What is "occasional table"

Usage examples of "occasional table".

She set the tray down on an occasional table close to Jones and broke the phial into the narrow beaker.

She leans back on the sofa, which wines and extrudes an occasional table with a small bar.

It was quite handy that our companions kept their noses in the air, though, for it gave me the chance to loop a ribbon from the lady's enormous crinoline on to an occasional table without her knowing, and when the doors to the royal drawing-room were opened she set off and brought the whole thing crashing down, crockery and all, in full view of the little court circle.

A vase of lilies stood on one occasional table, and a vase of ostrich feathers adorned the other.

The sheet, defrosted now and limp, lay on a small occasional table in a corner of the room.

Two chairs, covered in a soft rose, flanked a small occasional table.

A bottle and a single glass stood on an occasional table next to the armchair.

The book he had been reading when Lady Cunningham had shown in Aubrey lay on the occasional table at the side of his chair, the Bach to which he had been listening lay still on the turntable, his half-glasses rested on the end of his patrician nose, and his lips were set in a firm, expressionless line.

Cunningham had been standing by the occasional table staring down at the chessboard when he turned to Bishop and said, 'The Bishop always moves sideways.

But as Septimus, Jenna and Beetle backed toward the door, the thing under the purple curtains rushed toward them, tripped over a pile of torn velvet cushions and crashed into an occasional table, sending it smashing to the floor.

She lumbered off, apparently trusting me not to lift any cut-glass knickknacks from the occasional table to the right of the entranceway.

She had her personal softscreen unrolled on her lap, a cup of rather bitter coffee on the occasional table at her side, and her phone clamped to her ear.