Finding the door of her apartment locked, he laid her gently in an armchair.

Back is a great armchair.

[Enter the EMPEROR; all bow.] EMPEROR (sitting in armchair).

[judgment after the fact]; armchair general, monday morning quarterback.

[AFRIKÁN SÁVVICH seats himself in the armchair at the table.

There was the Lord Chancellor sitting in an armchair at the table, and his manner was both courtly and kind.

I.Dombey and Son Dombey sat in the corner of the darkened room in the great armchair by the bedside, and Son lay tucked up warm in a little basket-bedstead.

There was something wan and wistful in his look, and he had a strange, old-fashioned, thoughtful way of sitting brooding in his miniature armchair.

At this exemplary old lady Paul would sit staring in his little armchair by the fire for any length of time.

She led me to Miss Havisham's room, and there, in an armchair, with her elbow resting on the table, sat the strangest lady I have ever seen, or shall ever see.

Clerambault sat with his head against the back of his armchair, and thought; his body was feverish, his heart heavy with recollections.

The Honourable Under-Secretary, not in the least surprised by the obsequious welcome of the old scholar, settled himself in his armchair with the lofty air of familiarity suitable to the superior position he held over the two representatives of French letters.

But his countenance lighted up at sight of his visitor, and he leaped to his feet and drew a second armchair before the hearth.

"Is that large armchair in there rented for the day?"

"To the large armchair.

Here's tobacco, lots to read, and an armchair.

There were a few letters for him and he opened and read those, then lit his bed-candle and went upstairs, but instead of undressing, sat for a full quarter of an hour in his armchair thinking.

At one end, in an armchair, sat Brigham, no longer in the rôle of God, but in his proper person of Prophet, Seer, and Revelator.

" Miss Farrow looked up from the very comfortable armchair where she was sittingleaning back, with her neatly shod, beautifully shaped feet stretched out to the log fire.

And looking exactly like the unfortunate Mr. Sedley, Mr. B. used to slouch along, and he would fall into his leather armchair, the one in which he wrote the cheques.

I did not go to bed at once, but sat in the armchair thinking.

There was an eloquence to that waiting, laid-out table, the print of the family already gathered about it; the dynastic high chair, throne of each succeeding Kantor; an armchair drawn up before the paternal moustache-cup; the ordinary kitchen chair of Mannie Kantor, who spilled things, an oilcloth sort of bib dangling from its back; the little chair of Leon Kantor, cushioned in an old family album that raised his chin above the table.

Thick-lipped china in stacks before the armchair.

That evening, after supper, Frank retired to his room, and, settling himself in his comfortable armchair, was soon deeply interested in one of Bayard Taylor's works.

I shall not say much about these two places, but I will say that to go into Sir Walter Scott's library and sit in the old armchair he used to sit in, at the desk he used to write on, and see his books and things around me, gave me more a feeling of reverentialism than I have had in any cathedral yet.