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Sentences starting with chairs
- Chairs and stools, made of cane, stood round a very large table in the middle of this room, out of which several others opened; all handsome, comfortable, and harmonious in aspect, but all betraying that their mistress took small pleasure in trifling decorations. [10]
- Chairs were pushed back, rugs taken up, Gene Hollister played the piano and a Virginia reel started; in a burst of enthusiasm Leonard Dickinson ordered champagne for every member present. [9]
Sentences ending with chairs
- It was she who led the way into the parlor and seated herself, as before, on one of the uncompromising, straight-backed chairs. [9]
- One day they were all in my house here, sitting just where you sit in those chairs. [11]
- A coffin stood upon two backless chairs. [5]
- I like sitting up, and I've often had a sleep, bless you, in one of them chairs. [12]
- He, likewise, seemed to belong to the little house as he took one of the wicker chairs. [9]
- I wonder if they sleep here, in the hammocks and lounging chairs! [9]
- I hunted up the table again and took a fresh start; found some more chairs. [5]
- It remained for the Canadian, Radeau, when a lull arrived in the turmoil, to suggest that the gentlemen be given chairs. [9]
- Mr. Holt closed the Bible reverently, and announced a prayer, whereupon the family knelt upon the floor and leaned their elbows on the seats of their chairs. [9]
- It had a table hanging like a lid from the wall, a stone for making tortillas, a mortar for grinding red peppers, a crucifix on the wall, a short sword, a huge pistol, a pair of rusty stirrups, and several chairs. [11]
More example sentences with the word chairs in them
- He found him without much trouble in his usual attitude, occupying one of the chairs in the corridor. [9]
- It's all French, with mirrors and big white panels and satin chairs and sofas, and a carved gilt piano that she got for nothing from a dealer she knows; and church candlesticks. [9]
- Carts piled high with household utensils, chairs, and cupboards kept emerging from the gates of the yards and moving along the streets. [2]
- Suddenly the prisoner, with an abrupt motion of the hand towards two chairs, said with an assumption of ordinary politeness: "Will you not be seated? [11]
- Out of the windows of the Senate House the soldiers threw chairs into the Square for fuel and kindled fires there. [2]
- The assemblage rose, whiffed ceremony to the winds, and rushed for the door like a mob; overturning chairs, smashing crockery, tugging, struggling, shouldering, crowding--anything to get out before I should change my mind and puff the castle into the measureless dim vacancies of space. [5]
- And then there were the draughty opera-houses with the sylvan scenery pushed back and plush chairs and sofas pushed forward; with an ominous table, a pitcher of water on it and a glass, near the footlights. [9]
- Most of them were already asleep on heaps of straw, which were raised at the head by chairs turned upside down. [10]
- The day I went out, the Champs Elysees, on both sides, its whole length, was crowded with people, rows and ranks of them sitting in chairs and on benches. [4]
- Stuffs, garments, tapestries, weapons hung over the backs of the chairs, or lay on chests, tables and the stone-floor. [10]
- In a business-like way Armand motioned them to chairs, opened the curtains, and rang the bell. [11]
- It had bare walls, a plain table and chairs, and a crucifix in the corner. [9]
- The city of Victoria was twinkling dim in the deep heart of her smoke-cloud, and getting ready to vanish and now we closed the field-glasses and sat down on our steamer chairs contented and at peace. [5]
- There was a very inhospitable looking bed, two shake-downs, and four Windsor chairs in more or less state of dilapidation--all occupied likewise. [9]
- Next they took us into a little mean, shabby back room; they got two ordinary sitting-room chairs and placed us in them with our coats on. [5]
- It was not until they were seated in adjoining chairs of the parlour-car that the conversation was renewed. [9]
- These chairs were unoccupied; a few deacons in 'talares' of light-colored brocade were busied about the table. [10]
- It was hard to find a place to sit down, for all the chairs were already occupied by cases and boxes full of his favorites. [6]
- From the junction to Fabyan's they rode in an observation car, all open, and furnished with movable chairs, where they sat as in a balcony. [4]
- The chairs seemed to be systematically placed, and it was quite wonderful to see how the beggar twisted in and out among them without stumbling. [11]
- The gentleman pointed to a couple of chairs, and intimated by an emphatic nod of his head that he expected them to be seated. [12]
- Pressed by the throng against the high backs of the chairs, the orators spoke one after another and sometimes two together. [2]
- I see that they have crowded the chairs a little at that end of the table, to make room for another newcomer of the lady sort. [6]
- They had piled their packing-boxes in the cellar, with broken chairs, broken china, and other household wrecks. [6]
- Some slouched in their chairs, others stood and talked in groups, gesticulating with cigars and pipes; yet a keen spectator, after watching them awhile through the smoke, might have been able to pick out striking personalities among them. [9]
- Within the bar the young lawyers and the privileged hangers-on filled all the chairs except those reserved at the table for those engaged in the case. [5]
- Some were at the supper-table, some were promenading, some were talking, when he managed to get Myrtle a little apart from the rest, and led her towards one of the recesses in the apartment, where two chairs were invitingly placed. [6]
- The furnishing of the rooms differed little from that of the present day, except that the chairs and tables were somewhat more angular and the cushions less comfortable. [10]
- Doltaire ordered from the room the soldier with Gabord, and my two sentinels, and motioned me to one of two chairs set in the middle of the floor. [11]
- He also accepted the raised seat, which the president quitted in his honor while he himself took one of the ordinary chairs at his side. [10]
- When him and the old lady come down in the morning all the family got up out of their chairs and give them good-day, and didn't set down again till they had set down. [5]
- When he crossed the Fleischbrucke in the market place and approached the brilliantly lighted Town Hall, he had considerable difficulty in moving forward, for the whole square was thronged with curious spectators, servants in gala liveries, sedan chairs, richly caparisoned steeds, and torchbearers. [10]
- The Greeks, like the Egyptians, had chairs with backs and arms. [10]
- Of course all the chairs were occupied now, and four men sat waiting, silent, unsociable, distraught, and looking bored, as men always do who are waiting their turn in a barber's shop. [5]
- The seats of the chairs were comfortably depressed. [9]
- And passengers in the cabin occupying chairs and sofas, surrounded by their baggage, always look bored and melancholy. [4]
- Then she dragged the body to the middle of the floor, and beat and banged it with chairs and such things. [5]
- I want to talk to you," said Jean Jacques, motioning to two chairs by a table at the side of the room. [11]
- They are everywhere; tables, chairs, sofas, the floor--everything is occupied, and over-occupied. [5]
- Upon the heavy tables were costly, illuminated volumes; luxurious chairs and ottomans invited to easy rest; and upon the ceiling Aurora led forth all the flower-strewing daughters of the dawn in brilliant frescoes. [4]
- Mounting the stair, Stephen found a room bare enough, save for a few chairs and law books, and not a soul in attendance. [9]
- He did not speak, but came and placed the things he carried near the chairs where we had sat. [11]
- He is a sort of expletive at the table, serving to stop gaps, taking the same place a washer does that makes a loose screw fit, and contriving to get driven in like a wedge between any two chairs where there is a crevice. [6]
- The chairs, the sofas, the little tabourets, were upholstered in yellow, their wood matching the panels. [9]
- Horse-hair chairs, horse-hair sofa which keeps sliding from under you. [5]
- The room is small, but it contains a cook-stove, a chest of drawers, a small table, a couple of chairs, and two narrow beds. [4]
- It was a small room, carpetless, dusty, with a naked deal table, and two cheap wooden chairs for furniture. [5]
- Thus we stood silently until the figure was finished, when Miss Thorn seated herself in one of the wicker chairs behind us. [9]
- There was no sign of Lise; her clothes, which she had the habit of flinging across the chairs, were nowhere to be seen. [9]
- The menservants, carrying sedan chairs and torches, had all gone out with their master, who had taken his younger daughter, Eva, to the dance. [10]
- Immediately followed a scraping of other chairs. [9]
- The chief magnates sat on high-backed chairs at a large table under the portrait of the Emperor, but most of the gentry were strolling about the room. [2]
- Mr. Benson himself said that he thought it was time for him to move to a new piazza, as he had worn out half the chairs at the Grand Union. [4]
- Again the footmen rushed about, chairs scraped, and in the same order in which they had entered but with redder faces, the guests returned to the drawing room and to the count's study. [2]
- In the same row of seats was the Prince of Wales, two chairs off from A----'s seat. [6]
- In the drawing room people began arranging the chairs and taking their seats. [2]
- On the slender-legged, polished mahogany table lay books in tasteful bindings; a diamond-paned bookcase stood in the corner; a fauteuil and various other chairs which might have come from the hands of an Adam were ranged about. [9]
- The band was playing this morning--not rink music--when Mrs. Glow and King entered and took chairs on the ombre. [4]
- He also furnished pine benches and chairs for the legislature, and covered the floors with clean saw-dust by way of carpet and spittoon combined. [5]
- To the imminent peril of one of the frailest of Mrs. Forsythe's chairs, he sat down on it, placed his hands on his knees, flung back his head, and blew the smoke towards the ceiling. [9]
- Among the littered papers on the table were two whiskey bottles and several glasses, and strewn about were a number of chairs, the arms of which had been whittled by the General's guests. [9]
- We could make out a bed, and a table, and two old chairs, and lots of things around about on the floor, and there was clothes hanging against the wall. [5]
- Often we felt our chairs jar, and heard the faint boom of a blast down in the bowels of the earth under the office. [5]
- But there were other carriages at the door, there was a pile of trunks on the veranda, which he nearly stumbled over, although his foot struck nothing, and the chairs were full, and people were strolling up and down the piazza. [4]
- I came suddenly on a room in the greatest disorder, its tables and chairs piled high with newspapers and letters, its windows streaked with soot. [9]
- The landlord tossed on a bench several garments spread over the backs of two chairs to dry, and hung in their place the dripping cloaks of the baron and his son. [10]
- Within was an office, with leather chairs, a large oak desk, a spittoon, and portraits of grave legal gentlemen on the wall. [9]
- In the course of time I collided with thirty-five chairs and tables enough to stock that dining-room out there. [5]
- In the rest of the chairs sat three bishops, the Vice-Inquisitor, eight abbots, and the sixty-two friars and lawyers who had sat as Joan's judges in her late trials. [5]
- A discreet expanse of striped yellow deck separated them from the wicker chairs where Mrs. [9]
- Everything was ready now; students stood crowded together in the foreground, and others stood behind them on chairs and tables. [5]
- For a moment nothing was visible; then, Jasmine saw, dimly, a coffin on two chairs. [11]
- There had been no one to receive them; a few people, in the rear rows of chairs near them, turned their heads to glance at them, and then looked away again. [8]
- And there was nice split-bottom chairs, and perfectly sound, too--not bagged down in the middle and busted, like an old basket. [5]
- The parlors were nearly deserted, and few chairs were occupied on the piazzas, but the ghosts of another generation seemed to linger, especially in the offices and barroom. [4]
- The footmen began moving about, chairs scraped, the band struck up in the gallery, and the guests settled down in their places. [2]
- Then there came more scraping of chairs, all the company talking excitedly at once. [9]
- De Beausset's hands meanwhile were busily engaged arranging the present he had brought from the Empress, on two chairs directly in front of the entrance. [2]
- At length the meal was finished, and the two turned in their chairs towards the fire. [11]
- The chairs and lounges were marquetry,--satin-wood and mahogany,--with seats and backs of blue brocade. [9]
- Instantly there came loud words and the scraping of chairs within the room, and a woman's scream. [9]
- Just then a loud cry was heard from without, the men jumped from their chairs, and something heavy dropped on the carpet. [9]
- The stout fellow lay upon two chairs, resting his head on his hand, and the squinting man reposed in a similar attitude on the opposite side of the table. [12]
- The tap-room was large, yet had a snug and cozy look, with its inviting little tables and chairs scattered irregularly over its red brick floor, and its great fire flaming and crackling in the wide chimney. [5]
- The lords and ladies who were to attend upon Tom and his two small friends took their places behind their chairs. [5]
- Time had turned it very dark, and the stately bedsteads and tall cabinets and claw-footed chairs and tables were in keeping with the sober dignity of the ancient mansion. [6]
- Her presents were installed, the pictures and photograph frames and chairs, even Mr. Isham's dining-room table and Cousin Eleanor's piano. [9]
- We seated ourselves in two very comfortable chairs, and I began the conversation. [6]
- The rector's office in the parish house was a businesslike room on the first floor, fitted up with a desk, a table, straight-backed chairs, and a revolving bookcase. [9]
- Tea was already in progress on the porch, and if a hush in the conversation and the scraping of chairs is any sign of a sensation, this happened when our heroine appeared in the doorway. [9]
- Honora sank down in one of the upholstered light blue satin chairs and gazed at the shining brass of the coal grate set in the marble mantel, above which hung an engraving of Sir Joshua Reynolds' cherubs. [9]
- The monument raised in memory of our defeat, which was in truth a victory, is almost as much a part of the furniture of the room as its chairs and tables; outside, as they are inside, furniture. [6]
- Some were talking in low voices, and others sat silent on the chairs and sofa, not awkwardly or uncomfortably, but with a characteristic self-possession and repose. [9]
- Prince Andrew was in and Boris was shown into a large hall probably formerly used for dancing, but in which five beds now stood, and furniture of various kinds: a table, chairs, and a clavichord. [2]
- The chairs, disposed in a long line on the piazza, waiting for guests, were also varnished, as the artist discovered when he sat in one of them and was held fast. [4]
- Not only did I find the coat-of-arms set forth on the chairs, fire-screens, and other prominent articles, but it was even cut into the swinging door of the butler's pantry. [9]
- As far as I could remember there were six chairs in that Oklahoma, and one table, a great big heavy table, not a good table to hit with your head when rushing madly along. [5]
- The Vicomtesse seated herself on one of the rude chairs, and looked at Nick curiously. [9]
- His daughter, Princess Helene, passed between the chairs, lightly holding up the folds of her dress, and the smile shone still more radiantly on her beautiful face. [2]
- The walls which have felt their look and their breath, the floor which has taken their footsteps, the chairs in which they have sat, have something of their presence. [11]
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