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As Ansel stretched on the counter and patently ignored her command to hop onto the ï¬oor, Abby walked into the living room, where she placed her portfolio onto a gate-legged table.
Shiver Jackson, Lisa 2006
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He was relieved to find the dining room cooler, but he and Lineham still took off their raincoats before sitting down at the round oak gate-legged table.
No Laughing Matter Simpson, Dorothy, 1933- 1993
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The furniture had been pushed back against striped cream wallpaper to give the fat man clear space for manoeuvre: furniture which consisted of an uninspiring three piece suite swathed in pink chintz, a gate-legged table, a standard lamp with parchment coloured shade, and a display cabinet displaying absolutely nothing.
Bonecrack Francis, Dick 1971
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The furniture had been pushed back against striped cream wallpaper to give the fat man clear space for manoeuvre: furniture which consisted of an uninspiring three piece suite swathed in pink chintz, a gate-legged table, a standard lamp with parchment coloured shade, and a display cabinet displaying absolutely nothing.
Bonecrack Francis, Dick 1971
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Half of the room did duty as a dining room, and an oval gate-legged table stood against the wall.
Modesty Blaise O'Donnell, P. 1965
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They would make very comfortable dining chairs and would harmonize with sturdy gate-legged tables, or the long narrow tables which show the influence of Elizabeth's time in the carved drum or acorn-like bulbs of the legs.
Furnishing the Home of Good Taste A Brief Sketch of the Period Styles in Interior Decoration with Suggestions as to Their Employment in the Homes of Today Lucy Abbot Throop
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Another characteristic table was the gate-legged or thousand-legged table, that was used so much in our own Colonial times.
Furnishing the Home of Good Taste A Brief Sketch of the Period Styles in Interior Decoration with Suggestions as to Their Employment in the Homes of Today Lucy Abbot Throop
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Just for an instant, when she was spreading the peasant cloth over the old English gate-legged table, an impulse seized her to go, to go at once, to leave everything and fly precipitately.
Death of a Ghost Allingham, Margery, 1904-1966 1934
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Davison glanced furtively under the gate-legged table.
The Orchard of Tears Sax Rohmer 1921
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In the left centre of the hall there is a gate-legged table to which trays with drinks on them, have a habit of finding their way; it is supported on each side by a coffin-stool.
First Plays 1919
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