Sideboard in example sentence

CHAPTER IX A DISCOVERY AND A CHASEThe supper was ready laid, the chairs were drawn round the table, bottles, jugs, and glasses were arranged upon the sideboard, and everything betokened the approach of the most convivial period in the whole four-and-twenty hours.

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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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