split-bottomed love

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Same as splint-bottomed.

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Examples

  • When we got there she set me down in a split-bottomed chair, and set herself down on a little low stool in front of me, holding both of my hands, and says:

    The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 2003

  • She felt better when he was gone, for his disapproval annoyed her, and she settled herself in a split-bottomed chair by the roaring stove, tucked one foot under her and spread the book across her lap.

    Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell 1996

  • She felt better when he was gone, for his disapproval annoyed her, and she settled herself in a split-bottomed chair by the roaring stove, tucked one foot under her and spread the book across her lap.

    Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell 1996

  • She felt better when he was gone, for his disapproval annoyed her, and she settled herself in a split-bottomed chair by the roaring stove, tucked one foot under her and spread the book across her lap.

    Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell 1996

  • She felt better when he was gone, for his disapproval annoyed her, and she settled herself in a split-bottomed chair by the roaring stove, tucked one foot under her and spread the book across her lap.

    Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell 1996

  • She felt better when he was gone, for his disapproval annoyed her, and she settled herself in a split-bottomed chair by the roaring stove, tucked one foot under her and spread the book across her lap.

    Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell 1996

  • Dinah shook her head, took her babe, which had fallen asleep, laid it in the bed, as carefully tucking it in as if it had been the nursling of a free mother, and, taking an old split-bottomed chair, leaned back till it rested against the wall.

    Bond and Free: A Tale of the South 1984

  • He was carrying a pewter cup in his hand, drinking whiskey from it as he navigated his way past the table in the center of the room, weaving, stumbling into a split-bottomed chair.

    The Chisholms Evan Hunter 1976

  • He was carrying a pewter cup in his hand, drinking whiskey from it as he navigated his way past the table in the center of the room, weaving, stumbling into a split-bottomed chair.

    The Chisholms Evan Hunter 1976

  • He was carrying a pewter cup in his hand, drinking whiskey from it as he navigated his way past the table in the center of the room, weaving, stumbling into a split-bottomed chair.

    The Chisholms Evan Hunter 1976

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