sitting-place

In the heart of the hall was a great jetting-fountain of alabaster, surmounted by a canopy of brocade, and in each pavilion was a sitting-place and each place had its richly-wrought fountain and tank paved with marble and streams flowing in channels along the floor and meeting in a great and grand cistern of many-coloured marbles.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

So Sulayman called for Ikrimah, who approached and saluted him as Caliph; and the King welcomed him and making him draw near his sitting-place, said to him, “O Ikrimah, thy good deed to him hath brought thee naught but evil,” adding, “Now write down in a note thy needs each and every, and that which thou desirest.”

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

Balash called from his sitting-place: "I am wounded, but if you try to bear me off by force, my people will harry you through the hills till not one lives."

Conan the Wanderer Howard, Robert E. 1974

A Baiga may be known by his scanty clothing and tangled hair, and his wife by the way in which her single garment is arranged so as to provide a safe sitting-place in it for her child.

The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II R. V. Russell

I know fastidious moderns think that the working-room, wherein are carried on the culinary operations of a large family, must necessarily be an untidy and comfortless sitting-place; but it is only because they are ignorant of the marvellous workings which pertain to the organ of

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, No. 14, December 1858 Various

The man occupied the only available sitting-place in front.

Little Folks A Magazine for the Young (Date of issue unknown) Various

My room was his favorite sitting-place, and he spent so much time there, that now the room, and everything in it, makes me think of him.

What Katy Did: A Story 1887

I am now but as an old, upturned canoe that is used for a sitting-place for children who play on the beach at night.

Pâkia 1901 Louis Becke 1884

The young man therefore, between two stools, had no clear sitting-place: he wanted to be as American as he could and yet not less French than he was; he was afraid to give up the little that he was and find that what he might be was less -- he shrank from a flying leap which might drop him in the middle of the sea.

The Reverberator Henry James 1879

He dresses like an Arab, and has ten loaded guns at his sitting-place, four pistols, two swords, several spears, and two bundles of the Batuta spears: he laments that his father filed his teeth when he was young.

The Last Journals of David Livingstone from 1865 to His Death Ed 1874