I know a farm kitchen where a pair of curved settees are drawn about the fire, and the gap between the settees is closed in the evening by a green baize curtain.
Then he flung himself on his face on to one of the muffled settees and stuffed the dust-sheet into his mouth.
After dinner, the people went apart, some going back to their beds and others to walk in the yard or sit on the settees there.
In the middle stood several long wooden tables, and around these were settees of the same kind.
It was furnished with long wooden settees and a small cottage organ graced the platform, upon which an antique desk did duty as pulpit and a storage place for hymn books.
The place was a little square, unpainted building, not larger than a country schoolhouse, and when Telly and he entered and seated themselves on one of the wooden settees that stood in rows, not over a dozen people were there.
The front settees were filled with people, and over the heads of them Mr. George could see that there were other ranges of settees in the north transept and the choir.
There were, however, substantial settees placed around the deck, some forward and others aft.
Some of these settees were on the sides of the steamer, by the railing, and there were others placed back to back in the middle.
Liberty has some charming bamboo settees in black, and arm-chairs to match.
Settees and wicker chairs were scattered in cosy groups through the shrubbery, and there was a faint odor of burning incense.
Select plenty of ushers to conduct the guests to the spot and provide benches and settees for the older folk, who may find it tiring to stand till the wedding party arrives.
Before long the divan and all the settees and chairs are fill'd; many fashionables out of curiosity; all the principal dignitaries of the town, Gen.
The settees had been moved aside and the floor was empty and ready for them.
Settees were neatly arranged in front of a platform, a row of low windows admitted a flood of morning sunshine and against the walls hung many photographs of athletic teams.
The grand stand was filled to overflowing, thesettees and chairs, which had been brought out to supplement the permanent seats, were all occupied, and many spectators were standing along the ropes.
The audience poured in, the settees filled, the little boys down in front kicked the rounds, and pinched each other and giggled.
A minute or two later Captain Sears slowly limped after him and sought a secluded corner on one of the settees at the rear of the hall.
The light come down almighty powerful over the great thick red carpet, and the settees and foot-stools and chairs glistened out like a bed of tulips in a hot sun.
The settees were all bright red, and glistened with thick velvet cushions.
The benches and settees and chairs shone and glistened all around, and overhead was one of them concerns of fire and chink glass, a blazin and flashing round us till it seemed as if the ruff overhead was made of solid gold.
And when I got done, they was up on the settees howlin' for me.
Men hopped upon the knife-nicked settees of the town house and waved their hats while they hooted.
In the same gallery also are three sofas or settees upholstered with crimson velvet, and one of these has an accommodating rack, by which either end can be lowered at will, to make a more convenient lounge.
On double rows of setteesarranged around the room, and bordering the area, were about one hundred ladies, exclusive of half as many, seated in the alcoves.
To the first they assign the more solid chairs or settees with cabriole legs and Louis XIV.
These chairs and settees are often found with claw-and-ball feet, and are frequently of walnut.
Bare wooden walls, a beamed ceiling, a raised platform at one end with a table and chairs and the melodeon upon it, rows of wooden settees for the congregation--that was all.
Three seats, however, were vacant, and along the settees people were wondering where Captain Elkanah Daniels and his daughter might be.
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.
Cornices of beds and cabinets often had the egg-and-dart molding used on them, and the S-curve is often seen opposed on the backs of settees and chairs.
The arm-chairs or bergères of both Louis XV and Louis XVI are very comfortable, the chaise-longue cannot be surpassed, and the settees of different shapes and sizes are delightful.
The sofas were large and roomy, the settees delightful, the arm-chairs and wing chairs regular havens of rest, and when one adds the comfort which modern upholstery gives, there is little left to desire.
The chair settees of the Dutch time, with backs having the appearance of chairs side by side, were also made by Chippendale.
He made sofas and settees with either chair-back backs or all upholstered with the frame showing and the covering tacked on with brass tacks close together.
The backs of chairs and settees were round or rectangular, and the legs were square, round, or fluted, and were tapering in all cases.
The settees and benches would do very well, with the aid of their own hassocks and cushions, and, after all, it was only for a night, they reminded the other.
The entire Mahogany Period, including the Adam brothers, used the shell as a design and the backs of settees resembled several chair backs places side by side.
These settees were all firmly secured to their places with strong cords, by means of which they were tied by the legs to some of the fixtures of the skylights.
Mr. Chauncy, being now tired of walking, went to sit down upon one of the settees next to where Hilbert and Rollo had just gone to take a seat.
They ascended the steep stairs where they had gone up at first, and then walked aft upon the deck until they came to the settees where they had been sitting before the luncheon.
There was a row of settees on one side of this space, and, at the time that Rollo came up there, there was a lady lying on one of these settees, apparently in a very forlorn condition.
Underneath the scuttles, and along the after bulkhead, were narrow cushioned settees serving as seats.
She sat by her mother on one of the raised settees that ran in four rows the length of the room.
They seemed to go through interminable wide corridors, decorated in red and gold, with settees against the walls and beautiful pictures hanging above them, but came at last to the great ball-room.
Then he hurried to Odd Fellows' Hall with a moving-van and transferred tensettees from there to the ball grounds and placed them in a double row all along the third base line.
By that time the stand was filled to overflowing, the extra seats were well occupied and the settees sprinkled, while around the diamond what looked to the startled gaze of the players to be a vast assemblage sat or stood.
There was a roomy verandah, with settees and cane chairs, and roses climbing up the pillars and draping the balustrade.
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