Tom Orgreave, with the gestures of a precisian, drew a bunch of keys from his pocket, and unlocked a rosewoodbookcase that stood between the two windows.
Each book in that bookcasewas a separate treasure.
They passed into the drawing-room, where a servant in striped print was languidly caressing the glass of a bookcase with a duster.
The amorous care with which Tom drew a volume from the bookcase was enough in itself to enlighten Edwin completely.
As Edwin gazed at the bookcase he perceived that it was filled mainly with rich bindings.
In the case of the bookcase just shown, the upper and lower shelves can be pinned through the sides, which will hold the case firmly, and the other shelves can be movable (see Shelves).
This design is suitable for a low, or dwarf, bookcase of whatever length may be desired.
A good form for an open bookcase suitable for the beginner to make is shown in Fig.
The bookcase and the cupboard (which can be open if desired) are similar to those already shown, and the lounge is simply a shelf or box-like arrangement connecting the two.
A moulding at the top can be made as in the bookcaseshown in Fig.
To set common glass in furniture, as in bookcase doors, it is better to fasten it in place with small strips, not pressed too tightly against it.
When your work has a back fitted in, as in the case of a bookcase or cabinet, this will help you much in the final adjustment.
A large writing-table stood in the centre of the room, and beside it a bookcase filled with the works of some of the world's greatest authors.
There was a garden of sweet common flowers to supply the summer vases, crackling wood-fires for cool evenings, and a bookcase of light reading for rainy days.
She turned away from him as she spoke, and leant against the bookcase behind her table.
Presently the clock on the bookcasestruck three, and Stephen awoke with a start to the engagements of the day.
There was a hanging bookcase on the wall, and the Rector sitting by the bed could just make out the titles of the books in the dim light.
Through the open doors she saw him as he turned and wandered to the bookcase and stood there, apparently absorbed.
With his invincible patience he was waiting now, in her room up-stairs, standing before thebookcase with his back to the door.
Wheeling a chair across the thick carpet, he placed it by a tall, unglazed bookcase and mounted upon the seat.
The slat-back chair beside thebookcase is the most valuable type of its period, being made about 1750.
At one side a built-in bookcase has followed the architectural lines so perfectly that it seems as if it had been there ever since the house was built.
This living-room was in the early days used as living-room and bedroom; the space at the farther end, which was used as a closet into which the bed folded during the daytime, is now utilized as a bookcase and makes an interesting feature.
A beautiful Ravell photograph of the stone sails of Guadalupe just fitted into it, and it will hang above the bookcase by my sofa.
It threw down a large bookcase in my chamber, broke the glass front, and smashed two chairs; another bookcase fell across the floor; the chandelier was so violently shaken that I thought it would be broken into pieces.
Even a bookcase was better than nothing to lean against.
The next day a bust of this patron which stood on Beethoven's bookcase fell to the ground, and was shattered to pieces!
The whole bookcase slipped along the wall and revealed the safe.
He stood in front of a bookcase containing the works of George Eliot, Charles Dickens and Sir Walter Scott.
I knew that bookcase well, and the secret which it so respectably hid.
But for the select private bookcaseit is not, or ought not to be, a substitute.
Then very slowly and as though against his will he uncovered his face, and leaning forward stared across to the bookcase whilst he groped for the pen beside the book.
He rose as he spoke and crossed to a massive bookcase packed to overflowing with books, switched on a light hanging near, opened the glass door and ran his hand lovingly over the leather volumes.
They had made a systematic search of the building, with the result that, hidden away behind a bookcase in the studio, they had discovered a long knife of Oriental workmanship and design.
He set the cylinder on a bookcase in the hall and squeezed into the closet.
He went to get his cylinder of colored spheres from the bookcase where he had left it.
The fourth side of his bookcase held the books that came and went as a stream, entering and passing on: he drank from them as they flowed by.
But they filled three sides of a large low revolvingbookcase in the middle of the room beside his easy chair and his lamp and table.
His bookcase with glass doors was the only piece of furniture which he had kept beyond what was strictly indispensable.
The bookcase was a large cupboard with glass doors filled with books; the chimney was of wood painted to represent marble, and habitually without fire.
She looked at the bookcase lovingly, as if she was saying farewell to the past.
Involuntarily she turned to the bookcase behind her, and took the Bible from the little library of books which she had laughingly described as "a curious assortment.
Elegant as Isobel Baring might be in her studied poses, Elsie need fear no comparison as she examined the contents of the bookcase with eager attention.
A story could be told of oak chest and bookcase and bureau.
Each bookcase had originally two shelves only above the desk.
