Parties of three and four were junketing in corners; laughing servants rushed to and fro as in a café; the lounges were occupied by reclining beauties or languid fops overpowered with wine, about whom lovely young women, flushed with Champagne and mischief, were coquetting and frolicking.

It was soon after nine o'clock when I entered the long shop with its rows of marble-topped tables and greasy lounges of red plush.

While I stood there a rather thin, respectably-dressed man entered, and seating himself upon one of the plush lounges at the further end, removed his bowler hat and ordered from the proprietor a chop and a pot of tea.

Little children by the score played merrily about the great decks; families and friends foregathered in the lounges or beside the rail to watch the Irish coast slip by; all the internal economy of the giant ship moved smoothly, as if by clockwork.

And along had come a ruck of stuff that was dark and dingy and old-fashioned; awkward articles with a vast dull expanse of mahogany, ending in clumsy claw feet; spindle-legged tables inlaid with white wood; old-fashioned mirrors in scarred gilt frames; awkward-looking highboys and the plainest of sofas and lounges.

" Falconer seated himself in one of the lounges and looked at the players and round the handsome room in contemplative silence.

Tattersall's in my time was one of the pleasantest Sunday afternoon lounges in London.

If you wanted male society, you could find it in the smoking-room and the billiard-room; if you desired feminine influences there was a pleasing variety in the drawing-room and the lounges.

" He had no intention of asking Miss Slade anything when he left the City for Bayswater that evening, but chance threw him into her immediate company in one of the lounges, where, after dinner, they met at a table on which the evening newspapers were laid out.

The interior formed a long saloon in miniature, fitted up with lounges, and tastefully decorated; a promenade on the deck or top furnishing a good place for exercise.

Everywhere the eye would have rested on priceless pictures, rare tapestries, bronze and marble ornaments, sumptuous sofas and lounges, mirrors of Venetian glass, chandeliers, antique vases, bric-à-brac of every description brought from every corner of the world.

In the billiard-room of an evening, as he sat upon one of the long lounges, they would perhaps deign to chat with him; but, alas!

In the meantime, Paris of the boulevards, the elegant and fast-living Paris, lounges, strolls, and smiles.

Paris reads the papers, lounges, runs after the last news and ejaculates: "Ah! ah!

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.

Whatever he does, he must do in a more decided and daring manner than any one elsehe lounges with extravagance, and yawns so as to alarm the reader!

The ladies appeared quite as much at home in their delightful saloons as in the most luxurious apartments in the city, and few Virginian drawing-rooms could make such a display of Wilton carpets, velvet lounges, and splendid mirrors.

Chairs, tables, lounges, and piano were piled with finery, on which Anna Jeffrey worked industriously, assisted sometimes by her aunt, whom Madam Conway pronounced altogether too superannuated for a governess, and who, though really an excellent scholar, was herself far better pleased with muslin robes and satin bows than with French idioms and Latin verbs.

Mrs. Purcell gossips and lounges, as if she were playing with the world for spectator.

Mrs. Laudersdale lounges, and attacks things with her finger-ends, as if she were longing to remould them.

He would like to be Sir Fopling Flutter, if he could afford it, and gazes a little enviously at that noble creature in his French clothes, as he lounges luxuriantly past him in his coach with six before and six behind.

An upright piano, some shelves of books, an old-fashioned mantle and fire-place; and the restpictures and yellow-brown hangings and lounges.

The floor was of the most exquisite parquetry; the seats and lounges were soft and luxurious; in the great windows east and west there stood a small fountain, and the ripple of the water sounded like music in the quietude of the gallery.

Soft Turkish cushions and velvet lounges filled it, and near it hung one of Titian's most gorgeous picturesa dark-eyed woman with a ruby necklace.

Plenty of rocking chairs, lounges that make one sleepy just to look at them, open fires in every room, and nothing too fine for the sun to glorify; butter, eggs, cream, vegetables, poultrysimply perfect, and the rare, ecstatic privilege of eating onionsonions raw, boiled, baked, and fried at any hour or all hours.