All this time Grandpa Grumbles was sitting in an easy chair by the fire.

The result of this elaborate scrutiny was as follows:The deceased, they conjectured, had fallen asleep in his easy chair, and, while he was unconscious, the murderer had stolen into the room, and, before attacking his victim, had secured the bedroom-door upon the inside.

Mr. Price lighted his pipe and, throwing himself into his great easy chair, said: "Sit down, Robert, I have something to say to you.

He did not seem to totter quite so much as before, but he was glad to sink into an easy chair.

James Allerdyke sat in a big easy chair, placed at the side of a round table set towards a corner of the room.

Pictures, statuettes, and every form of bijouterie make the room a miracle of beauty, and the little princess of all sits in an easy chair before the fire, and thus revolves with herself: "O, dear me!

"Well, upon my word," said the staring Mr. Kybird; "of all the outrageyous" "Never mind 'im," said his wife, who was sitting in the easy chair, distributing affectionate smiles between her daughter and the startled Mr. Nugent.

Mrs. Silk shook her head at him, and, after punching up his pillow, took an easy chair by the fire and sat there musing.

She was reposing in a large easy chair by the open window, in habit and hat, just as she had come from the Row, where she had been laughing and chatting with Mr. Smithson, who jogged demurely by her side on his short-legged hunter, dropping out envenomed little jokes about the passers by.

She was sitting in an easy chair, with a low tea-table at her side, and the two bills were in the tray among the tea-things. 'Have you any idea how much I owe Seraphine and Cabochon?'

There was a big easy chair not far from the door she had just closed, and she subsided into it, limply, realizing that she had gone through a strenuous experience.

" The doctor now walked into his study, changed his overcoat for a well-worn smoking-jacket, and seated himself in an easy chair before the fire.

For him though, the invalid, cushioned and pillowed in an easy chair, a rug over his knees, these splendors and the perfume of the soft bright air that bathed them had an ironic significance.

Three or four of the plates have much fun and humour: the Stolen Interview, after Stephanoffan old lady being asleep at noonday in an easy chair, her daughter profits by the nap to return the attentions of her devoted admirer at the open door; the girl's expression is admirable.

"Oh, Nelly," she cried, throwing herself into an easy chair, and covering her face with her hands.

The window was closed, the door was closed, and Mr. Mott, sitting in an easy chair with his feet up, was aroused from a sound nap by the door opening to admit a young man, who, deserted by Mrs. Pett, stood bowing awkwardly in the doorway.

It would appear that on this occasion at least he was in earnest, as on the 1st of January 1631, when the intense cold rendered the outward air almost unendurable, and the Cardinal had remained throughout the whole morning in his easy chair, rolled up in furs, beside a blazing fire, Monsieur was suddenly announced, and immediately entered the apartment, followed by a numerous train of nobles.

It had been furnished at his marriage, and all the essential equipment dated from then, the large complex writing-desk, the rotating chair, the easy chair at the fire, the rotating bookcase, the fixture of indexed pigeon-holes that filled the further recess.

The easy chair.

We found the patient-reclining in an easy chair, swathed in bandages, a wreck of her former self.

A man used to a downy couch and an easy chair by the fire and steam-heated rooms, who had ten thousand a year in Toronto, when you found him in a chill, damp cellar of a peasant's cottage in range of the enemy's shells was getting something more than novel, if not more picturesque, than dog-mushing and prospecting on the Yukon; for we are quite used to that contrast.

He sank into an easy chair and meditated.

I can stand no more *poeta* m. poet *política* f. politics; political matters *político* political *poltrón* lazy; *silla poltrona* easy chair *polvillo* m. (dim. of *polvo*) fine dust *polvo* m. dust *poner* put, place, station; * al corriente* inform; *se pálido* turn pale *popa* f. stern (of a ship) *por* for; by; through; because of; * una ventana* out of a window; * qué* why; *el qué*

She was sitting in her easy chair, and still held the fatal letter in her hand.

At a glance I took in all the bearings of the scenethe table with its untasted dessert; the shaded lamp; the closed curtains of red damask; the thoughtful figure in the easy chair.