be part of the furniture

Thomas behaved as if she were part of the furniture.

As far as I'm concerned he is part of the furniture.

To the customers, he was part of the furniture.

Shadows blocked the room solidly, comfortably, as though they were part of the furniture.

For more than twenty years I've been part of the furniture, a constant teatime companion.

Unable to speak or understand a word of Basic, they were regarded as being part of the furniture.

"Now, then," said the lordly one, walking past Pulaski as if she were part of the furniture.

The people who lived there were part of the furniture, like the trees and water and game, legally bound to the land.

A judge is part of the furniture."

In her husband's gray, prosaic empire of the senseless, Jean is part of the furniture.

And as we sat down, a waitress greeted us as if the bouncing and singing were part of the furniture.

Simon, aware of Sally's presence, but in a peripheral way as if she were part of the furniture, ignored her and went upstairs.

Tensions flicker within the various pairings, and an intimation of satire seems to be part of the furniture.

The officers, whose looks and voices went right through David as if he were part of the furniture, left the room, clicking the door very solidly shut behind them.

I was part of the furniture, yes, but I was more than that: I was part of the family.

There are also a number of instances where antiques from the Orient are part of the furniture of Danielstown.

Stalin may be denounced in the Soviet Union, Mr. Stern said, but in Albania the former dictator is part of the furniture.

He'd always seemed to be part of the furniture at the lodge, an amiable headshrinker on hand to offer security-cleared emotional assurance to any longhair with the blues.

A billiard table was part of the furniture, according to H. C. Robbins Landon's "1791, Mozart's Last Year."

Arighi Bianchi (pronounced a-ree-ghee bee-an-key) has been part of the furniture in Britain, quite literally, for over 150 years.

"Some days, your job is not even to be part of the furniture," said Melvin Thompson, 34, one of five butlers employed at The Grand Casino Resort.

I didn't know it was an elephant; I BLUE HEAVEN thought it was part of the furniture."

Other than native staff, though, who were part of the furniture of the place, and beneath notice by official occupants, he was the one man in the Residence who spoke the language at all.

The recoil chairs were part of the furniture of a small but comfortable wardroom and the cushions were deep and resilient, not lumpy and beaten down like Grellah's.

Legendary throughout Bruges, Belgium and beyond for its hundreds of Belgian brews, this cosy brown café is filled with old advertising posters and locals who are part of the furniture.