Do we say chaise or shays

chaise 589 occurrences

We got in in the evening, travelling in a post-chaise from Penrith, in the midst of a gorgeous sunshine, which transmuted all the mountains into colors, purple, etc.

The gentlemen left the hall that night to proceed to an inn, from which they could obtain a chaise and horses; and the following morning, when the baronet's family assembled around their social breakfast, they were many miles on the road to the metropolis.

But Sofia's leaden limbs carried her safely to the upper landing, then on to the blessed shelter of her room, where she collapsed upon a chaise-longue and there lay in a stirless huddle, dry of eye but deaf to the plaintive entreaties of Chou Nu and numb to all sensation but the anguish of her humiliated heart.

Then, unable longer to endure Chou Nu's efforts to comfort or distract her, Sofia had stepped out of her street frock and into a négligée and, dismissing the maid, returned to the chaise-longue upon which, in vain hope of being able to cry out the wretchedness of her heart, she had thrown herself on first gaining the sanctuary of her room.

It was just possible, howeverSofia's eyes measured the distancethat a deft hand and a strong wrist might have slipped the envelope under the door and sent it skimming across the floor to the foot of the chaise-longue.

"As I got out of the chaise, I remember jumping for very joy, and exclaiming, 'Here we are, here we arelittle Willy and all!'"(his parents' seventh and youngest child, then only a few weeks old)"but my spirits sunk into dismay

" "Jump into the chaise, Andy, and ride home with me.

By this time Andy was in the chaise, rapidly nearing the village.

She threw herself in the chaise longue, not yet ready to dress and go down to join the others.

"It is rather a mess, isn't it?" Carlotta groaned and dropping into a chaise lounge encircled her knees with her arms, staring with troubled eyes at her guest.

That night, after dinner, Bambi arranged the electric reading light in the screened porch, drew a big chair beside it, placed the Professor's favourite chaise-lounge near by, and got him into it.

On my return lately from Kingston, after a temporary absence, the negroes flocked to our residence and surrounded the chaise, saying, 'We glad to see massa again; we glad to see school massa.'

It is reached by a winding tedious road, too rugged to admit of a chaise, and in some places so steep as to try the activity of a horse.

Among his amusements now, he was frequently engaged in taking some of the children of the neighborhood to ride in his neat little chaise, with his beautiful striped horse.

I had tried a 'rose-knot,' a 'witch-knot,' a 'chaise-driver's knot,' and a 'running-knot,' wi' every kind o' knot that fingers could twist the neckcloth into, but the confounded starch made every ane look waur than anither.

A gentleman was once travelling through a very unfrequented road, alone in a chaise, in the latter part of the day.

The man hesitated a moment, and then stepped into the chaise.

The other day, a man of ninety-nine was buried at Père-la-chaise, at Paris, and was followed to his grave by twenty children, fifteen grand-children and great grand-children.

The arrangement of the Road Book of Scotland is clear and intelligible, and, moreover, it is a book which may be read in the post-chaise or the parlour, on or off the road, before or after the journey, with equal pleasure.

A tragic-comic meeting, compounded of favours, footmen, faintings, farewells, prayers, parsons, plumcakes, rings, refreshments, bottles, blubberings, God bless-ye's, and gallopings away in a post-chaise and four.

mit à trembler de se trouver en face d'un homme de bois, qui n'avait que le tronc, et qui semblait posé sur la chaise, devant lui, comme un de ces antiques dieux de pierre, dont le temps avait mutilé les membres.

CHAISE, f., siège à dossier sans bras.

DE, à défaut de. FAUTEUIL, m., grande chaise à bras et à dossier.

Something might have been done with him, if he had only been put into a chaise; but perhaps Esmeralda and Phoebus reserve him for further use in the course of a couple of years or so, when Djali, drawing a goat-chaise containing a little Esmeralda and a little Phoebus, followed by a nurse and Papa and Mamma, would make a sensation at some fashionable seaside resort.

Something might have been done with him, if he had only been put into a chaise; but perhaps Esmeralda and Phoebus reserve him for further use in the course of a couple of years or so, when Djali, drawing a goat-chaise containing a little Esmeralda and a little Phoebus, followed by a nurse and Papa and Mamma, would make a sensation at some fashionable seaside resort.

shays 13 occurrences

This culminated in a revolt in Massachusetts under the leadership of an old soldier named Shays, and it spread with such rapidity that not only did one-fifth of the people join in attempting to overthrow the remnant of established authority in Massachusetts, but it rapidly spread to other States.

Besides, Jefferson not so many years before had written, in defence of Shays's rebellion, that the tree of Liberty could never flourish unless refreshed occasionally with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

She drives one of those old-fashioned, very low pony-shays, with a seat up behind for the groom, and two such ducks of ponies.

When a party of the Shays rebels came to the house of General Pomeroy, in Northampton, and asked if he could accommodate them,the old soldier, seeing the green sprigs in their hats, the badges of their treason, shouted to his son, "Fetch me my hanger, and I'll accommodate the scoundrels!"

In Massachusetts, when the legislature refused to issue paper money, many of the persons who owed debts assembled, and, during 1786-87, under the lead of Daniel Shays, a Revolutionary soldier, prevented the courts from trying suits for the recovery of money owed or loaned.

Daniel Shays tried it in Massachusetts; Thomas Wilson Dorr tried it in Rhode Island.

Fiske's Critical Period, 144-231, 306-345; Captain Shays: A Populist of 1786.

Shays's Rebellion, 1786-87.In Massachusetts, especially, the discontent was very great.

The leader in this movement was Daniel Shays.

He drove Shays from place to place, captured his followers, and put down the rebellion.

But Shays's Rebellion in Massachusetts was the most important of them all, because it convinced the New Englanders that a stronger national government was necessary.

Compare this with Shays's Rebellion.

Shays's Rebellion.

Do we say   chaise   or  shays