Sideboard in example sentence

Although everything was in order in her house, and she scrubbed every Saturday, she glanced with a jealous housekeeper's eye over this clean room, in which there was even a certain coquetry, gilt vases on the sideboard, a mirror, three framed prints.

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All the sabots of the family were beneath the sideboard.

Then, after having placed a kettle on the grate, she sat down before the sideboard.

Besides the sideboard of varnished deal the furniture consisted of a table and chairs of the same wood.

Stuck on to the walls were some violently-coloured prints, portraits of the emperor and the empress, given by the Company, of soldiers and of saints speckled with gold, contrasting crudely with the simple nudity of the room; and there was no other ornament except a box of rose-coloured pasteboard on the sideboard, and the clock with its daubed face and loud tick-tack, which seemed to fill the emptiness of the place.

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