| In the centre of the First State Room is a kneehole writing-desk of about 1680, veneered with brass and pewter marquetry on a ground of tortoiseshell backed with red pigment. |
| 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. |
| 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 chimneypiece of the Green Drawing Room, veneered with red tortoiseshell and surmounted by a figure of Fame. |
| 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. |
| With a kitchen knife, I made a tiny nick in the wood at the back of the kneehole in the desk, near the floor. |
