The next event which makes any mark in his life is his appointment to a chair specially created for him by the Royal Academy--the chair of Sculpture: this took place in 1810.
You mighty nigh scared me out of a year's growth," grumbled Pap, hitching vainly to throw his chair back into position.
She tipped the sacred yellow cat out of the rocking-chair where it always slept in state, took the chair herself, and sent that astonished feline from the room.
She sat so long with bent head that Miss Sessions finally came round and took the unoccupied chair beside her.
Himes started so violently that he disturbed the equilibrium of his chair and brought the front legs to the floor with a slam, so that he sat staring straight ahead.
He hesitated, glanced about him, and finally placed himself uneasily in the chair beside her.
His sister-in-law screamed faintly, then cowered in her chair and stared at him mutely.
The old fellow sat in a splint-bottomed chair of extra size and with arms.
She made no reply, but continued to bring in the baggage, and Johnnie, after settling her mother in a rocking-chair with the cool drink which the little woman had specified, hurried down to help her.
Mr. Mortimer Loraine rose from his stuffed chair and followed me, repeating the question he had put to me.
I had purchased a rocking-chair in Liverpool for her use on the hurricane deck, and every pleasant day we sat together there.
I was scarcely seated, when I was thrown over backwards, chair and all, and found myself lying on the floor, held down by Tom Thornton.
Your speech is improving," I added, throwing myself into a chair near my base of supplies.
They reached the new house to find Mr. Peterkin sitting calmly in a rocking-chair on the piazza, watching the oxen coming into the opposite barn.
One of them was to make all the chairs in the house of the same height, for Mrs. Peterkin had nearly broken her spine by sitting down in a chair that she had supposed was her own rocking-chair, and it had proved to be two inches lower.
He finished his drink, got up from his chair and on his own went over and mixed another.
Isobel sat in a chair to the rear, stenographer's pad on her knees.
Homer Crawford sank back onto the small crate he'd been using as a chair before Kenny's precipitate entrance.
Menzhinsky settled back in his chairand took up a sheaf of papers from the desk.
I moved a chairso that he might sit down, but he stood up to his full height, as though not deigning to be older than the rest.
He is the most ceremonious man I ever saw; and Nino says he rose from his chair to meet him, and would not sit down again until Nino was seated.
But I will bring a chair and sit down, while you tell me the news.
And when Nino explained that he had been married, and that this beautiful lady with the bright eyes and the golden hair was his wife, the old woman fairly gave way, and sat upon a chair in an agony of amazement and admiration.
The baroness noticed Nino's look, and springing back to her height from the chair on which she had been leaning, faced the door.
Finally, as Hedwig repeated the shameful insult, his brave old blood boiled up in his breast, and he sat gripping the two arms of his chair fiercely, while his gray eyes shot fire from beneath the shaggy brows.
Hedwig sat down on the chair that was in front of it, and her fingers went involuntarily to the keys, though she is no great musician.
Hedwig sank into the chair that her father had left, and hid her face.
I know it," said he, and fell back in his chair again, dreaming.
I sank into my arm-chair with a great sigh of relief, for I felt that, for me at least, the worst was over.
His words to Talapa were in regard to their guests' comfort, for that silent individual at once began preparations for bed-making on her behalf, until Rachel told her in Chinook that she would sleep in her chair where she was.
Jim had better lie on the bed, he is so sleepy, and I am not at all so; this chair is good enough for me, if you don't mind.
And from the corner by the bunk she drew forward the identical chair on which she had sat through the night at her only other visit.
Whereupon Jim began a pantomime enjoining silence, back of the chair of the man, who appeared more like a guest than host--perhaps because it was so hard to realize that it was really his hearth where that girl sat as if at home.
I remember your lounging habits in the camp, and a chair doesn't seem to quite suit you.
I--I don't know;" and Rachel suddenly sat down on a chair near the window and looked rather hopelessly at the questioner.
He brought his clenched hand down on the arm of the chair with an emphasis that was heightened by the knitted brow and compressed lips.
His fingers closed over the arm of the chair instead of her hand.
I pray you return to the house, and tell some one to come for me with a chair or a litter.
Above the chair was a velvet canopy surmounted by a gilt crown.
Do let's go," and Edith jumped up and down in herchair with excitement.
The Philosopher drew his chair closer to the visitor until their knees were jammed together.
The sergeant sat on the table, the fourth man took a chair, and the woman dropped wearily into the remaining chair from which she looked with pity at the prisoner.
Winter jumped up, overturning a chair in his haste.
It only meant a slightly deferred snuggling down into an easy chair in his flat with a book and a pipe.
Theydon realized, with a species of irritation, that the girl was discoursing volubly about the offending chair merely in order to extricate an apparently shy and tongue-tied young man from a morass of his own creation.
Forbes, dropping into a chair with a curious lassitude of manner which did not escape Theydon.
Had a powerful spring concealed in the seat of his chairbeen released suddenly, Theydon could not have bounced to his feet with greater speed.
When the lamps are on, the reason for the chairsimply ceases to exist, and it becomes a trap for the unwary.
His wife either stands beside him, sits on the same chair or on a second chair by his side, or squats beside his feet as during his lifetime.
Since the publication of this work in the original French, a very splendid specimen of a royal Egyptian chair of state, the property of Jesse Haworth, Esq.
He sits squarely upon his chair of state, his hands upon his knees, his chest thrown forward, his head erect, his gaze confident.
Elsewhere, the diverse offerings are brought to him one by one, and then he sits in a chair of state.
He sank into his chair silently, and passed his hand over his eyes, as if to shut out a vision of the future.
Rameau sank back on hischair with a sullen sneer on his pale lips.
V It was rather less than a year later that Edward Ambrose, seated in his favoritechair in his rooms in Bury Street, knocked out the ashes of a last pipe before turning in.
The editor of Brown's Magazine placed a chair for the young man and asked him to sit down.
Miss Press lit the cheap but scented Egyptian that was offered her, and lay back in the wicker chair with an air of languor which somehow did not match up with the gaminlike acuteness of her comically ill-natured countenance.
The mariner is not so blind that he does not see that it is a more developed, a far higher form of our species who sits with his old pipe in his favorite chair in Bury Street, St. James', frowning over this ridiculous letter.
Risking the rickety cane chair she sat heavily upon his knee, yet not so heavily as she might have done, and with a she-leopard's tenderness drew his head to her ample bosom.
Miss Bonser then sat up in her wicker chair and offered her hand at a very fashionable angle, but said good-by with real friendliness, and then Mr. Harper made a very awkward exit without either self-possession or dignity.
When Mr. Henry Harper had been allowed to subside into a vacant chair in the midst of six stylists, four of whom were female and two of whom were male, he was able to pull himself together a little.
The man opened his sunken eyes as the sleepy steward rose, gave his bedside chair to Ailsa, and replaced the ominous screen.
She crept into the depths of a big arm-chair and lay back watching him with inscrutable eyes.
And I rose straight up f'om my chair and I said, 'Curt!
Hallam, hungry to touch her, had risen and seated himself on the flat arm of the chair in which she was sitting.
And he drew up a chair before her and seated himself; and then under the billowy rose crinoline she set her pretty feet close together, folded her hands, and looked at him with a smiling composure which she no longer really felt.
Wye's chair buckled and he came down with a splintering crash; Casson galloped madly about, pretending his chair had become unmanageable.
But she had their house and their memories concrete in every picture, every curtain, every chair and sofa.
When he goes abroad, he is carried in a great chair or serion, splendidly gilded, on which is made a small house with a lattice to look through, so that he cannot be seen but may see about him.
He fingered a knob on the arm of the chair and the two exhaust ducts behind the wheel-housings flamed for a moment, and the chair began to roll.
McCoppet had snatched up a chair and with it he beat out the window.
Bostwick looked about the room furtively, and edged his chair a bit closer.
At the previous meeting Bailie had protested against Mr. Binning’s appointment to the moderator’s chair because he maintained, another member of the presbytery had a greater number of uncontraverted votes.
The last instance of a public competition for a chair in the University of Glasgow, occurred towards the close of the seventeenth century soon after the Revolution.
No doubt," replied Cottrell, as he took a chair beside them; "and from people of whose existence you were in happy ignorance.
To see so many people who can afford to pay a guinea for an arm-chair to read in for three hours is a refreshing proof that there is still money in the country.
As she turns, Sylla starts from the chair in great confusion; Mrs. Sartoris points to the table, and then with a start notices the open window.
By a sudden shifting of Mr. Pansey Cottrell's chair that gentleman's form intercepted the slight bending of the brows and shake of the head that replied to her husband's look of inquiry.
Grace's chair was shaded by a gracefully draped flag; the major stood near her, his love for her as visible in his eye as his cordial kindness for us.
The young lady had a will of her own, and sat down, it might be for the night, in her chair again.
In his waking hours he lives alternately in his Bath chair and in the great leathern easy chair in his study.
Mistress Margaret sat down on a garden chair a little way from her, and let her hands sink into her lap, still holding the beads.
He had returned there again, said mass on the Sunday morning, and preached afterwards, from a chair set before the altar, a sermon on the tears of the Saviour over apostate Jerusalem.
The Rector rose confusedly, but could not speak, and his eyes wandered round to his wife again and again as she took a chair in the shadow and sat down.
And he saw that Elizabeth smiled, and that the face behind the chair nodded at him encouragingly.
There was a tall chair standing before the hearth, and as Mistress Margaret sat down, drawing the girl with her, Isabel sank down on the footstool at her feet, and hid her face on the old nun's knees.
Mistress Margaret was sitting in a tall padded porter's chair reading aloud from an old English mystic, but her sister was paying no attention, and looked strangely at the girl as she came in.
Certainly he fidgeted on his chair a good deal, exclaimed, 'Ah, Mr. Kurtz!
There was an agent buttoned up inside an ulster and sleeping on a chair on deck within three feet of me.
Macallister went below, and Grahame put a deck chair for Evelyn under the awning in the stern, where he sat down on a coil of rope, while Walthew leaned against the rail near by.
Grahame had taken up a newspaper, but he watched them over it without turning his head; Walthew pushed his chair back carelessly into the shadow; and Blanca played with a gaudy fan.
Cups of black coffee and a plate of fruit stood on a table in front of the men, and the senorita Blanca Sarmiento sat in a low chair opposite, with her duenna a few yards away.
The Cuban pushed back his chair and left the room, although Grahame suspected that his dinner was not more than half finished.
The tramp captain, soon becoming genial, put his feet on a chair and beamed upon his neighbors, while Macallister, as usual, entered into talk with them.
Reggie was a product of his luxurious age; he was in his right place in a comfortable chair or moving gracefully about a polished floor with smartly dressed people in the background.
When he had indicated a chair he looked at Cliffe steadily.
Very well," he said, and pulling his chair to the table began to write.
Macallister, still singing, swung the leg of the chair and a man went down upon the stones, the knife he held flying from his hand.
As the light was not good, he strolled toward the drowsy gentleman who lay negligently in a big chairwith a newspaper dangling from his hand.
She fell limply into a chair and dropped her head into her hands.
Father Agustin, whose rusty black cassock jarred upon the blaze of light and color, leaned back in a canvas chair with a wineglass in his olive-tinted hand.
Push your chair back from that open drawer and then keep still!
Altiera rose and stood with his brown hand clenched upon the back of his chair and his brows knitted.
