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Example sentences for "armchairs"

Lexicographically close words:
armata; armati; armature; armatures; armchair; armd; arme; armed; armee; armees
  1. He was soon seated in one of the armchairs in her cabin, balancing a steaming cup of coffee on its arm.

  2. In the middle of the floor, with their backs to the door at which Mary and her companion stood, were set two small armchairs of plain and cheap make.

  3. He led her in, pulling the door to after him, and placed her and himself in front of the two small armchairs opposite Mr. Saffron's throne.

  4. A man can't give up work and sink into armchairs at that age.

  5. The armchairs of the peers were occupied, but not soiled.

  6. A few tables, a wardrobe, and a few blue and green armchairs in disorder encumbered more than they furnished the room.

  7. A few antique, white and gilt armchairs covered with red damask stood in a semicircle before the fireplace, where three or four enormous logs were burning slowly, behind the brass fender.

  8. I believe that we owe the ancient etiquette concerning armchairs to the circumstance that our barbarians of ancestors had at most but one in a house, and even this was used only by the sick.

  9. On a gaudy modern Rabat carpet stood gilt armchairs of florid design and a table bearing a commercial bronze of the "art goods" variety.

  10. Our host, a handsome white-bearded old man, welcomed us in the doorway; then he led us to a raised oriel window at one end of the room, and seated us in the gilt armchairs face to face with one of the most beautiful views in Morocco.

  11. I saw that my pistol was handy, and sat down in one of the armchairs by the fireside.

  12. The butler's pantry itself was a fair-sized, comfortable room, with a carpet on the floor and a couple of worn, padded armchairs by the fireplace.

  13. The seats are small wooden chairs, but there are also small wicker armchairs and sofas.

  14. Little tables of different sizes, little armchairs and sofas should be placed here and there.

  15. Her voice became tinged with melancholy and Hennessey changed the subject, taking his seat in one of the armchairs that stood on either side of the fireplace.

  16. Very pleased that she and Richard were at last alone together, Ellen sat down on one of the armchairs at the hearth and smiled up at him.

  17. At night mice could be heard; while through the empty, columned hall out of which his room opened, rats scurried, flopping about and tumbling down from the armchairs and tables.

  18. There still remained out of the ruin a carpet and some armchairs near the large, dirty windows, an old piano stood unmoved, and some portraits still hung on the walls.

  19. When she reappeared her cheeks were flushed, and she sat down in one of the armchairs without saying a word.

  20. Four old armchairs upholstered in green velvet were placed in the corners; and a heap of shavings made a blaze in the fireplace, where there was always a bundle of sticks ready to be lighted as soon as he rang the bell.

  21. A superb Louis XVI chest of drawers, bound with polished brass, stood between two Louis XV armchairs which were still covered with their original brocaded silk.

  22. Sitting in one of the smooth-worn old armchairs that Uncle Tony always keeps handy, you can view the very heart of Green Valley's business life.

  23. There is the mellow brown spinning wheel, and armchairs nearly two hundred years old and a walnut table that was mixed up in countless weddings and a beautifully carved old chest and a brocade-covered settee.

  24. The house had been very nicely furnished and a piano and some armchairs were untouched; but everything else was badly wrecked.

  25. One would see large mirrors and comfortable armchairs in them, and in some cases even pianos.

  26. It was one of those armchairs that you still see in old castles, and which seem made to read one's self to sleep in, so easy is every part of it.

  27. Before a very small table surrounded with gilt armchairs stood Louis XIII, encircled by the great officers of the crown.

  28. In summer the windows were left open, and we used to sit in armchairs and chat of affairs by the light of our cigars.

  29. Love in marriage is, as a rule, too much at his ease; he stretches himself with too great listlessness in armchairs too well cushioned.

  30. The eight Utrecht armchairs had their backs to the wall; a round table in the centre supported the liqueur case; and above the mantelpiece could be seen the portrait of Père Bouvard.

  31. Box bushes were placed at the four sides of the garden and these had been cut to represent armchairs by some zealous gardener long since passed away.

  32. The modern shears had but followed the lines of the original ones and the armchairs were still there although somewhat lopsided and hazy in drawing.

  33. The screams had stopped before we reached the stairhead, but there was no doubting which her room was; the door was partly open, permitting a view of armchairs and feminine garments in some disorder.

  34. When it was over we sat in deep armchairs on the long wide veranda that fronts the whole hotel.

  35. Denys's eyes looked eager, but she thought of Mrs. Henchman and the two armchairs over the fire last night, and she hesitated to produce a plan that would monopolise Charlie for herself.

  36. The two brothers, in two armchairs that matched, one on each side of the center-table, stared in front of them, in similar attitudes full of dissimilar expression.

  37. It was all very domestic, their two armchairs and the fire--the dying fire.

  38. They found two armchairs facing each other, the Czar seated himself in the upper, the Regent in the other.


  39. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "armchairs" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.