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The furniture consisted of a table, two or three chairs, a broad bench, and a kitchen-dresser of boards.
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The very evening of his arrival at the new house he had installed himself under the kitchen-dresser and no one could get him to move out.
The works of Guy de Maupassant, Vol. 5 (of 8) Une Vie and Other Stories Guy de Maupassant 1871
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The floor was unswept; not a dish had been washed; it was churning-day, but the cream stood in the jar in the dairy, not the butter in the pan on the kitchen-dresser.
Sir Gibbie George MacDonald 1864
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Allison made a couch of her high kitchen-dresser, when it could be done without interfering with the work of the moment, and Marjorie lay there for hours among her pillows, as content as if she had been with her mother in the parlour.
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'Make love upon a kitchen-dresser!' interrupted Mr. Watkins Tottle, whose ideas of decorum were greatly outraged.
Sketches by Boz, illustrative of everyday life and every-day people Charles Dickens 1841
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