elbow chair
Example Sentences
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Old Mr. Willcoxen sat half doubled up in his leather-covered elbow chair, in the chimney corner of his bedroom, occupied with smoking his clay pipe, and thinking about his money bags.
From The Missing Bride by Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth
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
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
Now was not that an awful dream For one who single is and snug— With Pussy in the elbow chair, And Tray reposing on the rug?—
From The Book of Humorous Verse by Carolyn Wells
Although gouty himself and unable to move, the staunch old Gascon shouted his orders from his elbow chair; and, cursing alternately the enemy and the disease, defended his ship to the last extremity.
From The Monarchs of the Main, Volume I (of 3) Or, Adventures of the Buccaneers by Walter Thornbury
