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Example sentences for "reading desk"

  • White covers of bleached muslin covered the pulpit and reading desk, to which were attached fringes made of the needles of the pine, by Miss Bostwick, afterwards Mrs. Leroy Buck.

  • Reading desk, a desk to support a book while reading; esp.

  • Eight folios are occupied with an enumeration of the "good works" of this liberal monk: among the items we find the sum of forty pounds having been expended on a reading desk, and four pounds for writing four Antiphoners.

  • For its greater security it was frequently chained to a reading desk, and if a duplicate copy was lent to a neighboring monastery they required a large deposit, or a formal bond for its safe return.

  • This refers to the custom then prevalent of chaining their books, especially their choice ones, to the library shelf, or to a reading desk.

  • A reading desk on the opposite side, standing upon a small platform, suffices for the pulpit.

  • At one side of the chancel arch there is a reading desk, which looks piously at a pulpit, made just like it, on the opposite side.

  • Brown; and to the left of this there is a most excellently finished, carved- oak, reading desk, given by R.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    dinner speech; divided into; essential feature; first officer; great admirer; grey wolf; independent existence; its former; just and; kinetic energy; large congregation; little brother; little wood; machine shops; musical history; questions relating; reading aloud; reading desk; reading from; reading room; reading the; sherry wine; shrunk from; small quarto; strong grower; when pursued