You want these drawers opened, their locks picked?
So reverently, and as one who approaches a long disused shrine containing promise of strange and precious relics, he opened the shallow drawers and examined their contents.
The remaining drawers contained a collection of objects, miscellaneous in character but united in the thought (as he divined) of whoso placed them there, side by side, by some exquisitely tender sentiment.
What is the use of going over the same ground, or in examining cabinets and drawers for false backs and false bottoms, when others have done it for us?
The viceroy felt he was in a false position, and merely said that if she ever danced without drawers again she should have a month's imprisonment on bread and water.
The first evening she danced she was loudly applauded by the pit, for as she did the rebaltade she shewed her drawers up to her waist.
I did not like the tone with which these words were spoken, and I went up to the chest of drawers where I kept my pistols, and bade him go and leave me in peace.
In Spain any actress who shews her drawers on the stage is liable to a fine of a crown.
Yes, but I haven't broken your law, for no one can have seen my drawers as I took the precaution not to put any on.
She danced without any drawers at all, and did her rebaltade as before, which caused such an effervescence of high spirits in the house as had never been known at Barcelona.
They bend over him to see that he sleeps peacefully, and replace his sweet arm beneath the coverlet, and they open the drawers to count how many little vests he has.
He popped off the bed and opened some drawers to have a look at his old garments.
Now therefore ye are cursed, and there shall none of you be freed from being bondmen, and hewers of wood and drawers of water for the house of my God.
And Joshua made them that day hewers of wood and drawers of water for the congregation, and for the altar of the LORD, even unto this day, in the place which he should choose.
And the princes said unto them, Let them live; but let them be hewers of wood and drawers of water unto all the congregation; as the princes had promised them.
Three long drawers at the bottom contained children's garments, in which the children might rummage.
When received they were treasured, and packed away in old chests or the secret drawers of old secretaries, thence to arise to accuse or defend, or entertain the curious in future generations.
A large set of drawers with several shelves on top stood between the windows, and a wooden settle was ranged along the wall.
One of them had drawers at the bottom, and the shelves above held various heirlooms, and quaint old silver, with the punch bowl over two hundred years old, bearing the Crown mark.
The elder turned to a chest of drawers and took out an apron of homespun blue-and-white check, a straight, bag-like garment with plain armholes and a cord run in at the neck.
On each chimney-piece are hooks to hang firearms, and at one side curious little drawers are set for pipes and tobacco.
I have seen these tobacco drawersin several old taverns.
Then a chest of drawers with two of the brass handles off, and a tawdry, broken china inkstand placed on it by way of ornament for the top.
He descended instead to his study, lighted his reading-lamp, and then, opening a bureau, took from one of the drawers in it the letter which Nanina had written to him.
It stood on the chest ofdrawers in the nursery, looking off into the corners of the room, neglected.
When she got home Mamma took down the toy lamb from the chest of drawers and brought it to her.
Sarah was sacred and holy, crouching under the chest of drawers with her eyes gleaming in the darkness.
The basket was full of tiny garments made of the white stuff, petticoats, drawers and nightgown, sewn with minute tucks and edged with lace.
He rummaged for a while through thedrawers of two tables, carefully restoring the contents, but discovering nothing that aroused his suspicions.
Swiftly he went through the dresser drawers but without satisfactory result.
Belonging to these later Jacobean days are chests of drawers of oak with finely panelled fronts.
The shape and design of the drawer handles are frequently found in nests of drawers of this period, and there was a singular fondness shown at this time for numbers of small drawers and pigeon-holes in furniture.
In the illustration showing this piece when open, the rich effect of the walnut in the middle panel may be noticed; the contemporary brass handles to the nest of drawers are typical of this style.
Hinges and lock escutcheons and handles to drawers must not be neglected in order to acquire a sound working knowledge of the peculiarities of the different periods.
Another piece of the same period is the cupboard with carved doors and drawers beneath (illustrated p.
The middle portion, consisting of the three drawers and the three cupboards above, up to and including the shelf partition at the top, is the only old part.
The middle portion, consisting of the two drawers and three panelled cupboards above, is genuine old carved oak.
On both sides the sea came in at the wounded planks, but we stuffed two or three drawers and shirts in, and so stopped the leaks for the time.
You cannot put a shelf or chest of drawers in your body, and no more can you make a convenience closet of your watch-coat.
How is it that the Catholic population, as a rule, are merely the hewers of wood anddrawers of water?
The oak drawers of the robing room contain sacerdotal raiment to the tune of two thousand pounds, and the banners, many in number, and of richest work, must also represent a small fortune.
From the chest of drawers he brought forth a snowy shirt, which, from the piece of cardboard shoved down its throat and the numerous pins which Chester extracted impatiently, one could surmise was fresh from the laundry.
From an ancient, battered chest ofdrawers he carefully took a tissue-paper package containing a Union Forever Suit, whose label proclaimed that "From Factory to You, No Human Hand Touches It.
With intense seriousness, he regarded it for a moment; apparently it passed his searching examination, for he turned again to the chest of drawers and drew forth a smaller package, from which he extracted new socks of lustrous blue.
Mr. Critchlow put the tray on a white-clad chest of drawers near the door, and then he shut the door, with no ceremony.
They had, moreover, a chest of drawers with a curved front, of which structure Constance occupied two short drawers and one long one, and Sophia two long drawers.
All his clothes were contained in two long drawers and a short one.
She removed it and put on another one of black satin embroidered with yellow flowers, which, by merely inserting her arm into the chamber, she had taken from off the chest of drawers in her bedroom.
He rummaged about in the drawers of a table at the far end of the room and presently returned to the fireplace carrying a piece of cold meat.
The Russian produced a long knife from one of the drawers and cut the piece of meat in two, handing half to Jack.
For seats, the two pairs of steps laid on their sides parallel to each other, about eight feet apart and at right angles to the fireplace, with the long plank placed across; and the upturned pails and the drawers of the dresser.
Within was a bar, with a beautiful person keeping it, with drawers (waiters), and gentlemen sitting drinking round a tavern table.
After lunch she brought the drawers from the chest of drawers in the bedroom into the kitchen and washed them and dried them in the sun.
Excited, impelled by a feverish desire to be outside, she would stay long enough to embrace me and to open the drawers to see whether my things were in order.
Placed amid the other rare and beautiful objects on a large round table near him, was a dwarf cabinet in ebony and silver, containing coins of all shapes and sizes, set out in little drawers lined with dark purple velvet.
Her ladyship sat up late, reading letters and burning them, and emptying her drawers and cabinets of little things she prized, as if she never expected to return to Blackwater Park.
Hewers of wood and drawers of water shall they be: they are condemned already.
But the drawers are full of valuables, jewellery--curios--all kinds of things which could easily be turned into money.
Do you have any concealed compartments or drawers built into your steel hide?
The thing had more drawers in it than a battery of cash registers.
The drawers slid shut and its metal hide was as smooth as ever.
One is pulling a chest of drawers on a cart, and it seems to have a whole house behind it.
Men in the black-and-white, but untidy, with the wide white drawers left hanging out over the black gaiters, surged here and there.
From this sticks out a short kilt or frill, of the same black frieze, a band of which goes between the legs, between the full loosedrawers of coarse linen.
The drawersare banded below the knee into tight black frieze gaiters.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "drawers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
