Two or three bad photographic portraits were tacked against the teakwood paneling, but except for these, all that the room contained suggested stern utility.
Her narrow beam, her graceful sweep of teakwood rail, and the long, tapering counter suggested speed.
Tomorrow, to Teakwood reception room, at Four of the clock, cometh Quong Lee, the Honorable Head Master of Magnificence.
Boy say, "At Two of the clock, inTeakwood reception room our Honored President hold visitation of moment.
Tum Tum had learned his first lesson, just as he had learned to pile teakwood logs in straight piles.
I suppose they are still back in the lumber yard, piling up teakwood logs," thought Tum Tum.
On the river we constantly passed shipping of various kinds, sometimes huge rafts of teakwood propelled by natives, mostly devoid of attire; the peculiar Burman paddy boats of old Egyptian style are used for transporting unhulled rice.
Beyond lies the great hall, seventy yards long by thirty yards wide, and supported upon eight rows of teakwood pillars, four in each row, measuring twelve feet in circumference and sixty feet high.
In construction, the Confucian Temple, near by, is similar to all Confucian temples throughout China; the hall is eighty-four feet long and the teakwood pillars forty feet high.
Just inside the glass-doored space a uniformed Greek guard occupied a teakwood desk, attentively studying the sports section of an Athens newspaper.
Hansen had returned to the basement Situation Room, where maps and operation plans cluttered the teakwood table and littered meal trays, grease encrusting on the white china, were piled up in the corner.
In the subdued, recessed lighting, half-drunk cups of cold coffee stood around the central teakwood table.
Sperry's villainous verdict still rankled in the butler's mind, and at first he had half decided to tell Thayor all he had overheard in the teakwood room.
Her gaze strayed over the walls of the breakfast room, where water color drawings of vessels, half models of ships on teakwood or Spanish mahogany boards, filled every possible space.
Only yesterday she would have told herself that the dragon in the teakwood chair was stirring; but now Laurel could see that it never moved.
Eva watched Vera Karanova lunge for a button on the desk as he pushed open the teakwood door leading into Tanzan Mino's inner office.
He shoved aside the pile of new Mino Industries Eurobond debentures, to make room for his feet on the teakwood surface of his desk.
Then he advanced to a divan beside a teakwood table on which stood a large copper samovar.
Whereupon he pressed a button under that elaborate teakwood table.
Edith went in for a light wrap for her mother; Collingham, his cigar in hand, dropped into the teakwood chair.
Leaning nonchalantly against the high, carved back of a teakwood chair, the figure had a leopard grace to which the owner seemed indifferent.
I'm all in," he sighed, sinking into the teakwood chair.
Another dim, quickly dying smile was the only answer to this as Edith picked up her racket from the teakwoodchair and moved toward the house.
You will find that the line of your view, through this particular bullseye, impinges upon the head of any person who may chance to be sitting in the swivel-chair before the big, teakwood desk.
The teakwood desk and the great swivel-chair were destroyed in the fire, and indeed all the old fittings and hangings have given way to bright and cheerful modern furnishings.
Below the posts they place teakwood boxes containing new clothes and jewels; bottles of toddy and earthen pots from Chaura, all fenced in carefully.
In the window a jade god sat high on a teakwood pedestal.
Aunt Maude hated the green parrot and the flame-colored fishes in the teakwood aquarium.
Thus a vulgar bargain became as it were a hospitality--you bought teakwood and had tea; carved ivories, and were rewarded with little cakes.
She lay back happily in one of the luxurious teakwood arm-chairs which were a special and memorable feature of the verandah.
In the rows of teakwood dwarf-bookcases, raised from the ground by carved lions couchants high enough above the matting to protect them from the ravages of white ants, were well-filled shelves of books.
He pointed to the giant teakwood that Astro had slept under.
They were taken to the giant teakwood that Astro had seen, and Tom and Connel watched silently as the door opened, revealing the vacuum tube.
He stood with his back against the rough bark of a teakwood tree to protect his rear and to face out toward the pitch-black night.
Near the center of the canyon the bare trunk of a giantteakwood soared skyward, a gigantic communications tower.
Astro knew that if the snake could get away it would head for the teakwood above his head, the highest tree around, and the tyrannosaurus would stamp the ground around its base into powder.
They were ivory and rectangular, their four long sides numbered one, two, five, and six with inlaid teakwood dots.
Then he began adjusting the tension on a row of fine wires that lay directly against the teakwood fingerboard, sympathetic strings that passed beneath those to be plucked.
She reached under the couch and withdrew a box, teakwood and trimmed in gold.
Next to him was a wizened old man in a black Muslim skullcap tuning a large six- stringed instrument made of two hollowed-out gourds, both lacquered and polished, connected by a long teakwood fingerboard.
The prime minister came forward and one of the eunuchs handed him a small box, of teakwood worked in gold.
Hawksworth watched silently as they started passing around inlaid teakwood boxes, taking and eating handfuls of small brown balls.
The room was furnished somberly but richly with heavy hangings and teakwood furniture decorated with mother-of-pearl.
You will like it here, Umboo, and soon you will go to school and learn how to pile the teakwood logs.
This was to tame him down, and make him learn that it did not pay to run off when he was taken to the teakwood forest.
In the forest were great trees of teakwood and these the elephant workers had to drag out so they could be loaded upon carts, with great wooden wheels, and brought to the river.
And so he who had once been a wild baby elephant, grew to be a tame, big strong beast, who could carry heavy teakwood logs on his tusks, and pile them in great heaps near the river, where they were loaded upon great ships.
He did not mind this, for it had been done before, in India, when he was to pull a heavy wagon of teakwood logs.
At first the elephant, who, not long before, had been wild in the jungle, and later piling teakwood logs, was uneasy and a bit frightened.
To get from the place where he had, for a year or more, been piling up teakwood logs, to the great, salt ocean which the ships crossed, Umboo had to take a ride on the railroad.
This he placed carefully on the black teakwoodsurface at Victor's elbow.
On a great table of black teakwood inlaid with mother of pearl burned a solitary lamp, a curious affair in filigree of brass, furnishing what illumination there was.
He motioned to a stool as he let himself fall heavily into a teakwood armchair made especially for his bulk.
A teakwood beam with a round hole in the centre spanned the cell just above an opening that had all the appearance of a well.
Making one end fast to the teakwood sill he went down hand over hand, his strong hard palms gripping the soft line.
A strange attendant was at the teakwood gate, but when the major explained that they simply wanted a look at the animals, being sahibs, he swung the gate for their entrance, closing it from the inside to stand near them.
A guard saluted, an attendant swung the teakwood barrier inward, and while it was still but half open Ananda pressed forward, his horse carrying Swinton's with him into a holocaust of lightning-like happenings.
Coming to the big teakwood gate, Finnerty clutched the captain's arm, bringing him to a halt as a sigh from its rusty hinges told it had just been closed by some one.
When they came out on the plateau they were on the road that wound about the palace outside of the garden wall, and as they passed the teakwood gate it looked forbiddingly sombre outlined against the palace light.
Beside the rajah was a magnificently carved teakwood chair, a padlocked gold chain across the arms indicating that it was not to be used.
Compared with the richly-carved teakwood wats of Siam and kyaungs of Burma, they are unpretentious buildings with little decoration, and what there is possesses small artistic merit.
I see you got your boat shoes on," Byron said, looking up from his work, as he finished oiling the boat's teakwood bulwarks.
How Time Sped in Heathenry On the next day Melicent was removed to more magnificent apartments, and she was lodged in a lofty and spacious pavilion, which had three porticoes builded of marble and carved teakwood and Andalusian copper.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "teakwood" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
