There were divans on either side, to spread the beds upon, and the openings at each end made the whole delightfully cool.
The divans are covered with rich brocade, figured satin, damask, or cut velvet.
In marked contrast to the overcrowded appointments, divans and cupboards of the first room, it was sparsely furnished.
The idea of undressing and reclining on these divans in real oriental fashion," declared Mollie, giggling, "makes me feel that I am an odalisque already.
Eight limp young women in dressing-gowns draped themselves about the divans and in the arm chairs to discuss the joys of the day.
They were ushered into a large, luxuriously furnished room, with many divans and Turkish rugs, a fountain playing in the centre of the apartment, and a man in Eastern garments propped up amid some cushions, lazily smoking a hookah.
They were taking their ease ondivans and couches, some of them smoking cigarettes, some conversing, some remaining proudly apart from the others.
Many of the cars were gorgeously upholstered, Aladdin's divans of comfort and speed; and some of them were decorated with vases of flowers.
He snapped the little engine, and a small, blue flame threw a sickly light that helped them to find a channel through the islands of chairs and divans and tables, to the lofty hangings masking the windows.
Divans covered with soft cushions and several small tables laden with pipes, houkahs, cigarettes, etc.
In the bey's honor the little building was decked with flags and banners, furnished with rugs and divans and a splendid buffet, on which was a light lunch and water ices all ready for his Highness.
So he sat on his throne and the Ulemas took their places around him on the divans covered with kordofan leather.
The most delightful odour diffused itself through the air, cushioned divans stood half-buried under the floating leaves; in fact, everything combined to produce the most magical impression upon the senses.
The floor was covered with soft carpets; cushioned divans invited the fatigued to rest, and the brilliant illumination of the terraces, courts, and gardens diffused a light almost equal to that of day.
I have got a good-sized cabin with good, clean divans round three sides for Sally and myself.
The divans were all brand-new, and the fleas came in the cotton stuffing, for there are no live things of any sort in the rest of the boat.
Two Arab servants were waiting on each side of the white step that led into an ante-room filled with divans and coffee-tables.
Opposite to them was a Cafe Maure of the humblest kind, a hovel of baked earth and brushwood, with earthen divans and a coffee niche.
In their small and dusky bazaars the Israelites had reckoned up the takings of the day, and curled themselves up in gaudy quilts on their low divans to rest.
And then the tapestries of the door and the divans began fluttering and flapping as if someone was tugging away at their ends, and the flame of the night-lamp on the tripod flickered right and left, casting galloping shadows on the wall.
Then they pitched down all the pillows and cushions of the divans till they covered the sharp stakes, so that their points might not hurt the fugitives.
These divans were completely covered with embroidered covers and fine variegated mats.
The two divans and four teapoys, in the place of honour, were used by dowager lady Chia and Mrs. Hsüeh.
Make yourself comfortable anywhere," she said, with a gesture which comprehended all the divans and pillows in the place.
She had one room furnished with only divans and huge, soft cushions, its walls covered with large copies of statuary not too strictly clothed, which she would suffer no one, not even the servants, to enter.
I shan't sleep a wink tonight, but just rage around from one room to another, piling all the cushions from the divans on to the floor, and then kicking them away again.
But the spectators were sitting on chairs instead of divans and the host was dressed a la European, with the exception of the everlasting fez which covered his head.
The divans are floored and adorned on the sides with a variety of inlaid marbles wrought in interlacing patterns.
The tents were a part of the entertainment; that on the extreme left of the field was of silk, and had rich divans and carpets in the interior, and the one next to it was nearly but not quite as magnificent in material and decorations.
In the poorer houses these divans are of the same material as the floor--solid earth--covered with a mat of straw.
In one of the Jewish houses, the hostess invited us to seats in the room where herself, the ladies of her household, and a couple of visitors were squatted on divans and smoking nargilehs.
Pipes and coffee had been served the instant the table disappeared, and the party took its position on the divans where they could look on with complaisance.
We devoted an hour to calling on the consul, where we were treated to pipes and to coffee, and were seated on the divans that filled part of the official rooms.
There weredivans at the side of the room, and a rich carpet in the centre, and we sat on the carpet more than on the divans.
The rooms of every Arab's house contain divans that extend along the end furthest from the door and sometimes along one of the sides.
To the right of the fountain there is a recess about twenty feet square, where are divans and chairs in abundance.
The spaces thus elevated are richly carpeted and have divans on three sides.
There were divans on three sides of the room, and on these we were seated; the dancers and the musicians occupied the floor in the centre, and as soon as we were seated, the performance began.
Soft silken divans reclined against the walls, pierced with several ogive doors that were half closed with curtains fringed with pearls.
The domestics of his household placed under the galleries and near the divans little Saracen tables of sculptured ivory, on which they laid the checks and dice.
We saw beds with rich curtains of cloth of gold and silver, and large divans which were very handsome.
The gardeners brought us beautiful bouquets and quantities of oranges; and we walked about or rested on the divans in the arcade till it was time to go home.
The divans were gilt and heavy silk damask--one room crimson, one blue and another a delicate buff.
There was no reason, therefore, why imitations should not be got up capable of serving every purpose, and of giving more amusement than the genuine dishes and divans of Islam would have done.
They were all curled up on divans sipping coffee and smoking cigarettes when I entered.
The cafés are frequent, where they sit curled up on the divans dreamily smoking and sipping their fragrant coffee or hearing stories in the flowery style of the Arabian Nights.
The floor was matted, and the divans were of white silk embroidered with gilt thread and crimson and green floss.
A heavy rug of bright colors covered the centre of the floor, and the only furniture was the divans around the sides.
Divans covered with striped mattress-ticking stood against the white walls, and on them sat seven or eight passive-looking women over whom a number of pale children scrambled.
In reply to this amiable invitation we crossed an empty saloon surrounded withdivans and passed out onto the loggia where the wool-merchant and his guests were seated.
They were evidently persons of consequence: large bulky men wrapped in fresh muslins and reclining side by side on muslin-covered divans and cushions.
They greeted my companion with exclamations of delight; then they led us into the usual commonplace room with divans and whitewashed walls.
But the result would always be the same: a prolonged state of obese ecstasy culminating in the collapse of huge heaps of snoring muslin on the divans against the wall.
He seated us on divans and lowered his voluminous person to a heap of cushions on the step leading into the court; and the son who had studied in Algeria instructed a negress to prepare the tea.
Divans with muslin-covered cushions were ranged against the walls and down an adjoining gallery-like apartment which was otherwise furnished only with clocks.
The divans against the walls were of striped silk.
This is like having a bedroom salon," exclaimed Molly with a hospitable smile to some dozen guests who adorned the divans and easy chairs, the floor and window sills of her room.
Presently, Nance, major domo for the evening, shoved all the guests back onto the divans and into the corners until a circle was formed in the centre of the room.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "divans" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
