The chair of theology was the most coveted honor of the university, and was reached only by a long course of study and searching examinations, to which no one could aspire but the most learned and gifted of the doctors.

His chair of state, The beasts are parcel of His pomp, The wooden dish His plate.

Credé's chair is on your right hand, The pleasantest of the pleasant it is; All over a blaze of Alpine gold, At the foot of her beautiful couch...

At last the speakerpoor fellow!in tones of humiliation and despair said, "The chair is but a man; and, if we err, we are ready to acknowledge our error.

Her chair was also a hard kitchen chair; Hollis' mother had never "humored" herself, she often said, there was not a rocking chair in her house until all her boys were big boys; she had thumped them all to sleep in a straight-backed, high, wooden chair.

There came a peculiar knocking on grandmother's[HW: great grandmother?] chair.

These bath chairs are a great feature in all the watering places of England.

A chair, a candle, and a tinder-box, A thacked chamber and a ragged gown, Should be their lands and whole possessions; Knights, lords, and lawyers should be lodg'd and dwell Within those over-stately heaps of stone, Which doating sires in old age did erect.

The chairs were not the only articles that had lost the commodity of order in my absence.

'A tavern chair is the throne of human felicity,' ii. 452, n. 1. TEACH.

In the haste and confusion, chairs were brokenbenches overturnedpitchers and tumblers dashed in piecessome plunged from the windows, and were takenothers felt their way up chamber, and hid in the garret, while several, in attempting to reach the cellar, were plunged headlong upon the bottom.

"It was a bears' council and, of course, the chairs used were bears' and not men's.

I myself am not indisposed to follow the opinion of those, who are inclined to believe that it was from the neighbouring Etruscansfrom whom the curule chair and purple-bordered toga were borrowedthat the apparitors of this class, as well as the number itself, were introduced: and that the Etruscans employed such a number because, as their king was elected from twelve states in common, each state assigned him one lictor.

"That chair is the most comfortable.

Except when at meals or out of doors taking their accustomed exercise, the patients usually lounged about in one large room, in which heavy benches were used, it being thought that in the hands of violent patients, chairs might become a menace to others.

The chairs were blotches, indistinct, uncertain; even the foot of the bed trailed off to nothingness.

The chairs were rifle-ammunition boxes, whose contents had been emptied with individual care, bullet by bullet, at the Germans in the trench on the other side of the wheatfield.

It is said to have cost £8,000, and the chairs and seats, which are believed to have formed part of the original equipment of the room, are in much the same position as they then occupied.

His house, a rambling West Indian mansion, was surrounded with deep, spacious piazzas, covered with luxurious lounges, among which one capacious chair was his peculiar seat.

Chairs were long benches made out of planks.

When found, the chair had been exactly eighteen inches from the body.

The round backed arm chair which the Museum purchased last year from the Hailstone collection, though dated 1614, is really more Elizabethan in design.

"A comfortable chair or two and curtains and pictures aren't knickknacks, as you call them.

The chairs were paintedsome French, some Heppelwhite.

The white rays of a distant arc light filtered through the half-drawn velvet hangings and laid a faintly illumined path across the ambassador's desk; the heavy leather chairs were mere impalpable splotches in the shadows; the cut-glass knobs of a mahogany cabinet caught the glint of light and reflected it dimly.