A doll lay sprawled on the landing as he made his way upstairs, and in the bed chambers empty chiffonier drawers gaped as though from surprise at their hasty evacuation.
I had myself three such derelicts, one a chiffonier which had originally been grained in imitation of mahogany, but which had got chipped and worn until it looked worth nothing more than firing.
Betty's glance followed Eleanor's to the two drawers in the chiffonier and one in the dressing table which were tilted wide open, their contents looked as if some one had stirred them up with a big spoon.
Her little gold-linked purse was on the chiffonier right beside her pin and it wasn't touched, though it was just stuffed with bills.
The rosewood chiffonier was surmounted by a silver cup, a prize from some sporting club.
I had hidden your letters in thechiffonier where my jewels are.
At the time of my life of which I am now writing it was in the evening, at dusk, after my return from school, that I busied myself carrying the little chiffonier drawers.
The Louis XVth chiffonier was very much revered, for it had belonged to great-grandmothers.
My mother and sister were seated beside a chiffoniernear the door, from which place they had kept watch over my grandmother during her illness.
That work-basket belonging to my mother, and the little drawers of the old chiffonier are, I doubt not, the things that I will part with most regretfully when the time comes for me to go into the world.
To bring the drawers of the chiffonier to mamma was the joy and pride of my childhood, and there has been no change in my feelings for those little compartments since that time.
A chiffonier stands against the back wall on the right.
She rises and goes to the table and sees there are no candles, walks to the chiffonier and gets them and places them in the candlesticks, then lights the candles, muttering a ceremonial Hebrew benediction.
And I stuffed the journal into the chiffonier drawer from whence he had taken the hundred and thirty francs which he never paid back.
Open that chiffonier drawer, which contains a hundred and thirty-five francs, take a hundred and thirty and leave me five.
Jerry picked up the letter from the chiffonier and handed it to Ronny.
Twice during the progress of her dressing she picked up the note from the chiffonier and re-read it with knitted brows.
There was a very pretty old Sheraton chiffonier in one corner of the room, which contained many old-world drawers and queer hiding-places.
Do you know," exclaimed Kitty, "that I cannot find the key of the chiffonierwhere the orderly-book is kept.
The chiffonier was old, and the locks not of the strongest.
Captain Richmond opened the drawer of the chiffonier and examined it carefully.
The chiffonier contained many drawers, some shallow and some deep.
The room was in Chinese blue and black, tea table, chiffonier and two chairs painted a dull black, and the walls tinted a soft deep gray blue.
When Jean opened the door she found her piling the contents of the desk and chiffonier drawers helter-skelter into blankets.
Glancing at the little clock on the chiffonier she exclaimed in dismay.
From the top drawer of the chiffonier protruded a hand-embroidered collar, and a long black silk tie hung down the middle of the piece of furniture, giving it the effect of being draped in mourning.
I'd like to have a davenport bed, and I want a chiffonier and a dressing table to match.
Presently he came up-stairs and tiptoed into the room in clumsy fashion, for fear of waking the baby, in his quest for a handkerchief in a chiffonier drawer.
He missed his handkerchief, and rose and went over, with a swaying unsteadiness, to his chiffonier drawer in the farther corner to get one.
You know how dear Vera wanted a chiffonier like that and how we had a dispute about it.
At the mention of the chiffonier and dressing table Berg involuntarily changed his tone to one of pleasure at his admirable domestic arrangements.
I went in out of curiosity, you know, and there is a small chiffonier and a dressing table.
Presently he came up-stairs and tiptoed into the room in clumsy fashion, for fear of waking the baby, in his quest of a pair of gloves in a chiffonier drawer.
I guess that's all right, Phil," he said, and turned round to the chiffonier and blew his nose furiously.
Amzi stood before his chiffonier in his shirt sleeves, trying to make a bow of his white tie.
Do you wish the chiffonieror the bureau this year, Anne, for your things?
Will you look in the top drawer of the chiffonier and see if I put my gold beads in that green box?
Without losing an instant the old detective opened the drawers of this chiffonier and began disturbing things as little as possible.
On the top of a chiffonier was Alice's picture in an elaborate gilt frame, which did not bear out the doctor's assurance that he had got over being love-sick.
He would, he reflected, get them to take the other chiffonier and the other bed out.
Dobbins had decorated the top of his chiffonier with two photographs and Myron examined them.
I've taken the chiffonier nearest the window," said Myron, disregarding the levity.
She tucked the letter away in the top drawer of her chiffonier with the optimistic opinion that it would not be very long before she could frankly tell her chums of its contents.
A peculiar expression appeared in Marjorie's eyes as she went to her chiffonierand drew from it Miss Hamilton's letter.
Imagine a chiffonier with the base of dark wood, like walnut, and the top of pine or maple, or a like light-colored wood.
Tonight her ten thousand dollars are laid carefully away in a glove-box, in one of her chiffonier drawers, in her own private bedroom.
But on the chiffonier was a drop-globe, and with one quick turn of the wrist the room was flooded with tinted light.
The intruder and thief fell back, step by step, gropingly, until she touched the chiffonieronce more.
But that business about the chiffonier key--that was foolish, very foolish.
Don't save anything but the family papers, which are in the top drawer of my chiffonier in the middle room.
She goes tochiffonier and takes out a case which contains a Russian Annae order.
It contained a small bed, a chiffonier and dresser, a table, some chairs and a trunk.
Beside it lay the photograph of Ruth Morton, which he had, he remembered, left on his chiffonier while putting on his workman's clothes that morning.
When I was something more than half through I pawed about in the air head down in a vain effort to reach a little chiffonier in Wilhelmine's room.
There was fresh white matting on the floor with a new rag rug before the white enamelled bedstead with its clean new mattress, a chiffonier and washstand of oak, with two chairs, and a tiny round table that could be folded to save room.
The soft cream curtains that the girls had hemmed shaded the window, and the linen covers were on the chiffonier and washstand.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "chiffonier" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
