A dozen people, perhaps, were leaning over the backs of the sofas at one time, all sea-sick.
It was furnished with comfortable sofas and chairs of modern manufacture.
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.
Carved chests, and screens covered with leather or needlework, may be used in rooms of this kind, and for modern comfort one may add stuffed chairs and sofas if the proper materials for coverings are chosen.
There should be plenty of floor sockets so placed that lamps may be used on tables near sofasand armchairs and on the writing table or large living-room table.
Swans were used on the arms of chairs and sofas and the sides of beds.
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 sofas and chairs had a general square appearance, but the framework was much curved and carved and gilded.
The saloons are large, and elaborately furnished; and, if the boat is crowded to repletion, the sofas are used as sleeping-places by those who were not lucky enough to obtain rooms or beds below.
The boats on the Swiss lakes are for day service, and contain no sleeping-cabins, but there are sofas and couches on which an invalid may recline, provided the craft is not too much crowded.
The first cabin is usually an open room, with wide sofas running all around it, and on these sofas the traveler makes his couch with his own bed-clothing, none being provided by the boat.
The other part spent the night in the rooms dead drunk, with disastrous consequences to the velvet sofas and the floor.
He sat down in a wicker chair which he dragged almost into the middle of the room, so as to be at an equal distance between his host and the visitor, who had installed themselves on sofas on opposite sides of the room.
The rooms were choke-ful, and several young men lay on the carpet at the feet of their ladies, with their heads luxuriously reclined against the cushions of the sofas on which their fair ones were seated.
On which the commentator says, "That the three were on such intimate terms, that on one occasion Lælius was running round the sofas in the Triclinium, while Lucilius was chasing him with a twisted towel to hit him with.
But they are an idle race, that delight in sofas and the cool shade.
But with side devoid of ornament, and sofas of diminutive size, the brazen front displayed the mean head of an ass wearing a chaplet,[735] at which the country lads laughed in wantonness.
In the chief cities many hangings are of painted paper or linen; even hangings of brocades, of one and of three colours, and of various other kinds of silk; large and beautiful mirrors, and a number of sofas may be seen.
In some of the principal cities one also sees chairs and sofas of walnut wood, the backs of which are bare, and the seats covered with damask; usually crimson or yellow.
Only the door-keeper lived there, an old soldier named Scheih Ibrahim, who had strict orders to be very careful whom he admitted, and never to allow any one to sit on the sofas by the door.
He entered large halls where the carpets were of silk, the lounges and sofas covered with tapestry from Mecca, and the hangings of the most beautiful Indian stuffs of gold and silver.
As none of the sofas could hold more than one person, they bade me place myself on the carpet, and to ask no questions about anything I should see.
I left the terrace and wandered on till I came to a hall, which I knew to have been the one from which the roc had taken me, by the ten blue sofas against the wall.
The chairs and sofas are of crimson damask, in mahogany frames, gilt.
The sofas and chairs, which are of yellow satin and gold, accord with the surrounding objects; the arm chairs are partially dove coloured.
The principal chairs and sofas are covered to match the drapery; and, on the back of every chair, is a small Chinese figure, seated, with a bell in each hand.
They jumped upon the fine damask sofas in the drawing-room, stirred the fire till it was in a blaze, and rushed out on the balcony upsetting one or two geraniums and a myrtle.
Only the comforts of life,--sofas and tables, also sauces and sweets.
Then we must install some really comfortable chairs and at least two or three roomy sofas and some simple couches where the men may lie down.
If it were filled up with sofas and couches and a piano I doubt whether we could crowd twenty men inside of it.
Are you looking for the sofas and the sideboards and the silver and the plate?
In front of the chairs which were placed on the south side of the casket were arranged sofas for the accommodation of Mrs. Garfield and the family of the late President.
Friday, the 23d, arrangements for the funeral ceremonies in the rotunda were all completed and the chairs and sofas labelled to designate for whom they were reserved.
Whereupon the conversation on the neighbouring sofas curved off to the English weather in late autumn.
The chairs and sofas were all of wicker, and though in various stages of dilapidation, were cool and comfortable.
The furniture was entirely of antique mahogany, and included sofas and chairs, various kinds of tables, bookcases, a highboy, a lowboy and other pieces of furniture of which Patty knew neither the name nor the use.
At the opposite end of the room was a long, low bookcase and, except for a large writing bureau, the rest of the furniture consisted of sofas and chairs, with one or two small tables.
The chairs and sofas in the drawing-room were provided with loose chintz covers, with one exception.
He pointed to the one opposite the door, which, unlike the other sofas and chairs, had no chintz covering.
Two Chesterfield sofas and five arm-chairs with loose chintz covers.
Why, then you will have sofas or cots," said the clerk.
There were a great number of very comfortable sofas and arm chairs all about these rooms, and great tables in the middle of them covered with newspapers and magazines.
The chairs and sofas too are in a classic taste, as are the beds and baths.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sofas" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
