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单词 highboy
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A Philadelphia highboy had been moved out into the hall, and, together with Mrs. Glass’s person, it blocked Zooey’s passage. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z
He opened drawer after drawer of her highboy. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z
It was affixed to the wall, part of the furniture, just like her highboy chest of drawers. ‘Making It on My Own,’ With Mary Tyler Moore as a Guide 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z
The Great Chamber bedroom features cushioned window seats, a lovely canopy bed with yellow valances highlighted in red and green, and a wooden highboy. Three-and-a-half centuries of mythos surrounds Salem’s House of the Seven Gables 2018-07-05T04:00:00Z
Throughout the first act, Julia is preoccupied with the idea of selling Grandmother Wentworth's highboy to an antiques dealer so she can use the money to fund a trip to Paris. Heather Havrilesky asks a radical, essential question: “What If This Were Enough?” 2018-10-02T04:00:00Z
I passed by one encampment in D.C. last week that included a Queen Anne highboy dresser, angled as though it were in the corner of a master bedroom, just outside the tent. Perspective | Homeless encampments are becoming part of the American landscape 2021-09-06T04:00:00Z
The 20-somethings who gravitate here favor the highboys opposite the open kitchen, but there are regular tables near the bar and on the mezzanine. Capitol Hill izakaya Tamari Bar is effervescent fun 2018-09-13T04:00:00Z
Thrift stores affiliated with animal shelters are especially good—people will donate a Queen Anne highboy or 1st edition of “On the Road” because they love animals. A Cliche-Free Guide to Santa Fe 2018-03-01T05:00:00Z
After a year and a half of work, for a few hundred dollars and his dental work, the highboy was done and Jim took up a new profession as a woodworker. Woodworking father restores Pasadena bungalows; son carves own path
Having slipped a check into the drawer of a highboy still for sale, the buyer began to arrange the details of delivery, admitting that he was not entirely sure how to use his cellphone. Big City: A Glimpse of Wealth?s Past and Present in Antiques and Museums 2012-01-28T23:55:27Z
“This is my anniversary present,” announced Andrea Etienne, 37, who works at an advertising agency, as she opened the doors of a 1950s highboy dresser. | Bedford-Stuyvesant: casaBAN in Bedford-Stuyvesant Offers Sleek Antiques 2011-10-14T14:33:18Z
Settles, cupboards, and refectory tables stood in the main room downstairs, while old Sheraton tables, Chippendale chairs, ancient, carved four-posters, and highboys or lowboys, furnished the guest-chambers. Polly and Her Friends Abroad 2011-09-18T02:00:29.443Z
Two neat housemaids were engaged in unpacking their things and placing them in the drawers of the massive highboys and wardrobes. The Automobile Girls Along the Hudson Fighting Fire in Sleepy Hollow 2011-09-18T02:00:23.270Z
On a shelf in the highboy they found two large black velvet plaques on which were pinned a dozen beautiful miniatures, some in jeweled frames. The Motor Maids by Palm and Pine 2011-06-05T02:00:14.760Z
They had to hang chairs and tables and highboys and lowboys and such things from her spars, besides having an awful deckload. The Corner House Girls on a Tour Where they went, what they saw, and what they found 2011-05-31T02:00:33.267Z
Many highboys and lowboys show inlay work, one of the former, of English manufacture, being found in the Warner house at Portsmouth, while another, of different style, is shown in the Osgood house at Salem. Colonial Homes and Their Furnishings 2011-01-11T03:00:35.147Z
In some of the rooms there are valuable old pieces of furniture, a four-poster of the Sheraton type, and a highboy with details of the Queen Anne period. Remodeled Farmhouses
She ran after him and found him standing before a highboy in his dressing room. The Indian Drum
No one could have found fault with Zimballo's zinc bar, nor his highboy stacked to the ceiling with multicolored bottles, nor his tattered billiard table, nor his battered metal furniture. Where the Pavement Ends
Slapping her hands, beating her breast, stamping her feet, Mrs. Loring removed a few dresses from the offending trunk to the mahogany wardrobe, and disposed her effects neatly in the drawers of bureau and highboy. Robinetta
These came to be designated as "lowboys" in distinction from the chests mounted upon high legs, which were known as "highboys." Colonial Homes and Their Furnishings 2011-01-11T03:00:35.147Z
The open fireplaces and the Colonial furniture, four-posters and highboys and chests, give to the rooms a delightfully old-fashioned atmosphere. Remodeled Farmhouses
He unlocked a drawer in the highboy, and from within the drawer he took a key. The Indian Drum
There were old highboys of polished mahogany and chaste design, four-poster beds and gate-legged tables, a Sheraton sideboard and Chippendale chairs, a claw-footed secretary with leaded glass doors and secret drawers. The Comings of Cousin Ann
Norma's and that of Miss Slater, Alice's nurse, were joined by a bathroom; Chris had his own splendid dressing-room and bath, fitted, like his bedroom, with rugs and chests and highboys worthy of a museum. The Beloved Woman
I found that they kept their toys in a big sort of a highboy. Pictorial Photography in America 1921
"You got a pretty nice highboy over there, Ringentaub, for a reproduction." Elkan Lubliner, American
It was an ancient and a shabby ruin—a genuine antique if ever there was one, with those high-polished knobs all down the front, like an old-fashioned highboy, and Chippendale legs. Cobb's Bill-of-Fare
If you want to unpack immediately there is a dandy closet here, and here is a wardrobe and here is a highboy and 216 here a bureau. The Comings of Cousin Ann
It was so late that Fergus had no time to see to the drawers which refused to open in the lowboy and the highboy. The Cat in Grandfather's House
Look at this, everybody—a chest of drawers, a highboy, some people call it, but it's pretty by any name. Patchwork A Story of 'The Plain People'
The closets, dresser drawers and highboy drawers were completely empty, however, of any traces of her occupancy or that of any other.... Murder at Bridge
And there in the80 wide hall, dusting an old highboy, was the girl with the dark hair. Red-Robin
Nothing had been taken from or added to the Bucks’ guest chamber since Grandmother Knight had reverently placed there her best highboy and her finest mahogany bed and candle stand. The Comings of Cousin Ann
Well," said Grandfather, "let's look at the highboy in Hortense's room. The Cat in Grandfather's House
The preacher's purchase had to be left at the farm until he could return for it in the big farm wagon, but Phœbe thought of the highboy as they rode along the pleasant country roads. Patchwork A Story of 'The Plain People'
Furnished with chintz-covered chairs, solid mahogany bedsteads and highboys, they were pleasant enough even if they weren't chambers to make an antique dealer "Oh!" and "Ah!" Ralestone Luck
She looked around our sitting-room, and eyed our old-fashioned highboy, of which we are very proud, and an old-fashioned table which becomes a chair when properly manipulated. The Jamesons
Candles burned on a highboy, on a table at his back; and their auriferous light flowed in about the bedstead. The Three Black Pennys A Novel
There were three stiff chairs, a table, a dresser, and a highboy. The Cat in Grandfather's House
She sought desperately for some topic of conversation that would lead the man's thoughts from the highboy and prevent the return of the mood she had discovered at the sale. Patchwork A Story of 'The Plain People'
It was in the Queen Anne period that highboys and lowboys made their first appearance. Furnishing the Home of Good Taste A Brief Sketch of the Period Styles in Interior Decoration with Suggestions as to Their Employment in the Homes of Today
Most of these bedrooms were fitted with mahogany four post beds, pie crust tables, colonial highboys, gay chintzes, and such, but there were several rooms of entirely different scheme. The House in Good Taste
A couple of them came over in the Mayflower, with the highboys and cradles and things, and they founded the branch of Connecticut Petticoats—than which, of course, there is nothing more so. Ptomaine Street
Again, a "Colonial highboy, hooded," recalled as an especially awkward thing, and "five mahogany side chairs" had gone for three hundred and eighty dollars. The Boss of Little Arcady
"Oh, look at the highboy," she exclaimed to him. Patchwork A Story of 'The Plain People'
Halfway across the living-room the doctor had come to a pause before the mahogany highboy. Dawn
He went to the lower drawer of a tall "highboy" and, from the tumbled mass of apparel therein took one of his own night garments. Cy Whittaker's Place
Kent leaned against a tall highboy and laughed weakly, immoderately. The Red Seal
Just as here and there among the furniture there was a fine thing, an antique highboy, a Sheraton sideboard or some old cut glass, so they had, with a certain mediocrity their own outstanding virtues. The Breaking Point
"The doctor's going to buy the highboy and that mirror in the studio, and—oh, several other things." Dawn
"I was looking at that mirror there, and I'd like the highboy downstairs, if I could persuade you to part with them, and—WOULD you be willing to part with them?" Dawn
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