Within, on both sides, were wide scaffolds, four feet from the floor, and extending the entire length of the house, like the seats of a colossal omnibus.
The Governors of Montreal and Three Rivers, when present had also seats in the Council.
In their original seats among the Blue Mountains, they offered an example extremely rare among Indians, of a tribe raising a crop for the market; for they traded in tobacco largely with other tribes.
The seven who sat in the high seats were motionless, their bright tendrils stirring with infinite delicacy as though they studied the three humans who stood before them.
At the far end of the long vault sat seven of the shining ones in high seats marvellously shaped from the ice.
I have seen them used for seatsduring a halt on the ice, when the boat was being taken out to the "lead.
The seals themselves make sometimes holes in the Ice, where they come and draw breath; near such a hole a Greenlander seats himself on a stool, putting his feet on a lower one to keep them from the cold.
The seats are comfortable, and that French bugbear, the ouvreuse de loge, is unknown.
But let us take our seats at the table d'hote of the best hotel in any second-rate town that you please in Ohio, Pennsylvania, or some other State of the Union.
The public are requested to leave the books in the seats after use.
Built to carry twenty-four persons inside (there are no seats on the top), they are made to hold sixty and more.
The seatswere all occupied; but in America that does not mean that the car is full, and presently the conductor let in a woman, who came and stood near my seat.
In trains, where the seats are constructed to hold two persons, you will see the American seek a place from one end of the train to the other before he will go and seat himself by the side of a young girl.
Those who have engaged their seats in advance, come in a quarter of an hour or twenty minutes after the time fixed for commencing.
I do not doubt that, if women occupied seatsin all Town Councils, the streets would promptly be purified, and women would be able to go into the public thoroughfares at all hours as freely as their husbands and brothers.
The seats of honour are reserved for men of talent.
In spite of the help of the pneumatic seats and a sleep-cap, Dal could not even doze.
A large semicircle of seats was drawn up around the hearth.
The seats had been removed, and beds of unthrashed wheat sheaves from the neighbouring harvest-fields were strewn upon the floor.
He would have liked to urge him to quit the scene at once, for the seats just opposite were those destined to Caesar and his court-among them, no doubt, Melissa.
His father being one of the senators of the town, his family had a row of seats in the lowest and best tier; but this, on this occasion, was entirely given up to Caesar and his court.
And now, when anything noteworthy was to be seen outside, he only regretted that he had already some time since conducted them to their seats in one of the upper rows.
There were, of course, numerous ranges of seats around the margin of this lake for the accommodation of the spectators.
The water rushed out in an overwhelming torrent, as in an inundation--and undermined and carried away the platforms and stagings which had been erected for the seats of the spectators.
Make the seats as comfortable as may be; it's hard riding all night.
Men began to gather themselves together, to crawl out from under seats where the sudden stop had thrown them, and prepared to leave the car.
The four chums had been in their seats but a short time, having found their possessions somewhat scattered, but safe, when a brakeman came hurrying in.
I'm with you," announced Bart, as he reached up to the rack over the seats for the baskets.
Moralists have denounced the injustice and cruelty which have been practiced towards our aboriginal Indians, by which they have been driven from their native seats and exterminated, and no doubt with much justice.
One of the rules it adopted, but which the Alliance afterward modified, excluded all American clergymen, suspected of a want of orthodoxy on the per se doctrine, fromseats in that body.
The men of fashion in the district were lolling on the seats of honour, and discussing my passion in the language of the gutter.
However, it frequently slipped, and in recovering itself, gave us such jolts that we should have lost our seats a thousand times (equipped as we were) had we not been hanging between life and death.
Thiers was about to speak, there was as much intriguing, clamoring, beseeching, wrangling, storming for seats in the public tribunes as would have sufficed to carry an English county election.
The mere numerical strength of the military officers who had seats in the House of Commons was enough to hold up a tremendous barrier in the way of army reform or political reform.
From some of the cars all the seats had been removed; others had seats at one end, while two thirds of the flooring was bare.
Those who could not find seats sat on the floor, or lounged against the darkened walls.
Do you feel yourselves capable of keeping your seats with the horses galloping at their utmost speed?
Let us talk then," said Don Pablo, seating himself on the grass, and making a sign to the gauchos to take their seats near him.
It hath established the ignorant upon the seats of learning, and elevated the oppressor to the throne of justice.
For well-known and influential leaders of religion, who occupy the seats of authority and exercise the functions of leadership, can in no wise bear allegiance to the Revealer of truth, except whomsoever thy Lord willeth.
For such, today, is the manner of the divines and doctors of the age, who occupy the seats of knowledge and learning, and who have named ignorance knowledge, and called oppression justice.
What unspeakable cruelties they that have occupied the seats of authority and learning have inflicted upon the true Monarchs of the world, those Gems of divine virtue!
If this lady be married and her husband present, the latter takes the hostess to her place at table, and seats himself at her right hand.
One of the chief seats of the industry was at Pontypool, but the business drifted to Birmingham.
He moved away from them, and sat down in one of the seatsfurther down the car.
Two men occupied the seats in the middle of the car; it was a large, seven passenger machine.
It stood now between the two seatson the floor, and picking it up and looking at it, he found it unfastened and with marks about the lock which told plainly that it had been forced.
The first man was Mademoiselle de Corandeuil's coachman, as large a fellow as ever crushed the seats of landau or brougham with his rotundity.
The seats were all occupied; all, that is, save one, towards which he saw Miss Chancellor and her companion direct themselves, squeezing and edging past the people who were standing up against the walls.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "seats" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
