writing table
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Commemorating the 250th anniversary of her birth, the statue will feature the literary giant standing by her writing table.
From BBC • Aug. 9, 2024
Under A.C.’s guidance, that modest storefront expanded to include an upstairs reading room housing deluxe editions, a fireplace, a writing table and comfortable chairs in which customers were encouraged to linger, study or converse.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 14, 2022
He collected a few paraffin lamps and some used furniture: a Russian wrought-iron bed, a writing table, chairs like “the chairs that van Gogh painted.”
From The New Yorker • Oct. 10, 2016
We view the period rooms, decorated with Eliza’s actual mirrored serving tray and re-creations of Hamilton’s writing table, quill pens in place.
From New York Times • Jan. 21, 2016
Beyond him Winston could see the writing table with its green-shaded lamp and the speakwrite and the wire baskets deep-laden with papers.
From "1984" by George Orwell
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