Quin was a careless dresser of his characters; and he had a sharp sarcasm, but not a lasting ill-feeling, for those who pretended to better taste, and gave it practical application.
There was a monumental dresser too, with a liver-coloured marble top.
The cob of coal had kindled to a lively flame, which flashed and went out, and the quick black shadows of the chairs and the table and the jugs on the dresser were leaping about the room like elves.
Looking for candlestick and matches, he went from table to dresser, from dresser to table, and from table back to dresser, doing the same thing over and over again, and not perceiving that he was going round and round.
Leaving the dresser she recommenced that rapid walking to and fro which was working such havoc in the nerves of the man in the room below her.
Having one day to amputate a thumb, I desired the dresser to remain at the hospital and administer chloroform.
Of the other two, one I made a compounder, and the other a dresser of wounds.
In spite of the dresser the bone sometimes unites, usually at a more or less obtuse angle; but not uncommonly, especially in compound or comminuted fractures, the pressure is taken off too late, and the whole limb mortifies.
She would tiptoe to the dresserand bring out a basket, once filled with the socks of her brothers.
But even Nuta, my wife's old dresser at the theater, will tell you that laughter is precious.
Then he got down from the dresser and went away; but, Laura, if he had wished more than anything in the world to marry Dorothea, he might have looked just so.
When nineteen he became the pupil of a doctor in Shrewsbury, also acting as dresser in the infirmary there.
Then he unfolded his arms and' stretching them sideways gripped with each hand the ledge of the dresser against which he leant.
A single electric bulb swinging over the dresser was alight.
He laid the note on the dresser and, bending under the electric light, studied it.
On the dresser lay a New York newspaper printed within the last month.
The detective recalled Waters' story of the sight he had seen on the dresser when he invaded the room, and he looked at them closely.
It may be a well-padded box, a dresser drawer, a clothes basket, or a large market basket.
But I must hurry on--" As she said these words there was a knock, and a dresser entered.
The dresser followed her mistress, and he was left alone.
Within the room there was a wide white bed, and a mahogany dresserwith a scarf with crocheted trimming, above the dresser was an old steel engraving of Samson destroying the temple.
The management has been changed," Dresser said gruffly.
You've got one of your crowd on your hands," Dresser muttered, and edged off into the mob.
She's as good as those girls Dresser is always talking to her about.
Spoiling the Philistines, you see," Dresser added, making an effort to chime in with Sommers's irony.
Sommers shrieked with laughter, and patted Dresseron the back.
It makes you beautiful to be happy," Dresser said, with clumsy self-consciousness.
There's plenty of swag in the place," Dresser remarked.
I guess Carson didn't take much interest in giving him the right tip, or perhaps Dresser didn't give us what he knew straight out.
I'm secretary of the central committee," Dresser replied, with some importance.
Dresser thought her "a very advanced young woman, who had ideas, a wide reader.
Dresser did not reply; he kept on with Sommers, as if to express his sympathy over a misfortune.
Dresser had been speaking at meetings in Pullman, with apparent success, and his mind had been full of "the industrial war," as he called it.
The two women listened open-mouthed to his story of the strike, and feeling where the sympathy lay Dresser spoke largely to them.
The Investor's Monthly interested him: he spoke of becoming its managing editor, hinting at his influence with Carson; and when the doctor jeered, Dresser offered him a position on the paper.
Major Graham, pretending to be very hungry, and looking slyly at Laura; "It cannot possibly be intended for our little hair-dresser here!
Lady Harriet, impatiently, "did some hair-dresser come to the house and rob you?
There is a window, a settle, and a large dresser on the right side of the room, and a great bowl of primroses on the sill of the window.
MAIRE BRUIN opens it and then goes to the dresser and fills a porringer with milk and hands it through the door and takes it back empty and closes the door.
We know that Amos Dresser was no insurrectionist though he was accused of being so, and on this false accusation was publicly whipped in Nashville in the midst of a crowd of infuriated slaveholders.
To get the dresser out of the farm where it had played its part for generations, the farm door jambs had to be removed, so I was informed, but it just fitted my hall, which was all that really mattered.
Do you know I love old furniture, and on occasions when there is a general dust up in the drawing-room I am walked past an elm dresser on which I have caught sight of a pair of Sheffield plate snuffers.
Another dresser was reported to me as having come from Wales, and I bought it from a Mr. Jones, and although I had not seen this until it came to me, it was good old oak sure enough.
The next antique furniture I desired was an oak dresser to show off the pewter which had been accumulating, and I was fortunate in obtaining one, which originally had come from Wales, without delay.
The cat's head had dropped out of the line of sunlight, and she had coiled herself up on the dresseramong a disorderly litter of crockery ware.
The dresser is now most familiar as necessary plenishing of the kitchen, in which it is invariably a fixture.
The dresser conformed to a model which varied only in detail and in ornament.
The hair-dresser who dresses us on court days inquired .
On the dresser were the files and paste and buffers with which he had kept his nails so pink and smooth.
The dresser was an old goods box, stood on end and covered with white lawn.
He's shooting from behind a bigdresser in the middle of the room.
They used Maxine's powder and dropped it about on the tidy dresser and the floor.
Ma Minick's picture on the dresser with her mouth sort of pursed to make it look small.
There was a narrow white enamel bed and a tinydresser and a table.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dresser" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: attendant; bureau; cabinet; cupboard; orderly; table
