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Example sentences for "her desk"

  • She was at her desk, writing hard, with her brows knit into an elaborate pattern of cross-stitching.

  • She walked into the room and sat down at her desk, with a strange appearance of haste, at which the nurse marvelled.

  • Then she folded the letter, slipped it into an envelope, sealed it, addressed it, and put it in her desk.

  • She decided to put it out of her mind, and went to her desk, saying, "I'll straighten out my accounts.

  • It was then that she implored Mrs. Houghton to get the letter out of her desk.

  • When she had blotted and torn out the check she examined it carefully and placed it near him on the edge of her desk.

  • Since we looked at her desk last a file-hook has been added to its furniture, and on it hang impaled a few cuttings from agricultural newspapers.

  • Mrs. Owen rose and transferred a pile of paperbound books from a shelf to her desk.

  • And all the next day she roamed about the house, haunted with the consciousness of where his letter lay locked in her desk.

  • All the afternoon she bent at her desk, poring over his letter.

  • But after Colonel Arran had gone she went slowly to her room, sat down at her desk, sat there a long, long while thinking.

  • But Nance's head was down on her desk, and she was past smiling.

  • She smiled before she knew it, and the next instant he was perched on the corner of her desk, demanding rapturously to know what she was doing there, and swearing that he had recognized her the moment he entered the room.

  • A step in the hall sent them flying in opposite directions, Nance back to her desk, and Mac into the inner office, where his father found him a moment later, apparently absorbed in a pamphlet on factory inspection.

  • All the other missiles had been dexterously cleared away; but Geraldine, not realising any necessity for doing so, had failed to remove the one sign of the battle that had fallen near her desk.

  • Geraldine made a movement towards the appointed spot, but before she could reach it, Jack Pym rose abruptly in her desk.

  • Her face grew stern as she held the paper out to the girl who was standing beside her desk.

  • Then, as a quick step sounded in the passage outside, she sat up straight in her desk in an attitude of sudden attention.

  • Only Geraldine, new to scenes like this, not realising what this sudden transformation might mean, was still sitting twisted round in her desk in the position from which she had been watching the uproar in interested amusement.

  • Opening a drawer of her desk, Grace took out a paper-covered booklet and handed it to the freshman.

  • Stepping into her office she reached eagerly for the pile of mail lying on the sliding shelf of her desk.

  • It was with a sense of desperate relief that she separated an envelope, bearing the letter head of Overton College from the little pile of letters on the slide of her desk, and opened it.

  • The postman's ring, however, caused her to hurry back to her office where the maid was just depositing her morning mail on the slide of her desk.

  • I can't bear to think of their leaving me," smiled Grace, looking up from the account book on her desk.

  • Afterwards I was told that when the Huns began to bomb Amiens badly she completely broke down and cried and sobbed at her desk.

  • He had asked her if she had it in her desk or among her clothes, and her very soul revolted from the suspicion so implied.

  • What mattered it now who had stolen her key, and gone like a thief to her desk, and laid this plot for her destruction?

  • This was the letter which Mary found the next morning on her desk in the little office room into which Roger had been shown on the night of the wedding.

  • She felt a surging sense of sympathy, which set her trembling as she had trembled when she had touched his letter as it had laid on her desk, but when she spoke her voice was steady.

  • She sighed, and going to her desk, took out of it the letter which she had received in the morning mail.

  • The Principal was seated at her desk writing.

  • On three golden afternoons she had watched the others run across the shrubbery towards the playing-fields, and, taking her dejected way to her classroom, had spent the time writing at her desk.

  • She was surprised, therefore, to see her mother-in-law sitting at her desk, with a number of businesslike papers before her.

  • Mrs. Wappinger bustled away, crumpling the notes she found in her desk into a little ball, which she forced into Diane's hand.

  • His grandmother sat over her accounts at her desk in a corner among her curios.

  • Leaving Mart to go on with his harangue and confirm the mother and his wife in their view of her utter lack of appreciation of her brother's noble nature, the girl walked wearily away to her desk at the library.

  • If not at her desk, she might easily have seen him sauntering leisurely up the street, might have seen him cross, and, divining that his object was to see her and perhaps renew his offensive talk, have taken prompt measures to resist.

  • There she was at her desk in the library, and looking far younger, happier, and better than when he saw her last, and the frank pleasure in her face was good to see as she welcomed him more in manner than in words.

  • She crossed the room to her desk, to write the letter which was to bring new courage to the anxious, exiled invalid.

  • Swiftly Mrs. Farrington gathered up her papers and shut them into her Desk.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    always called; gray squirrel; her and; her appearance; her bedroom; her conduct; her daughter; her eyes; her face; her lap; her mouth; her only; her self; her shoulder; her side; her the; her window; here because; here below; here give; hereby amended; hereditary taint; heroic deeds; heroic verse; lapis lazuli; other fishes