elbow-chair

He bounced without ceremony into the parlour, where he found the worthy divine clothed in the same plaid nightgown, and seated in the very elbow-chair, in which he had left him five hours before.

Saint Ronan's Well 2008

“How say you? what think you, mine host?” said the citizen from Ratisbon; “may the gentleman, being drunk, as you see he is; since he cannot tell that three and one make six — I say, may he, being drunk, sleep in the elbow-chair?”

Anne of Geierstein 2008

Besides, these evening walks are all incompatible with the elbow-chair feeling, which desires some employment that may divert the mind without fatiguing the body.

Chronicles of the Canongate 2008

“Indeed, Dame Elspeth?” said old Tibb, edging her stool closer to the huge elbow-chair occupied by her friend, “I should like to hear about that.”

The Monastery 2008

And then she wrote on for three hours more: after which, being heavy, she dozed a little in an elbow-chair.

Clarissa Harlowe 2006

She was sitting in an elbow-chair, leaning her head on a pillow;

Clarissa Harlowe 2006

My father sat half-aside in his elbow-chair, that his head might be turned from me: his hands clasped, and waving, as it were, up and down; his fingers, poor dear gentleman! in motion, as if angry to the very ends of them.

Clarissa Harlowe 2006

Mrs. Smith, at his request, stept up, and brought us down word that Mrs. Lovick and her nurse were with her; and that she was in so sound a sleep, leaning upon the former in her elbow-chair, that she had neither heard her enter the room, nor go out.

Clarissa Harlowe 2006

She threw herself on a settee there; he into an elbow-chair by her — the good woman at her feet, her arms clasped round her waist.

Clarissa Harlowe 2006

There I beheld her in a sweet slumber, which I hope will prove refreshing to her disturbed senses; sitting in her elbow-chair, her apron over her head; her head supported by one sweet hand, the other hand hanging down upon her side, in a sleepy lifelessness; half of one pretty foot only visible.

Clarissa Harlowe 2006