With a kitchen knife, I made a tiny nick in the wood at the back of the kneehole in the desk, near the floor. |
Close in date to the kneehole desk is a small mantel clock on the chimneypiece of the Green Drawing Room, veneered with red tortoiseshell and surmounted by a figure of Fame. |
I reveled in my office naps, lying straight out on the carpeted floor in the kneehole in my desk, startling visitors in our life-care community. |
The kneehole isn't really large enough, but I jam myself into it. |
For years after we were married, I had dreamed of having the sort of massive oak-slab desk that would dominate a room — no more child's desk in a trailer closet, no more cramped kneehole in a rented house. |
Close in date to the kneehole desk is a small mantel clock on the chimney piece of the Green Drawing Room, veneered with red tortoiseshell. |