174 examples of rocking-chair in sentences
" When the patient was made comfortable in a rocking-chair, with a package of Japanese water "Flowers" and a cup of water in which to expand them, as a means of keeping his mind from despair, Pearl made a hurried survey of herself in the mirror, and pulled her brown hair into curls over her ears.
He walked across the street to see Joe Wegg, and found the youth seated in a rocking-chair and looking quite convalescent.
Yes, with a good horse it is as delightful as sitting in a rocking-chair, but, if you were a rider of experience, you would not allow your horse to enter upon the gait without permission, but would bring him back to the trot by slightly pulling first the left rein and then the right, a movement which is called sawing the mouth.
" You remember having heard of a "canter like a rocking-chair.
"Old Grandfather Macintosh" By this time I am settled comfortably in the cushioned rocking-chair to watch the fray.
She had bought a nice rocking-chair for the mother to rest in.
Then she drew up the low rocking-chair with its covering of faded crimson chintz, and sat down by her husband.
She's setting in a little rocking-chair,a green one.
Next she took Madeline's hand and led her up the narrow staircase to the nest, seated her in the little Yankee rocking-chair, and wrapped her in the scanty, faded shawl that served for a coverlet.
"He's like a rocking-chair," said Cosme.
And it's very unkind of you if you wouldn't like to have a picture of me in my green rocking-chair on the scarlet rug.
He had washed the supper things after a fashion, had cleared up the kitchen for the night, according to his own ideas of tidiness, and now was sitting in the rocking-chair by the stove, trying very hard to keep his eyes open.
"Which virtue could you spare in Mr. Sampson?" said Laura, coolly, fastening my hair neatly in its net, and sitting down in her rocking-chair.
While she sat there, silent, by the window, Miss Craydocke brought out a new armful of something from a drawer, and came and placed her Shaker rocking-chair beside her.
One was sitting on his bed, holding his hand, and the other was in a rocking-chair.
Joshua's wife, whom everybody called Aunt Lyddy, was oscillating in a rocking-chair in the kitchen, and knitting.
Meanwhile he surveyed the room as minutely as if it had been a museum,trying the rocking-chair, examining pictures, snapping vases with his unpared nails, opening costly books, smelling of scent-bottles, scanning the anti-Macassars and the Berlin-wool mats.
I had lit my cigar and opened the volume I was reading at that time, when my wife, whom I had left dozing on a lounge, came out and took a rocking-chair near me.
She was as pleasant and hospitable as her husband, and after shaking up a funny-looking patchwork cushion in a rocking-chair for the young lady to sit down on she told the little girls that she would get them a couple of crickets if they would wait a minute, and disappeared into the next room.
I don't feel the least sleepy, and I am sitting here in the rocking-chair thinking of all our trip, and the different impressions it has made, and how deeply I admire and respect this wonderful people.
Brown flung open the door into his living-room, his face aglow, and stood laughing at the sight of Mrs. Brainard's posture in his red rocking-chair.
Mrs. Jones certainly could not; and when Eunice went up for Ethelyn, that worthy woman was rocking back and forth in a low rocking-chair, her brass thimble on her finger and Tim's shirt-sleeve in progress of making; while Melinda, in her pretty brown merino and white collar, with her black hair shining like satin, sat in another rocking-chair, working at the bit of tatting she chanced to have in her pocket.
His trot and lope were so comfortable and swinging, like the motion of a rocking-chair, that I could ride him all day with pleasure.
The only things I really enjoy are a rocking-chair and a book.
Now, to me the top side of a log was as easy and familiar as a rocking-chair.