The door at the foot, the window at the head, bookshelves at the end of each arm.
After an interval, in which his wife stood perfectly still, observing him, he began to put back the drawers in their places in the row of cabinets which extended under the bookshelves at one end of the library.
In the old bookshelves were the self-same books she and Olive and Jean and Frieda had read and studied in their girlhood, studied far too little until the coming of Ruth to act as their governess.
She stood with the mantel and the bookshelves forming her background.
There seemed to him to be far more knick-knacks in that hall than in the whole of his father's house; Mr Orgreave's ingeniously contrived bookshelves were simply overlaid and smothered in knick-knacks.
And to the right of the hearth over bookshelves would be such and such a picture, and to the left of the hearth over bookshelves such and such another picture.
When he had oscillated on his heels and toes for a few moments with his gaze on the table, he faced about, and stared in a sort of vacant beatitude at the bookshelves to the left hand; those to the right hand were as yet empty.
One cannot wonder that his readers and admirers should ask that he be more adequately represented on their bookshelves by the collection, into permanent volume form, of his many incomparable articles and essays.
V Perhaps the most treasured possession on my bookshelves is a volume in which Swinburne has inscribed my name and his own.
The large wall-space that is background to my old secretary is in her room given up to long open bookshelves of mahogany.
The open bookshelves were architecturally planned, they filled shallow recesses in the wall, and when the books were placed upon them they formed a glowing tapestry of bindings, flush with the main wall.
Why not make it a dining-and book-room, using the big table for reading, between meals, and having your bookshelves so built that they will be in harmony with your china shelves?
Another Adam mirror hangs above the bookshelves on the opposite wall.
If a certain recess in the wall suggests bookshelves, don't grudge the few dollars necessary to have the bookshelves built in!
Above all, in hard work among those quiet and friendly bookshelves he would find refuge from his bad name, and perhaps be able to establish for himself what he had hitherto striven for in vain--a character.
Jeffreys was thankful to find himself in a serene atmosphere, and despite all the agitation and excitement of the day, his heart warmed as he looked round on the bookshelves and their friendly occupants.
She looked up and saw that his glance was turned to the crowded bookshelves behind her.
Approaching one of these by a gravelled path he pushed open the door, and entered a sitting-room where a green-shaded lamp shone pleasantly onbookshelves and a crowded writing-table.
It was so small that he could reach the bookshelves on every side.
But I found Emerson, Parker, Holmes, Hawthorne, Whittier, and Lowell on their bookshelvesto gladden their leisure hours.
The bookshelves on the two remaining walls were made of plain oak; so were the desks and chairs that stood neatly arranged round the room in rows.
Bookshelves and Books The simplest bookshelves are those that hang from a nail on the wall.
With this object in view, she started out one morning to Stratford, hugging a catalogue wherein it was stated that among other things "bookshelves of artistic design" were to be "absolutely thrown away.
By the time that the tea was ready each knew a great deal of the family history of the other, and the bookshelves again came under discussion.
Now, look here; here'll be my study; I'll have bookshelvesbuilt in all round there and there and there.
The knowledge of the tragedy of Grace Hollister started me to seeking restlessly, on bookshelves and elsewhere, for a secret that forever eluded me, and forever led me on.
I always looked at them while I was reading in the nursery; they stood on the bookshelves which were my special property.
The pieces were beautifully grained, and when Theo beheld them he could in his mind's eye see the bookshelves shaped, smoothed, and rubbed down.
And isn't it a queer thing that only yesterday I told Mrs. Croyden I must buy some bookshelves for my office?
It seems so natural to us to set our bookshelves against a wall instead of at right angles to it, that it is difficult to realize that there was a time when such an arrangement was an innovation.
I do not mean by this sentence that nobody ever set bookshelvesagainst a wall before the third quarter of the sixteenth century.
I had discovered there the actual bookshelves and their contents[52].
When we reached the Hall, I took the carpenter with me, and had the bookshelves taken down.
Utterly perplexed, I believe, she turned away towards the bookshelves behind her.
The upper hall was lined with bookshelves reaching to the ceiling.
Bookshelves should never be put against the wall, nor the books on the floor.
Should mildew make its appearance, the books should be taken out, dried and aired, and the bookshelves thoroughly cleaned.
I do not refer to thieves, who, if they injure the owners, do no harm to the books themselves by merely transferring them from one set ofbookshelves to another.
Before the wide hearth stood two big winged chairs, and a set of bookshelves was filled with a carefully chosen collection of favourite books.
Its walls to a height of several feet were lined with bookshelves filled to overflowing, the whole representing no less than three or four thousand books; Roberta could hardly guess at their number.
From roof to floor the particular apartment in which he sat was lined with bookshelves filled with unprepossessing volumes and large black tin boxes.
Laurie passed round behind: the little room was empty except for the piano at the back, and two low bookshelves on either side of the fireless hearth.
At the other end of the room were two rickety card-tables and a stand of bookshelves where were displayed under dust four or five small volumes of M.
They beheld a very long hall, which was several hundred feet in length, apparently, and quite wide, and it was lined on both sides with bookshelves and books.
Thus three sides of each room were almost wholly unbroken, and they were all filled with bookshelves and books.
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