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After we pointed out the many health-giving qualities of the brown stuff, a press release lands on our desk confirming that it is good for you.
The carpenter had turned the capstan just abaft the mainmast into a perfectly acceptable desk.
But do you not find pens 'walk' around the office? I can never keep a pen on my desk, whereas one of my colleagues seems to 'breed' them.
On the wall across his desk sits an analog clock, a bloodless white against the deep red painted background.
Wincing as a sliver of pain traveled down his body, he looked over to the little analog clock set beside the desk lamp.
One of these days someone was going to call his bluff and leap over that desk to clock him one.
I sat there a while longer, staring down at the vellum pages of the book on the low desk before me.
There was a desk in the middle of the room, with account books stacked and arranged neatly around each other.
As Nelson abstractedly went over some of the myriad of reports that covered his desk, the intercom on his desk interrupted him.
James nodded understandingly, and led Leanne up a narrow corridor and into a small bedroom where there was a bed, a wardrobe and a desk.
This is a single room with built-in pine units incorporating wardrobes, shelving, cupboards, a desk and dressing table.
Crystal ware in delightful shapes is a perennial attraction, along with aesthetically designed desk clocks that do more than just tell the time.
Is somebody at the BBC's pictures desk suffering from over-heating due to the sudden unseasonably warm temperatures?
Usually places like this had little sucker candies in bowls on the front desk.
They continued until they got to the front desk where the receptionist gave them suckers, which they sucked on noisily.
Samantha and Todd share a compact space that provides a chair and computer station for each of them at a gracefully curved, solid cherry desk.
The student had her own desk and computer and wastebasket, which they emptied.
Archie bounded over and sat on the edge of my desk, knocking my keyboard into the wastepaper basket.
He was sure the cheerfulness would end when they got into combat, Swift had been a desk jobber until now, sorting Company papers.
After painting the desk, jazz it up even further by adding funky new drawer pulls.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Being on the copy desk once in a while was giving him the big head, Chub said.
But quite as many are pale and stooped from desk work, or pasty from good living.
Then she took pen and ink from her desk and a clean sheet of blotting-paper.
This figure, borrowed from the compositor's desk, will give a notion of what we mean.
He reached a hand toward the cutout, the torso of which still bulged upward from the desk.
For desk work, make drawings of the duck when swimming, flying, and standing.
If you get tired of sitting at your desk, you may take your board and your chalk out to the door and sit upon the step.
He found Austin sitting on the chair by his desk, resting his chin on his elbow.
They stood at the desk, teacher and scholar, Howard bending over his slate.
He took his coat off again, hung it on the clothes tree, came back to his desk and got on the phone.
Well, Cynthia, when your inquiry reached me I propped my feet on the desk, got out the corncob pipe and thought things over.
He would get the Professor returned by pressing the upper portion of the cutout flatly onto the desk surface.
In the meantime Morris had repaired to the bookkeeper's desk and was looking over the daybook with an unseeing eye.
But under some damnable pressure toward conformity, I took a desk job in a bank.
He jabs at the gravel before him with a cheap cane, and glances sideways at Flo Bates, the young lady from the cash desk.
Victoria passed him quickly, caught up the stout man, entered the cash desk and took his bill.
There was no stationery in the desk, but Mary had a pocket diary in her chatelaine bag.
Had she found the big wad of chewing gum he'd left on the bottom of the desk?
I had them all ready, and went to my desk in my room, just abaft the pilot-house, for them.
It was the work of only a few seconds to unscrew the bells, which he placed on the desk.
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