elbow chair

Example Sentences

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But he had scarcely settled down in a comfortably cushioned elbow chair when the door opened again and into the room walked old Simpson Harker.

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

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 Stephen, Leslie, Sir

I did notice that Mr. Herapath’s elbow chair, that he always sat in at his desk, was pushed back a bit, and was a bit on one side as it were.

From The Herapath Property by Fletcher, J. S. (Joseph Smith)

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 Richardson, Samuel

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 Southworth, Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte