dark-wood

Updated: August 27, 2026

The afternoon had so darkened that electric light already burned, and there were the usual dozen of players seated among the shaded gleams falling decorously on dark-wood tables, on the backs of chairs, on cards and tumblers, the little gilded coffee-cups, the polished nails of fingers holding cigars. A crony challenged him to piquet. He sat down listless.

John Galsworthy - Beyond

Here were some books and papers, and directly over the table a handsome electric chandelier hung from the ceiling of dark-wood panels. This was the source of their present illumination. "This here's the settin'-room," Droop explained. "An' these are the state-rooms that's what he called 'em."

Harold Steele MacKaye - The Panchronicon