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Chair in sentence

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The back of a chair served him as a rostrum.
For a few minutes he rested, out of breath, on a chair in the receiver's office, so overcome by his powerlessness that no ideas came to him.
Falling into a chair opposite the bed, which he gazed at fixedly, he remained some minutes as though crushed.
The servant had, however, promised that he would come to the settlement before night, and the mother was standing at the window watching, while the little invalid, who had wished to be downstairs, was shivering on a chair, having the illusion that it was better there near the cold grate.
Father Bonnemort, seated stiffly on his chair, had not even lifted his head.
Souvarine had gone back to his chair, with his back to the wall and his eyes fixed on the smoke from his cigarette, but his feverish fingers were moving restlessly, and he ran them over his knees, seeking the warm fur of Poland, who was absent this evening; it was an unconscious discomfort, something that was lacking, he could not exactly say what.
A chair was overthrown; their heavy boots crushed the white sand scattered on the floor.
And no feet, by God! or I take a chair and bash you with it!"
On the ground there only remained the overturned chair and a rain of blood which the sand on the floor was drinking up.
Old Bonnemort was near the cold fireplace, nailed to his chair ever since two neighbours, on the day of the slaughter, had found him on the ground, with his stick broken, struck down like an old thunder-stricken tree.
When they started, as ill luck would have it, they stumbled against a chair.
Bonnemort was there alone, with large fixed eyes, nailed to his chair in front of the cold fireplace.
How could Bonnemort, nailed to his chair, have been able to seize her throat?
By his side on a chair stood a large decanter of brandy, whence he poured himself a little from time to time to keep up his spirits; but as soon as he caught sight of the doctor his elation subsided, and instead of swearing, as he had been doing for the last twelve hours, began to groan freely.
In his exasperation, Monsieur Bovary the elder, smashing a chair on the flags, accused his wife of having caused misfortune to the son by harnessing him to such a harridan, whose harness wasn't worth her hide.
On the other side of the passage was Charles's consulting room, a little room about six paces wide, with a table, three chairs, and an office chair.
A fair young woman sat in a high-backed chair in a corner; and gentlemen with flowers in their buttonholes were talking to ladies round the fire.
A servant behind his chair named aloud to him in his ear the dishes that he pointed to stammering, and constantly Emma's eyes turned involuntarily to this old man with hanging lips, as to something extraordinary.
A servant got upon a chair and broke the window-panes.
Unconsciously, Leon, while talking, had placed his foot on one of the bars of the chair on which Madame Bovary was sitting.
"I'm that worn out sometimes as I drop asleep on my chair.
Seated in her arm chair near the window, she could see the villagers pass along the pavement.
Standing up with his hands on the back of her chair he saw the teeth of her comb that bit into her chignon.
Then her dress fell on both sides of her chair, puffing out full of folds, and reached the ground.
Seated on a low chair near the fire, he turned round in his fingers the ivory thimble-case.
All the same, his companion seemed very strange to him, for Leon often threw himself back in his chair, and stretching out his arms.
Then turning on his chair; "Any news at home?""Nothing much.
But in making this movement, as she leant back in her chair, she saw in the distance, right on the line of the horizon, the old diligence, the "Hirondelle," that was slowly descending the hill of Leux, dragging after it a long trail of dust.
"That is true! that is true!" agreed the good fellow, sitting down again on his chair.
He sat down on a chair, and his eyes fell upon a blue stained window representing boatmen carrying baskets.
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