elbow chair
Example Sentences
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If Grandfather took pride in any thing, it was in being the possessor of such an honorable and historic elbow chair.
From True Stories of History and Biography by Nathaniel Hawthorne
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 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 T. (Tobias) Smollett
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
