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Voices of shrieking gladness came across from the coffee-tables on the terrace of the Three Crowns, his nearest neighbor to the right.

From With the Procession by Fuller, Henry Blake

A rumour from the gossip round neighbouring coffee-tables may have reached her ears, which had become a fixed idea in her pondering brain, and now seemed to her an actual fact.

From The Undying Past by Sudermann, Hermann

In front of the alcove was spread the white skin of a polar bear, and set on that was one of those low, Turkish coffee-tables.

From Ranson's Folly by Davis, Richard Harding

Two Arab servants were waiting on each side of the white step that led into an ante-room filled with divans and coffee-tables.

From The Garden of Allah by Hichens, Robert Smythe

On one of the coffee-tables he found lying a small thin book bound in white vellum.

From In the Wilderness by Hichens, Robert Smythe