13 Metaphors for desks

Thus some are hugely in love with the mere title of Priest or Deacon: never considering how they shall live, or what good they are likely to do in their Office; but only they have a fancy, that a cassock, if it be made long, is a very handsome garment, though it be never paid for; that the Desk is clearly the best, and the Pulpit, the highest seat in all the parish; that they shall take place

The pulpit is high and rather elegant in design; the reading desk is a gothicised fabric, and, with its open sides, reminds one more of a genteel open gangway on which everything can be seen, than of a snug high box, like those in which old-fashioned clerks used to sup gin and go to sleep during the intervals.

The paint was worn from the floor, the ceiling was smoked and dirty, the desks were rickety and uneventhe blackboards gray.

"Well, on Henry's desk was the rough draft of a cable, torn into pieces, and on one of them, larger than the rest, I couldn't help seeing your name.

The desk was a work of Boulle.

Desks, windows, and floors, and even the grass in the quadrangle, were greasy with London soot, and there was nowhere any clean air to breathe or smell.

The captain's desk was a substantial affair in mahogany.

The reading desk is a commendable article, and with care will last a considerable period.

The desk is openthe diamonds goneall in my chargeandnow they are stolen!

"The Jarley Ready Writing-Desk for Night Use," for instance, was a really remarkable conception.

The desk was really a sort of work-table, with a lifting top and a lock.

The desk was neither pitch pine nor teak, but mahogany.

An antique desk and a few straight-backed chairs were all the other furnishings of the room, but of these it needed none.

13 Metaphors for  desks