He had attracted Mr. Fortune's special attention by disclosing a serious scamping of finish in a set of desks and he had risen to head clerk when Sabre was at Oxford.
A blackboard on an easel looked across the desks at a wall into which was let a solid slab of blackboard.
Equal skill, science, art, and the experience of generations had produced the model of a master's desk which partnered the desks of the pupil.
Behind him the movable phalanx had again formed itself into close rank, but before him the wailing wearers of the white shirts were preparing for the commotion of his passage by grasping the upright stick of their movable desks in their hands.
But as they pointed, and as they moved their desks to make a pathway, they still sang and wailed continuously, never ceasing for an instant in their long, loud, melancholy song of prayer.
But first one Jew and then another moved their desks for him, so that he was forced to advance, and some among them pointed to the spot where Anton Trendellsohn was standing.
Seated at one of thedesks was young Longworth, who did not look round as Kenyon was announced.
And do you intend to put in desksand counter and everything of that sort here?
At numerous desks there were numerous clerks writing away for dear life.
The boy telephoned to somewhere, and presently a young girl appeared, and without a word, conducted Tavia through a long suite of offices, with crowds of clerks, desks and bookcases in every conceivable corner.
The shabby girl finished her orange, and picking up a small bundle, took one lingering look at the happy young girls at the writing desks and left the resting room.
Three of the former pupils lay on the desks dead, with white pieces of paper pinned on the white sheets that covered them, giving their names.
The central morgue was formerly a school-house, and the desks were used as biers for the dead bodies.
Three of thesedesks were appropriated by three very nice young gentlemen, all burning to begin their labours.
Mr. OʼToole danced round the room, caught up the desks like dolls, and dashed all their noses together.
There were four tall desksof deal uncovered; each had four legs, and resembled a naked Punch–and–Judy box.
Thoreau's critics justly aver that he severely arraigns his countrymen because they are not all Thoreaus--that they do not desert their farms and desks and shops and take to the woods.
He had a genius for that kind of a life; the most of us must stick to our farms and desks and shops and professions.
I had already gone over the desks to L, beginning backward, and that sufficed, so I returned to Alec, paid him for the bangles, and we separated.
I slowly strayed down the first line of desks and chairs, which were fully engaged.
The floor was richly carpeted, and the desks covered with crimson cloth, and, with the well- managed flood of light, the room was very complete.
Order is one important rule, and, that it may be acted upon, there is no overcrowding--the pupils being seated at substantial mahogany desks only holding two.
No employe was to be seen behind the brass lattice which topped an unpainted white wooden enclosure, breast-high, within which were tables and desks in stained black wood.
Full of these illusions he entered a cold bare room, furnished with two desks on rollers, some shabby armchairs, a threadbare carpet, and curtains that were much neglected.
The ledgers, the accounts, and the desks were moved into the rooms above the shop and the back-shop.
Where desks are adjustable, are short children seated in low desks, or are children seated according to class or according to discipline exigencies without regard to size of desk?
The cat chases the rat in and out of the circle, among desks and over seats, till the "rat" is caught, when a new cat and rat are chosen.
Then the long desks became the green tables where Flossie gambled with fate; trying--trying--trying to force the invisible hand.
Flossie was one of fifty girls who sat, row after row, at long flat desks covered with green cloth.
There were a great many desks and tables about the hall, with clerks writing at them, and people coming and going with passports and permits in their hands.
The Examiner played with his watch-chain, and looked at everybody, running his eyes rapidly along the different desks and forms.
The sixteen desks were ranged in even rows, Mr Prichard's being at the opposite end, it so happened, to Harry's place.
Desks were being opened and closed, and lessons repeated at the top of the voice.
I do not know, however, but that we ought to appoint a committee to examine them; for perhaps all the boys would not be honest, and report their desks as they really are.
A number of little girls began to amuse themselves in recess with running about among the desks in pursuit of one another, and they told me, in excuse for it, that they did not know that it was "against the rule.
I think," proceeds the teacher, "the boys will be honest, and report their desks just as they are.
We may start the desks from their places," said one.
I shall give you all an opportunity to examine your desks presently.
William, I will thank you to write upon a piece of paper, that on the 8th of December, the subject of order in the desks was brought up, and that the boys resolved on making an effort to improve the school in this respect.
I do not know what the condition of your desks is.
The desks were soon closed, and every face in the room was turned towards the master, with a look of fixed attention.
She ought to ascertain whether they are punctual at school, and regular in their habits,--whether their desks are neat and well arranged, and their exercises carefully executed.
Let us take, for example, the case alluded to under the last head,--the plan of effecting a reform in regard to keeping desks in order.
You may all examine your desks then, and decide whether they are in order, or not.
She is to take care that all the daily wants of her section are supplied,--that all have pens and paper, and desks of suitable height.
As soon as the desks are all examined, those who have found theirs in a condition which does not satisfy them, are requested to rise and be counted.
How many desks do you think will be found to be disorderly, when we come to make the examination?
And as I walked behind the circle of desks I learned that these men of tact and sympathy, too old for active service, were doing their part in the war by helping to soften with kindly offices the blow of fate.
My first impression was of a wide arc of desks that circling from wall to wall seemed to be a barrier between a number of gentle spoken elderly gentlemen and a vague mass of people that pressed forward.
Chairs, tables, desksand books, to the value of two hundred dollars.
Chairs, tables, and desks of the value of two hundred dollars, and the library belonging to the judgment debtor, also musical instruments in actual use in the family.
The boys filed into the schoolroom in solemn silence, and took their seats at the desks and along the brown tables.
He tried to snatch a piece of paper off my desk, a blank sheet, it was, and I thought the boys were doing that just to be smart, taking things off the girls' desks and seeing what they could do without being caught.
There was a whisking of something on several desks as she and some one else passed down parallel aisles at the same time, she to return, the other to go to the pencil sharpener.
They were pretendin' to look at each other's papers and grab a few off the desks and Jakey grabbed yours.
They ushered the man and woman into the beamed and paneled council chambers and sat them in thick chairs before the wall of polished wood desks across which stared the line of faces, silent and waiting.
Again they sat in the thick chairs before the wall of desks with the faces of the council looking across it like defenders.
The faces along the line of desks were smoothing out; the terror in them was fading away.
At one of the side desks near the platform sat Nancy Caldwell.
Some critics might have considered the coating of the floor and the desks a work of supererogation.
There came a time when even their desks adjoined and were not put asunder.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "desks" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: band; brass; ensemble; group; orchestra; quartet; quintet; sextet; strings; symphony; trio
