There was a prodigious number of soft couches of flowered damask, and little tables inlaid with foreign woods and jeweller's work.

There had they built huts of bark and branches of trees, and made couches of sweet rushes spread over with skins of fallow deer.

His eyes left her to rove again, lingered with the two couches, and returned to her.

All of the rooms were fitted with pretty day-beds so that a cover quickly transformed them into couches and the bedrooms into sitting rooms.

Because there was yet snow on mountain-tops and the balmy air would carry a suggestion of a chill at sunset, there were cunningly wrought charcoal braziers set near the gilded couches, grouped around a semicircular low table so as to give each guest an unobstructed view from the pavilion.

We reclined on couches of ivory, covered with golden drapery, and a throng of lovely girls served us with exquisite dishes; while pretty curly-headed boys brought the wine round in goblets of gold and amber.

Busy, arranging the drapery of their couches, whether of royal purple or of beggar's rags, they cannot find the time to think of other thingseven to listen to the grim breakers, with their awful voices roaring on the lee!

It is long, and rather low, furnished with soft couches, and, on the whole, tho a man might dream of study, I think he would be most likely to read nothing but novels there.

There we found a mighty rich bed, with hangings of silk and silver, and all the toilet furniture in silver also; with couches and cushions richly wrought, and certain splendid garments, with a jewelled sword, left flung upon them, as if the owner had just put them off; but all was disordered wildly, as if by the dying struggles of a madman, and the gorgeousness seemed to add to the horror of it.

Duly at set of sun they betook themselves to their couches.

"The furniture glitters with brilliant gems, with yellow jasper, and the couches dazzle with their purple dye.

In the rooms at the sides of the supper-room, there were some couches, on which thick coverlids rolled up were placed, and which could be used as beds.

In the Wimple nest a strange company are met at the bidding of Madeline Splurge, who couches a flashing lance for the life and the honor of her benefactress.

He prepared a room that was pitch black on every side, ceiling, walls and floor, and had ready bare couches, all alike, resting on the uncovered ground; then he invited in his guests alone, at night, without their attendants.

Six couches were seen, for Jupiter and Juno one, for Neptune and Minerva another, for Mars and Venus a third, for Apollo and Diana a fourth, for Vulcan and Vesta a fifth, for Mercury and Ceres a sixth.

The setting sun was turning the wood into halls of strange light, and spreading golden couches here and there in its deep recesses.

An eminent cotton-spinner, who subjected four hundred specimens of mummy-cloth to the microscope, has ascertained that they were all linen; and even now, when aspiring cotton has contested its superiority, and claimed to be more healthful and more beneficial to the human frame, the choicest drapery of our tables and couches, and many of our most costly and elegant articles of dress, are fabricated from flax.

Thus accommodated, their godships were placed on their couches at the most honourable part of the table, and served with the rich dainties, as if they were able to eat; but the epulones, or ministers, who had the care and management of the feast, performed that function for them, and no doubt did the part of gastronomic proxies with eclat.

On the wide matting-covered couches extending along the sidewalls, lounged sallow-faced Orientals, while in and out among the diners noiselessly moved the waiters, balancing on their heads, large brown straw trays.

Eighty separate couches were placed for the guests, and on each a magnificent wedding-robe for every individual.

It is cool beneath these pines, and pleasant on the couches of brown needles that have fallen through all the years.

Out of this closet is the room where we always live, hung with a blue and white paper in stripes adorned with festoons, and a thousand plump chairs, couches, and luxurious settees covered with linen of the same pattern, and with a bow-window commanding the prospect, and gloomed with limes that shade half each window, already darkened with painted glass in chiaroscuro, set in deep blue glass.

There is always a drawing-room with easy-chairs and couches; plenty of little desks with handsome stationery where the customer may write notes; here, and in the retiring-room adjoining, are uniformed maids to offer service.

Charles EastlakeMonuments at Canterbury and WestminsterSettles, Couches, and Chairs of the Stuart periodSir Paul Pindar's HouseCromwellian FurnitureThe RestorationIndo-Portuguese FurnitureHampton Court PalaceEvelyn's descriptionThe Great Fire of LondonHall of the Brewers' CompanyOak Panelling of the timeGrinling Gibbons and his workThe Edict of NantesSilver Furniture at KnoleWilliam III.

We learn from these authorities that the furniture was ornamented with the heads of lions, bulls, and rams; tables, thrones, and couches were made of metal and wood, and probably inlaid with ivory; the earliest chair, according to Sir Austin Layard, having been made without a back, and the legs terminating in lion's feet or bull's hoofs.