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The hangings, wall-paper, and floor coverings were to harmonize not match and the piano and music-cabinet for the parlor, as well as the etagere, cabinets, and pedestals for the reception-rooms, were to be of buhl or marquetry, if Frank cared to stand the expense. Ellsworth advised a triangular piano the square shapes were so inexpressibly wearisome to the initiated.
Theodore Dreiser - The Financier, a novel

Wait here for a little." When Mrs. Manderson returned, he was hunting through the music-cabinet. She sank on the carpet beside him in a wave of dark brown skirts. "Tell me something, Philip," she said. "If it is among the few things that I know." "When you saw uncle last night, did you tell him about about us?" "I did not," he answered. "I remembered you had said nothing about telling any one.
E. C. (Edmund Clerihew) Bentley - The Woman in Black
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