Bookbinding and carpentry were taught, and at Christmas "the embryo cabinet-maker made boxes with locks and hinges, finished, veneered and polished.

Few characters have abused civil and military positions more than the man who first, as a British general, disgraced the noble name of Sackville on the battlefield of Minden in 1759, and then, as a cabinet minister, disgraced throughout America the plebeian one of Germain, which he took in 1770 with a suitable legacy attached to it.

Cabinet dinner at Vesey Fitzgerald's at Somerset House.

There were seven woods, of which the native names were remembered; three of these, Tumiah, Samain, and Jimlake, were of a yellow colour; Acajoú was of a beautiful deep crimson; Bork and Quellé were apparently fit for cabinet work; and Benten was the wood of which the natives made their canoes.

He was not a general covered with military laurels, nor a Senator in Congress, nor governor of a large State, nor a cabinet officer.

At this juncture Mr. FLOYD (who, having acquired the habit of attending BUCHANAN'S cabinet meetings, had not quite got over it) put his head in for a moment to suggest, that if the Black Republican Government would evacuate all the forts on Southern territory, remunerate his friends for their expenses, and execute a quit-claim deed of Washington and the national property to JEFF.

By degrees I ceased to miss it from the window; but that strange garden scene grew more and more vivid, and became a cabinet picture in one of the little inner chambers of memory, where I often pondered it with a delicious sense of mystery.

Mr. Popham never worked at his bricklaying or carpentering or cabinet making or papering by the hour, but "by the job"; and a kind Providence, intent on the welfare of the community, must have guided him in this choice of business methods, for he talked so much more than he worked, that unless householders were well-to-do, the rights of employer and employee could never have been adjusted.

A cabinet council was hastily called, with the view of a change of ministers, and Guizot retired from the helm.

The constitution sets up as the government of South Africa a legislature of two housesa Senate and a House of Assemblyand with it an executive of ministers on the customary tenure of cabinet government.

They were fine cabinet specimens, but contained no new species or varieties.

Cabinet members had seats in Congress.

Maybe you ought to forget programming and set up a cabinet shop.

Finally she discovered Harriet's cabinet organ, and nothing would do but she must sing for us.

kamagon: A tree of the ebony family, from which fine cabinet-wood is obtained.

All the cabinet officials wished to waltz with her.

3. Cabinet pudding, and damson tart made with preserved damsons. 1896.

But as my eyes wandered around they suddenly fell upon an object which caused me to start with profound wondera cabinet photograph in a frame of crimson leather.

The secretaryship of war is the least important of all the cabinet offices in time of peace, and was especially so when the army was reduced to six thousand men.

They attracted attention, but were not reprinted until 1880, when they appeared in the volume with Silas Marner, in Blackwood's "cabinet edition" of her works.

It was a cabinet order from the king to his private secretary, Leinning, to pay to the merchant, John Gotzkowsky, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.

Esmeralda was his pupil, and he would have taken the whole centennial quadrille and all the cabinet ladies to point his moral, had he seen them making equestrian blunders.

The abolition then, amidst this difference of opinion, could never become a cabinet measure; but if so, then all his parliamentary efforts in this case wanted their usual authority, and he could only exert his influence as a private man[A].

Spectro-chrome home guide, for family use of cabinet equipment in spectrochrome metry.

Curiosity prompted me to stoop, pick up the four pieces and place them together, when I found them to form the cabinet portrait of a sweet-looking and extremely pretty English girl of eighteen or nineteen, with a bright, smiling expression, and wearing a fresh morning blouse of white piqué.