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The workstand was completed—a complication of intricacies. There were drawers within drawers, and boxes within boxes; an apartment for each spool of cotton, with a lid to shut over it, and a lever to lift it out; all requiring as much time in opening and shutting, raising up, and pushing aside, as it would have taken to extricate the various implements and materials from a disordered work-bag.
Source: wiktionary
Close up against one of the jambs, by the window that overlooks the dairy and the henyard and the vegetable garden, is ol' Miss's workstand — a little square mahogany affair that is not independent of the support furnished it on two sides by the projection of the chimney and the wall by the window.
Source: wiktionary
[…] that he laid the money down on the workstand by the chair he was shaving the man in and went out; that he did not know whether appellant saw him lay the money down or not; that there were several persons in the shop at the time he laid the money on the workstand, that he tried to catch the appellant's eye, but did not think he did, nor did he know whether appellant got the money, or what became of it;
Source: wiktionary
If you do supply the workstand, don't fail to put needles, cotton, buttons and darning requisites in one of the drawers. Without these the workstand is only a half-completed bit of thoughtfulness and had better be omitted altogether.
Source: wiktionary
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