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Examples

  • Sometimes the baseboards look like clotted versions of the kitchen-chair pattern, instead of marble.

    The New Yorker Stories Ann Beattie 2010

  • Not long ago, I was a kitchen-chair web worker – if you can call a stolen bar chair worthy of either kitchen or office.

    How’s Your Home Office These Days? 2009

  • He saw a crowd listening to a man who was talking from the rostrum of a kitchen-chair.

    Babbit 2004

  • He attempts to forget his anxiety about his daughter -- who he fears, with only too much reason, has come to an untimely end -- by going to sleep in a highly uncomfortable position on a kitchen-chair.

    Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, October 22, 1892 Various

  • The next Scene shows him in the Condemned Cell, resolving to sleep away his few remaining hours on a kitchen-chair.

    Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, October 22, 1892 Various

  • He saw a crowd listening to a man who was talking from the rostrum of a kitchen-chair.

    Chapter 27 1922

  • He saw a crowd listening to a man who was talking from the rostrum of a kitchen-chair.

    Babbitt 1922

  • She removed a lettuce from the kitchen-chair, dusted it, and offered it to him.

    Happy Days 1919

  • He saw a crowd listening to a man who was talking from the rostrum of a kitchen-chair.

    Babbitt Sinclair Lewis 1918

  • Pete sat down in the kitchen-chair set for him, tilted back, and looked out over the Statue of Liberty, which stood like a stunted baby, to the blue Narrows.

    The Happiest Time of Their Lives Alice Duer Miller 1908

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