How To Use Mahogany In A Sentence
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Gone was the staid decor and mahogany wood typical of the menswear shops on Shaftesbury Avenue.
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Appearance: bubblier than Perkuno's Hammer; a deep mahogany with substantial, but wispy tan head
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No logs are exported but about 70% of mahogany leaves Fiji in the relatively unprocessed form of rough sawn timber.
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The lower portions of the bookcase doors have panels of crotch mahogany set within cross-grained and mitred satinwood surrounds.
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The walls were a dark rose, the carpet was a dark charcoal color, and the dresser was a deep mahogany.
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The bath was enormous, shiny white and surrounded by a wide shelf of polished mahogany.
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The distinctive open fretwork pediment of the mahogany case is associated with clocks made in or near Roxbury, Massachusetts, in the Federal period.
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Standing beside him is a muscular, uniformed old salt with a face the colour of mahogany.
Times, Sunday Times
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You want serious caramelization -- not dark mahogany, as in for Indian food, but definitely brown.
Caribbean Black Bean Soup with Roasted Garlic
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These include exotic ylang ylang, jasmine, turmeric, ginger, allspice, cinnamon, curry leaf, water lilies, mahogany trees, avocados, wax apples, and five varieties of mango.
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It remains a casual place, more knotty pine than mahogany - even though for generations it has been a second home for many Hollywood stars who first discovered it when they came up for filming.
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The bedrooms each had a fitted wardrobe with a large mahogany sliding or tambour door (those in the smaller bedrooms concealing a vanity unit), which gave the rooms a tidy appearance and enabled them to be more simply furnished.
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Our home is at the southwestern tip of the valley, nestled among the lace-lichen laden oaks, bay laurel, mountain mahogany, ceanothus and toyon which typify this classically central coast California oak woodland.
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Bryan Derballa for The Wall Street Journal The centerpiece of the duplex is a cast-iron and mahogany staircase that was welded together inside the home.
Hand-Crafted in Tribeca
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Three wood species are available: all heart redwood, mahogany, and Western red cedar.
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Materials are excellent, ply and cedar cladding, with mahogany sunshades protecting south openings.
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He discussed woods with him -- rosewood, mahogany, walnut, English oak, bird's-eye maple, and the manufactured effects such as ormolu, marquetry, and Boule, or buhl.
The Financier, a novel
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When she opened it, she found a mahogany shadow-box containing the music to her favorite song, ‘Soon It's Gonna Rain,’ a ticket to the show; a copy of the program, signed by all of us; and sundry other items associated with the production.
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He regains his seat behind the mahogany counter, a holiday brochure in hand.
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The room was carpeted, and there was a sofa in it, though a very old one, and two arm-chairs and a mahogany office-table, and a cellaret, which was generally well supplied with wine which Dobbs Broughton did not get out of the vaults of his neighbours, Burton and Bangles.
The Last Chronicle of Barset
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It was embossed with gold metal and the background was a classical mahogany color.
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Made of rosewood with mahogany as the secondary wood, it includes brass stringing on the top and sides and an inlaid flush brass escutcheon and central brass plate.
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Dinners take place in the family dining room and are a sociable affair, with a choice of two menus served up on giant silver platters in the centre of a huge, oval mahogany table.
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With the wing structure complete, the wings were then covered with aircraft grade mahogany skin.
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I ran my hand over the finely polished mahogany surface, and gently lifted the lid.
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Highlights include, from Philadelphia, two sets of fine Queen Anne side chairs and a rare Queen Anne compass-seat footstool; from Massachusetts, a Chippendale mahogany chest-on-chest and Simon Willard wall clock; from New York, a spider-leg drop-leaf table; from Rhode Island, a Chippendale mahogany block-front desk and bookcase and several colorful maritime paintings by Thomas Chambers.
Auction Watch
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We have also found chests made of maple, poplar, or entirely veneered with mahogany.
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Artisans carve objects (ranging from wall hangings to furniture) from mahogany and other tropical hardwoods.
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He dressed quickly in faded denim jeans and a black T-shirt and sat opposite her at the little mahogany table.
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I grab a handful of clothes and stuff it into the drawer of the mahogany dresser next to one of the king-sized beds.
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The other was a mare the color of narra, a wood that her Pappy used throughout his house in Maui, a reddish brown richer than mahogany.
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The openness of the new economy promised by the Internet strikes fear across the mahogany board tables of Japan Inc., threatening the cozy existence of stodgy, old economy companies.
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Although it is not large and the wood is a thick mahogany colour, the venue is afforded an airy feeling by the large windows with views out onto Hughes' Bridge and Sligo Harbour.
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At middle elevations, dense thickets of shrubs such as desert ceanothus, alderleaf mountain mahogany, and catclaw mimosa form chaparral communities.
Ecoregions of New Mexico (EPA)
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Castings with a pedestal of ebony or mahogany add grandeur to the commission.
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a handsome mahogany desk.
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The reception hall with mahogany woodblock floor leads to a gracious drawing room with windows on three sides overlooking the well-tended gardens.
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The horses passed and repassed one another, beautiful thin-skinned equines in rich shades of mahogany and brown.
BARN BLIND
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A mahogany breakfast table sold at ￡200; an astral glazed pine cupboard ￡200 and a marble top washstand ￡180.
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An intimate, art deco space, with a polished mahogany counter and wood-panelled walls, offers visitors with sophisticated tastes an elegant, cool ambience in which to savour whisky sours, white Russians, black Russians, daiquiris and gimlets PI Philip Marlowe's favoured tipple.
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Above the mahogany four-poster was a painting of a blond Jesus.
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The flight of three stairs with a mahogany look finish and brass stair rods is proving a winner with customers.
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You will find them in moody mahogany colours or shot with pink or green.
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Clothing was generally confined to a kind of sporran, elaborately patterned with symbols, to leave glands and mahogany fur available for signals.
The Earth Book of Stormgate
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In the higher mountain forest, the dominant trees are mahogany Swietenia macrophylla, Tabebuia spp., cedar Cedrela odorata, Bursera simaruba and Clusia salviniie.
Río Plátano Biosphere Reserve, Honduras
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Original solid mahogany doors set the tone; beds with squashy headboards and mountains of cushions are unbelievably comfortable, as are sofas; bathrooms are small but stylish, in racing-green marble.
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A 1,200-square-foot mahogany deck leads to a grassy expanse partially covered by a gunite pool and hot tub.
Hamptons Home Brings Outside In
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These generations bought furniture from time to time: mahogany and fumed oak from the big London stores.
Richard Temple
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Gas lamps and good quality mahogany furniture provided an atmosphere of warmth and intimacy.
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A solid wood stem and mahogany floors and stiffeners complete the basic construction which has been particularly cleanly executed by West Custom.
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The furniture, mainly bought in the 1920s and 1930s, includes an early George III mahogany breakfront bookcase estimated at £7,000 to £10,000 and other pieces by Gillows.
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Grossly, oncocytomas are well circumscribed, nonencapsulated neoplasms that are classically mahogany brown and in larger rumors have a central, stellate, radiating scar.
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Almost spitting the words, Julia steps into the room and sets her purse down on a polished mahogany table.
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She tucked a strand of mahogany brown hair that had come loose from her braid behind her ear and smiled at Royce.
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Inside the nightclub are chamfered block pedestals for mahogany-framed photographs of John Coltrane, Georges Brassens, Billy Holiday, Mohammad Abdelwahab, and other beloved musicians.
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These forests are also considered broad-leaf hardwoods that grow on limestone soil and include some of dominant tree species such as maderia or Caribbean Mahogany (Swietenia mahagoni), and Gum-elemi or gum-limbo (Bursera simaruba).
Bahamian dry forests
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The furniture was mahogany, big and solid, and the bed was a vast mahogany fourposter.
Twin Moons
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Reliability, stability, and calm—good reasons why, when Matthew turned sixty-five and his arthritis worsened enough to make his hands useless in the trade, he fitted the vessel with a new engine and tanks, rebuilt the pilothouse with permanent sides to keep out the wind, polished the mahogany to an even higher sheen, installed a defogger on the center window and seating for passengers in the stern, and relaunched the Amelia Celeste as a ferry.
The Summer I Dared
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The Bard made her way toward him, stepping over some of the varnished mahogany ribs of the great ship.
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What a spry little thing you was, a-hoppin 'about among the mahogany and walnut stuff like a young sparrer!
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 121, November, 1867
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There are 34 full-color photographs of beautiful gages made of ebony, rosewood, boxwood, mahogany, cherry, applewood, whalebone, ivory etc.
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Mosses, ferns, lichens and orchids thrive in the damp atmosphere of the Crater, giving way to huge mahogany, olive and date palm trees on the drier crater walls.
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_Muffin stand_ -- Especially for maidless house -- of mahogany, walnut, or painted to correspond with furniture selected.
Better Homes in America Plan Book for Demonstration Week October 9 to 14, 1922
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There are serpentine mahogany bureaux and marquetry tables à écrire.
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Miss Mowcher untied her bonnet, at this passage of her discourse, threw back the strings, and sat down, panting, on a foot-stool in front of the firemaking a kind of arbour of the dining-table, which spread its mahogany shelter above her head.
XXII. Some Old Scenes, and Some New People
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So you'll notice dark-colored wood such as mahogany, and rich colors like burgundy, forest green, yellow, and shades of beige.
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Each chest has graduated drawers with solid, mahogany drawer fronts and original elaborate cast-brass pulls and escutcheons.
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Interestingly, all her designs come in mahogany, which Baseera describes as strong and durable as teak or rose.
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Near the elevator door was a fake fireplace and an antique mahogany mantelpiece with great bunches of fruit carved on each corner.
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The hardwood was that cheap mahogany or baywood that you get in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century furniture.
THE GWEN JOHN SCULPTURE
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This taste is often described as stalky, but if you ever, for whatever reason, happen to gnaw a mahogany sideboard you will recognise the taste.
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My bedchamber is another huge shadowy place, with a dressing-room and bath as large as the ordinary drawing-room at home, furnished with old mahogany and silver fittings brought from Germany two generations ago.
In Seven Stages: A Flying Trip Around the World
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Shapes of naked half-men half-beasts writhing in some hideous dance were carved on to the mahogany chair.
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The frames were usually of pine or veneered with mahogany, birch, or elm.
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On the agenda are 59 proposals involving the minke whale, yellow-naped Amazon parrot, bigleaf mahogany, Malaysian giant turtle, and Patagonian toothfish, among others.
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The table tops, segmented in satinwood and mahogany, are from the same cut of veneer.
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The old mahogany fourposter with the red rep hangings had been brought out from among the lumber, and set up afresh in
The Way Home
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The pitch pine and mahogany staircase has antique courtesy lights atop carved newel posts and leads to five large bedrooms, all with en suites.
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Anabella took her place in a comfortable armchair as Corina settled onto a mahogany chair with a warm blanket over her lap.
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The house has many original features, including extensive wood panelling and solid mahogany doors.
Times, Sunday Times
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Wood benches made from hardwood such as teak, redwood, mahogany, or cedar can stay outside year-round.
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The living room has ceiling cornicing and an open fireplace with carved mahogany surround.
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Her features are as regular and delicate as those of a Grecian statue, and her hair of a rich old mahogany color that I suppose an artist would call Titian red.
The war-time journal of a Georgia girl, 1864-1865,
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The pale form is straw-colored with mahogany brown markings at the edges of the wings, whereas the dark form has the entire forewing mahogany-colored except for a paler line round the orbicular and reniform stigmata.
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This balances the large polished mahogany table and antique chandelier.
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The mahogany easy chair and settee covered with blue moreen may have been standard forms with fixed upholstery and the chintz cover was probably for that settee.
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Then, in the room where I slept, there was rich and ponderous furniture of the fashion of eld; the bed was draped and canopied with hangings that seemed full of spells and dreamery; and there was a mirror, tall, and swung between stately mahogany posts spreading their feet out on the floor, which recalled that fancy of Hawthorne's, in the tale of “Old Esther Dudley,”
A Study Of Hawthorne
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He wore a sparkling clean salvar kemeez, and sat on a magnificent throne raised on a mahogany dais above platform 1.
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Franklin sat his steaming cup of coffee down and took his rightful place behind his large mahogany desk.
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Because when your head is down you forget that there is a heavy and sharp cornered mahogany shelf right about where you've placed your forehead.
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In other words, voyaging these days is simply mahogany-panelled cruising.
Times, Sunday Times
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Exposed the original brick walls, hung lamps with straw bonnets for shades, put in a small mahogany bar.
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The floor was a white marble, the walls were made of carved white plaster, the bed was made of a rich mahogany colour, and there wasn't any glass in the windows.
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In 1948, the company started producing mahogany and gum tables with leather and mahogany tops, shifting the next year to leather tops exclusively with all genuine Honduras mahogany.
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_courbaril_, the mahogany, the _tedre-à-caillou_, the iron - wood ... but as well enumerate by name all the soldiers of an army!
Two Years in the French West Indies
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Solid hardwood frames and legs, such as mahogany or beech, are the best candidates for an overhaul.
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This is a Federal-period game table by Robert G. Stevenson of mahogany, primavera, satinwood, ebony, holly, and pine.
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Nobody said a word about partridges; but it was remarkable that from each carriage that arrived there was taken a long mahogany case, followed by a tin canister and a powder flask; and that each new-comer, in the course of the first evening, invariably asked if the harvest were well in, and if the birds were tolerably strong and numerous.
The Semi-Attached Couple
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She described a line of furniture that included rich, ornately carved mahogany pieces and very crisp, tailored upholstery in silk and damask.
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Mahog is brandy as served in township shebeens (many now legalized as taverns) and possibly from English mahogany.
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Mahogany is a hard wood and pine is a soft wood.
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Inside the foyer, the lower walls were panelled in gaboon mahogany, with wallboard above.
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Mosses, ferns, lichens and orchids thrive in the damp atmosphere of the Crater, giving way to huge mahogany, olive and date palm trees on the drier crater walls.
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Along the banks grew knob thorns, sausage trees, vegetable ivory, ilala palms, mangoes, wild figs, tamarinds and mahogany, as well as the ubiquitous acacia.
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The leaf-carved and reeded posts were topped with a mahogany box tester featuring painted stylized bowknots.
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The room is furnished with a cast-iron fireplace with tiled inset and mahogany surround and has both a dado rail and coved ceiling.
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Behind huge mahogany doors, the quirky redesign plays with fantasy and reality.
Times, Sunday Times
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The third gaming table, of mahogany and birch, was made in either Boston or Salem, about 1805 to 1815.
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In addition to seafood, the Atlantic coast is rich in other resources, including pine, rosewood, and mahogany as well as gold and silver.
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Mary travels with a lifesize statue of Padre Pio which was carved from a solid piece of Samoan mahogany by Californian sculptor Tom Benson.
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The front and corner rooms get so much sun, when there is sun, that mahogany doors and tables bleach to a pale tan.
Molly Keane's Ireland
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I have an old gateleg table, in need of some repair but well-built out of beautiful wide mahogany boards, that reminds me of my connection to the country every day.
Anne Hill: Viva Haiti
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They have strong emotional associations with the notion of home, whether it's a fieldstone fireplace, classic cedar shake siding, a slate roof, crown moldings, mahogany flooring - they're usually quite specific requirements.
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Stained a deliciously rich mahogany color, the inside of the Threepersons is light tan.
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She swung the large slab of mahogany open to rest her eyes upon Marcus.
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He commissioned a massive mahogany bed to be specially carved and it isn't finished yet.
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Hearing those two words when you don't have one conjures up an A. R. Gurney-approved environment of rectangular symmetry with mahogany veneer, a chandelier above, an Aubusson below, and a breakfront filled with Spode on the side.
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During the interview we all sat at the mahogany table over tea and biscuits.
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The deep mahogany of the grand piano surrounded and enveloped her plump figure.
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Trees in the forests include the juniper, the mountain mahogany, the pinion and other pines.
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Red mahogany, red stringybark, large-fruited red mahogany, Daintree stringybark
Chapter 5
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Beyond the point, 10 miles of trails skitter through the park's desertscape of sage, rabbitbrush, mountain mahogany, Utah juniper, and piñon, revealing vertigo-inducing views into deep-throated canyons.
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'Twas that owld Mahogany copperskin; but did I iver 'xpact he was up to _sich_ a trick and he would niver have l'aved me a-fishing.
The Lost Trail
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The star lot is a striking mid-18th century Irish mahogany side table. The later rectangular marble top sits above a plain gadrooned frieze, the deep shaped apron centred by a grotesque mask flanked by scrolling acanthus.
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The room has a picture rail and the original fireplace with a mahogany surround.
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The frames were usually of pine or veneered with mahogany, birch, or elm.
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It needs only a few snicks with a knife and a touch of green paint to convert a piece of dry mahogany bark into an ornamental fish, complete with the scales and tail-fin.
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Grain patterns in the mahogany are too indistinct to establish that boards in the two tables came from the same tree, although such comparisons often prove very useful.
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A pale face peeked out from behind a long fall of mahogany hair and light green eyes stood out against too much black eyeliner.
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Outdoor bench made of metal, teak, mahogany, redwood.
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The strip of mahogany has the grain running lengthwise.
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The room has a picture rail and the original fireplace with a mahogany surround.
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Unlike the main hall, Quinn's office was made out of rich, dark mahogany.
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During Victorian times, the use of more exotic timbers like mahogany and ebony became popular, meaning trees were exported from Africa, Asia and the Americas.
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My eldest son's holiday reading was the brand new Harry Potter and, with his sun-streaked hair and mahogany tan, he looked like a local.
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Large mahogany wardrobes and chests of drawers matched the bedsteads.
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From here, an elegant stone staircase to the first floor has cast iron bannisters and a polished mahogany handrail, and it leads to the landing lit by large cupola.
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Bo said, the mahogany furniture rental Yuan Henry, the only daily pay rent statistics, and maintenance of free rent period by businessmen.
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Made of mahogany with boxwood and maple inlays and black walnut, tulip poplar, and yellow pine secondary woods, the distinctive feature is the mastic or pitch used to fill in the quatrefoil and scalloped inlays on the legs.
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The five woods most commonly used in furniture production are cherry, walnut, oak, maple and mahogany.
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The room was ablaze with white wax candles, and the walls were slats of wood, smooth and splinterless mahogany brown in color.
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‘Aye, aye, Cap'n,’ I salute, as Nutter, Andy and Clem start to shift the new counters - all MDF, chipboard and mahogany-style veneer.
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Teak, mahogany, white oak, carvel planked, and oakum plugged; stout as a horse.www. deadfishermanguy.com
OpEdNews - Diary: Dead Fisherman Guy 8
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A bedbug is a small rusty-red or mahogany colored, oval-shaped insect that feeds on the blood of humans and animals.
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There was one girl next to her about the same height as Kelsey with rich wavy mahogany hair, a spray of freckles on her face, and dark, chocolate eyes.
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Senators sit in big armchairs at mahogany desks and bat around millions of dollars.
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Celest stands outside the movie theater dressed in a short black dress, her long mahogany hair combed back hanging loose on her back cascading over her shoulders.
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In a sense, the urinals, as much as the bar's 55-foot mahogany and marble bar and 16-foot tin ceilings, are symbolic of the Old Town's everyman charm.
Porcelain Majesty
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An ingeniously constructed system of heavy solid-mahogany double-doors gives the forecabin complete privacy.
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And even as the mahogany of our grandfathers is now brought forth from garrets and unused rooms, and antiquity shops and farm-houses are searched for the good old-time furniture, so we are learning to take the old gardens for our models, and the old-fashioned flowers to fill our borders.
A Woman's Hardy Garden
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The room retains its original tiled fireplace with carved mahogany surround and is fitted with spotlights.
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The kitchen's mahogany, ash, and aluminum are carried into the living room, where they're composed as a painterly fireplace wall.
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The room was styled simply, mahogany flooring and a rich blue plaster on the walls.
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To one side of the balcony door, nearer the bed, stood a substantial armoir, again in mahogany, with etched jade panels inset into its double doors.
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He customized 48-foot sport fishing boat, approximately $1 million: ‘I would get a navy hull, with lots of teak and mahogany on the topsides.’
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The candlesticks were made from teak and mahogany generating a two-tone effect and looked very impressive.
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You will find them in moody mahogany colours or shot with pink or green.
Times, Sunday Times
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The table on the right is a subtle composition of contrasting curly satinwood panels with mahogany cross-banding and patterned inlay.
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Mountain mahogany and bitterbrush provide winter cover and forage for mule deer.
Ecoregions of Oregon (EPA)
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Perfect for the drawing room, living room or study, the Davenport Desk is made from quality mahogany wood and boasts a fine leather top.
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The dark mahogany wood on the bed matched well with its surroundings.
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He skirted the patch of mountain mahogany with the polished red branches and made his way along the rimrock, the oily rifle in his hand.
Deuces Wild
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OpEdNews - Diary: Dead Fisherman Guy 8
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A British friend had asked me to lunch at Wasp heaven, the Brook Club, where members and their guests forgather at a majestic mahogany dining table gleaming with gigantic silver candelabra.
The Battle for Mrs. Astor
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He guided Guzman to a heavy mahogany table where there was a large map laid out and tapped a word covering the south-western part of the United States.
SERPENT
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Not this time she thought with renewed aggression and fire burning within her bright mahogany eyes.
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Species that form the basis of, and are threatened by, significant commercial activity and inadequately regulated or unsustainable global trade such as: tuna, salmon, and sturgeon; threatened hardwood timber species like bigleaf mahogany and ramin.
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Miss Mowcher untied her bonnet, at this passage of her discourse, threw back the strings, and sat down, panting, on a footstool in front of the fire — making a kind of arbour of the dining table, which spread its mahogany shelter above her head.
David Copperfield
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The grain-painted case imitates mahogany and ebony inlay, and the face is decorated with Masonic imagery.
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Wagner's 1890 mahogany collector's cabinet combines the profile of an 18th-century breakfront with inset panels of Japanese cloisonné that evoke 1880s English Aestheticism.
Modernism's Austrian Rebels
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Miss Mowcher untied her bonnet, at this passage of her discourse, threw back the strings, and sat down, panting, on a footstool in front of the fire - making a kind of arbour of the dining table, which spread its mahogany shelter above her head.
David Copperfield
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Everything had been renovated in a who-cares-how-much-it-costs kind of way, right down to the doorknobs and mahogany-cabineted kitchen with Gagenot stove, Thermidor oven, Sub-Zero fridge, and ultraviolet-ray-protected windows (yes, there is such a thing).
Former King of Cool, Gene Pressman, Grabs $1.9 Million Town House
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Special attention was given to the altar screen, which is made using an extremely complicated technique of thin and delicately carved ivory, ebony and mahogany plates.
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The lower portions of the bookcase doors have panels of crotch mahogany set within cross-grained and mitred satinwood surrounds.
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A mahogany breakfast table sold at ￡200; an astral glazed pine cupboard ￡200 and a marble top washstand ￡180.
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You have to be a real nerd like me to want to have a barograph in your house, but I like things made of brass and glass and mahogany.
When the Earth Flexes Its Muscles
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At the custom level, tropical hardwoods such as teak and mahogany doors are also possible.
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He was a magnificent specimen with a deep mahogany coat and sleek muscles.
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Gone was the staid decor and mahogany wood typical of the menswear shops on Shaftesbury Avenue.
Times, Sunday Times
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There were two dressers with drawers matching the same mahogany of the bed and a little cot in one corner set up for her.
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An inventory, conducted using high resolution sonar - a technology used to locate objects underwater - has identified some 100 species of trees, including sought-after hardwoods such as ebony, teak and mahogany, all buried in the lake bed.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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He caught the bird and tied its leg to a mahogany table and left again.
Times, Sunday Times
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They make a nice antidote to the Anglophobia of the breakfast rooms, where a persuasive case is made for polished mahogany, willowware and crustless toast.
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The old mahogany chairs upholstered in hair cloth were shinily forbidding.
Chicken Little Jane
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The prince had been sitting at the polished mahogany table, practising his algebra after repeated reminders from his tutor.
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There were rummies in 1789, too, and over the years I have seen a Runyanesque array of drunks, dimwits and demagogues shuffle through the chamber, standing at the mahogany desks of true giants of American history.
Living Politics: Seeing Red ... and Blue in the Senate
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The room is carpeted and features an open mahogany surround fireplace with marble inset and hearth.
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The table was long as well and of nicely polished mahogany that shined so much it looked like a pool of dark water.
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Bookshelves filled the place; a round table carved from mahogany was at the center and the desk stood near the window, mayhap to give the Prince a better view.
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Each component had its place in an attractive container, be it a pocket-sized silver case, a leather-covered etui, a wooden box, or a mahogany chest.
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Ian slides a glass across the mahogany sideboard for Lindsay.
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Music itself; and, piling all the upholsteries and ingenuities that other human art could do, had lighted them into a bonfire to illuminate an hour's flirtation of Singedelomme, Mahogany, and these improper persons!
The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852
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He was truthfully longing to sit in the King's throne, a large ornate thing, ebony and mahogany edged with gold and silver.
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Matt Del Fatti of Del Fatti Leather who I see as one of the finest leather craftsmen to ply the trade, cut and sewed a mahogany-colored holster with two magazine scabbards, custom fit to this Browning.
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Hepplewhite wrote that cellarets were ‘generally made of mahogany, and hooped with brass hoops lacquered; the inner part is divided into partitions, and lined with lead for bottles.
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The only sounds filling the room was the soft scraping of his knife and fork across his serving dish and the tick of a mahogany clock atop a mantel.
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The dark mahogany color of the garboards make for quite a contrast with the birch planks above.
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They have mahogany furniture, floral fabrics.
Times, Sunday Times
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All was silent in the courtroom, recently redone in rich mahogany, as they waited for the judge to give his final verdict.
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Mahogany Tree" quoted, 53; statuette by Boehm, 60; autotype, 61;
The History of "Punch"
