elbow chair

Example Sentences

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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)

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

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

With us he will stay Three months to a day, So let us prepare The snug elbow chair, Which placed by the fire For the hoary-head sire, May comfort impart And cheer his old heart.

From The Kings and Queens of England with Other Poems by Bigelow, Mary Ann H. T.

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)