Against the wall beside the pool table was a half-size refrigerator jammed with beer.

NEWYORKER: Ziggurat

The steam of the Christmas pudding drifts across a background of pawnshops and sweated labour, and in a double sense the ghost of Scrooge stands beside the dinner table.

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Reading a book, he would stroke the table beside it.

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See the happiness mug on the table beside me?

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Her children scooted onto chairs beside her as she sat at the table, each leaning close to her radiant good will.

NEWYORKER: Soldier��s Joy

Critzer sat at a short end of the table chatting, the coaches at the long end beside her, Harding leaning toward her on an elbow, Hobson fingering his beard.

NEWYORKER: Personal Best

He saw Lydia embrace one of the men, from the back, lean over him as he sat at the table and put her face beside his.

NEWYORKER: Or Else

And that there was no longer any difference between what once had been my father and the table he was lying on, or the floor on which the table stood, or the wall socket beneath the window, or the cable running to the lamp beside him.

NEWYORKER: Total Recall

When I fall asleep at night, I turn away from gazing at my husband beside me to gaze upon the faces of our children, in plain silver frames on our bedside table (that is, unless one of the three of them has decided to invade our bed, in which case I am gazing at their faces from far too close up).

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