reading desk
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Stepping out in his new fighting role, Alf Landon kept warm by shaking his clenched fist, pounding his reading desk with unaccustomed belligerency.
From Time Magazine Archive
Dr. Fosdick's party paused to study the great, stone chancel screen curving from reading desk to pulpit.
From Time Magazine Archive
The orphans learn to say grace before meals, to file every morning for non-sectarian prayer into the $1,600,000 College chapel where the Scripture is intoned from a "reading desk."
From Time Magazine Archive
When at last they reached the woolsack, Earl Baldwin knelt, got up, moved to a reading desk where a clerk sonorously summoned him "to sit among the Lords of the realm."
From Time Magazine Archive
They covered the secretary’s table, the reading desk, the stools—dreary papers of government, still bravely persevered in—of law, still to be codified—of commissariat and of armament and of orders for the day.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
