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Usage examples of "phyfe".
Gregg found a scarred Duncan Phyfe and lowered himself, breathing heavily into his oxygen tubes.
She complimented them on their charming home, unerringly selected the finest piece in the living room to admire-a small Duncan Phyfe desk-and assured Delaney that the vodka gimlet he mixed for her was the best she had ever tasted.
Duncan Phyfe table with a half inch of dust coating its surface, and a floor lamp with a dented metal shade.
Here and there she touched a piece of furniture in admirationHepplewhite nesting tables in the corner, a mahogany upholstered sofa that could very well be Duncan Phyfe, a tall case clock with a scroll top and ogee bracket feet, an American empire sideboard, fine Hitchcock chairs.
Getting out of bed again, she walked over to a heavy Duncan Phyfe armoire and opened it.
Duncan Phyfe sofa beneath the window, a spinet piano, and upholstered chairs on a knit rug before the fire.
He decided on a key-note of Duncan Phyfe mahogany in accurate reproductions, graceful for summer, warm-hued for winter fire-light, and he was able to have all of it made together by one manufacturer, at a comfortingly reasonable price.
I was called up here by someone who wanted to sell an original Duncan Phyfe set of furniture.
From the portrait of one of his least prudish ancestresses by Sir Peter Lely, which hung over the Adam mantelpiece, to the delicate acanthus leaves on the fluted posts of the twin beds, and the flowered brocade of the Duncan Phyfe sewing-stand, the room had always impressed him as being, in some extraordinary fashion, less real than it appeared on the surface.
Standing there in the pale sunlight, which quivered like gauze over the dark red curtains, the Duncan Phyfe dining-table, the old English silver on the sideboard, and the rarest English mezzotints on the ivory walls--standing there, against that decorous Virginian background, Curle appeared, she told herself sadly, as inspiring and almost as loud as a regimental band.
You can talk about Duncan Phyfe chairs, not Duncan Phyfe style chairs.
With the Duncan Phyfe we could fix up the dining room to be quite attractive.
Duncan Phyfe, a tall case clock with a scroll top and ogee bracket feet, an American empire sideboard, fine Hitchcock chairs.
Duncan Phyfe chair across the way as he resumed his seat behind the desk.
As he brushed their silky coats-- Yum Yum with hindlegs splayed like a Duncan Phyfe table, and Koko with tail in a stiff Hogarth curve--he thought of canceling his reservation, but an inner voice deterred him, saying: You're a two-hundred-pound man, and you're allowing yourself to be enslaved by eighteen pounds of cat!