Mahogany
in sentence
31 examples of Mahogany in a sentence
What you will get is page after page of white, straight Russian couples spray-tanned to the point of
mahogany.
It is one piece of bleached Honduras
mahogany.
Watching Marlen Brando on screen is like watching a master carpenter chiseling intricate details into a piece of
mahogany.
Renoir probably figured that with so much going for her Bergman could get away with a couple of wooden leading men and Renoir picked two doozys in Jean Marais and Mel Ferrer, solid
mahogany
in both cases.
The thrust of this one is that Kelly's sister and 3 attractive students can't act better than
mahogany
and they will murder Macbeth.
Wendell Corey was still getting work wherever
mahogany
was called for and he did about as well as anyone with the thankless part of Craig, who is there merely as something - as opposed to someONE - for Harriet to fool, foil and manipulate.
I have no idea why it qualified as a two-disc special edition, but at least I can put a couple of beverages down on my table when a friend pops over without the stains on my fine
mahogany.
A
mahogany
tree can fetch $11,000.
In other respects it exhibited no luxury; a large table, chairs, a
mahogany
sideboard; only two deep easy-chairs betrayed a love of comfort, long happy hours of digestion.
The dazed workman found himself in an office furnished with old mahogany, upholstered with faded green rep.
They talked near him; his wife explained that she had not done anything to this study, which, in fact, retained its faded old red paper, its heavy
mahogany
furniture, its cardboard files, scratched by use.
The first room was not furnished, but in the second, which was their bedroom, was a
mahogany
bedstead in an alcove with red drapery.
The bed was large, of mahogany, in the shape of a boat.
Three coffins, one of oak, one of mahogany, one of lead.
At the other end of the room, near the only window through which any light came, he saw a portable mirror framed in
mahogany.
He did indeed break open with an iron bar a valuable
mahogany
writing desk, imported from Paris, which he used often to polish with the tail of his coat when he thought he detected a spot on its surface.
'Sit down here, near me,' she said, and pointed to a marble table, almost entirely hidden by the enormous
mahogany
counter which protruded into the room.
He spoke very distinctly as he entered into these details, and in such a way as to be overheard by anyone who might be concealed in two great
mahogany
wardrobes which he had not dared to examine.
He abandoned himself to these reflections, standing upright in one of the great
mahogany
wardrobes into which he had been thrust at the first sound heard from the next room, which was Madame de La Mole's bedroom.
No doubt he had not been in love with her three days earlier, when he had been concealed in the great
mahogany
wardrobe.
A dealer in imitation jewelry, has set up shop in one of these cupboards, and there sells fifteen sous rings, delicately set out on a cushion of blue velvet at the bottom of a
mahogany
box.
'"Come, come, Tom," said the old gentleman, "that's not the way to address solid Spanish
mahogany.
The powdered-headed footman slammed the door very hard, and scowled very grandly; but both the slam and the scowl were lost upon Sam, who was regarding a
mahogany
umbrella-stand with every outward token of critical approval.
I don't quite recollect how many tumblers of whiskey-toddy each man drank after supper; but this I know, that about one o'clock in the morning, the bailie's grown-up son became insensible while attempting the first verse of "Willie brewed a peck o' maut"; and he having been, for half an hour before, the only other man visible above the mahogany, it occurred to my uncle that it was almost time to think about going, especially as drinking had set in at seven o'clock, in order that he might get home at a decent hour.
It was a cold, dull evening; the little street looked dreary and dismal; and the
mahogany
countenance of the noble and gallant marquis seemed to wear a more sad and melancholy expression than it was wont to do, as it swung to and fro, creaking mournfully in the wind.
This he unpacked with the help of a youth whom he had brought with him, and presently, to my very great astonishment, a quite epicurean little cold supper began to be laid out upon our humble lodging-house
mahogany.
Shaggy hair, untrimmed beard descending to the chest, the body almost naked except a rag round the waist, wild eyes, enormous hands with immensely long nails, skin the color of mahogany, feet as hard as if made of horn, such was the miserable creature who yet had a claim to be called a man.
He was a sunburned, reckless-eyed fellow, with a net-work of lines and wrinkles all over his
mahogany
features, which told of a hard, open-air life.
A bed supported on massive pillars of mahogany, hung with curtains of deep red damask, stood out like a tabernacle in the centre; the two large windows, with their blinds always drawn down, were half shrouded in festoons and falls of similar drapery; the carpet was red; the table at the foot of the bed was covered with a crimson cloth; the walls were a soft fawn colour with a blush of pink in it; the wardrobe, the toilet-table, the chairs were of darkly polished old
mahogany.
I stood and warmed my numbed fingers over the blaze, then I looked round; there was no candle, but the uncertain light from the hearth showed, by intervals, papered walls, carpet, curtains, shining
mahogany
furniture: it was a parlour, not so spacious or splendid as the drawing-room at Gateshead, but comfortable enough.
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