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 Hawthorne, Nathaniel

The old gentleman lowered himself by sections into an elbow chair.

From Men of Affairs by Pertwee, Roland

Nor was he mistaken in his expectation, for he resigned his last breath without any agony, sitting in an elbow chair, being above an hundred years old.

From Discourses on a Sober and Temperate Life Wherein is demonstrated, by his own Example, the Method of Preserving Health to Extreme Old Age by Cornaro, Luigi

He grasped the arm of his elbow chair and leaned forward.

From The Paradise Mystery by Fletcher, J. S. (Joseph Smith)

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 Birrell, Augustine