His nobles were seated around upon couches draped in purple and embroidered with pearls and gold.
The sledges, large, commodious and so lined with furs as to furnish luxurious couches for repose, traveled night and day.
We found him at the bath, and after a plunge into the bracing sea water we lounged in our wraps on the couches prepared for that delightful moment.
But first aid us to lift the badly wounded on these couches where we may bandage their hurts.
Without ceremony Techotl thrust the door open and ushered his friends into a broad chamber, where some thirty dark-skinned men and women lounging on satin-covered couches sprang up with exclamations of amazement.
Mr. Hampton gripped his rifle, and sprang toward the barricade of couches behind which crouched the rest of their little force.
About the sides stood wooden couches with thick mattresses upon them, over which were thrown covers in vivid dyes.
He only asked her for whom the great feast was prepared, and why Hel was spreading her couches so gorgeously.
When he had reached the realm of Hel, Odin found that a feast was being prepared, and the couches were spread, as for an honoured guest, with rich tapestry and with gold.
There was a library, a bed chamber and a parlour with broad couches against two of the walls.
They slept on the couches because it did not make any difference to them and because Hawkins was of a philanthropic turn of mind when occasion demanded.
On the Sabbath morning they recline upon their boughy couches until the sun has traveled a long way upon his daily circuit.
For this reason such things as are useful and necessary, like couches and tables and chairs, were made there better than anywhere else, and the Laconian cup, we are told by Kritias, was especially valued for its use in the field.
But the name was also applied to the couches of goddesses and empresses--(See Cat.
They spent the night at Loch a Druing, and slept in John Mackenzie's barn, where couches of heather were prepared for them.
It was in a barn where their couches of heather were prepared.
Sometimes a rug or a bit of matting is laid on this hard couch, sometimes not; for the Chinaman, accustomed to sleeping on bricks, prefers his couches hard.
The coucheswere not all occupied, but I counted thirty-five men sitting or reclining on them.
Second, all opium dens or places where couches or lamps are supplied for public smoking are to be closed at once under penalty of confiscation.
Opium dens, as also all restaurants, hotels, and wine-shops which provide couches and lamps for smokers were to be closed at once.
At the river ports the dens were running openly, many of them with doors opening directly off the street and with smokers visible on the couches within.
The coucheswere black, the linen was black, the slaves were black.
So also were the couches and bedsteads used by the wealthier classes.
What the chairs, tables, footstools, and couches were like may be seen from the Assyrian bas-reliefs.
He took no notice of the strangers, who, after having bowed to him, stretched themselves upon the couches to chat, not forgetting to congratulate Tseng upon the destiny which had been foretold him.
The couches of the north of China are brick beds, heated by a stove underneath, and covered with a mat.
The priest then ran out, and Han and Hsue lay down to sleep, one at each end of the room, on elaborately-carved couches covered with beautiful mattresses.
Thereupon, when they found all kinds of food dressed and laid out in the quaestor's tent, and the couches placed in order, their chieftain lay down and began to feast.
During the feast, and while the couches were spread over the forum, a storm came on with violent gusts of wind, and compelled most of the people to pitch tents in that place.
In the public forum, where a lectisternium was being celebrated, there was an earthquake, and the heads of the gods who were on the couches turned away their faces, and the cloak and robes placed on Jupiter fell off.
Couches that lure the sailors to recline, Abundant food, brown ale, and sparkling wine; Tables and chairs in order duly placed, With crystal cups and golden goblets graced.
And having eaten and drunk till they were satisfied, they went to sleep on soft couches till morning.
Our beds are rocks in the dripping caves; Our lullaby song the roar of the waves: But soft rich couches once we pressed, And harpers lulled us each night to rest.
Couches were placed all round, with rich coverlets and rugs, and soft, glossy furs.
Still seeing no one, they seated themselves on the couches and rugs.
Beneath this was spread a gay Babylonian carpet, with couches and silken cushions.
The Macedonians, wearing garlands of oak leaves, stretched themselves upon the gorgeous couches and partook of the strange dishes that were set before them by the pages.
Chairs and tables of ebony, cypress, and cedar were scattered through the room, and soft couches invited rest.
The couches were covered with silks of many hues and piled with yielding cushions.
Along its sides tables had been spread, flanked by rich couches and covered with dishes of massive gold and silver.
The whole night they sat on those unquiet couches and talked.
The servants of Hela were very busy there making preparations for some new guest--hanging gilded couches with curtains of anguish and splendid misery upon the walls.
They who were asleep turned over on their rude couches to dream of youth and love and olden days.
I went down from the terrace and found myself again amongst the ten one-eyed youths sitting upon their ten coucheswith blue covers; and they cried out when they saw me, "No welcome to thee, nor aught of good cheer!
They started from their couches and looked about, Effie terribly frightened, and Leonard just a little.
The mermaids, too, left the couches of pearl on which they had been reclining, and were carried through and through the air, the ends of their bodies covered with long floating drapery of green and crimson.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "couches" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
