She grunts as she walks--if you can call it walking--and you almost want bullocks to get her out of an armchair when she has once sunk into it.
The boy in his armchair and pillows will take the room of two.
Having drunk some tea, which his man brought in for him, and lighted a cigarette, Kensley drew his comfortable armchair towards the pleasant firelight and smoked contentedly.
All day she rummaged in the empty house--finding now a three-legged armchair which she propped up with a stone, now a single Venetian glass scrolled in gold for her tooth glass.
His arms closed around her and he backed to an armchair and sat down on it, holding her close.
The room also contained a round table where she lunched and drank her tea and coffee, and a rather hard leather-covered armchair with a high back.
Then he rushed up to her, brought her back to the house with Vassilissa's help, put her in her armchair and sent for the doctor.
Sears Kendrick would have risen from the armchair in which he was seated, but the visitor extended a gloved hand.
The man in the armchair was thin and shrunken, the face was deeply lined, and face and hands and hair were snow white.
Within half an hour after Joslin had left, Polly Pendleton, unfinished cigarette in hand, turned in her cushioned armchair as she heard the strident call of the telephone.
Polly seated herself in a deep-cushioned armchairnear the window, her half-consumed cigarette still between her fingers.
So he went to his room, locked himself in without knowing why; afterwards he flung himself into an armchair and sat abstractedly for over an hour.
The armchair in which Henry Challis had once sat was a valued possession, dedicated by custom to the sole use of George Stott.
His armchair was empty now, but he hesitated before he sat down in it.
She leaned back in her armchair with her eyes half closed, and a quiet retrospective smile upon her face.
Then he sat in thearmchair with his back to the door.
In the other, an armchair lay upon its side with legs projecting.
An armchairstood at each side of the empty fireplace, and an uncomfortable, old-fashioned, horsehair sofa lined the opposite wall.
I am listening," said La Ramee, leaning back in his armchair and raising his glass of Madeira to his lips, and winking his eye that he might see the sun through the rich liquid that he was about to taste.
She noticed that he surveyed her as she took the armchair he offered her.
In the centre stood a great mahogany writing-table piled with papers, from which he had just risen, while at the side was set an armchair for those to whom His Majesty gave audience.
He sat in his armchair listening to it with a decanter at his elbow half filled with a liquid like brown sherry.
He was still sitting in his armchair before the grate.
And then I sat down in an armchair and read the Mayfair Gazette----" and he stopped.
For a brief instant he held her in his arms and then he led her to the great armchairthat was the Colonel's.
Colonel Carvel beheld them from his armchair by the sitting-room window, and leaned forward with a start.
We remained standing a few minutes and then she sat down on a sofa (not a very small one) which she quite filled, and motioned me to take an armchair on one side.
A couple wanted the same, only one more, a blanket for a big armchair near the fire.
Prince Hohenlohe came often, settled himself in an armchair with his cup of tea, and talked easily and charmingly about everything.
Paul began to wheel an armchair from the bedside, but Colonel Winwood insisted on his lying down again and drew up the chair himself.
He was lying in his usual position; and near him, on the very armchair which was usually occupied by Sofya Nikolayevna herself, his servant Nikolai was sitting.
Tired out by his exertions and by joyful excitement, Klauss at last sat down in an armchair and much enjoyed a cup of tea.
Charles sank back into his armchair overwhelmed, trying to discover what could be wrong with her, fancying some nervous illness, weeping, and vaguely feeling something fatal and incomprehensible whirling round him.
And to put his armchair back in its place he was darting away from the counter, when Binet asked him for half an ounce of sugar acid.
Charles fled to his study and wept there, both his elbows on the table, sitting in an armchair at his bureau under the phrenological head.
Emma wanted to go out; the crowd filled the corridors, and she fell back in her armchair with palpitations that choked her.
Seated in her armchair near the window, she could see the villagers pass along the pavement.
When it was fine they wheeled her armchair to the window that overlooked the square, for she now had an antipathy to the garden, and the blinds on that side were always down.
And when that is the case one's armchair is the best place.
One armchair was thus left vacant, but there was no other comer.
You had better let him sit in your armchair for half an hour or so," Fitzgibbon had said; and Phineas almost believed that it would be better.
The Duke took thearmchair close at Mr. Mildmay's left hand.
When he was installed in his armchair it was little better.
Giving our names to the usher, we mounted the stairs, and passed on from room to room until we came to a large salon, in which seats were formally arranged in a semicircle, an armchair somewhat higher than the rest occupying the centre.
Sit down, Master Tom," said he, as he forced me into an old armchair beside the fire.
The three armchair geographers, seldom out of reach of dusty book-shelves, passed upon these worthless observations.
Figures may convince an armchair geographer who has a preconceived opinion, but to the true scientist with the many chances for mistakes above indicated there is no real proof.
For this reason, and for others which we will presently show, this whole idea of proof by figures as devised by Mr. Peary and the armchair geographers, falls to pieces.
Armchair geographers and renegades may endeavor to discredit Dr.
All concede this, but latitude, we are told by the armchair observer, is easy and sure.
He leaned upon the armchair and then fell heavily into it, his head buried in his hands.
The Grand Duke threw himself into anarmchair and inhaled luxuriously of his cigarette.
The king came out and placed a chair for each of us, and sat down in an armchair on the terrace.
I went and sat in anarmchair in the admiral's after-cabin, and gazed and gazed through the balcony door at the harbour.
