From the expression of Mrs. Calverley's countenance it was clear that something had gone wrong, and the sharp lady's-maid scarcely needed any information on the point when she observed that several of the escritoire drawers were pulled out.
The copy of the famous bureau or escritoire in the Louvre, known as the "Bureau de St. Cloud," was made by permission of the Emperor Napoleon III.
I had never suspected her of being actually a spy, although the discovery of the stolen convention in her escritoire had lent colour to that view.
It was the actual document which had been so ingeniously purloined, for it reposed in the escritoire still in its official envelope.
Then it occurred to me that in that very escritoire she kept all her correspondence, and it was more than probable that I might learn the truth from some of the letters therein contained.
Unaccountable and astounding as was her sudden flight, the discovery I had made among the papers in her escritoire was even more amazing.
After a time I roused myself, and taking from the broken escritoire the other letters it contained, five in number, examined them eagerly beneath the light.
And you forgot that in your escritoire there remained the stolen agreement?
Taking a lamp from the escritoire in the back parlor, he went from room to room, finding nowhere the object he sought, and at length became alarmed.
On this had Iain the superb escritoire of her Highness, made of Venetian glass, in which the ducal arms were painted; and also the magnificent album of her deceased lord, Duke Philip.
She moved to an escritoire and drew forth from it a roll of notes and gave it to him.
He glanced at these and other memorials of his travels; then, with a sigh for what he might have done and been, but for his infatuation for the dark-eyed beauty who controlled him, he stepped to the escritoire and took out the packet.
An excellent example of a piece with cabriole legs is the charming little Marie Antoinette cylinder-fronted marqueterie escritoire in the Jones Collection (illustrated below).
In the well of the escritoire is a large envelope sealed and addressed to your name.
He went to his escritoireand pressed a secret spring, and a drawer flew out, and he laid something on the table.
What can there be in that escritoirewhich she desires to conceal?
Besides, I knew that his escritoirecontained something over two millions in gold and bank-notes.
It would not do to touch the escritoire of a dying man.
Then those letters which we found just now in the escritoire are from your mother, mademoiselle?
C Out from Paul's escritoirebehold escape The hoarded treasure!
The count's escritoire contains the vial of medicine of which he drank a portion on the day of his death.
The escritoirecontained two millions of francs, and the money has disappeared.
Chalusse's death, two million francs that had been placed in hisescritoire for safe keeping, could not be found.
Vantrasson, as the man is called, knows the management of the house, and he will break open the escritoire and take the vial away.
Meanwhile the young lady's hands moved over the rounded cover of the escritoire as though endeavouring to open it.
At the escritoire stood his fairy-lady, and at the sound of the closing door she turned and extended her arms, a world of delicate welcome in her gesture and her face.
It was then discovered that a large purse of gold, and a diamond cross, which the escritoire contained, were gone.
Soon as that exclamation escaped from his lips, he flew to the escritoire as if instinctively, and, joining Wilhelmina in her occupation, tumbled its whole contents upon the floor in a trice.
I have here in my escritoire all papers relative to the business, and copies of all correspondence which passed between father and Colonel Hite.
From an inner locked drawer of his escritoire he took a small metal box, and from a number of papers contained therein he selected a letter which he examined closely.
But there still remained in the secret drawer of the Major's escritoire those documentary proofs against "A.
She pulled open the drawers of the escritoire to search for money, but finding none, was too wary to carry off aught else.
The drawers of the escritoire stood open, with their contents in great disorder, a circumstance which at once suggested robbers.
But before going to see who it was this time he took the precaution of once more putting Monty's pistol away in the escritoire drawer.
Without even taking the trouble to rise, Esdaile pushed back the lamp, opened the upper drawer of the escritoire as he sat, and from the corner of it drew out and placed on the table a 7.
Haward, who had seated himself at his escritoire and was writing, turned his head.
Milor was sitting at a gigantic escritoire placed squarely in front of the window.
Croyden went to the escritoireand took the bonds from one of the drawers.
When I go home, to-night, I shall return the letter to the escritoire where I found it, and forget it.
I found it by accident--in a secret compartment of an escritoireat Clarendon," he answered.
She kept them in a mahogany escritoire with copper sphinxes at the corners, and she always used a particular tone when she said: "Rosalie, bring me my souvenir-drawer.
A rosewood escritoire was opposite the mantelpiece, on which, under a glass shade, was a clock made in the time of the Empire.
Her eyes fell on the escritoirewith the sphinxes' heads, the guardian of the "souvenirs.
She opened the escritoire and took out the letters; they had been carefully tied into ten little packets, which were laid side by side in the lowest drawer.
Lukstein was seated at an escritoire as I entered the room.
I backed to the escritoire and repeated the charge.
And there was a proud light on her face too as she rose and quickly went to a small escritoire close by.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "escritoire" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
