china closet
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“To her, the world was not a china closet where you admire this and don’t touch that,” McBride wrote of Chona in the novel.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 5, 2023
Original hardwood floors, Victorian paint color scheme, ornate curved oak staircase and woodworking; sitting parlor, formal dining room with built-in china closet, eat-in kitchen, pocket doors.
From Washington Times • Jan. 7, 2016
Above her, the sun shines through a latticework of broken boards that was once the roof and onto a dust-covered china closet.
From Time Magazine Archive
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In his thefts from Homer, Keats, Joyce Kilmer, the marriage service and Shakespeare, Burglar Powys invariably knocks over the china closet or steps on the cat.
From Time Magazine Archive
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He’d swing her up and place her on the top of a bookcase or china closet, and then go back and sit down.
From "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey
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