Secretaire are far too cunning to have let her be within reach," said Chateauneuf.
Look you, sir, the enemies of the unfortunate Queen of Scotland have done all in their power to hinder my colleague from seeing the Queen, but to-day the Lord Treasurer is occupied at Westminster, and Monsieur leSecretaire is sick.
Every time that his wife opened the secretaire the drawer gave out a mournful creak which pierced his heart.
She did not like to have money in her secretaire that did not belong to her; it would worry her, said she; the thought of it would disturb her peace.
One evening, I remember, I came in a little before my accustomed time, and in the shadowy corner of the room, a drawer in the secretaire was open, and I thought that it looked full of neat manuscripts.
In the duskiest corner of the room there was a secretaire of better workmanship, and two small tables and three gaunt chairs made up the furnishing.
Her husband had scarcely fallen asleep, when she quietly got up, took the key of the secretaire from the waistcoat pocket, and gained possession of the letter with as little noise as possible.
Adam Davis was present and secured the secretaireof buhl which the elder Cowperwood prized so highly.
Mrs. Cowperwood, who was before her secretaire in her new boudoir, lifted her eyebrows.
Everyone in Boma works hard, from the Secretaire General who is at his office from 7 a.
In the drawing-room only the secretaire and the floor beneath it had been burnt.
There were traces of burning in three distinct places--on the sofa, and at the secretaire in the parlour, and on the corner seat in the boudoir.
Moreover, the appearance of the secretaire was against this theory.
It was apparent, therefore, that thesecretaire had been set on fire from below.
The secretairehad been set fire to; and, apparently, the body removed from where it had been partially consumed, and placed near it.
And there was a dear little secretaire inlaid with mother-of-pearl and tortoise shell, over the top of which a palm placidly waved its flattering fronds.
Of what avail the charmingsecretaire and the writing paper with the golden coronet stamped on it, of which Mr. Dehnicke had immediately ordered five hundred sheets?
The artist, without replying, went to his secretaire and took out a newspaper, which he handed to his companion.
Then she noticed that Jack's secretaire bookcase, which stood close beside her, was open.
Puts hat down on chair in front of secretaire and seats himself on sofa.
Among the books he read were Monluc's Commentaires, the Secretaire a la mode, and the Secretaire de la cour (Memoirs of the Verney Family, iii.
The little secretairestood on a table at one side of it.
I--I daresay I mislaid it, and never put it into the secretaire at all.
The discovery of Minnie Bodkin's note in Algernon's secretaire at the office had incited Castalia to make some other attempts to pry into that depository of her husband's papers.
It whetted her suspicious curiosity to find the secretaire always carefully locked, ever since her discovery of Miss Bodkin's note there.
I kept the four millions and a half in Dutch bonds in a secretaire for a week.
Meneval, near the Empress Regent as Secretaire des Commandemens (Principal Secretary), and certainly he could not have made a better choice.
She ran out of the room and was back almost immediately, to find Jean standing with her back to the secretaire examining the ruins of her late handkerchief with a smile.
There were many reasons why Lydia should not handle that flimsy piece of cambric and lace, the most important of which was the key which Jean had taken from the secretaire in Lydia's absence, and had rolled inside the tea-stained handkerchief.
This secretaire stood within the stretch of an arm from the door of the comptoir in which Mme Boursier usually worked.
The soup stood on thesecretaire for about fifteen minutes before Boursier started to eat it.
Having made the soup, she conveyed it in its terrine to a small secretaire in the dining-room.
And the discovery that his wife had in some way or other obtained access to the said secretaire gave him, for reasons known only to himself, abundant food for conjecture and reflection during the rest of the drive home.
Now, the fact was that Algernon distinctly remembered having placed Minnie's note in a drawer of a little secretaire which he kept habitually locked, and of which the key was at that moment in his waistcoat pocket.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "secretaire" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: bar; bench; board; buffet; cabinet; counter; cupboard; desk; stand; table; workbench
