book-stand

The title, admittedly, carries a learned allusion to Chaucer (by way of a play on his old name, Gordon Sumner) and one must still imagine him, at home, as a man with a book-stand attached to his Nautilus weights machine (with, perhaps, a mirror or three around it).

Ten Summoner's Tales 1993

It was like the cut-glass bottle of perfume which you are not allowed to use, on account of your youth; the first few lines of the first novel you filched from your mother's book-stand that afternoon she was out; the first time you put on a real evening dress and wound a fichu about your neck before you opened your bedroom door.

The Hawk of Egypt Joan Conquest

Outside the sound of shuffling feet alone broke the stillness; before the book-stand the bibliomaniac buried his face deeper in the musty pages of an old tragedy.

Half A Chance Frederic S. Isham

LISA had a room to herself on the second story of her mother’s house, a clean bright little room with a little white bed, with pots of flowers in the corners and before the windows, a small writing-table, a book-stand, and a crucifix on the wall.

Chapter XLV 1917

I probably should not have given him another thought had I not caught sight of his name, in old capitals, on a daintily covered volume in a book-stand.

The Celebrity, Volume 01 Winston Churchill 1909

I probably should not have given him another thought had I not caught sight of his name, in old capitals, on a daintily covered volume in a book-stand.

The Celebrity, Complete Winston Churchill 1909

I probably should not have given him another thought had I not caught sight of his name, in old capitals, on a daintily covered volume in a book-stand.

Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill Winston Churchill 1909

Even then reading was difficult, for the book-stand on the table contained nothing but a few crabbed black-letter volumes dating from not later than the early seventeenth century, and you had to be in a frantically

Queen Lucia 1903

The early darkness of winter had already closed in; the lamps were lighted in the carriages; a clinging damp dimmed the windows, adhered to the door-handles, and pervaded all the atmosphere; while the gas-jets at the neighbouring book-stand diffused a luminous haze that only served to make the gloom of the terminus more visible.

Stories by English Authors: England Thomas Hardy 1884

Her easy-chair was drawn to the fire and her book-stand by it, with the novel turned down that she had been reading the night before.

Little Journey in the World Charles Dudley Warner 1864