposal in high frolic
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sauntered thoughtless about a while, and, as much for coolness and air as any thing else, at length pulled off her mask and went to the sideboard; where, eyed and marked out by a gentleman in a very handsome domino, she was accosted by, and fell into chat with him
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Bowing to right and left to the people he met, and here as everywhere joyously greeting acquaintances, he went up to the sideboard for a preliminary appetizer of fish and vodka, and said to the painted Frenchwoman decked in ribbons, lace, and ringlets, behind the counter, something so amusing that even that Frenchwoman was moved to genuine laughter
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I notice that one of the photograph frames on the sideboard has been turned facedown
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Basilio, who had been waiting at table, shrinking within himself, clung to the sideboard with chattering teeth
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The crockery rattled on table and sideboard, and the whole house seemed to sway in the deafening wave of sound
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She avoided the high- Her father’s arm held tightly in her own, Scarlett felt her way down the wide dark hall backed chairs, the empty gun rack, the old sideboard with its protruding claw feet, and she felt herself drawn by instinct to the tiny office at the back of the house where Ellen always sat, keeping her endless accounts
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From this point stretched the pleasant vista of drawing room and dining room beyond, the oval mahogany table which seated twenty and the twenty slim-legged chairs demurely against the walls, the massive sideboard and buffet weighted with heavy silver, with seven-branched candlesticks, goblets, cruets, decanters and shining little glasses
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The sideboard, the silver and the spindly chairs were gone
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Tarleton went toward the kitchen, throwing her hat carelessly on the sideboard and running her hands through her damp red hair
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He seemed preoccupied, perhaps struggling with a key to the tabernacle, a small cupboard mounted against the rear of the sideboard
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There is a drawer in the sideboard that is lined with yellowed newspaper, it contains a small jumble of my Papa’s mementos: embroidered crests unpicked from uniforms, a carved clay pipe, tins that had once contained tobacco or cough sweets but are now used to collect thru’penny bits for children’s treats or shillings for the electric meter
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Light from the varsity ballfields coaxed oaky fire from the bottles on the sideboard
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Before Foul Fate had so reduced her as to send her to us, she’d known Dinners of thirty Dishes and at least ten Courses, great mahogany Tables decorated with Pyramids of Sweetmeats and Fruits, Pigeons Cheak by Jowl with Oysters, Calves’ Heads Cheak by Jowl with whole Lobsters; Pottages of Duckling, Crayfish, and Lobster all serv’d upon the same Table, whilst the Sideboard boasted Venison Pasties, Westphalian Ham Pyes, and Beef Roasts en Croute
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Just then, Aaron saw a reflection moving in the mirror over the sideboard behind Cindy
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Jess poured himself a glass of wine from the decanter on the sideboard
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Instead, there was a blank sitting on the empty sideboard, open to the first page, and Jess walked over to read what it said
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” Rollo’s shoulders sagged with disappointment as he turned to fill his plate from the sideboard
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It smelt of laudanum, and looking on the sideboard, I found that the bottle which Mother's doctor uses for her--oh! did use--was empty
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She wouldn’t understand the hint, but followed me to a sideboard, where I went to lay my bonnet, and importuned me
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In addition to this the dining-room was ornamented with an antique sideboard, painted pink, in water colors
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Out of a similar sideboard, properly draped with white napery and imitation lace, the Bishop had constructed the altar which decorated his oratory
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Cosette on her arrival had placed her blotting-book on the sideboard in front of the mirror, and, utterly absorbed in her agony of grief, had forgotten it and left it there, without even observing that she had left it wide open, and open at precisely the page on which she had laid to dry the four lines which she had penned, and which she had given in charge of the young workman in the Rue Plumet
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He ignored the superficial wound and retreated behind a heavy sideboard, using his shoulder to shove it toward the open door
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The sideboard hit the floor a moment later, barely holding together as it came to a stop
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Rapp skirted the sideboard at the bottom of the steps and ascended to the door again