There were doll-temples in the store, and boats filled with sailors, and lovely ivory furniture for the doll-houses.
The chief manufactures are furnitureand upholstery.
From most of the houses the furniture and wall paintings have been taken away to the museums.
There were other women and girls present--employees of the furniture factory--but it must be confessed that even without their support Phil would not have been embarrassed.
I've politely turned over my court-room for a meeting of the furniture company employees this afternoon.
The collapse of the furniturecompany might prelude a local panic, and farmers and country merchants collected in groups along Main Street to discuss the situation.
The best of the old furniture had been carried off to adorn the town house, so that when Fred succeeded to the ownership it was a pretty bare and comfortless place.
The ice cracked ominously and Amzi began talking about thefurniture he was buying for the new bank.
Rose showed me how to make that sponge cake," Phil would say; or, if the furniture in their little parlor had been rearranged, it was very likely Nan who had suggested the change.
A truck heavily loaded with boxes and crates of furniture moved slowly through Franklin Street toward the railway.
On March 28 the whistle of the Sugar Creek Furniture Company failed to rouse the town.
The county treasurer who followed the judge found Amzi disposed to be facetious over the reports that other failures were likely to follow the embarrassment of the furniture company.
The Sugar Creek Furniture Company is a year behind time; I thought it would go down last year.
I've got to appoint a receiver for the furniture company in a few minutes.
That's some of the furniture they had in their town house here.
For the furniture I had in the vinegar-bottle looks very shabby now that it is in the pretty little cottage.
He also saw to it that the furniture in his little house and the cooking utensils rhymed as nearly as possible, though that too was oftentimes a difficult matter to bring about, and required a vast deal of thought and hard study.
On entering the salon, the furniture of which was of the most costly kind, they found a rich repast prepared for them, consisting of every delicacy.
A big cannery had been built down near the river, where truck gardens flourished, and there was a newfurniture factory at the edge of the freight yards.
If the furniturefactory was a mixed blessing, what of the cannery?
Homer made a sweeping gesture at the floor and the few articles of furniture the tent contained that could be improvised as chairs.
The furniture was minimal, but there was sitting room on chair, stool and bed for the seven of them.
He privately purchased a neat little cottage outside town, and had all the furniture (for he attended the auction, and arranged that every article of it should be bought in,) conveyed to it.
I make no doubt he knew the furniturewas not unpacked; and, if he could only have got in, he would have carried it all off before morning: he must have known Mr. Tweasle was not at home.
He is gone now to order in furniture from C---- both for himself and us.
Nothing could surpass the conveniency of the cabins, or the elegance with which the fittings and furniture were designed.
The white front of the dolls'-house had swung open and the furniture was disturbed as though some child had been interrupted in his play.
Howsoever, with the maids' help, I gathered into it whatsoever furniture in the house was most handsome, and the wenches made wreaths of ivy and laurel, which we hung round the bare walls.
Supposing that some article of furniture had accidentally fallen, the noise of which had been rendered more noticeable by the perfect stillness of the night, I pursued my occupation, until I felt disposed for sleep.
She applies it both within and without: at one moment giving pages on the scenery of the Apennines, at another paragraphs on the furniture of her abbeys and castles.
The writer has, for her time, a more than promising sense of the incongruity between Empire dress and furniture and the style of George II.
The furniture of this apartment was simple, but comfortable and in good taste.
The furniture is neither artistic nor elegant, nor is it, on the other hand, either pretentious or in bad taste.
I couldn't sleep all night listening to the buckets of rain dashing against the house and thinking of Hank drunk out there in it with the furniture and wagons in splinters and the horses dead maybe.
The parlor was a stiff room with stiff furniture and stiff family portraits.
With his box of tools and his cunning hands Hen had taken old, broken but still beautiful heirloom furniture and refashioned it into new life and beauty.
It was Grandma who broke the silence softly: "You had some of the old furniture moved there in the corner but the rest is just as it was forty years ago--when I was here last.
The wagons from the country came for the things Monday morning; there were two big loads (everything else had been sold), and in the country home we expected to find new and plain furniture that had already been sent from the stores.
The larger and the smaller seminary, the priests' house, the chapel barely completed, were all consumed, with the exception of some furniture and a little plate and tapestry.
If you have noticed his dress, his furniture and his table, you must be aware that he was a foe to pomp and splendour.
He practises this poverty in his house, in his manner of living, and in the matter of furniture and servants; for he has but one gardener, whom he lends to poor people when they have need of him, and a valet who formerly served M.
All the furs and furniture of the Lower Town were in the seminary," wrote the prelate; "a number of families had taken refuge there, even that of the intendant.
Even a clean tablecloth was produced; a piece of furniture which he had probably never seen before, and now eyed wistfully, doubtless taking it for a sheet.
The hacienda has the usual quantum of furniture belonging to these country houses; and it is certainly no longer a matter of surprise to us, that rich proprietors take little interest in embellishing them.
Last evening we had a very pretty ball in the house of the French Minister, where all the Paris furniture was very effective.
Found his excellency in a large hall without furniture or ornament of any sort, without even chairs, and altogether in a style of more than republican simplicity.
All the furniture we ordered from the United States, arrived some time ago, a mass of legs and arms.
Their furniture went to pay the quarter's rent due to the Squire, and the cottage, six months later, passed into the occupation of Simon Hancock, waterman.
The room was very simple, for she loved the well-polished black-walnut furniture among which she had lived all her married life, and nothing would have induced her to change it for new, however beautiful.
The furniture and hangings, all new, belonged to Messrs.
You'll have all your father's furniture and books to put about,' said Aunt Dot, continuing in optimism.
Except books; thousands of books, and the old charming furniture of the Bloomsbury house.
The Emperor’s path was impeded at every turn by remnants of broken furniture flung from windows, and various articles thrown away by the plunderers to make room for more delicate or costly booty.
Buildings were shaken to their foundations, walls divided, roofs cracked, and threatened to crush all below them, and all furniture was broken or displaced.
Broken furniture was scattered about the passages; fragments of china and expensive pictures, torn out of their frames, were scattered to the winds.
The streets are encumbered with furniture and other wares; on all sides one hears the songs of drunken soldiers and the shouts of the pillagers fighting among themselves.
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