What is "secretaire"

Usage examples of "secretaire".

Sterling crossed to the towering secretaire in the corner and poured a generous splash of brandy in a glass.

Rising, he gave the bell rope hanging over the secretaire a sharp tug.

I kept the four millions and a half in Dutch bonds in a secretaire for a week.

Blade showed her into a broad workroom with a large table in the center, a battered secretaire in the corner, and a squat black coal stove on the wall to her right, which sat unlit.

He hastened back to the secretaire and handed the earl the folded paper.

He folded the letter again and placed it in a drawer in his secretaire, a slight smile curving his mouth.

He came away from the secretaire, and walked slowly across the room to the fireplace.

But sometimes Pauline would throw down her stitching in amused impatience, and, going to her dainty secretaire, write me a little message in the simplest baby French--which I would answer in French which would knit her brows for a moment or two, and then send her off in peals of laughter.

Riesener secretaire and studied the faces of his two visitors as they chewed on this concept.

He talked about the secretaire, her day, Chelsea, his day, the weather in Geneva, the weather in New York, the weather in Paris, everything but their eventual destination.

She wondered where he was going to put the secretaire she had bought for him.

Crewe again examined the articles in silence before taking them to his secretaire and locking them up in one of the pigeon-holes.

Hastily, Cecilia picked up her skirts and started in that direction, but as she swept past a tall mahogany secretaire which stood against the wall, she very nearly tripped on a length of red silk which trailed from its shadows.

Take this key and open the top drawer of that secretaire, and give me that bundle.

This he put in the post-box, and then, going to a secretaire, he unlocked it, and taking out a document he began to puzzle over it attentively.