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The room was lit with carved Indian table lamps with parchment lampshades, sitting on gilded bronze side-tables with faux-malachite scagliola tops by Oriel Harwood.

From New York Times • Apr. 11, 2014

Frodo could see him now, sitting with Pippin and Merry at the upper end of one of the side-tables close to the dais.

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien

Take up the lowest dishes at the side-tables, and then clear the high table.

From Early English Meals and Manners by Furnivall, Frederick James

Did you happen to see a parchment lying in that front room: on the table, or the side-tables, or—anywhere, in short?

From The Story of Charles Strange Vol. 2 (of 3) A Novel by Wood, Mrs. Henry

Indian coverlets, gorgeously embroidered, adorned the chairs; there were splendid wild-beast skins on the floor, and on the side-tables appeared several silver vases rudely but skilfully wrought.

From The Solitary Farm by Hume, Fergus