With a slight inclination of the head QUEX turns away and stands leaning against the settee with his back towards SOPHY.
Passing her and throwing himself, full-length, upon the settee and settling himself to read.
I sat down on a red plush settee while my host settled into a wicker easy chair by a small desk.
I had a neat little mahogany dumb-waiter near the settee and I put it up and covered it with a linen towel.
He would lie on the settee when he was off watch, the creases in his cheeks twisting, his bloodshot old eyes fixed on the toes of his red slippers and then--biff!
I sat on the setteein our room and tried to think.
He lay on the settee a long while, smoking and looking angrily at the books in the case.
He was lying on thesettee and the gin-bottle stood on the chest-of-drawers, empty.
I am quite prepared to believe that your creed embraces neither marriage (DINAH gives a little cry and bangs a cushion on settee angrily) nor monogamy, but my creed is different.
DINAH (putting her legs up on settee and reclining her head on his shoulder).
DINAH goes on playing and he takes out a sketch-book, sits on settee and sketches her.
I think we might try that--(looking round at settee and carpets, etc.
Quinney was no party to this fraud, for the settee had never belonged to him, but it opened his eyes to the possibilities of patching "cripples.
Tom Tomlin was one of the very few who saw the Chippendale settee after James had restored it.
I wish you could have seen the settee which I sold to the Grand Duke of Roosia.
He set her down on the settee in the cabin, released her head, and kissed her fervently.
On the settee Incarnacion lay asleep, her dark hair tumbled about her warm face.
Illustration: This William and Mary settee would be delightful in a country house.
Illustration: An admirable example of the Sheraton style mahogany settee with original silk covering.
Chippendale's settees were at first designed like two chair backs side by side, and if a larger settee was made either a third chair back of the same design or a different but harmonizing one was used.
Illustration: A three-chair settee of the Sheraton period, lacquered, and with cane seat.
On the settee in the room behind, the light from the lamp shone on Emanuel's fair round head, and by the door sat Hedvig, undressed, combing her hair.
Fru Egholm had to spread her mattress on the floor till they could get the settee screwed together; then she had a real down coverlet over.
A setteeis placed behind it, on which the children in the dwelling stand.
She comes down from the settee and takes the chair near the bookstand.
Sylvia Craven is sitting in the middle of the settee before the fire, only the back of her head being visible.
She goes to the settee and resumes her former place.
Up against the farther wall was a settee with a high, arching back, which might have been put there for that special purpose.
But as he came hoping up the street, another already sat beside Julia, sharing with her the wicker settee on the dim porch, and this was the horn-rimmed young poet.
Let's take the settee and some chairs down on the lawn where we can sit and see the moon.
O'Connor, seeing the sleeping boy, stepped over to the settee and removing his coat, rolled it up and placed it gently under his head.
He had lifted one of the cushions from a settee and disclosed beneath a locker which contained a number of flags of different colors and shapes.
O'Connor motioned to a big wooden settee at one end of the room.
He turned back and sat himself down upon the farther end of the settee from Julia.
She sat down upon an old-fashioned setteewith rockers, and began to rock.
With a last long look at the ash-pale face on the settee she followed him from the room.
A great leather settee was drawn near the desk and beside this stood a reading-stand with a small china dog and a squat bronze lamp upon it.
He dragged the leather settee to the porch and by the light of the motor-lamp dusted it thoroughly, and wheeling it back, set it under the portrait.
No; there was nothing of that kind, though there was an old settee by the kitchen fire-place, but not a tall stove.
Jerry's favorite amusement when alone was to make believe that either herself, or a figure she had made out of a shawl, was a sick woman, lying on a settee which she converted into a bed.
Jordan glanced at the two big crossed flags that streamed down upon the settee in the vessel's counter.
Miss Austerly lay for the most part silent on the leewardsettee with a certain wistful patience in her hollow face which roused Jimmy's compassion.
Miss Austerly, who seemed to have stood the shaking better than he expected, reclined on one settee with her feet drawn up for the sake of dryness, and she smiled at him.
Jordan sprawled on a settee not far away, and a burly, red-faced Briton who commanded the iron ship sat opposite to Jimmy, cigar in hand.
He laughed rather uneasily, and Eve gave way, with some surprise in her eyes, and a puzzled cloud on her pretty brow, and went and seated herself on the settee at her mother's side.
I shut the door after me, and, overpowered by my feelings, I sank upon a settee in the ante-room, in a state of giddy stupor.
I went up-stairs and threw myself on the old settee which was so familiar to me, and somehow or another, in a few minute's I was in a sound sleep.
Coming to the nearer end of the settee on the left.
On the other side of the room, facing the bedroom door, there is a second settee, and behind the settee is an oblong table littered with books and magazines.
He seats her upon the settee on the right and sits beside her, linking his hand in hers.
Another woodcut, on a smaller scale, represents a similar chair grouped with a settee of a like design, together with a small folding chair which Mr. G.
Flinging herself down on a brocade settee she burst into tears.
Beneath this tree, resting against it, was an iron setteeof ornamental design.
And all the while I was there in that apartment my dear brother was sleeping on a mean little settee in the hall because he was afraid I would be scared or sick.
It would be a dull world, except for peculiar persons," observed the man on the settee philosophically.
He was a gaunt, powerful, freckled man of thirty who sprawled on a settee and regarded Average Jones with obvious and amused interest.
On reaching the yard, we rested a long time on a settee under a group of china trees.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "settee" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
