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Chair in sentence

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Levin sat listening to them and frowning, in an easy chair in his wife's bedroom, meeting her inquiries as to what was the matter with stubborn silence.
'You wear leggings for riding?''Yes, it's much cleaner,' said Vasenka, placing his fat foot on a chair, fastening the bottom hook, and smiling good-naturedly.
'But have a look at this... 'and he moved a chair for convalescents, just arrived from abroad, toward Dolly.
He sat down in the chair and began moving it.
He is now under the Countess Lydia Ivanovna's influence.'Dolly, sitting upright in her chair, with a pained expression of sympathy turned her head to follow Anna's movements.
He was sitting on a chair, and the footman was pulling off his warm boots.
Take this chair, it's more comfortable.'
Levin went up to them, said 'How-do-you-do,' and sat down on a chair beside the sofa, holding his hat in his hand.
'Ah, here they are!' said Oblonsky, just as they were finishing, leaning back in his chair and stretching out his hand to Vronsky, who was approaching with a tall Colonel of the Guards.
'That's Yashvin,' said Vronsky in reply to Turovtsin's question, as he took a vacant chair beside them.
When he returned he found Kitty still sitting in the chair where he had left her.
Instead of its former animation it expressed weariness and lifelessness..'What is it you wish of me?'Karenin said, turning round in his chair and folding his pince-nez.
'Take no notice of him,' said Lydia Ivanovna, and with an agile movement she pushed forward a chair for Karenin.
The Frenchman slept or pretended to sleep, leaning his head against the back of the chair, and his moist hand lying on his knee moved feebly, as if catching something.
This is becoming unbearable!' exclaimed Vronsky, rising from his chair.
With a fixed smile of self-pity on her lips she sat in the chair, taking off and putting on the rings on her left hand, and vividly picturing to herself from various points of view his feelings after she was dead.
From time to time he got up to spit in the ashes for cleanliness, and, settled in his chair, he rolled his food round in his mouth, with lowered head and dull eyes.
The latter decided to place Estelle on a chair, and by a miracle, finding herself near the fire the child did not scream, but turned towards her parents the vague eyes of a little creature without intelligence.
She interrupted herself a moment to wedge Estelle into the chair lest she should tip over.
Maheu, when he left the garden at nightfall, at once fell into a chair with his head against the wall.
Father Bonnemort had taken a chair outside, to sit in the sun, while the mother and Alzire had at once set about cooking.
And the mother remained alone, in the midst of her scattered children, without strength to leave her chair, where she was pouring out a second glass of boiling coffee, which she drank in little sips.
She accepted a chair, and seemed pleased to hear that she was at last to be married; then, as they were looking for Zacharie, she replied in her soft voice:"I am waiting for him; he is over there."
For ten days Father Bonnemort, with benumbed paws, as he said, had remained nailed to his chair.
He had thrown himself into a chair, weeping like a child, and throwing fifty francs on the table:"Here," he stammered.
Lénore and Henri, overcome by this storm, cried quietly, while the mother now enumerated their misfortunes: first Zacharie who had had to get married; then old Bonnemort who was there on his chair with his twisted feet; then Jeanlin who could not leave the room for ten days with his badly united bones; and now, as a last blow, this jade Catherine, who had gone away with a man!
Suddenly M. Hennebeau left his chair, saying the coffee was too hot and he would drink it afterwards.
"What on earth have you come here for?" cried Maheude, without even moving from her chair.
At the door he again turned towards Maheude, who was nailed to her chair.
An ecstasy raised him on his chair, a mystic flame darted from his pale eyes, and his delicate hands gripped the edge of the table almost to breaking.
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