elbow chair
Example Sentences
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Who answered, that she was dozing in the elbow chair, having refused to lie down, saying, she should soon, she hoped, lie down for good.
From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 8 by Samuel Richardson
With us he will stay Three months to a day, So let us prepare The snug elbow chair, Which placed by the fire For the hoary-head sire, May comfort impart And cheer his old heart.
From The Kings and Queens of England with Other Poems by Mary Ann H. T. Bigelow
Gently forcing Susannah into an elbow chair, she ran, and lifting an infant a few weeks old from its cradle, put it in Susannah's arms.
From The Mormon Prophet by Lily Dougall
Here, reclining in an elbow chair, he is said to have broken out into reflections upon his eventful and singular career.
From Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume II. by Mrs. Thomson
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 Washington Irving
