Use chair in a sentence
Sentences ending with chair
- Certainly not with you in my chair. [5]
- I said I would, and began to thank him again as I rose from my chair. [4]
- Wolf went on with his noise and with his demands that he be granted the floor, resting his board at intervals to discharge criticisms and epithets at the Chair. [5]
- The son; however, who was not of age, was more unworldly and sanctimonious than his father; he always addressed his parent as "Brother Plum," and bore himself, altogether in such a superior manner that Ruth longed to put bent pins in his chair. [5]
- Mr. Mavick arose when his visitor stood at his desk, buttoned up his frock-coat, and extended his hand with a show of business cordiality, and motioned him to a chair. [4]
- And at last, when he knew his time was come, he pretended to think a new visitor had entered, and so, with the rattle in his throat emphasised for dramatic effect, he said to the servant, "Shin around, John, and get the gentleman a chair. [5]
- A dozen members were on their feet shouting to the chair. [9]
- His thin, nasal voice was somehow absurdly penetrating as he addressed the chair. [9]
- Then his head vanished in the sedan chair. [10]
- He was sitting upright in his chair. [9]
Short sentences using chair
- Ditmar was in his chair. [9]
- The Chair allowed him five. [5]
- Honora pushed back her chair. [9]
- She sank into her chair. [4]
- Refused by the Chair. [5]
- Scipio, another chair! [9]
- The Chair. [5]
Sentences containing chair two or more times
- I gazed about the mean room, with its litter of newspapers and reports, its shabby furniture, and these seemed to have become incongruous, out of figure in the chair facing me keeping with the thoughtful figure in the chair facing me. [9]
- And a lot of parchments about the chair Are handed to witnesses then and there, And then the lawyers hold it clear That the chair is safe for another year. [6]
- When I reached my lodgings I sent the anxious Banks about his business and threw myself in a great chair before the window, the chair she had chosen. [9]
- The chair itself might have been accounted for, though I don't know how; but upon the back of the chair hung, as if the owner had carelessly flung it there before going out an hour before, a man's waistcoat. [4]
- It seemed to me, as far as I could recollect, there was only a chair here and there and yonder, five or six of them scattered over this territory, and I thought maybe after I found that chair I might find the next one. [5]
- When they were gone she sank down into the big chair under the reading lamp--the very chair in which he had sat only two nights before. [9]
- On such a day it was his habit to retire to the broken chair beside the sink (the chair to which he had clung for five-and-twenty years). [9]
- A great cushioned chair had been placed there and beside it a table with books, and another chair. [9]
- In the passage Austen perceived a chair, and in the chair was seated patiently none other than Mr. Brush Bascom--political Duke of Putnam. [9]
- This table was against one end of the room; the chair was on it; Sherlock Holmes, stately, imposing, impressive, sat in the chair. [5]
More example sentences with the word chair in them
- I've read all your little efforts and greatly admired them, and when I heard you were here, I ..." I indicated a chair, and he sat down. [5]
- With a "by your leave, ma'am," to her, Mr. Allen took the chair abreast me. [9]
- He had not yet recovered from the shaking up his system had sustained, and he took to a canvas easy chair he had brought with him and placed a decanter of Scotch and a tumbler of ice at his side. [9]
- I had him wrapped in blankets and set in a chair with holes bored in the seat. [9]
- I believe He would put that Chair in the fire, and the bell along with it; and I think He would make the show-woman go away. [5]
- Finding the familiar, worn arm of the chair, he seated himself with a heavy sigh. [11]
- I astonished Mr. Wood; and sometimes he would tilt back his chair, take off his spectacles and pull his beard. [9]
- He rubbed his withered hands with satisfaction as he seated himself in his accustomed chair, and when Mary came to call him to dinner, it was a pleasure to him to jest with her. [10]
- Sally came forwards with the little parcel of sandwiches she had been preparing, and put them in the saddle-bags lying on a chair at the door, in readiness for the journey Jim was about to make. [11]
- As he staggered with the chair she impulsively ran to aid him. [11]
- And Miss Lucretia, with that stern composure with which celebrities accept public situations, follows up the steps as of right and takes the chair he assigns her beside the chairman. [9]
- Yet even while, with one hand resting on the back of the chair and the other pressed upon her panting bosom, she was striving to find the right words, Don John's glance brightened. [10]
- Old-fashioned bookcases lined with musty books filled the walls, except where a steel engraving of a legal light or a railroad map of the State was hung, and the Honourable Hilary sat in a Windsor chair at a mahogany table in the middle. [9]
- Richards, sitting there with his chair tilted back against the wall and his chin between his knees, heard something fall. [5]
- Still laughing hysterically, with her golden hair streaming about her head, folding her round like a veil which reached almost to her ankles, she came back to the chair at the dressing-table and sat down. [11]
- He is curled with a novel in his grandfather's easy chair by the window. [9]
- Presently a stranger with a long-tailed coat on came in, and not noticing Brown's hat, which was lying in a chair, sat down on it. [5]
- Almost mechanically, yet with a curious vividness and permanency of vision, her eyes drifted from the patriarch's chair to the cradle in the corner; and that picture would remain with her till she could see no more at all. [11]
- He stepped along with a chipper air, and flung himself into a doll's chair in a very free-and-easy way, without waiting to be asked. [5]
- There was in William Wetherell, as he sat in the chair with his eyes fixed on his visitor's face, a dignity which Mr. Merrill had not seen before--had not thought the man might possess. [9]
- And this was why harried cats and outlawed dogs that knew him confidently took sanctuary under his chair in time of trouble. [5]
- The old Master, whose words I have so frequently quoted and shall quote more of, is a dogmatist who lays down the law, ex cathedra, from the chair of his own personality. [6]
- He ordered Morris, who stood behind his chair, to have the ground searched and to bring in any straggler. [11]
- And tell him who is beyond and away in Egypt that old Soolsby's busy making a chair for him to sit in when the scarlet cloth is spread, and the East and West come to salaam before him. [11]
- Once in a while I paused to ask him a question as he sat with his chair tilted back and his feet on the table, reading a detective story. [9]
- The solitary lamp, which was fixed on a high stand near his chair, shed a scanty light, which, however, sufficed to show him his trusted friend Pentaur, who had disturbed Nebsecht in his prohibited occupations. [10]
- The chair in which the President sat, while declining to take a glass of lager I have had destroyed, in order that no one may sit in it. [4]
- My seat was where I might see them, and an empty chair stood between me and my aunt; this was left for Master Ulsenius, the leech. [10]
- On Saturday mornings, when she went downstairs, she was wont to find the porch littered with newspapers and her husband lounging in a wicker chair behind the disapproving lilacs. [9]
- More than once when I climbed to our garret I found the captain seated on the three-legged chair, with his head between his hands, sunk in reflection. [9]
- Now and then, when a particularly shining name was called, the house made the Chair wait while it chanted the whole of the test-remark from the beginning to the closing words, "And go to hell or Hadleyburg--try and make it the for-or-m-e-r! [5]
- The former relations were resumed; Hendon stood behind the King's chair, while he dined, and waited upon him; undressed him when he was ready for bed; then took the floor for his own quarters, and slept athwart the door, rolled up in a blanket. [5]
- Yet the consequences were by no means light, for when he, Pyramus, left him, he was barely able to totter from one chair to another. [10]
- When the rest were all gone, he turned his chair round towards mine, and began. [6]
- Swaying as she went, Fleda half-blindly moved towards a chair near by and sank into it. [11]
- She sank down wearily in a chair and said: "I'm so tired. [4]
- During the afternoon we lifted him into a chair and gave him an alcoholic vapor bath, and then set about putting him on the bed again. [5]
- The old gentleman was weak still, so feeble that he had to be carried to his barge in a chair, a vehicle he had ever held in scorn. [9]
- At first it was thought he was joking, but when at last, in his calm and dreamy look, they saw he meant what he said, they rose and carried him round the room on a chair, making impromptu songs as they travelled. [11]
- Just high enough was the little chair that of a certain day in the year its owner might look out and see mystic fires burning round the Paternosters, and lighting up the sea with awful radiance. [11]
- When the door was shut she went to the bed, sat down on a chair beside it, and looked at Ferrol earnestly and sadly. [11]
- Long after he was shaved that morning, the Colonel sat rapt in his chair, while the faithful servant busied himself about the room, one eye on his master the while. [9]
- Here a chair was set down, there a chariot or a coach pulled up, and a clocked flunky bowing a lady in. [9]
- The sedan chair was set down, and it was just at the place where the road at her left, leading to the citadel, climbed the height where rose the proud Trausnitz fortress. [10]
- The sedan chair was now swaying past the place where the "short cut" for pedestrians led up to the Trausnitzburg, the proud citadel of the dukes of Bavarian Landshut. [10]
- As the weather was mild, the latter sat in an open sedan chair, and when he saw Geronimo he scanned him with the keen glance of the ruler, and then looked inquiringly at my husband. [10]
- While Don Luis was helping Barbara into the chair, she asked in a low tone what she was to think of this act of violence, and where she was being taken. [10]
- The other chair was for the Chevalier de la Darante, one of the oldest and best of our nobility, who pretends great roughness and barbarism, but is a kind and honourable gentleman, though odd. [11]
- The old man was beside himself: moved the chair on which he was sitting noisily backward and forward, made efforts to control himself and not become vehement, but almost always did become vehement, scolded, and sometimes flung the exercise book away. [2]
- This chair itself was a mute witness of luxury and mystery. [4]
- The railroad president walked slowly to the arm of the chair in which his chief counsel was seated, and stood looking down at him. [9]
- Why, look here--Shakespeare walked backwards before that tailor from Tennessee, and scattered flowers for him to walk on, and Homer stood behind his chair and waited on him at the banquet. [5]
- So when Prince Volkonski, who was in the chair, called on him to give his opinion, he merely said: "Why ask me? [2]
- He spent his visits reading to Mr. Carvel, who sat in his chair all the day long. [9]
- After his first visit to Egypt, Ebers was called to the University of Leipsic to fill the chair of Egyptology. [10]
- She did not venture to ask any questions, and shut the door again, now sitting down in her easy chair, now taking her prayer book, now kneeling before the icon stand. [2]
- She was sitting upright in a chair, looking straight before her. [11]
- She rocked herself upon a chair, wringing her hands and weeping bitterly, but Kit made no attempt to comfort her and remained quite bewildered. [12]
- He raised himself up, leaning on the arms of the great chair, so high that we were filled with amazement, and he gazed about him with his glassy eyes and then said, still holding himself up: "That, that. [10]
- He straightened himself up, as he spoke, standing on the top round of his high chair, I suppose, and so presented the larger part of his little figure to the view of the boarders. [6]
- Presently he stood up, and throwing back his shoulder, with a little ostentation of health, he went over to the chintz-covered chair, and sat down in it. [11]
- Drawing a chair up to the table, the young wife seated herself and began to read. [10]
- She hastily tidied up the table after his meal, and then came and sat in her chair over against the wall of the rude fireplace. [11]
- She started, sat up straight in her chair, and looked at him indignantly. [11]
- Lawyer Wilson spoke up now, and said: "I ask the Chair to read the name signed to that paper. [5]
- Now, then, sit up in that chair, and set your eye on that clock. [5]
- He straightened himself up in his chair and deliberately and sorrowfully inspected the busy old ladies at his elbows, first one and then the other. [5]
- Barry Whalen lifted up his head and drew him back into the chair, then three of them lifted him upon a sofa. [11]
- The Colonel sat up eagerly in his chair, then brought his knuckles down smartly on the table. [11]
- She led her, unresisting, to a chair. [9]
- Kutuzov, with his uniform unbuttoned so that his fat neck bulged over his collar as if escaping, was sitting almost asleep in a low chair, with his podgy old hands resting symmetrically on its arms. [2]
- She 173 looked under the chair over which hung her clothes, even behind the dresses and the Indian deerskin cape hanging on the door. [11]
- He keeps himself undefiled and separate--" suddenly the prelate paused and struck his hand on the back of a chair that stood by him. [10]
- The old man twisted in his chair, and blinked into the fire. [11]
- His back was turned; he was bending over his chair, feeling the seat of it. [5]
- The beautiful woman turned, and, with a face full of loathing and scorn, pointed to one of the reptiles beneath the feet of the chair. [6]
- Suddenly the Duke turned to a door at the right of the President's chair, and, opening it, bowed courteously to some one beyond. [11]
- Lately he has turned the subject over, and is sorry that his father wore out the vest and did not bring away the chair. [4]
- If, however, he tried to keep a vow of silence in the chair of execution, he paid a heavy price; for Berry had his own methods of punishment. [11]
- Napoleon sat down, toying with his Sevres coffee cup, and motioned Balashev to a chair beside him. [2]
- She also glanced toward the richly decorated portal of St. Martin's Church, standing diagonally opposite to the sedan chair, and tried to look up to the steeple, which was higher than almost any other in the world. [10]
- The day he took his degree he had to be dragged from a huge grandfather's chair, and forced along in his ragged gown--"ten holes and twelve tatters"--to the function in the convocation hall. [11]
- Things grew quite too bad to bear, Paying such sums to get rid of the chair! [6]
- For there was Tom all askew in his chair, his feet one way and his hands another, totally subdued. [9]
- The Duke withdrew to the window again, and seated himself in the embrasure, at some little distance from the Englishman, who at once got up and brought his chair closer. [11]
- He walked slowly to the table, put his hat on it and sat down in a chair beside it. [9]
- She turned back to the room where the white petticoat lay upon the chair, but stopped with a little cry of alarm. [11]
- Her eye wandered to the racllyi, with its flitches of bacon, to the dreschiaux and the sanded floor, to the great Elizabethan oak chair, and at last back to Guida, as though through her the lost voice might be charmed up again. [11]
- I gave them to the chambermaid that night when I went to bed, and she probably found the owner, for my own things were on a chair outside my door in the morning. [5]
- I am willing to relinquish the portrait, and compromise on the Chair. [5]
- You would like to put a bent pin in their chair when they are about calmly to sit down. [4]
- Then she went to poor Bessie, who sat, pale and weak, in a little chair. [10]
- Louis Racine got to his feet, but the Governor hastened forward, and, taking both his hands, forced him gently back into the chair. [11]
- He half came to his feet, but his wife's warning, pleading glance brought him to his chair again. [11]
- Suddenly she drew to him the chair from the doorway, and beckoned him to sit down. [11]
- It mattered little to him that Mrs. Colfax ignored him as completely as if his chair had been vacant He glanced at that lady once, and smiled, for he was tasting the sweets of victory. [9]
- Getting no answer to her words, Guida went first to the hearth and stirred the fire, the old man sitting rigid in his chair and regarding her with fixed, watchful eyes. [11]
- I only came to have a talk about business, Catiche," * muttered the prince, seating himself wearily on the chair she had just vacated. [2]
- He walked over to Hannah's chair and put his hand on her shoulder. [9]
- She was tempted to go out on the balcony, and she sat down there on a rocking chair. [10]
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