33 Metaphors for furniture

The furniture here was dainty and feminine.

The only furniture of the cells is a raised platform of wood, the sole bed of the miserable inmate.

Its only furniture is a marble table, on which the dissections take place, and a shelf on which are placed several bottles of chlorate.

Furniture "There wasn't any furniture.

The furniture was of the oldest, black with age, worm-eaten, ponderous; queer old four-post bedsteads, with dingy hangings of greenish brown or yellowish green, from which every vestige of the original hue had faded long ago; clumsy bureaus, and stiff high-backed chairs with thick legs and gouty feet, heavy to move and uncomfortable to sit upon.

Such was the "Judas" message Kristenef, Orloff's emissary, carried to the Princess, whom he found in a pitiful condition, wasted to a shadow by disease and starvation"in a room cold and bare, whose only furniture was a leather sofa, on which she lay in a high fever, coughing convulsively."

And then, what gold and silver vessels ornamented every palace, what pictures and statues enriched every room, what costly and gilded and carved furniture was the admiration of every guest, what rich dresses decorated the women who supped at gorgeous tables of solid silver, whose very sandals were ornamented with precious stones, and whose necks were hung with priceless pearls and rubies and diamonds!

The furniture of his houses in Edinburgh and at Abbotsford was neither showy nor luxurious.

Any good museum in the world would have competed to possess the rugs, but the furniture was the sort that France sends eastward in the name of "culture"stuff for "savages" to sit on and be civilized while the white man bears the burden and collects the money.

The only furniture they have and need is a hammock and a cooking-pot.

Probably Aunt Beatrice's furniture will be old, fallen-to-pieces stuff that nobody would give two cents for.

God's residence is next to mine, His furniture is love.

The furniture and the decoration of it had been her mother's last Christmas present.

But its grand feature was a library, and its most valued furniture was books.

But the only furniture in the house, of any kind, was two rickety chairs and a little broken deal table, reared against the stairs, because one leg was gone.

All the furniture we had was bed stools and quilts.

"I believeI have readthat old French furniture is all the rage now."

The furniture had been greatly disorderedperhaps by some inquisitive ratbut a coat upon a clothes-peg on the door, a razor and some dirty scraps of paper, and a piece of soap that had hardened through years of disuse into a horny cube, were redolent of Skinner's distinctive personality.

Their very furniture was still thereas in the parlour, too.

The only furniture in their room was their two beds and a table which stood between the beds to hold the cash box and a lantern.

2. Christ's all-sufficient furniture, whereby he is a qualified Mediator, fitted with all necessaries for our case and condition, having laid down a price to the satisfaction of justice, is a sufficient invitation for us to look toward him for help, and to wait at that door.

The furniture had been greatly disorderedperhaps by some inquisitive ratbut a coat upon a clothes-peg on the door, a razor and some dirty scraps of paper, and a piece of soap that had hardened through years of disuse into a horny cube, were redolent of Skinner's distinctive personality.

The only real furniture was the window-seat on which I knelt, and an oblong table; but even the table was laid on its side to make room for a battered Roman bust standing on the floor between its legs.

The house was his wife's, the furniture was his wife's, and the fortune was his wife'she was, in fact, her pensioner.

Oak furniture made in England during the seventeenth century, is still a credit to the painstaking craftsmen of those days, and even upholstered furniture, like the couches and chairs at Knole, after more than 250 years' service, are fit for use.

33 Metaphors for  furniture