"Work table" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... reditus. It goes on and returns, then it goes still further, then half as far, then further than ever." [Footnote: George Sand had copied this and fastened it over her work table at Nohant.] ...
— The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters • George Sand, Gustave Flaubert
... of death, this fact might be. And it was a fact. Of the many clocks in the store not one was ticking, and all pointed to different hours. The big regulator indicated 10:22; a chronometer in a showcase was five hours and some minutes ahead of that. The clock over Darcy's work table noted the hour of 7:56. Some cheaper clocks, alarms among them, on the shelves, which were usually going, showed ...
— The Diamond Cross Mystery - Being a Somewhat Different Detective Story • Chester K. Steele
... turned her back on the lead man and looked down the work table to her place. The other girls were there already. Lois and Marge and Coralie, the other three members of the Plug table, ...
— The Very Secret Agent • Mari Wolf
... he has just demonstrated," he added, gesturing toward the Statesman's Journal on the Benares-work table, "he is a student both of the diplomacy of the past and the implications ...
— Lone Star Planet • Henry Beam Piper and John Joseph McGuire
... trained to do whether I was at home or in somebody else's house, pushed open the door to our kitchen and went in, expecting to see Mom, or Pop, or both of them there, but there wasn't anybody there, so I sat the egg basket down on Mom's work table, and started into the front room, where I thought they'd maybe be. All of a sudden I heard Mom saying something in a tearful voice, and I stopped cold—wondering what I'd maybe done and shouldn't have, and if Mom was telling Pop about it, so I started to listen—and then ...
— Shenanigans at Sugar Creek • Paul Hutchens
... retiring, after a very low bow, when Delores, who never neglected her interests, took up a small pocket from a work table and said: ...
— Bohemians of the Latin Quarter • Henry Murger
... flattered her woman's pride and passion for politics. She went through it with that modesty which would have been in her a chef d'oeuvre of skill if it had not been a natural endowment. Seated out of the circle near a work table, she worked or wrote letters, listening all the time with apparent indifference to the discussions of her friends. Frequently tempted to take a share in the conversation, she bit her lips in order to check her desire. Her soul of energy and action was inspired ...
— History of the Girondists, Volume I - Personal Memoirs of the Patriots of the French Revolution • Alphonse de Lamartine
... his eyes fell on it as it lay where Mrs. Brewer's hard-working fingers had placed it, on the edge of a little gaily-lined work table destined to hold Bella Chetwynd's cotton and needles, and to his astonishment he observed it was ...
— If Only etc. • Francis Clement Philips and Augustus Harris |
