elbow chair

Example Sentences

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He can loll in his elbow chair at home, indulge himself in the best of victuals and wine and enjoy the conversation of Betty, his housekeeper.

From The Adventures of Roderick Random by Smollett, T. (Tobias)

While you converse with lords and dukes, I have their betters here, my books; Fixed in an elbow chair at ease I choose companions as I please.

From Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.) by Stephen, Leslie, Sir

The mother occasionally rose, and drew aside the window-curtain, as if to look for some expected object; a frugal meal was ready spread upon the table; and an elbow chair was placed near the fire.

From The Pickwick Papers by Dickens, Charles

There stood a large, broad-bottomed elbow chair at a table, on which was an empty tumbler, and a "Times" newspaper, and the room smelt powerfully of Stilton cheese.

From Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists by Irving, Washington

The servant piloted him to a high elbow chair and helped him to be seated.

From Men of Affairs by Pertwee, Roland