These tomes were never intended to grace thenightstandof casual nocturnal readers and the author makes no apology for his obsession with detail.
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Her punishment was to wake up every morning and find the same handkerchief lying on hernightstand.
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These lamps are popular as desk andnightstandlamps.
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A glass on thenightstandis examined and revealed to be drugged.
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She removes a cigarette from the pack on thenightstand, takes a lighter from the stand, and lights the cigarette.
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For example, she will often choose two very different looking nightstands for a bedroom.
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But in her haste, she has left her wedding ring on the stranger'snightstand, so she returns to retrieve it.
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Large wheels on shock absorbers extend beyond the top of the clock to protect it from impact should it roll off anightstand.
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Most of the time she will not use two of the same nightstands for a room.
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She was poisoned by hydrochloric acid substituted in the glass of water on hernightstand.
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