"Cabinetmaker" Quotes from Famous Books
... thought it worth his while, have found some respectable French family and boarded her out. There was a man he had known for years at Oxford, a cabinetmaker; the wife a most worthy woman. He could have gone over there from time to time, his notebook in his ... — Malvina of Brittany • Jerome K. Jerome
... with great splendor and expense. My drawing-rooms strongly resemble the warehouse of an ideal cabinetmaker. Every whim of table—every caprice of chair and sofa, is satisfied in those rooms. There are curtains like rainbows, and carpets, as if the curtains had dripped all over the floor. There are heavy cabinets of carved walnut, such ... — The Potiphar Papers • George William Curtis
... witnesses, Madame Flameche, widow of the victim, and Louis Ladureau, cabinetmaker, and ... — Une Vie, A Piece of String and Other Stories • Guy de Maupassant
... stood in the Rue de la Perle; she was making a survey of the abode of her future adviser, Lawyer Fraisier. The house was one of the old-fashioned kind formerly inhabited by small tradespeople and citizens with small means. A cabinetmaker's shop occupied almost the whole of the ground floor, as well as the little yard behind, which was covered with his workshops and warehouses; the small remaining space being taken up by the porter's lodge and the passage entry in the middle. ... — Cousin Pons • Honore de Balzac |