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Example sentences for "backed chair"

  • Lord Arranmore sat a little forward in his high-backed chair, one hand grasping the arm, the other stretched flat upon the table before him.

  • He was still sitting in exactly the same position, one hand upon the arm of his high-backed chair, the other upon the table before him.

  • Still he sat back in his high-backed chair, and still he spoke in measured, monotonous tones.

  • Lord Seely seated himself once more in the high-backed chair, but in a very different attitude from his former one.

  • Minnie was placed in Mrs. Thimbleby's own high-backed chair, with the clean patchwork-covered cushions piled behind her.

  • My lord sat in a large high-backed chair, which nearly hid his diminutive figure from view, except on the side of the fireplace.

  • She threw off her air of listlessness and arose, crossing over and standing before him, leaning upon a high-backed chair, and speaking rapidly.

  • Miss Arthur advanced a step and stood beside the high-backed chair, one hand still resting upon the door.

  • A huge Bible appeared on a table in front of Fraulein's high-backed chair.

  • Of the first Sunday, now so far off, she could remember nothing but sitting in a low-backed chair in the saal trying to read "Les Travailleurs de la Mer".

  • Sometimes, early in the evening just before dinner, I sit in the stiff-backed chair with my elbows on the window-sill and my head resting on one hand, and I look out of the window at a Pile of Stones and a Barrel of Lime.

  • I sit by my window in a miserable, uncomfortable, stiff-backed chair, but I relieve the strain by resting my feet on the edge of the low bureau.

  • Napoleon was rather like the Devil, I think as I sit in the straight-backed chair with my feet on the bureau and gaze long and intently at the seventeen pictures, late in the evening.

  • I simply pin the rents in them together and it lasts as long or longer than if I had seated myself in my stiff-backed chair with a needle and thread and mended them--like a sensible girl.

  • In three bounds I had ascended the steep stair, flung open violently the door of my room, but stopped upon the threshold with some surprise, as I saw Herr von Zehren sitting in the great high-backed chair at the window.

  • The Born Kippenreiter sat in Hans's high-backed chair, like a queen who had been hurled from her throne by a storm of revolution, her false hair plucked off, and the rouge all washed from her cheeks.

  • And I threw myself into the old worm-eaten, high-backed chair, at imminent risk of its destruction, with the deepest distress evident in my features.

  • It stirred from out the depths of the huge high-backed chair, and from out the gloom there came a little cry of surprise and of joy which was as the call of bird or angel.

  • Nothing real on earth could be so exquisite as that subtle vision which he had of her now, sitting in the high-backed chair, leaning slightly forward toward him.

  • She let the work that she had resumed drop once more in her lap, and gazed up at him as he bent over the high-backed chair.

  • At one side, in a high-backed chair, sits a lady still young and beautiful.

  • She sat down in the high-backed chair, and I noted that our batteries began to play upon the town--an unusual thing at night.

  • He was sitting now in the high-backed chair, his mouth and chin in his hand, his elbow resting on the chair-arm.

  • As she sat in the high-backed chair, Clemence van Rycke felt as if an icy chill had crept into her bones.

  • IV And as she sat there huddled up in the high-backed chair it would be difficult to realise that Clemence van Rycke was still on the right side of fifty.

  • With her own hands she had drawn a high-backed chair close to the fire and made the young girl sit down.

  • The old woman was sitting, dignified and majestic, frail and thin, in her high-backed chair.

  • Did she remember, as she sat in her straight-backed chair, in that red twilight of the window-curtains?

  • So she sat, in her high-backed chair, waiting for him.

  • And these eyeglasses were affixed to the bridge of Sir John Meredith's nose, as he sat stiffly in the straight-backed chair.

  • Sir John Meredith was sitting stiffly in a straight-backed chair by his library fire.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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