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On the next page another picture of him, from a different angle, this time with a book, glasses on, long legs looped over a chair-arm in the way he knew he always sat while reading.
An Atlas of Impossible Longing Anuradha Roy 2008
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On the next page another picture of him, from a different angle, this time with a book, glasses on, long legs looped over a chair-arm in the way he knew he always sat while reading.
An Atlas of Impossible Longing Anuradha Roy 2008
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On the next page another picture of him, from a different angle, this time with a book, glasses on, long legs looped over a chair-arm in the way he knew he always sat while reading.
An Atlas of Impossible Longing Anuradha Roy 2008
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Her long scarlet nails curling into the faded material on the chair-arm, Diana appeared flustered and distracted.
Mistress On Demand Cox, Maggie 2005
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There was in her room a wonderful being lolling in a wing-chair, one leg over the chair-arm; a young young man, with broken brown teeth, always seen in his perpetual grin, but a godlike Grecian nose, a high forehead, and bristly yellow hair.
Our Mr. Wrenn 2004
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Or sat down and beat a tattoo on chair-arm or table, only to spring up at an imaginary sound of wheels.
Ultima Thule 2003
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He lounged back in his seat with one leg draped over the chair-arm and studied the fingernails of one hand.
The Golden Torc May, Julian, 1931- 1981
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I could see the purple sleeve stir on the chair-arm.
The Persian Boy Renault, Mary 1972
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The Major looked up at Tom and slammed his fist on the chair-arm.
Gold in the Sky Alan Edward Nourse 1960
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And a black-haired girl in a suit of coveralls three sizes too big for her, and, apparently, not much of anything else, lounged with one knee hooked over her chair-arm, staring into the screen at the distant horizon.
Uller Uprising Piper, H. Beam 1952
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