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Example sentences for "sideboards"

Lexicographically close words:
sicrety; sicut; sicuti; side; sideboard; sided; sidedly; sidedness; sidehill; sidelight
  1. If the yacht has to race, these sideboards should be made self-contained, and to shape, so that they may fit into their places and be kept there by hooks or catches.

  2. Between the sideboards aft a removable box ought to be fixed with screws, of sufficient depth to hold an iron bucket, washing basin, and all the conveniences of a lavatory.

  3. Nothing should be a fixture except the two sofa-seats in the main cabin, the one forward of the mast, and the two sideboards fitted aft at each end of the sofas.

  4. If the sideboards aft are fixtures, a tin case made to the shape of the yacht's side, to rest on the part of the sideboard on which the lid hinges, and reaching up to the deck, is a capital fitting to have.

  5. Tis you must bear him the glad tidings--you alone--with your bright hair the color of the old sideboards in the dining-room.

  6. All their sideboards and tables have huge bouquets of these wonderfully wrought and gayly ornamental tooth picks.

  7. The few dishes that we found upon our occupation were of excellent china but the three or four sideboards were quite inferior.

  8. The tops of the other sideboards were bare, and the presses, use in such a room Rolfe was at a loss to conjecture, were locked up.

  9. A Woodcock Pie will be found extremely palatable at any shooting luncheon, although more frequently to be met with on the sideboards of the great and wealthy.

  10. Fortunately the sideboards of those times were substantial of build.

  11. Breakfast was served in the dining-room, whose sideboards and shelves were covered with curios and silver-ware not less valuable than the treasures that formerly stood there.

  12. To all these cajoleries, Marguerite herself presented the contrast of actual distress, shown sometimes by a word of doubt, sometimes by a glance along the empty shelves of the sideboards in the dining-room.

  13. The old collector walked in his dressing-gown along the narrow spaces between the credence-tables and the sideboards that lined the wall; his feet bare, his head on fire.

  14. Vell, vot ve do vid de stuff dot's comin'--all dem sideboards and chairs and de pig tables?

  15. First it is sideboards and den it is vooden saints.

  16. He has been up vid his fadder to de Grand Central for some sideboards and sofas I been buyin'.

  17. One of the sideboards is stuck on the iron railing and we can't get it furrards or back.

  18. No sculptor ever wrought his soul into marble with a more unflinching conscience or a purer joy in his work than this wood-carver dreaming over sideboards and bedsteads.

  19. The sideboards of massy plate, and the variegated wardrobes of silk and purple, were irregularly piled in the wagons, that always followed the march of a Gothic army.

  20. Sheraton used more underbracing, and his sideboards have convex instead of concave corners.

  21. Console cabinets were often semielliptical, and sideboards were rectangular except for concave curves near the ends.

  22. Though the date of their introduction was not until well along in the eighteenth century, sideboards are prominent among the old-time furnishings, and in the highest state of their development they were articles of beauty and utility.

  23. Generally his sideboards are made of mahogany, and almost invariably they are inlaid, though occasionally they show carving.

  24. It whanged against the sideboards with Frederick again in furious pursuit.

  25. A spectacular game materialized as this sort of play kept up with members of both teams crashing into the sideboards or taking dizzy spills.

  26. Whiz Deagen, following Carl closely, caught him as he slackened his pace, crossed sticks with him and scraped the puck away as both brought up against the sideboards with a crash, Carl pulling back instinctively to lessen the impact.

  27. When I began saloons were at almost every crossroads village, and the bottle on sideboards was the rule in thousands of leading homes.

  28. I have lived to see more than one hundred counties of Kentucky, in which I established Good Templar Lodges, when bottles were on sideboards in the homes, and barrooms in almost every crossroad village, now in the dry column.

  29. In England the state dining-room was decorated much as it was in France: the family dining-room was simply a plain parlor, with wide mahogany sideboards or tall glazed cupboards for the display of plate and china.

  30. These built-in sideboards and fountains were practically the only feature distinguishing the old dining-rooms from other gala apartments.

  31. Many of the sideboards made in America were on English models, and they are veneered on pine, the back and drawers being made of this same wood.

  32. All the handles and knobs on his larger pieces of furniture are round, but on sideboards frequently oval, his double chests of drawers have either French or block feet.

  33. Letting in an escutcheon was 2½d for each one, and letting in plates for rods in the tops of sideboards were 8d for each plate.

  34. His chairs, tables, and sideboards are the pieces by which we know him best and in which he is most admirable.

  35. He did not, of course confine himself to any one style of foot or leg, yet on many of his chairs, tables, and sideboards he used what is called the "spade foot.

  36. The butler now turns his attention to his sideboards and tables, from whence he is to draw his supplies.

  37. But the servants who wait should be taught to have sidetables and sideboards so well placed that anything can be removed immediately after it is finished.

  38. Nor of any Sheraton did we know, though one of his sideboards and a "pair of Sheraton knife urns" fetched the incredible sum of five hundred and fifty dollars.

  39. The furniture was black walnut; two immense sideboards were built into the walls.


  40. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sideboards" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.