elbow chair

Social Pipe—Thou foe to care, Companion of my elbow chair; As forth thy curling fumes arise, They seem an evening sacrifice— An offering to my Maker’s praise For all His benefits and grace.”

From How to Live Rules for Healthful Living Based on Modern Science by Irving Fisher

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

Well," she cried, letting her ponderous person sink into the old-fashioned elbow chair that stood by the bedside, "owd Robert, yon, 'ull ha' to keep quiet for once!

From North, South and over the Sea by M.E. (Mrs. Francis Blundell) Francis

He found the night a favourable time for composition, and what he composed at night he dictated in the day, sitting obliquely in an elbow chair with his leg thrown over the arm.

From Obiter Dicta Second Series by Augustine Birrell

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 Sir Leslie Stephen