3399 examples of desk in sentences

Most of the names, that is; Allan of course, and others, but I for one should have welcomed rare Umslopogaasor however he is rightly speltand Curtis, for personal reasons my favourite of the gallant company that have so often kept secret rendezvous with me behind the unlifted lid of a desk at preparation time.

" Standing at his own old desk as he talks, he looks even taller and stronger than beforeby way of contrast, I suppose, and as I pass out I wonder if he will ever be able to bring himself to resume it.

" Mr. Woods picked up the keys and, going to the desk, unlocked the centre compartment with a jerk.

II think he was probably going through the desk the night he died, destroying various papers.

Then she locked up the desk in a businesslike fashion and turned to him, and held out her hand.

So, by way of expressing this delight, she sat down at the desk and began to cry very softly.

CONCERNING THOSE "ATLANTIC LINERS" AND AN OLD DESK. III.

CHAPTER II CONCERNING THOSE "ATLANTIC LINERS" AND AN OLD DESK Of all battles in this complicated civil warfare of human life, none is more painful than that being constantly waged from generation to generation between young and old, and none, it would appear, more inevitable, or indeed necessary.

This old desk which Esther has been allowed to appropriate, and in a secret drawer of which are already accumulating certain love-letters and lavender, will it ever, one wonders, turn to lumber in younger hands?

Can it be possible that the desk on which Esther once wrote to her little Mike will ever hear itself spoken of as "this ugly old thing"?

He was a humble unit among twenty other slaves, chained to that modern substitute for the galleys, the desk; and, in a wicked bargain, he had contracted to give his life-blood from nine in the morning till six in the evening, for sixty pounds a year, with an occasional "rise," which, after thirty years' service, might end in your having reached a proud annual three hundred for the rest of your maimed and narrowed days.

Misers will visit you at times, and beautiful ladies in mourning deep as their distress; and from your desk you will catch a glimpse of the sombre pageantry of litigious man.

Yes, it was a curiously unreal world; and, for the first day or two, as Henry, bent, lonely and bewildered, over his desk, studied it furtively with questioning eyes, it seemed to him as though he had strayed into some asylum for the insane, where fantastic interests and mock honours take the place of the real interests and honours of sane human beings.

This was laid in Mr. Horner's desk before he came to school, with an intimation that he might leave an answer in a certain spot on the following morning.

He unlocked his desk, slowly and unwillingly, while the old man's impatience was such that he could scarcely forbear thrusting in his own hand to snatch at the papers which were to explain this vexatious mystery.

why don't you bring out the letters?" At length, by means of much rapping on the desk by the president of the evening, who was fortunately a "popular" character, order was partially restored; and the favorite scene from Miss More's dialogue of David and Goliath was announced as the closing piece.

But when they arrived at New York, she found to her great regret, that having unpacked and taken out her small traveling desk, during her short stay in Philadelphia, she had strangely left it behind in the closet of her room at the hotel.

In this desk were deposited all her letters, except two which had been offered to her by friends in Philadelphia.

In the meantime she wrote back to the hotel, requesting that the missing desk should be forwarded to New York as soon as possible.

But as we sit upon our high stools at the desk opposite each other, I leaning upon my elbows and looking at him; he, with sidelong face, glancing out of the window, as if it commanded a boundless landscape, instead of a dim, dingy office court, I cannot refrain from saying: "Well!" He turns slowly, and I go chatting ona little too loquacious, perhaps, about those young girls.

" Elder Brown leaned over the little pine picket which divided the bookkeepers' department of a Macon warehouse from the room in general, and surveyed the well-dressed back of a gentleman who was busily figuring at a desk within.

Elder Brown had time to notice all these familiar points, for the figure at the desk kept serenely at its task, and deigned no reply.

Then the desk man turned.

In Amundsen City, Keith Seaton sat at his desk, scanning the Asteroid Belt with his telescope.

Glancing through the window of the treasurer's office to the right of the hall, I could see that an unfamiliar figure sat at the desk, where in the past so many a cheque had been cashed for me with eager bonhomie.

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