Bronte_Jane_Eyre_15040.08"What does he look like?"

Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_550.10We can hardly understand how he can move so easily in this low apartment,—we almost expect to see his curls brush the ceiling.

Collins_The_Moonstone_55550.23The chapters best adapted to female perusal are "Satan in the Hair Brush;" "Satan behind the Looking Glass;" "Satan under the Tea Table;" "Satan out of the Window'-- and many others.
Fleming_Norines_Revenge_14670.22A book lay idle an her lap, she could not read, she sat there waiting--waiting--waiting, and schooling herself for the ordeal.
Lawrence_Guy_Livingstone_22700.21If he felt inclined, which was not seldom, to utter inaction, his wife encouraged him in his laziness, sitting contentedly for hours on her footstool, with her silky hair just within reach of his indolent hand.
Macdonald_Alec_Forbes_11860.19Annie would gladly have objected, contenting herself with the maid's own account; but she felt rather than understood that there would be something undignified in refusing to face Alec's mother; so she followed the maid into the kitchen, and sat down on the edge of a wooden chair, like a perching bird, till she should return.
Whitney_Real_Folks_7390.19Left alone, Mr. Titus Oldways turned in his swivel-chair, around to his desk beside which he was sitting.
Holmes_The_English_Orphans_22000.19The train was already in motion, and as Mary did not care to peril her life or limbs for the sake of pleasing Rose, she followed her into the car, where there was a goodly number of unoccupied seats, notwithstanding Rose's assertion to the contrary.
Warner_Wide_Wide_World_94410.17While this was doing, Margaret Dunscombe put her head in at the door to ask Anne, Miss Sophia's maid, if she was almost ready to come and curl her hair.
Whitney_Real_Folks_19810.16she asked of her husband, as they sat together in her dressing-room, while she brushed out her beautiful hair.
Warner_Wide_Wide_World_60540.16Miss Fortune tossed her head, and brushing the refuse beans into her lap, she pushed back her chair with a jerk to go to the fire with them.
Warner_Queechy_59420.15Fleda's book went down and her heart jumped to her mouth, for her uncle was sitting over by the window.
Trollope_The_Way_We_Live_Now_40560.15The grand saloon in which nobody ever lived was thrown open, and sofas and hairs on which nobody ever sat were uncovered.
Reade_It_is_Never_Too_Late_to_Mend_178830.15Crawley followed Wood to the waiting-room, and there on a bench sat Isaac Levi.
Trollope_Orley_Farm_18530.14This waiting-room was very dingy, much more so than the clerk's room, and boasted of no furniture but eight old leathern chairs and two old tables.
Lever_Charles_OMalley_vol1_39050.14With lightning speed my once home rose up before me with its happy hearts; the old familiar faces were there; the gay laugh was in my ears; there sat my dear old uncle, as with bright eye and mellow voice he looked a very welcome to his guests; there Boyle; there Considine; there the grim-visaged portraits that graced the old walls whose black oak wainscot stood in broad light and shadow, as the blazing turf fire shone upon it; there was my own place, now vacant; methought my uncle's eye was turned towards it and that I heard him say, "My poor boy!
Warner_Wide_Wide_World_146900.13Plenty of books, old-looking comfortable furniture, pleasant light; all manner of et ceteras around, which rejoiced Ellen's heart.
Wood_East_Lynne_122330.13Was there any small corner of rejoicing in her heart that it was so?
The_Sign_of_Flame_Clean_7010.13His nephew sat alone at the supper table, about which nobody seemed to think.
Reade_Love_Me_Little_Love_Me_Long_67300.13You must not play such a heart as yours against a marble taw.
Lewald_Hulda_1390.13The oval table in the saloon looking out upon the garden was the very one at which the queen and her children had breakfasted when, in her flight from the viotorions French, she sought refuge in tte remotest borders of her kingdom, She had rested upon the little sofa in the adjoining houdoir, and had sat before the dressing-glass there while her maid knotted up her fair hair.
Evans_Beulah_70300.13One evening, however, as she stood before a glass and arranged her hair with more than ordinary care, she felt that she would soon have an opportunity of judging whether reports were true.
Wister_Schillingscourt_10680.12"See how coquettishly the Lady Mercedes sits her horse !"
Warner_Wide_Wide_World_68530.11Ellen waited till the sound of her horse's footsteps died away on the road; and then, sinking on her knees beside her rocking-chair, she poured forth her whole heart in prayers and tears.
Roe_What_Can_She_Do_18840.11Along the muddy road, in the old barn as he cared for his horses, in his poor little room at home, to which he soon retired, he saw only the fair face of Edith, with the firelight playing upon it, with the vividness of one looking directly upon an exquisite cabinet picture, and before that picture his heart was inclined to bow, in the most devoted homage.
Lever_Charles_OMalley_vol1_74220.10He turned from the fire to the table, from the table to the fire, poured out a glass of wine, drank it hastily off, and springing from his chair, paced the room with long, impatient strides.
Alcott_Eight_Cousins_9140.10Of course, there was no perspective whatever, which only gave it a peculiar charm to Rose, for in one place a lovely lady, with blue knitting-needles in her hair, sat directly upon the spire of a stately pagoda.
Warner_Wide_Wide_World_27770.10Her eye fell on her trunk; her next thought was of her desk inside of it, and suddenly her heart sprang.
Alcott_Eight_Cousins_6380.10Half the peculiar performances of Dr. Alec cannot be revealed; but as Rose glanced up from her box now and then she caught glimpses of him striding by, bearing a bamboo chair, a pair of ancient andirons, a queer Japanese screen, a rug or two, and finally a large bathing-pan upon his head.
Holmes_Lena_Rivers_44300.09"That's her chamber--the young gal's--where you see the candle," said Uncle Timothy, as they drew up before the huge walls of the tavern.
Hawthorne_Twice_Told_Tales_48940.08Every evening--as Peter had long absented himself from his former lounging-places at insurance offices, news-rooms, and book-stores, and as the honor of his company was seldom requested in private circles--he and Tabitha used to sit down sociably by the kitchen hearth.
Evans_Beulah_97000.08Cornelia stood by her side, busily engaged in dressing Beulah's hair with some of the roses and scarlet geranium she had gathered.
Trollope_Can_You_Forgive_Her_26430.08It was two hours after this, and he still wore his dressing-gown, and he was still lounging in his easy-chair, when the waiting-maid at the lodgings brought him up word that a gentleman wished to see him.
Trollope_The_Way_We_Live_Now_109290.08'Do you think only of yourself?
Reade_It_is_Never_Too_Late_to_Mend_97560.08drought!"
Reade_It_is_Never_Too_Late_to_Mend_145520.08ay!
Reade_Foul_Play_78050.08"With all my heart."
Reade_Foul_Play_62400.08"Oh!
Prentiss_Stepping_Heavenward_36580.08Is it so with everybody?
Hugo_Les_Miserables_187110.08"No."
Harris_Rutledge_37740.08"Oh!
Evans_Vashti_16840.08"Left where?
Dumas_The_Three_Musketeers_138560.08"You are sure it is not he?"
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_45800.08I will go down."
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_3220.08"Mercedes?"
Cooper_The_Prairie_10360.08"It comes!
Cooper_The_Pioneers_67380.08indeed!
Collins_Man_and_Wife_24350.08Where's your horse?"
Broughton_Nancy_8290.08up or down?
Broughton_Nancy_27130.08"Yes, have not I?"
Alcott_Little_Men_36010.08"P.S.

Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_19460.26I sank down beside Use among the chintz-covered cush- ions of an old-fashioned sofa, while Charlotte threw herself into an arm-chair, picking up by the nape of his neck the barking poodle, who tried to bite a piece out of my costly gown, and scolding him into silence in her lap.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_10670.15During the universal confusion Gisela attempted to get near the Prince, who stood for a. moment in apparently easy chat with Countess Schliersen in the centre of the meadow.

Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_146580.38Lucien having left, Danglars took his place on the sofa, closed the open book, and placing himself in a dreadfully dictatorial attitude, he began playing with the dog; but the animal, not liking him as well as Debray, and attempting to bite him, Danglars seized him by the skin of his neck and threw him upon a couch on the other side of the room.
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_147270.38Lucien having left, Danglars took his place on the sofa, closed the open book, and placing himself in a dreadfully dictatorial attitude, he began playing with the dog; but the animal, not liking him as well as Debray, and attempting to bite him, Danglars seized him by the skin of his neck and threw him upon a couch on the other side of the room.
Fleming_A_Terrible_Secret_60330.22Following these pious parental counsels, Miss Trix _did_ assume her "stunningest" gown, and with the aid of her brother and a crutch, managed to reach the dining-room.
Lewald_Hulda_59950.18She had aeen it that very morning upou Clm^a's neck.
Harland_At_Last_17670.17The jurors were grouped about the fire in the baronial hall, buttoning up overcoats and splatterdashes, and drawing on their riding-gloves, all having come on horseback.
Prentiss_Stepping_Heavenward_16360.14Indeed, I am as it is.
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_179520.14At the first sight of his old friend, Danglars assumed his majestic air, and settled himself in his easy-chair.
Lewald_Hulda_38020.14When she retired to her room after supper, she sat down at her little table and wrote until midnight was long past, and then shpped her letter into the leather pouch which hung in the sitting-room, and which held the letters to be taken to the post the next morning by the man going to the weekly market m the nearest town.
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_215450.13Maximilian, in his devotedness, gazed silently at her.
Macdonald_Alec_Forbes_720.12In the vain attempt to dry her eyes with the corner of her apron, she nearly dropped one of the chairs, which she was simultaneously dusting and restoring to its usual place.
Fleming_A_Terrible_Secret_52800.12Luckily, standing behind Trix's chair, Trix did not see it.

Bronte_Jane_Eyre_22570.18She was gratified: there it stood, a little carton, on the table when we entered the dining-room.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_38030.18I found all the party in the dining-room at supper, as Mr. Rochester had said; they were not seated at table, -- the supper was arranged on the sideboard; each had taken what he chose, and they stood about here and there in groups, their plates and glasses in their hands.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_38010.17"Fetch me now, Jane, a glass of wine from the dining-room: they will be at supper there; and tell me if Mason is with them, and what he is doing."
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_30520.14You must go into the drawing-room while it is empty, before the ladies leave the dinner-table; choose your seat in any quiet nook you like; you need not stay long after the gentlemen come in, unless you please: just let Mr. Rochester see you are there and then slip away -- nobody will notice you."
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_28510.13You should have seen the dining-room that day -- how richly it was decorated, how brilliantly lit up!
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_25430.11Celine's chamber-maid entered, lit a lamp, left it on the table, and withdrew.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_93900.10"I never take supper."
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_74600.10He entered.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_50.10"What does Bessie say I have done?"
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_46370.10or is there no one in the room but you?"

Wister_Marlitt_OMS_15030.13The guests were soon all assembled around the table, and the ladies produced their embroidery.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_36090.13He would enter and sit down unsuspeetingly in the pleasant ivy-hung room.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_18470.13lie folded his arms upon his chest and walked several times up and down before the portraits.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_22270.12Fclicitas was in her room preparing for rest, but the ceaseless gossip of the two women in the next room over their coffee made the small dreary * bed-room unendurable.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_41040.10And she rushed out of the room.

Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_55490.22The well-remembered room had been converted into a pretty sitting-room, and an adjoining cabinet that had formerly stood empty had been arranged for a sleeping-apartment.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_27780.22" No ; I appropriated to that the small room next to my dressing-room.'
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_1850.22"Well, Flora, have you left the drawing-room?"
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_27680.19The good man is sitting in the drawing-room, with a bottle of excellent Burgundy before him," he replied, as he walked still farther into the room and looked about him. "
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_7620.16Here was no longer the pleasant dining-room, with its comfortable old-fashioned leather-covered furniture.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_3740.16Yes, my supper was awaiting me, but I could not go home yet.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_17580.15Then the drawing-room awoke to life.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_30900.14This tempting arrangement was pushed aside for the mo- ment.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_62910.14My aunt was lying upon the sofa as I entered her room.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_14550.14"You might read me something aloud, J utta, if you have finished your supper," she said. "
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_17520.13It had been a state apartment, but it was evidently used as a cosy drawing-room.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_16790.13I have laid two more covers at table, and the dinner is arranged for two more guests."
Wister_Marlitt_Rubies_4970.13The Lamprechts were, indeed, ‘finely-picked to pieces.’ All this, however, had no effect whatever upon the peaceful social life in the old Counci1lor’s room,—the red drawing-room.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_6030.13While they were arranging the room, and Frau Ferber was every moment bringing in some new piece of furniture to add to it a greater air of comfort and luxury, her husband went to the longest wall, and, stretching his arms across it, banished to the anteroom the lounge that had just been placed there.
Wister_Marlitt_Rubies_3590.13But you must see that your dishevelled curls would create a sensation in the castle drawing-room."
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_10160.13And, besides, I should like to know what you expect to gain in your future position by your drawing-room manners ?"
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_42080.12She entered the open door of the dining saloon, and took up in both her hands a silver goblet, a gigantic piece of plate that glittered upon an oaken table in the centre of the room.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_2380.12Before long she will set up her pigeon-cote and daws’-nests in your drawing-room."
Wister_Marlitt_Owls_3080.11As she entered the room which had been her grandmother's little drawing-room she drew a long breath, and said to herself that it would be sinful weakness to allow her courage to fail here,—-here Where everything reminded her of the contented life of a gentle, though strong, feminine nature, where the dear old portraits of good people greeted her kindly from the Walls.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_11460.11Only three of them were in any degree worthy to be the frame of a handsome feminine face: these were the windows of the sitting-room, with their pretty white curtains, on the left of the front door; on the right, one was covered by a shutter half off its hinges, and through the other two an almost empty room could be seen,—a room containing nothing save a large stove, a table, and some chairs of pine.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_66520.10Use entered with a lamp to look after me.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_14660.10J utta, are you crazy?"
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_3680.10~ Next came the sleeping-room.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_15200.10"Let us go into the music-room.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_62550.09There is light in his room ; he wears a shade over his eyes ; but to-day he is to move into the small room next mine, where the cur- tains are not at all thick.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_67860.09I am sitting in Charlotte's former room.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_19920.09He now made his appearance regularly, silently laying some fresh flowers upon the piano before Helene as he entered, in consequence of which she invariably struck several false chords.
Wister_Marlitt_Owls_4630.09Claudine’s tea was served in her room.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_19330.09After supper Elizabeth walked down to the Lodge.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_11560.08"So that you are on the way to become the best match in the country, Kitty, and, like the man in the fairy-tale, can floor your dining-room at your marriage with silver dollars," Flora cried, from the lounge, where she was again reclining, with a book in her hand.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_21090.08"It is the nearest place where we can find a bed where Henriette can be laid, and all necessary assistance.

Trollope_Orley_Farm_1130.35On this occasion he built a good dining-room, with a drawing-room over it, and bed-room over that; and this portion of the edifice was slated.
Trollope_Can_You_Forgive_Her_48700.34I told them to let us have tea in my dressing-room, as I thought you'd like that better than going into the drawing-room before you had taken off your things.
Holmes_Tempest_and_Sunshine_46320.34Aunt Judy lamented because none of the tempting supper in the dining room was touched, while Bob did not fail to turn his usual round of somersaults, thus evincing his joy that so many good things were left for him to eat, "'Cause," said he, "in course we allus has all that comes off the table."
Trollope_Can_You_Forgive_Her_182670.29The affair simply amounted to this, that they were to eat their dinner uncomfortably in the field instead of comfortably in the dining-room.
Collins_Man_and_Wife_144970.29As for the lower floor, the athlete and his trainer ate their meals in the dining-room; and left the drawing-room, as a needless luxury, to take care of itself.
Collins_Man_and_Wife_70530.27The guests were still safe at the luncheon-table when Blanche entered the dining-room.
Reade_Put_Yourself_in_His_Place_47270.26Then the guests went upstairs, and had their hot baths, and changed their clothes, and came down to supper in the blazing room.
Heimburg_A_Sisters_Love_Clean_9070.26Make yourself comfortable till supper-time; punctually at seven, I shall expect you in the dining-room.'
Trollope_The_Way_We_Live_Now_145580.25That afternoon before dinner he found his sister alone in the drawing-room.
Collins_The_New_Magdalen_35580.25They might do one of two things: they might enter the drawing-room, or they might withdraw again by way of the garden.
Broughton_Nancy_74230.25The supper-room is rather full--(when, indeed, was a supper-room known to be empty?)
Holmes_The_English_Orphans_38620.25When supper was over, and the family had gathered into the pleasant sitting room, George asked if there was ever a man in those parts by the name of "Furbush."
Collins_Woman_in_White_23390.25We returned to the drawing-room--the room in which the happiest evenings of my life had been passed--the room which, after this last night, I was never to see again.
Reade_A_Terrible_Temptation_42100.23I walked slowly down the room before him after dinner; and I came into the drawing-room and moved about, and yet he could not see."
Hugo_Les_Miserables_276540.23As for Cosette, she had had Toussaint take some broth to her room, and did not make her appearance until evening.
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_176840.23Haidee was awaiting her visitors in the first room of her apartments, which was the drawing-room.
Bronte_Villette_7220.23She always sat upstairs: her drawing-room adjoined her bed-room.
Trollope_Orley_Farm_89260.23"I will see you in her room, in her dressing-room.
Clemens_and_Warner_The_Gilded_Age_49840.23Laura was in the drawing room.
Broughton_Nancy_75720.23"And it was pleasant in the billiard-room, was not it?"
Warner_Wide_Wide_World_125810.23From motives of convenience, Alice had moved upstairs to a room that John generally occupied when he was at home, directly over the sitting-room, and with pleasant windows towards the east.
Lewald_Hulda_12530.23His sister was standing at the cupboard in the corner of the sitting-room when he entered, and she never looked round, or bade him good-day, the previous evening was too fi'esh in her mind.
Trollope_Orley_Farm_77640.23Such were the last words which Mrs. Furnival spoke as she walked out of her own drawing-room, leaving her husband still seated in his arm-chair.
Hugo_Les_Miserables_327920.23The guests, preceded by M. Gillenormand with Cosette on his arm, entered the dining-room, and arranged themselves in the proper order around the table.
Braddon_Lady_Audleys_Secret_55420.23Sir Michael had gone to his dressing-room to prepare for dinner after a day of lazy enjoyment, perfectly legitimate for an invalid.
Evans_Beulah_29930.22"There is a good fire in the dining room; better go in there and sit with Mrs. Watson.
Streckfuss_Castle_Hohenwald_Clean_1540.22It was the custom at the President's to have the supper-room arranged with many small tables, accommodating each from four to eight persons, at which the guests seated themselves in groups selected among themselves beforehand.
Warner_Wide_Wide_World_86400.22It was very pleasant too when they went into the drawing-room to take coffee.
Trollope_Can_You_Forgive_Her_48740.22"Here's my dressing-room, and here's your room all but opposite.
Stowe_Uncle_Toms_Cabin_99490.22The party entered the supper-room.
Reade_A_Terrible_Temptation_49470.22He leaned over him and kissed him, and went down to the dining-room.
Hugo_Les_Miserables_223160.22That evening, Cosette was alone in the drawing-room.
Collins_No_Name_17660.22she said -- and ran upstairs to her sister's room.
Collins_Man_and_Wife_147920.22The lawyer entered the dining-room.
Whitney_We_Girls_2220.21Also that the parlor carpet would make over, and leave pieces for rugs for some of our delightful stained floors.
Warner_Wide_Wide_World_131050.21He had gone to his old sleeping-room upstairs, which Margery had settled with herself he would make his study; and for that he had taken the sitting-room.
Trollope_Can_You_Forgive_Her_154970.21But she went flitting about from room to room, declaring that this thing must be taken, and that other, till the market-basket would have become very large indeed.
Heimburg_A_Sisters_Love_Clean_9410.21"'Dress yourself quickly,' I advised her, 'there is a fire in the dining-room, and the warm supper will do you good.'
Reade_Put_Yourself_in_His_Place_68080.21These were now open, and Henry found his mother seated in the dining-room, with two workwomen, making curtains, and in the drawing-room were two more, sewing a carpet.
Lever_Charles_OMalley_vol2_55300.21A small drawing-room and the billiard-room lay between me and the large drawing-room; and as I traversed them, the music grew gradually louder.
Collins_No_Name_138680.21While Magdalen was spreading the cloth in the dining-room, as usual, Mrs. Drake looked in, and instructed her on this occasion, for the first time, to lay the table for two persons.
Collins_Woman_in_White_40140.20My two rooms, and all the good bedrooms besides, are on the first floor, and the basement contains a drawing-room, a dining-room, a morning-room, a library, and a pretty little boudoir for Laura, all very nicely ornamented in the bright modern way, and all very elegantly furnished with the delightful modern luxuries.
Yonge_The_Daisy_Chain_55490.20Every one in the drawing-room looked up, and exclaimed as he entered, "Where's Tom?"
Trollope_Orley_Farm_94240.20And then he kissed her, and they went back again into the large drawing-room.
Trollope_Orley_Farm_47220.20At that very moment he was again asking himself those questions which he had before asked as he was walking up and down his own dining-room.
Prentiss_Stepping_Heavenward_21970.20You had better go upstairs to your room and pray for patience.
Ingelow_Fated_to_be_Free_48600.20I went through the dining-room and saw the names on the plates, and I took the liberty to change one or two.
Hughes_Tom_Brown_at_Oxford_74850.20"Why; there is the dressing-room, next to the south room, with a bed in it.
Hillern_Only_a_Girl_66650.20As they entered, the guests stood around the table, awaiting him.
Heimburg_A_Sisters_Love_Clean_6560.20"I cannot find her, aunt, either in the sitting-room or in her own room."

Bronte_Jane_Eyre_38410.21It was beautiful, but too solemn; I half rose, and stretched my arm to draw the curtain.

Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_21440.26The gay chintz curtains before the two windows were perhaps the only luxury that the dean’s widow had allowed herself in her new home.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_13760.23Through the first she could faintly descry the gay flowers upon the still unhung bed-curtain; then came two windows with pretty net curtains, belonging to the aunt’s sitting-room.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_31130.21The first person whom I saw was the old bookkeeper, who was sitting in a recessed window, half hidden by the curtain.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_3110.18She has forgotten again to hang up the curtain before the window,-—and on such a night!"
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_2700.17Frau Griebel carefully drew up one of the window-shades.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_7610.175] I crouched down, half hidden by the curtain, upon a ittle cushioned seat at the foot of the bed, and looked timidly around the strange apartment.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_5800.14She anxiously examined the famous curtains, was much shocked at the bed upon the "beautiful sofa," and tried in vain to conceal her pleasure at being once more able to count every sack of grain that was brought to the mill or carried thence.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_4900.13She brought a little table from the recess, and placed the well-scoured footstool before the high sofa, and all was done as regularly and easily as if she had never been away from the mill.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_3010.12He went to a window, pulled aside the curtain, and gazed out into the night.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_3380.09She left the room, followed by her ‘ Peter,’ while ‘the new master’ left the window to examine the apartment more closely, The bow-window was directly in the centre of the front wall of the room, and was flanked on either side by another large window.

Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_165990.32As he thought thus, he looked alternately at the window with red curtains and the three windows with white curtains.
Collins_The_Moonstone_108660.30I drew back behind the half curtain of the bed.
Hughes_Tom_Brown_at_Oxford_101360.26A little scrap of a curtain was drawn across a portion of it, but he could see easily into the room on either side of the curtain.
Collins_No_Name_127410.22There was a fire in the outer division of the room, but none in the inner; and for that reason, I suppose, the curtains were drawn.
Collins_Man_and_Wife_149970.21She drew back behind the curtain and looked out.
Evans_Vashti_60420.20The curtains of the south window were looped back, the blinds thrown open, and the sickly sunshine poured in, lighting the easel, before which the mistress of the house had drawn an ottoman and seated herself.
Evans_Beulah_13840.19One sunny afternoon she looped back the white curtains, and sat down before the open window.
Collins_No_Name_11890.19Magdalen drew back a little, and mechanically dusted the parasol with the end of her garden cloak.
Bronte_Villette_51050.19So plainly it shone, that it revealed the deep alcove with a portion of the tarnished scarlet curtain drawn over it.
Whitney_We_Girls_3690.16In exchange for this Ruth bargained for the dimity curtains that had furnished their two windows before, and would not do for the three they had now.
Fleming_A_Terrible_Secret_5840.16Then he began whistling again, watching those lighted, lace-draped windows.
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_166880.16As he thought thus, he looked alternately at the window with red curtains and the three windows with white curtains.
Collins_Man_and_Wife_44720.16Blanche left the sofa, and, going to the window, opened the shutters to look out at the night.
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol2_24200.16"And, while I draw out the necessary list, send some person you can depend upon to take the exact height and width of the three rooms, that the curtains and carpets may more easily be prepared."
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol4_4540.16Its sole furniture consisted of a small bed, a chest of drawers, a walnut-tree bureau, four rush-bottomed chairs, and a table; white calico curtains hung from the windows and around the bed.
Fleming_A_Terrible_Secret_3240.16Lying in her lace-draped, satin-covered bed, looking at baby's fat little, funny little face, Ethel, Lady Catheron, began to think.
Wood_East_Lynne_11010.15"I'll buy you some new curtains, Cornelia, if their pipes spoil these," he quietly replied.
Longfellow_Hyperion_16850.15I lighted my lamp, and drew the green curtains before the windows, and sat down to read.
Fleming_A_Terrible_Secret_78700.15She replaced the desk in the trunk, and, walking to the window, drew back the curtain and looked out.
Fleming_A_Terrible_Secret_13980.15The valet mechanically does as he is bid--the curtains are drawn, the waxlights illumine the apartment.
Evans_Vashti_25440.15Mrs. Gerome drew from a corner of the rear room an easel containing a finished but unframed picture; and, gathering up the lace curtain drooping before the arch, she held the folds aside, to allow the light to fall full on the canvas.
Reade_Love_Me_Little_Love_Me_Long_41730.15drew up the rear.
Hugo_Les_Miserables_6900.15There was still another chair in the detached alcove, but the straw was half gone from it, and it had but three legs, so that it was of service only when propped against the wall.
Hughes_Tom_Brown_at_Oxford_17180.15"There was a piano in one corner, and muslin curtains--I give you my word, muslin curtains, besides the stuff ones."
Holmes_Tempest_and_Sunshine_1110.15In one corner stood a bed, the counterpane of which was as white as snow, and the curtains of the windows were of the same hue.
Whitney_Real_Folks_20610.14She goes out with a cunning white basket and buys her things; and she does all her work up in a corner on a white table, with a piece of oil-cloth on the floor; and then she comes over into her parlor, she says, and sits by the window.
Whitney_Faith_Gartneys_Girlhood_33450.14are the southern curtains drawn?
Marryat_Peter_Simple_74510.14The curtain then drew up for the second piece.
Evans_Beulah_37310.14Could you give me some window curtains?
Holmes_The_English_Orphans_31000.14Lights were burning in the parlor and as the curtains were drawn back, he could see through the partially opened shutter, that Ella was alone.
Collins_The_Moonstone_107920.14The other candle I gave to Mr. Bruff; the light, in this instance, being subdued by the screen of the chintz curtains.
Collins_The_Law_and_the_Lady_57550.14Drawing aside the curtains, he revealed to view an alcove, in which stood a neat little gas-stove for cooking.
Evans_Infelice_24890.14Approaching a table in the corner of the room, Mrs. Orme filled a tall narrow Venetian glass with that violet-flavoured, violet-perfumed Capri wine, whose golden bubbles danced upon the brim, and, having drained the last amber drop, she rolled her chair close to the window, looped back the curtains, and sat down.
Evans_Vashti_43030.13"I have been on the gallery since twilight, looking through the lace curtains at Mrs. Gerome lying on her bed, and at you sitting in the arm-chair.
The_Alpine_Fay_Clean_21360.13There, behind those windows with white lace curtains, lay the fairy realm, where they were now ridiculing and laughing at the awkward fellow who had so plainly, in every word and gesture, shown his unfitness for the Nordheim drawing-room.
Success_and_How_He_Won_It_Clean_3680.13The silk curtains, closely drawn, shut from it the outer world; flowers filled the stands and vases, perfuming the air, and on a table before a little sofa stood the silver tea-service ready for use.
Fleming_Norines_Revenge_2310.13There were white muslin curtains, crocheted tidies on every chair in the room, a lounge, covered with _cretonne_ in a high state of glaze and gaudy coloring, and the scent of the hay fields and the lilacs over all.
Heimburg_A_Sisters_Love_Clean_23170.13She stood with outstretched arms before the bed, which was in an alcove-like recess, and was half covered with fantastic hangings of yellow chintz.
Warner_Queechy_142690.12A lumbering mahogany sofa, that shewed as much wood and as little promise as possible; a marble-topped centre-table; chairs in the minority and curtains minus; and the hearth-rug providently turned bottom upwards.
Sheppard_Charles_Auchester_vol2_4310.12A curtain was drawn across the alcove at the end, and between us and its folds of green, standing out most gracefully, was a beautiful harp; there were also more books than I had seen in a sitting-room since I left my Davy, and I concluded they had been retrieved from her lost father's library.
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_206410.12Albert wandered about the theatre until the curtain was drawn up.
Cooper_The_Spy_6760.12I doubt not that that muslin in the window seat cost twice as much as he would have asked them for it."
Bronte_Shirley_86430.12Having laid her down and drawn the curtain, she stood listening near.
Auerbach_On_the_Heights_109520.12I can draw the curtain aside, and the whole world of light is mine.
Collins_The_Law_and_the_Lady_19730.12The second cupboard revealed (in the upper division of it) some really beautiful cameos--not mounted, but laid on cotton-wool in neat cardboard trays.
Wister_Schillingscourt_1290.12Gay cushions and wraps were lying everywhere, and brilliantly-decorated screens stood ready to pro- tect an extemporized corner from any possible draught.
Roe_Barriers_Burned_Away_65700.12Reassured, he timidly advanced again, and then for the first time, between the two marble statuettes holding back the curtains of the bed, saw Christine, but looking more white and deathlike than the marble itself.
DeMille_Cord_and_Creese_53160.12"But there were others," continued Brocket, in a lower tone, "who had clutched at pieces of furniture, at the doors, and at the chairs, and many of these had held on with such a rigid clutch that death itself had not unlocked it.
Macdonald_Alec_Forbes_58740.11By her window sits the lady white, With her chin upon her hand.
Lever_Charles_OMalley_vol1_78550.11Upon the table-land to the rear of the French position, we could descry the gorgeous tent of King Joseph, around which a large and splendidly-accoutred staff were seen standing.

Bronte_Jane_Eyre_55370.11I could not lay a finger anywhere but I was pricked; and now I seem to have gathered up a stray lamb in my arms.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_33260.10Somebody, unseen, rang the bell merrily; then Adele (who had insisted on being one of her guardian's party), bounded forward, scattering round her the contents of a basket of flowers she carried on her arm.

Wister_Marlitt_OMS_11320.07F elicitas had taken up her sewing agtin.

Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_37500.16have been embroidering by this dim light, and there is neitho work-basket nor book to be seen.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_14620.12She was sitting tolerably near him, and had some crochet work in her hand.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_15970.11"My girls earned these by sewing and embroidering," said their mother, pointing to the volumes.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_16480.10She had just gotten ready, the next afternoon, to go into the garden with her work-basket, when the bell rang at the gate in the wall.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_7270.08She took up her basket. "

DeFoe_Robinson_Crusoe_26770.31that they taught the savages to make wicker-work, or baskets; but they soon outdid their masters; for they made abundance of most ingenious things in wicker-work; particularly all sorts of baskets, sieves, bird-cages, cupboards, &c. as also chairs to sit on, stools, beds, couches, and abundance of other things, being very ingenious at such work when they were once put in the way of it.
Stowe_Uncle_Toms_Cabin_19120.30After a while, Mrs. Bird opened a wardrobe, and, taking from thence a plain, serviceable dress or two, she sat down busily to her work-table, and, with needle, scissors, and thimble, at hand, quietly commenced the "letting down" process which her husband had recommended, and continued busily at it till the old clock in the corner struck twelve, and she heard the low rattling of wheels at the door.
Alcott_Little_Women_88190.27The tidy basket, with the bit of work she left unfinished when the needle grew `so heavy', was still on its accustomed shelf.
Braddon_Lady_Audleys_Secret_28000.23This second person was a lady, who sat at the last of a range of four windows, employed with some needlework, the kind which is generally called plain work, and with a large wicker basket, filled with calicoes and flannels, standing by her.
Bronte_Villette_64510.23One morning I was sitting in the carre, at work upon a piece of embroidery which one of the pupils had commenced but delayed to finish, and while my fingers wrought at the frame, my ears regaled themselves with listening to the crescendos and cadences of a voice haranguing in the neighbouring classe, in tones that waxed momentarily more unquiet, more ominously varied.
Alcott_Work_12980.21Sometimes she left a flower in Rachel's basket, always smiled and nodded as she entered, and often stopped to admire the work of her tasteful fingers.
Roe_Opening_a_Chestnut_Burr_16440.20There are hands that suggest fancy-work, light crochet needles, and neuralgia.
Heimburg_Gertrudes_Marriage_Clean_12900.19Jenny nodded, looked hastily at a half-finished piece of embroidery and left the room.
Evans_Beulah_14190.19she hugs that ugly, old-fashioned thing as if it were kin to her," said Harriet, who sat sewing at one of the windows.
Reade_A_Terrible_Temptation_190.18said she, mighty carelessly, but bending a little lower over her embroidery.
Braddon_Lady_Audleys_Secret_17150.18My lady put away her colors and sketch book, and seating herself in the deep recess of another window, at a considerable distance from Robert Audley, settled to a large piece of Berlin-wool work--a piece of embroidery which the Penelopes of ten or twelve years ago were very fond of exercising their ingenuity upon--the Olden Time at Bolton Abbey.
Harland_Jessamine_7980.17It was a sacred album, the work of his wife's fair fingers, although he did not know this.
Holmes_The_English_Orphans_2320.17Mrs. Johnson's Irish girl Margaret was cleaning the room, and in the bedroom adjoining, Mrs. Johnson herself, with two or three other ladies, were busily at work upon some plain, neat shrouds, and as they worked they talked of the orphan children who were now left friendless.
Holmes_Tempest_and_Sunshine_16090.17By way of adding emphasis to his words he brought his fist back against a work-stand, on which stood his wife's work basket.
Hillern_Only_a_Girl_101970.17Gretchen took her work,--she was just at the age when affection finds instant pleasure in embroidering or crocheting some article for the beloved object.
Evans_Vashti_65870.17A bundle of unfinished needlework was hidden under her shawl, and they soon ascertained that she was delirious from some low typhus fever that had utterly prostrated her.
Reade_The_Cloister_and_the_Hearth_184590.17When Margaret reached the manse the first thing she saw was the two Gerards together, the son performing his capriccios on the plot, and the father slouching on a chair, in his great hat, with pencil and paper, trying very patiently to sketch him.
Reade_Foul_Play_47280.16Then there was a little awkward pause, while he was busily occupied in filling up some topographical details.
Collins_The_Law_and_the_Lady_55010.16"Women," he said, "wisely compose their minds, and help themselves to think quietly, by doing needle-work.
Evans_St_Elmo_28440.16Taking the basket which contained her sewing utensils and a piece of light needlework, she went into the parlor and seated herself near the centre-table, over which hung the chandelier.
Bronte_Shirley_12450.16He returned to the parlour, pilfered a thread of silk from his sister's work-basket, tied the flowers, and laid them on Caroline's desk.
Evans_Beulah_56910.16Beulah taught me common sense," answered Cornelia, unclasping a bracelet and tossing a handful of jewelry across the room to her dressing table.
Evans_Beulah_46930.15Clara sat by the fire, with a piece of needlework in her hand; she looked listless and sad.
Evans_Beulah_13370.15Harriet sat sewing near her, but soon perceived that she was awake, and immediately put aside her work.
Reade_Love_Me_Little_Love_Me_Long_58410.15Is your needle threaded?
Harland_At_Last_21840.15But what of this other piece of work?
Yonge_The_Daisy_Chain_38280.15Norman found one story at a time was enough, and relinquished the field, contenting himself with silently helping Margaret to arrange the flowers, holding the basket for her, and pleased with her gestures of admiration.
Collins_No_Name_101750.15At an open door on the inhabited side of the place sat a weather-beaten old man, busily at work on a half-finished model of a ship.
Bronte_Villette_67680.15was his response; and, gathering his flowers in his arms, he flashed out of classe; while I, consigning my work, scissors, thimble, and the neglected little box, to my desk, swept up-stairs.
Evans_Beulah_5610.15A girl, apparently about thirteen years of age, was seated by the fire, busily embroidering a lamp-mat; another, some six years younger, was dressing a doll; while an infant, five or six months old, crawled about the carpet, eagerly picking up pins, needles, and every other objectionable article his little purple fingers could grasp.
Hugo_Les_Miserables_339770.15Between the chairs an old bedside rug, which displayed more foundation thread than wool, had been spread by way of a carpet.
Yonge_Heir_of_Redclyffe_78170.14In a few seconds he came back with her basket, and in it a few of the flowers.
Whitney_The_Other_Girls_11030.14It will be a centre to work from, and something to work for.
Evans_Beulah_39160.14Harriet, where are the flower scissors?
Heimburg_A_Sisters_Love_Clean_37350.14Then she would pass her hand over her forehead, light a candle, and move up to the table with her work--and work there was in abundance.
Bronte_Shirley_61550.14Caroline, as the rector's niece, took her place at one of the three first tables; Mrs. Boultby and Margaret Hall officiated at the others.
Yonge_The_Daisy_Chain_56350.13Well--" "Well then, I said, old Ballhatchet could tell that I crossed the bridge at the very time they were doing this pretty piece of work, for he was sitting smoking in his porch when I went home, and, would you believe it?
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol4_26220.13He will take you, I should think, as a housekeeper, and I could work in the needle-room.
Reade_Put_Yourself_in_His_Place_49830.13The only time I ever saw Little, he was walking with the foreman of those works.
Collins_The_New_Magdalen_32690.13She placed her work-basket on her lap.
Wister_Schillingscourt_8940.13He seemed not to notice that the works of his hands—his sketches and drawings, with some of his most valued possessions—lay scattered on the floor of the atelier Wet and soiled.
Braddon_Lady_Audleys_Secret_59300.12She roamed about her rooms, gathering together drawing-materials, music-books, needle-work, hair-brushes, jewelry, and perfume-bottles, very much as she might have done had she been about to sail for some savage country, devoid of all civilized resources.
The_Alpine_Fay_Clean_48310.12I should like to stand by and see the accursed work a heap of ruins!'
Evans_Beulah_54010.12Ah, Clara, is this trust, when the end comes and there is no more work to do?"
Braddon_Lady_Audleys_Secret_17030.12She prepared herself daintily for the work, looking sideways at the painting.
Alcott_Little_Women_61490.12Thanks to the conspirators, the tables were turned that night, for Hayes sent up a wilderness of flowers, with a loverly basket arranged in his best manner for a centerpiece.
Hawthorne_Scarlet_Letter_3200.12There is the little domestic scenery of the well-known apartment; the chairs, with each its separate individuality; the centre-table, sustaining a work-basket, a volume or two, and an extinguished lamp; the sofa; the book-case; the picture on the wall--all these details, so completely seen, are so spiritualised by the unusual light, that they seem to lose their actual substance, and become things of intellect.
Yonge_The_Daisy_Chain_8200.11Etheldred was allowed to come and look at Margaret, and even to sit in the room for a little while, to take the place of Miss Winter; but she was not sensible of sufficient usefulness to relieve the burden of fear and bewilderment in the presence of that still, pale form; and, what was almost worse, the sight of the familiar objects, the chair by the fire, the sofa, the books, the work-basket, the letter- case, the dressing things, all these were too oppressive.
Evans_Beulah_10940.11Harriet leaned over the pillow and examined the orphan's countenance.
Roe_Opening_a_Chestnut_Burr_32360.11Annie sat near the hearth with some light crochet-work in her hands.

Cooper_The_Water-Witch_63150.31The smaller booms, with the mess-chest and shot-boxes, were all that lay between the group in the centre, and the depths of the ocean.
Bronte_Villette_91990.30I kept a place for him, too--a place of which I never took the measure, either by rule or compass: I think it was like the tent of Peri-Banou.
Aguilar_The_Mothers_Recompense_vol2_15710.23There were many lights within the library, a group was gathered round the centre table, but to Emmeline all was indistinct, not one amongst them could she recognise.
Lever_Tom_Burke_of_Ours_vol2_36820.22Following the clatter of the horse's hoofs, I rode on, and in less than an hour reached a small cluster of houses, where a cavalry picket was placed, and several large fires were lighted, beside which, at small tables, sat above a dozen staff-officers busily writing despatches.
Evans_Vashti_47850.20It was a pleasant, peaceful, homelike picture, worthy of Eastman Johnson's brush, and for thirty years such a group had not been seen in that quiet old library.
Porter_Thaddeus_of_Warsaw_4700.20While he was standing by the busy people, and musing on the nice line which divides prudence from pusillanimity, his grandfather came up, and bade him mount his horse, telling him that, owing to the unhealed state of his wound, he was removed from the vanguard, and ordered to march in the centre, along with the prince.
Trollope_Can_You_Forgive_Her_187590.18Lady Glencora and Alice were sitting up-stairs with the small, purple-born one in their presence, and the small, purple-born one was lying in Alice's lap.
Stowe_Uncle_Toms_Cabin_75910.16Simon next walked up to the place where Emmeline was sitting, chained to another woman.
Marryat_Peter_Simple_14710.16Hand me down the parallel rules and compasses, Peter; they are in the corner of the shelf.
Reade_It_is_Never_Too_Late_to_Mend_166370.15This time full two-thirds went upon the tent, and only a small quantity came back like spray.
Whitney_The_Other_Girls_25320.15They were grouped together--the same half dozen--in a little ante-room, with a very dusty window looking down into an alley-way, or across it rather, since unless they really leaned out from their fifth story, the line of vision could not strike the base of the opposite buildings, a room used for the manifold purposes of clothes-hanging, hand-washing, brush and broom stowing, and luncheon eating.
Hardy_Far_From_the_Madding_Crowd_8890.15A curved settle of unplaned oak stretched along one side, and in a remote corner was a small bed and bedstead, the owner and frequent occupier of which was the maltster.
Hawthorne_Scarlet_Letter_11120.14Here, on the cushion, lay a folio tome, probably of the Chronicles of England, or other such substantial literature; even as, in our own days, we scatter gilded volumes on the centre table, to be turned over by the casual guest.
Reade_Put_Yourself_in_His_Place_127370.14He found Joseph Galton and another man carrying Mrs. Galton and her new-born child away in a blanket.
Cooper_Last_of_the_Mohicans_58280.14But sad and melancholy as this group may easily be imagined, it was far less touching than another, that occupied the opposite space of the same area.
Macdonald_St._George_and_St._Michael_20360.13He then proceeded to show her how, as every spoke passed the highest point, the weight attached to it immediately hung a foot farther from the centre of the wheel, and as every spoke passed the lowest point, its weight returned a foot nearer to the centre, thus causing the leverage to be greater always on one and the same side of the wheel.
Reade_It_is_Never_Too_Late_to_Mend_161990.13At the native camp they fell in with Jem.
Aguilar_Home_Influence_22170.13Caroline had knitted her mother a very pretty bag, and Emmeline and Ellen had collected for her a variety of leaves throughout the year, and arranged them with great taste, both as to grouping and tinting, in a sort of small herbal, with two or three lines of poetry, selected and carefully written by each alternately, attached to each page.
DeFoe_Robinson_Crusoe_15150.11Upon seeing this boat, Friday stood musing a great while, and said nothing; I asked him what it was he studied upon?
Clemens_and_Warner_The_Gilded_Age_20530.11Early to turn in was the rule of the camp, and by nine o'clock everybody was under his blanket, except Jeff himself, who worked awhile at his table over his field-book, and then arose, stepped outside the tent door and sang, in a strong and not unmelodious tenor, the Star Spangled Banner from beginning to end.
Cooper_Last_of_the_Mohicans_40830.11Just then, a warrior of powerful frame, darkened the door, and stalking silently among the attentive group, he seated himself on one end of the low pile of brush which sustained Duncan.
Alcott_Work_6240.10"Wisely watching the lunatics, instead of joining in their antics," he said, sitting down with a sigh.
Harland_Jessamine_41560.10Yet she was thankful that in the midst of melancholy and dazement, her appointed way lay clear and open before her; that she had still a sure staff on which to lean,--the hope and resolve that she would do her duty bravely and well in the sphere for which her marriage-vow had set her apart.
Aguilar_The_Days_of_Bruce_49950.09At first I imagined the wind was agitating a certain corner of the tent, and my eyes, half asleep and half wakeful, became fascinated upon it; presently, what seemed a bale of carpets, only doubled up in an extraordinary small space, appeared within the drapery.
Yonge_The_Daisy_Chain_140890.08It was a relief to Dr. May that George's vigil soon became a sound repose on the sofa in the dressing-room; and he was left to read and muse uninterruptedly.
Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_5320.07"Oh, no!
Kingsley_Hypatia_75590.07But you, you!
Hillern_Only_a_Girl_32610.07"Where did he know her?"
Fleming_A_Terrible_Secret_81940.07If you only saw yourself!
Evans_Infelice_33330.07Carew--so."
DeMille_The_Cryptogram_120150.07"Tell me what you mean, and what you have been doing since I saw you last.
Cooper_The_Pioneers_45570.07"Oh!
Collins_The_Moonstone_115820.07"Go away!"
Auerbach_On_the_Heights_161770.07If it could have been different, it were not I.

Wister_Marlitt_OMS_720.11Old Heinrich stood where the press was greatest, trying to gain comfo.table standing room by squaring his elbows and making private attacks upon the toes of his neighbours.

Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_1560.17The opposite chimneys, no longer smoking, had put on thick white night-caps, and looked stiffly and coldly, like peevish old age, into the little attic room, which enclosed, in the midst of the snow-storm, a perfect spring of joy and gaiety within its four walls.

Cooper_The_Water-Witch_22200.39"He should be snug in his dealings, and snug in his manner of conducting them; snug in his credits, and, above all, snug in his speculations.
Macdonald_Alec_Forbes_35020.32There had been a heavy fall of snow in the night, and one of the students, whose organ of humour had gained at the expense of that of veneration, had, before the arrival of the professor, gathered a ball of the snow, and thrown it against the ceiling with such forceful precision, that it stuck right over the centre of the chair.
Sheppard_Charles_Auchester_vol1_19830.17Standing at the table by Davy, and pointing with a white kid finger to the music thereon arranged, was an individual with the organs of melody and of benevolence in about equal development; he was talking very fast.
Cooper_The_Deerslayer_53200.17He led the way, though with less of his confident bold manner than usual, into the house, and penetrating to the inner room, found Hutter lying on his back with Hetty sitting at his side, fanning him with pious care.
Whitney_Real_Folks_30290.16He seemed to take apricot-color for granted, when he got there, as much as he did the plain, old, unrelieved brown at Mrs. Ripwinkley's; he sat quite unconcernedly in the grand easy chair that Laura wheeled out for him; indeed, it seemed as if he really, after a manner, indorsed everything by his acceptance without demur of what he found.
Evans_Vashti_38820.15At four o'clock several of Robert's friends came and seated themselves in the room where the coffin sat wreathed with flowers; and immediately after, Mr. and Mrs. Spiewell made their appearance, accompanied by two ladies whose features were concealed by thick veils.
Eggleston_Hoosier_Schoolmaster_30850.14And then she sat down by the fire, and tried to sew, and tried to look unconcerned, and tried to feel unconcerned, and tried not to expect anybody, and tried to make her heart keep still.
Hugo_Les_Miserables_68310.13There was a chair behind him; he dropped into it, terrified at the thought that he might be seen; when he was seated, he took advantage of a pile of cardboard boxes, which stood on the judge's desk, to conceal his face from the whole room; he could now see without being seen; he had fully regained consciousness of the reality of things; gradually he recovered; he attained that phase of composure where it is possible to listen.
Howells_Their_Wedding_Journey_15060.13The standing and sitting groups were closely packed together, and the expanded parasols and umbrellas formed a nearly unbroken roof.
Ingelow_Fated_to_be_Free_47210.12The dining-room alone was as other people's dining-rooms, but John's own den was so very far gone in originality and strangeness of litter, that Justina felt decidedly uneasy when she saw it; it made manifest to her that her hoped-for spouse was not the manner of man whom she could expect to understand; books also here had accumulated, and stood in rows on chairs and tables and shelves; pipes were lying on the stone chimneypiece, sharing it with certain old and new, beautiful and ugly bronzes; long papers of genealogies and calculations in John's handwriting were pinned against the walls; various broken bits of Etruscan pottery stood on brackets here and there.
Longfellow_Hyperion_4070.12In a large arm-chair, upon the middle table, sat one of those distinguished individuals, known among German students as a Senior, or Leader of a Landsmannschaft.
Alcott_Little_Women_63610.11Pere la Chaise is very curious, for many of the tombs are like small rooms, and looking in, one sees a table, with images or pictures of the dead, and chairs for the mourners to sit in when they come to lament.
Collins_Man_and_Wife_99430.11Snug monotony welcomed you when you went in, and snug monotony met you again when you turned to the window and looked out.
Macdonald_Alec_Forbes_34880.10He found the large room lighted by a chandelier, and one of the students seated as president in the professor's chair, while the benches were occupied by about two hundred students, most of the freshmen or _bejans_ in their red gowns.
Holmes_Tempest_and_Sunshine_42540.09You must sit down at the chessboard and let Julia play for you," and she pushed them both toward the chairs, which she and Mr. Middleton had just vacated.
Bronte_Shirley_116890.09On leaving the instrument she went to the fire, and sat down on a seat--semi-stool, semi-cushion.
Reade_A_Terrible_Temptation_14360.07oh!"
Hugo_Les_Miserables_290930.07asked Courfeyrac.
Hughes_Tom_Brown_at_Oxford_6000.07"How do you mean?"
Hardy_A_Pair_of_Blue_Eyes_78540.07I must go on now.'
Fleming_A_Terrible_Secret_69870.07"I would, no doubt, only--I am not going."
Cooper_The_Pioneers_57640.07"Natty!
Auerbach_On_the_Heights_53950.07"Where are their highnesses?"
Auerbach_On_the_Heights_149760.07it was.
Alcott_An_Old-Fashioned_Girl_27080.07Do you think she will?"

Bronte_Jane_Eyre_6710.08"Is she going by herself?"

Wister_Marlitt_Owls_4640.25Leaning back in an arm-chair, she watched the little blue flame beneath the tea-kettle, and thought of Lothar, and how he had described his loneliness and longing in the deserted castle in Saxony.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_15250.25Flora was standing by the writing-table, her hands nervously clasped before her, while the councillor leaned back comfortably in an arm-chair, and Doctor Bruck stood looking through a new pamphlet.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_49520.22Upon his writing-table a lamp, with a green shade, wag burning ; the other desks were deserted ; the clerks had departed.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_7660.19Between the two centre pillars Flora was standing, still in her driving-dress, apparently on the point of leaving the room.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_19050.17She had described it all often to Kitty as they walked along together, and she liked to pause for a moment upon the bridge and contemplate her pleasant home, pointing to her darling’s head, with its dark curls, bending over his writing-table.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_17900.17Flora again approached the piano, and took the sheet of music from the desk.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_12630.16Between these windows stood the writing-table, so that when the doctor raised his eyes from his work he could see the flag-staff of the villa pointing towards heaven,—-towards heaven!
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_8680.16"Nothing can be effected nowadays by mere writing," Doctor Bruck said, from the window where he was standing.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_56080.15She went to her writing-table.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_29080.13The Duke of D—— is uncle on the mother’s side to the crown-prince; of course he is rejoiced at his nephew’s recovery, for yesterday evening I saw the order of the D—— royal household lying upon Bruck’s writing-table."
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_17670.13In that cabinet of curiosities of the Hofmarschall's they are still preserved.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_55720.13He went into his library again, and sat down at his writing-table.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_45230.13He was bending over the writing-table, his back to us.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_49840.13Flora was busy writing tickets for her various trunks and packages; she arose, with a foreboding of what was to come, and approached her grandmother, who had sunk into an armchair.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_36210.12His manuscript lay untouched upon his writing-table; he slept in his lodgings in town, taking his meals there usually, and thus declining to avail himself of the councillor’s daily invitations to dine; any time spent at the villa or with his aunt had to be stolen, as he expressed it, from his patients.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_17540.12107 tered about so as to give an air of comfort to the whole, and ill the light of the centre-door upon the north side stood a large writing-table.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_57580.11The Princess staggered backward, and leaned for sup- port against the corner of the table. "
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_56330.11The doctor went to the writing-table and solemnly closed the huge ledger.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_33240.09"As Flora did yesterday the contents of her purse in defence of her charming complexion," Henriette remarked, with an air of easy banter.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_32200.08Flora!

Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_107240.29Madame Danglars (who, although past the first bloom of youth, was still strikingly handsome) was now seated at the piano, a most elaborate piece of cabinet and inlaid work, while Lucien Debray, standing before a small work-table, was turning over the pages of an album.
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_107930.26Madame Danglars (who, although past the first bloom of youth, was still strikingly handsome) was now seated at the piano, a most elaborate piece of cabinet and inlaid work, while Lucien Debray, standing before a small work-table, was turning over the pages of an album.
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_236560.26"Your pistols are beside your desk," said Monte Cristo, pointing with his finger to the pistols on the table.
Hawthorne_Marble_Faun_vol2_24390.25"The signorina's writing-desk is gone," replied Kenyon; "it always stood on this table, and I myself saw it there only a few days ago."
Harland_Jessamine_11800.23Her easy chair stood there"--pointing--"and her writing-desk beside it.
Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_180900.20Placing the candle upon the chimney-piece, she took a rapid survey of the chamber, and approached the mahogany desk, surmounted by a well-filled bookcase.
Heimburg_Gertrudes_Marriage_Clean_17210.20They were standing together in front of his writing-table.
Collins_Man_and_Wife_6640.20"Fetch my writing-desk out of the next room."
Auerbach_On_the_Heights_126830.20For a long while, not a sound was heard but the rapid ticking of the clock that stood on the writing-table.
Heimburg_Gertrudes_Marriage_Clean_14040.18Mrs. Baumhagen was standing beside her writing-table.
Collins_Woman_in_White_133530.18I prefer to record simply that I carried my point.
Eggleston_End_of_the_World_28150.18As this closet was situated alongside the chimney, it opened, of course, into the small corner room which I have before described, and in which August was now lying.
Trollope_Orley_Farm_42420.17There stood the furniture, except the three subtracted chairs, and the loo table.
Trollope_Can_You_Forgive_Her_167400.17But he resolved that, if he did so at all, he would not do it on that evening, and he locked up the pistol again in the standing desk.
Collins_Woman_in_White_27440.17I pointed to a little album which lay on the table by her side and which she had evidently been looking over when I came in.
Collins_Armadale_75620.17Mrs. Milroy's writing-desk was on the table at the bedside.
Collins_Armadale_121700.17The moment he could move again, he opened his writing-desk on the table.
Holmes_The_English_Orphans_33590.17Upon this point Mary could throw no light, but of all that she had heard from her mother she told, and then Mrs Campbell, pointing to her writing desk, said, "Bring it to me.
Hillern_Only_a_Girl_36950.17Then he noticed just in front of the writing-table a small open drawer, in which Ernestine apparently kept her most precious and valuable books.
Reade_The_Cloister_and_the_Hearth_162970.16"Indeed," said Margaret, "methinks I should not be such a damper at table if I could come to 't warm from a good sermon."
Hillern_Only_a_Girl_65380.16"There, put it on your brother's writing-table," Elsa whispered in her ear.
Hardy_A_Pair_of_Blue_Eyes_72780.16His eyes were directed upon the table, and he had seen for some time that writing-materials were spread upon it.
Collins_The_Moonstone_17410.16He next proposed to his cousin and to me to make quite sure, before we took any further steps, that the Diamond had not accidentally dropped somewhere out of sight--say at the back of the cabinet, or down behind the table on which the cabinet stood.
Whitney_Faith_Gartneys_Girlhood_20170.16Faith stood next morning by a small round table in the sitting-room window, and leaned lovingly over her jonquils and hyacinths that were coming into bloom.
Sheppard_Charles_Auchester_vol1_23950.16I left the note open upon the table (it was in the empty breakfast-room where I had been lolling), meaning thereby to save my credit,--like a simpleton as I was, for it contained not one word of explanation.
Trollope_Orley_Farm_9690.16"I don't think any lady of your acquaintance, sir, would allow you to stand on her rosewood or mahogany loo-table.
Reade_It_is_Never_Too_Late_to_Mend_23970.16Between the reading-desk and the male prisoners was a small area where the debtors sat together.
Hillern_Only_a_Girl_23140.16On the evening of the same day, Leuthold sat before his writing-table at the open windows.
Werner_No_Surrender_Clean_64110.15The Councillor stood looking after him.
The_Alpine_Fay_Clean_19030.15Upon Wolfgang's writing-table stood a photograph of Alice in a richly-carved frame.
Sheppard_Charles_Auchester_vol2_23430.15At the cedar writing-table he paused, and stood waiting silently while I fetched the score.
Reade_It_is_Never_Too_Late_to_Mend_55420.15While he was describing it to her Mrs. Davies broke in: "I saw it--I picked it up off the floor--it was lying between the sofa and the table."
Lewald_Hulda_46160.15The countoss was sitting at her embroidery-frame, and the bailiff at a writing-table, with his books and papers before him.
Collins_Woman_in_White_64250.15My writing materials (which I had given the servant instructions never to meddle with) were scattered over the table much as usual.
Bronte_Shirley_54350.15And she directly fetched her writing-case, smiling queerly to herself as she bent over the table where it stood.
Fleming_A_Terrible_Secret_58630.15There stood the baby bassinet, there the little table on which the knife had lain, there beneath the open window the chair in which Ethel, Lady Catheron, had slept her last long sleep.
Hillern_Only_a_Girl_44870.14He picked them up and went to his writing-table.
Trollope_Orley_Farm_9410.14First there was a round loo-table, not quite so large in its circumference as some people might think desirable, but, nevertheless, a round loo-table.
Trollope_Can_You_Forgive_Her_165530.14He went to a high desk which stood in one corner of the room, and unlocking it, took out a revolving pistol, and for a while carried it about with him in his hand.
Prentiss_Stepping_Heavenward_950.14But on the table, by the window, I saw a beautiful new desk in place of the old clumsy thing I had been spattering and spoiling so many years.
Heimburg_A_Sisters_Love_Clean_45760.14The writing-desk at which her father had formerly sat and worked was to remain in its place, at Klaus's express desire; but the old thing looked so ridiculously awkward beside the _Boule_ furniture that paper-hanger and cabinet-maker refused to receive it, so Anna Maria had it taken into her room.
Sheppard_Charles_Auchester_vol1_33010.13Iskar was sitting before his desk, and had his face from me.
Holmes_Darkness_and_Daylight_4880.13It lay on the writing desk and I took it to the window to see it.
Hillern_Only_a_Girl_14070.13You will find writing-materials there in the corner."
Auerbach_On_the_Heights_190540.13The king was in his cabinet, engaged with Bronnen.
Yonge_The_Daisy_Chain_101370.13She looked about the room, cleared out the last piece of brown paper, and burned the last torn envelope, that no relic of packing and change might distress Margaret's eyes for order; then feeling at once desolate and intrusive, she sat down in Flora's fireside chair, opened her desk, and took out her last time-table.
Whitney_Faith_Gartneys_Girlhood_1940.13Faith, seated at a little writing table at the farther end of the room, busied in copying into her album, in a clear, neat, but rather stiff schoolgirl's hand, the oracle of the night before, did not at once notice that she was addressed.
Heimburg_Gertrudes_Marriage_Clean_2700.13This bow-window was a delightful place; here stood her work-table, and behind it on an easel, the portrait of the late Mr. Baumhagen.
The_Eichhofs_Clean_33690.12He opened a cabinet and displayed its contents to his guests.
Macdonald_Alec_Forbes_27250.12"Ann Anderson," he bawled, "stand up on the seat."

Bronte_Jane_Eyre_77420.19The translation of a few pages of German occupied an hour; then I got my palette and pencils, and fell to the more soothing, because easier occupation, of completing Rosamond Oliver's miniature.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_4240.16Having spread the quilt and folded my night-dress, I went to the window-seat to put in order some picture-books and doll's house furniture scattered there; an abrupt command from Georgiana to let her playthings alone (for the tiny chairs and mirrors, the fairy plates and cups, were her property) stopped my proceedings; and then, for lack of other occupation, I fell to breathing on the frost-flowers with which the window was fretted, and thus clearing a space in the glass through which I might look out on the grounds, where all was still and petrified under the influence of a hard frost.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_17440.14In this room, too, there was a cabinet piano, quite new and of superior tone; also an easel for painting and a pair of globes.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_82790.11The ordinary sitting-room and bedrooms I left much as they were: for I knew Diana and Mary would derive more pleasure from seeing again the old homely tables, and chairs, and beds, than from the spectacle of the smartest innovations.

Evans_Macaria_37490.27Electra sat before her canvas in this room, absorbed in the design which now engaged every thought.
Evans_Macaria_20370.26CHAPTER XIX RUSSELL VISITS ELECTRA The patient work of twelve months drew to a close; the study of years bore its first fruit; the last delicate yet quivering touch was given; Electra threw down palette and brush, and, stepping back, surveyed the canvas.
Evans_Macaria_17900.23Several months after the rejection of his suit, to which no allusion had ever been made, Electra sat before her easel, absorbed in work, while the master slowly walked up and down the studio, wrapped in a warm plaid shawl.
Evans_Macaria_16950.23Electra placed it on the easel once more, and stood before it in rapt contemplation.
Evans_Macaria_16850.17For months after Russell's departure she sat before her easel, slowly filling up the outline sketched while his eyes watched her.
DeMille_The_Cryptogram_46540.17It was a very tiny one; the whole house could conveniently have stood in the Chetwynde drawing-room; but Zillah declared that she delighted in its snugness.
Reade_The_Cloister_and_the_Hearth_119370.17Since then he had often taken it out with him to try and sell, but had always brought it back; and the last month, she had seen one movable after another go out of his room, and now he wore but one suit, and lay at night on a great chest.
Evans_Macaria_18740.15"You have a long walk to town," said Irene, as Russell arranged her horse's reins.
Bronte_Villette_990.15She took some tiny article of raiment from the chair at her crib side, and with it covered her shoulders.
Reade_The_Cloister_and_the_Hearth_31640.14Two men in sober suits stood leaning lazily on each side of a horse, talking to one another.
Hughes_Tom_Brown_at_Oxford_3600.14But with the freshmen he was always hand and glove, lived in their rooms, and used their wines, horses, and other movable property as his own.
Evans_Macaria_3790.14A moment after, Irene threw a tiny envelope into Electra's lap, and without another word glided out of the room.
Collins_The_Law_and_the_Lady_89020.14Eustace recovers very slowly; the doctor has not yet allowed him to leave his bed; and when we do travel we must journey by easy stages.
Evans_Vashti_31930.14She came back to the easel, and took up her palette.
Evans_Macaria_37520.14Irene was with Electra in the parlour.
Evans_Vashti_51300.13There stands my easel, empty and shrouded; and here, from day to day, I sit idle, not lacking ideas, but the will to clothe them.
Evans_Beulah_30080.13When not engaged with his flowers or music, he was deep in some favorite volume, and, outside of these sources of enjoyment, seemed to derive no real pleasure.
Roe_Barriers_Burned_Away_57790.12He removed his easel to an attic-room in Mrs. Fleet's house; and every hour of Dennis's absence heard him say: "Vat I do for you now?
Reade_The_Cloister_and_the_Hearth_130600.12Gerard took out his pencils, arranged his canvas, which he had covered with stout paper, and set to work; and so absorbed was he that he had no mercy on his model.
Roe_Barriers_Burned_Away_11200.12Drawing off his boots, he threw them to Dennis, saying: "Here you, Fleet!
Howells_A_Forgone_Conclusion_17450.12He took up a canvas facing the wall, and set it on the easel.
Harland_Alone_26900.12I would sacrifice this right arm, could I first transfer that light to canvass.
Collins_The_New_Magdalen_9810.12He was again absorbed in his endless examination of the body on the bed.
Evans_Vashti_25610.11When I design its companion, 'Desolation,' I may be pardoned if my canvas reflects what always fronts it."
Collins_No_Name_88220.11"Bring them instantly into my dressing-room -- the whole collection, brushes, palette, and everything.
Cooper_The_Water-Witch_25770.09See," throwing a curtain carelessly aside, and exhibiting, behind it, various articles of womanly employment, "here are the offspring of both pencil and needle.
Whitney_The_Other_Girls_52410.07And this could not rightly be.
Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_46130.07.
Prentiss_Stepping_Heavenward_7550.07how funny it seems.
Mulock_John_Halifax_Gentleman_90130.07What shall you do?"
Evans_Macaria_3760.07Oh, Irene!
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_231710.07"What is it?"
DeMille_The_Dodge_Club_36420.07I thought so.
Braddon_Lady_Audleys_Secret_30280.07Will you do so?

Reade_Foul_Play_8890.17General Rolleston had ordered Helen's cabin to be furnished, and the agent had put in the usual things, such as a standing bedstead with drawers beneath, chest of drawers, small table, two chairs, washstand, looking-glass, and swinging lamp.
Stowe_Uncle_Toms_Cabin_60350.16St. Clare carried her in his arms into the parlor, and laid her on the sofa.
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_185240.16"Have you any weight on the chest; or does your stomach feel light and comfortable--eh?"
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_186340.16"Have you any weight on the chest; or does your stomach feel light and comfortable -- eh?"
Disraeli_Lothair_20250.15Then St. Aldegonde, throwing himself back in his chair, and talking to himself or the ceiling, would exclaim, "Best thing I ever heard," while Hugo nodded sympathy with a beaming smile.
Stowe_Uncle_Toms_Cabin_70010.14"Well, she's yours by a fiction of law, then," said St. Clare, as he turned back into the parlor, and sat down to his paper.
Reade_It_is_Never_Too_Late_to_Mend_30980.14I take one from the pile in this drawer, and after first preaching it in the jail I place it in the left drawer on that smaller pile."
Bronte_Villette_18580.14This was the very gentleman to whom I had spoken at the bureau; who had helped me in the matter of the trunk; who had been my guide through the dark, wet park.
Macdonald_Robert_Falconer_9940.13It was just large enough to hold a good-sized bed with curtains, a chest of drawers, a bureau, a large eight-day clock, and one chair, leaving in the centre about five feet square for him to move about in.
Reade_The_Cloister_and_the_Hearth_25170.13Jorian went to the empty chest and inspected it.
Hawthorne_The_House_of_the_Seven_Gables_2640.12First, every drawer in the tall, old-fashioned bureau is to be opened, with difficulty, and with a succession of spasmodic jerks then, all must close again, with the same fidgety reluctance.
Whitney_We_Girls_30590.12"They're all in my upper bureau-drawer," said Mrs. Marchbanks.
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol3_24510.12M. Ferrand shut the drawer of his bureau, and rose.
DeMille_Cord_and_Creese_9680.12But the iron pivot had rusted, and the plate had fallen down.
Stowe_Uncle_Toms_Cabin_67850.11While this conversation was taking place in the parlor another was going on in St. Clare's library.
Heimburg_A_Sisters_Love_Clean_3100.11* * * * * "If that wasn't a remarkable company at table this evening," said Klaus von Hegewitz, as he reäntered the sitting-room, after escorting Baron Stürmer down-stairs.
Holmes_Darkness_and_Daylight_4080.11I mean to wear the shawl she looks so pretty in," and going to her mistress' drawer, the child took out and threw around her shoulders a crimson scarf, which Grace often wore, and then descended to the parlor, where Arthur St. Claire stood, leaning against the marble mantel, and listlessly examining various ornaments upon it.
Clemens_and_Warner_The_Gilded_Age_6380.09Even the parlor carpet was from St. Louis--though the other rooms were clothed in the "rag" carpeting of the country.
Warner_Queechy_81840.07"Out--I would rather, if we can.
Trollope_Can_You_Forgive_Her_5950.07He had told her much of Switzerland, which she had never yet seen but which he knew well.
Trollope_Can_You_Forgive_Her_52150.07"Say all what?"
Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_247820.07well, I am sure!
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol3_41190.07"Nor more are we!"
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol2_49190.07"None whatever.
Sheppard_Charles_Auchester_vol2_23750.07I would not retire.
Roe_Jest_to_Earnest_3440.07"Why not?"
Reade_Put_Yourself_in_His_Place_71470.07"1st.
Lever_Tom_Burke_of_Ours_vol2_45240.07Are we in the bureau of a minister?
Holmes_Darkness_and_Daylight_51000.07"Nothing new but gas."

Bronte_Jane_Eyre_82820.13A spare parlour and bedroom I refurnished entirely, with old mahogany and crimson upholstery: I laid canvas on the passage, and carpets on the stairs.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_16260.12If you have got your feet well warmed, I'll show you your bedroom.

Wister_Marlitt_Owls_3090.17At court, to be sure, the Walls of her room had been hung with lofty mirrors and rich stuffs, her foot had trodden upon costly rugs, and a richly-carved canopied bedstead with silken curtains, in the adjoining apartment, had been her resting-place at night.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_5690.16He never would consent to remove the farm-yard from behind his house, nor to have his house pulled down about his ears.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_9340.15She pointed, as she spoke, to two opposite corners of the room, furnished with luxurious chairs and lounges and laid with costly Smyrna rugs, and then she gave orders to the servant who entered to instruct the housekeeper with regard to apartments for the guest.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_52530.11Ho went into the adjoining room where the rose lay and picked it up from the floor. "
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_56390.10I think it has done for him 1" " Yes, that was rather silly, if you will allow me to say bo," said Charlotte, putting a sheet of music upon the desk of the instrument. "

Holmes_Lena_Rivers_33730.31Since her marriage, Mabel had occupied the parlor chamber, which connected with a cozy little bedroom and dressing-room adjoining.
Collins_Armadale_39230.30The rooms in this part of the house were bedrooms and dressing-rooms, light, spacious, perfectly furnished; and all empty, except the one bed-chamber next to Allan's, which had been appropriated to Midwinter.
Whitney_The_Other_Girls_31870.27Then they went into the wide, high hall, and through the lower rooms, floored and ceiled and walled most richly; and up over the stately staircase, copied from some grand old English architecture; along the galleries into the wings, where were the sleeping and dressing-rooms; up-stairs, again, into other sleeping-rooms,--places for the many servants that there must be,--pressrooms, closets, trunk-rooms,--space for stowing all the ample providings for use and change from season to season.
Trollope_Can_You_Forgive_Her_48880.26Now to Mr Palliser a dressing-room is a dressing-room, and a bedroom a bedroom.
Braddon_Lady_Audleys_Secret_9520.26They went from the dressing-room to the boudoir, and through the boudoir into the ante-chamber, in which there were, as Alicia had said, about twenty valuable paintings, besides my lady's portrait.
Holmes_Lena_Rivers_5050.23Taking it by itself, the room looked tolerably well, but when compared with the richly furnished apartments around it, it seemed meager and poor indeed; "but if they wanted anything better, they could get it themselves.
Cervantes_Don_Quixote_58420.23They placed him in the midst of them, and with much pomp and stateliness they conducted him into another room, where there was a sumptuous table laid with but four covers.
Trollope_Can_You_Forgive_Her_20850.23There ain't a bedroom in my house,--not one of the front ones,--that isn't mahogany furnished!"
Hughes_Tom_Brown_at_Oxford_970.22One side is occupied by the hall and chapel; the principal's house takes up half another side; and the rest is divided into staircases, on each of which are six or eight sets of rooms, inhabited by us undergraduates, and here and there a tutor or fellow dropped down amongst us (in the first-floor rooms, of course), not exactly to keep order, but to act as a sort of ballast.
Hawthorne_Twice_Told_Tales_45800.22The moonbeams came through two deep and narrow windows and showed a spacious chamber richly furnished in an antique fashion.
Braddon_Lady_Audleys_Secret_32230.22He had many friends among the inhabitants of the quaint old buildings round him; he had other friends far away in pleasant country places, whose spare bedrooms were always at Bob's service, whose cheerful firesides had snugly luxurious chairs specially allotted to him.
Streckfuss_Castle_Hohenwald_Clean_24500.21How happy she had seemed upon noting the pleasant impression produced by the pretty and luxurious bedroom and dressing-room to which she had shown Lucie!
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_64090.21It was simply yet richly furnished.
Whitney_The_Other_Girls_3680.20You may take mahogany or pine to make a table, and one will answer the common convenience of a table as well as the other; but you will learn not to take mahogany when the pine will serve the purpose.
Collins_Man_and_Wife_144990.20His empty bedroom became a second spare room.
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_47950.20said the priest, with a show of interest, glancing round as he spoke at the scanty furnishings of the apartment.
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_48070.20said the priest, with a show of interest, glancing round as he spoke at the scanty furnishings of the apartment.
Lever_Tom_Burke_of_Ours_vol2_51580.20an Irish name," said he, smiling, as he threw open the door of a spacious but simply furnished apartment, in which about a dozen persons were standing or sitting around the stove.
Braddon_Lady_Audleys_Secret_3260.20"You should see the inside of the house, Luke," she said; "it's a tumbledown looking place enough outside; but you should see my lady's rooms--all pictures and gilding, and great looking-glasses that stretch from the ceiling to the floor.
Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_233410.19Crossing this courtyard, you come to a fine large garden, symmetrically planted, at the end of which stood a building two stories high, looking perfectly comfortable, without luxury, but with all that cozy simplicity which betokens discreet opulence.
Stowe_Uncle_Toms_Cabin_73960.19While this scene was going on in the men's sleeping-room, the reader may be curious to take a peep at the corresponding apartment allotted to the women.
Harland_At_Last_33630.19The bed-room of the deceased was a roomy apartment in a wing of the building, and to this Mabel was summoned before she could seat herself elsewhere.
Fleming_A_Terrible_Secret_95950.19There was one particular room to which he desired to be taken, a spacious and sumptuous chamber, all purple and gilding, and there they laid him upon the bed, from which he would never rise.
Longfellow_Hyperion_16950.19The chamber I occupied, had once been the library of a Franciscan convent.
Lewald_Hulda_10310.18It was dark in the room, but candles were lighted in the adjoining bedroom, where the valet waa engaged in some trifling service.
Trollope_Can_You_Forgive_Her_91330.17"If I sleep at Oileymead it will only be on condition that I have one of the mahogany-furnitured bedrooms."
Collins_The_Law_and_the_Lady_59800.17First bedroom (beginning from the staircase), occupied by Mrs. Beauly.
Collins_Armadale_161990.17Comfortably furnished as a bedroom, it was only remarkable among other rooms of the same sort in one way.
Yonge_The_Daisy_Chain_43420.17said Mrs. Larpent, drawing her darling into a luxurious bedroom, lighted up by a glowing fire, and full of pretty things.
Whitney_Real_Folks_17600.17This or That, "as she had a message;" and being shown, like a little representative of an almost extinct period, up into the parlor, or the dressing-room of each lady, and giving her quaint errand.
Trollope_Can_You_Forgive_Her_106220.17Mahogany-furnitured bedrooms assist one's comfort in this life; and heaps of manure, though they are not brilliant in romance, are very efficacious in farming.
Mulock_John_Halifax_Gentleman_56550.17Though only a few rooms were furnished, and that very simply, almost poorly, all was done with taste and care; the colours well mingled, the wood-work graceful and good.
Disraeli_Lothair_25700.17Tell me now, in your constitution, if the father sits in the Upper Chamber, the son sits in the Lower House -- that I know; but is there any majorat at attached to his seat?"
Warner_Wide_Wide_World_142440.16The house was handsome, comfortably, luxuriously furnished; but without any attempt at display.
Trollope_Orley_Farm_5040.16Lady Mason's drawing-room was very pretty, though it was by no means fashionably furnished.
Holmes_Elsie_Venner_30820.16The chamber he slept in was over the room which Elsie chiefly occupied at this season.
Roe_Barriers_Burned_Away_33280.16He bought a basket, decorated it with German ivy obtained at a flower-stand, and spirited it upstairs to his room as if it were the most dangerous of contraband.
Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_234500.16It was a tolerably large room, lighted by two windows, and simply but commodiously furnished.
Prentiss_Stepping_Heavenward_35120.16I found Amelia in a richly-furnished house, but looking untidy and ill-cared-for.
Yonge_Heir_of_Redclyffe_76850.15Charles was on the sofa in the ante-room, talking fast, and striving for high spirits.
Roe_What_Can_She_Do_9270.15The dressing-rooms where the spheroidal bundles were undergoing metamorphose became buzzing centres of life.
Hawthorne_The_House_of_the_Seven_Gables_38520.15We discern his figure, as plainly as the flickering moonbeams can show us anything, still seated in the oaken chair!
DeMille_The_Cryptogram_58420.15In front was a roomy forecastle; in the stern was a spacious cabin, with an after-cabin adjoining; between the two was the hold.
Hawthorne_Twice_Told_Tales_28120.15His children being gone forth about their worldly business and his grandchildren at school, he sat alone in a deep luxurious arm-chair with his feet beneath a richly-carved mahogany table.
Hillern_Only_a_Girl_36840.14And it must be true peace of mind that the inhabitant of this room possessed,--wherever the eyes were turned, they fell upon the immortal works of the great thinkers of modern times,--a costly library was ranged upon shelves, in richly-carved oaken bookcases.
DeMille_The_Cryptogram_36020.14They sat in an adjoining room.
Bronte_Shirley_132150.14"We occupied the same room and bed.
Alcott_An_Old-Fashioned_Girl_20470.14"Is your room comfortably furnished?
Trollope_Orley_Farm_124880.14The room in which Mr. Aram was now sitting was furnished with much more attention to comfort than is usual in lawyers' chambers.
Trollope_Can_You_Forgive_Her_106320.14So far she resolved,--resolving also that, if possible, the mahogany-furnitured bedrooms should be kept in the family, and made over to her niece, Kate Vavasor.

Bronte_Jane_Eyre_10100.21But, to the little ones at least, this was denied: each hearth in the schoolroom was immediately surrounded by a double row of great girls, and behind them the younger children crouched in groups, wrapping their starved arms in their pinafores.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_42730.16"What sick lady?
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_7130.11Four tall girls arose from different tables, and going round, gathered the books and removed them.

Wister_Marlitt_OMS_13740.13The Professor rested his left elbow upon the table, and turning hastily round, looked the young girl full in the face.

Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_46440.14The group of horrified girls stood huddled together, looking helplessly towards the young physician who walked beside the couch without noticing them.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_30930.13Behind him were a number of gentlemen smil- ing with amusement, and, beside an elderly man upon a corner divan, sat Herr Claudius.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_33710.13Pour windows upon the ground-floor were half open, the sills were very low, and I could see a crowd of young girls at work there with busy fingers, while at the window nearest me, one of them was trying on her own head a half-finished wreath of myrtle.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_11470.12Kitty took up her parasol,—she knew that the invalid always desired solitude when she thus withdrew from the society of others; but this room within these thick walls, the oppressive splendour on every side, and her domineering, capricious sister rustling to and fro, had a most depressing effect upon the young girl.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_40310.12233 castle, he saw Mainau's shadow pass to and fro in his brightly- lighted library, while his young wife must be sitting at her writing-table in the room below.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_40660.12Just outside stood the young girl, leaning against the frame; pale, and with a hard, determined gaze, she looked abroad beyond the man at her side into the empty air,—she _would_ not see him.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_17210.11The young wife stood with her back towards him, arranging her work-basket.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_7250.11A large group was instantly gathered around the old man and his costly burden.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_20750.11The young wife, however, quietly laid the papers in the box and tried to fit the cover over it. "
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_3750.10The withered leaves fluttered down on the floor when the young man drew open the mouth of the bag.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_55280.10Many men were busy digging and planting, and places were arranged for some statues which had arrived from L—— and were still unpacked in the hall.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_59290.09And this gallant officer who comes like a thief in the night to threaten a defenceless girl " "Aha, the little reptile tries to sting 1" he muttered, and threw his arm around me ; but my agility stood me in stead, I slipped from his grasp, and, with a leap, stood upon the window-seat. "
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_14920.09There were but few guests this evening; only one card-table was in demand, and the tea-table, usually surrounded by young ladies, looked lonely and deserted.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_17140.07Then she gathered he* working-materials together, and arose.

Evans_Beulah_55950.28Men, women, and children gathered on the corners to witness the denouement.
Trollope_Can_You_Forgive_Her_160060.25"Is it nothing that I find my wife playing at a common gambling-table, surrounded by all that is wretched and vile,--established there, seated, with heaps of gold before her?"
Porter_Scottish_Chiefs_59340.25The squires and other military attendants of the nobles present, were placed at tables in the lower part of the hall, and served with courteous hospitality.
Warner_Wide_Wide_World_78410.24There were several men gathered round the fire, and in a corner, on a miserable kind of bed, I saw the sick child.
Trollope_Can_You_Forgive_Her_103130.24It was of this man, and of his success, that Lord Middlesex was envious, as he sat, wretched and respectable, in his solitary study!
Hugo_Les_Miserables_18400.24At this table sat a man of about forty, with a merry and open countenance, who was dandling a little child on his knees.
Alcott_Little_Men_150.22There were boys everywhere, "up-stairs and down-stairs and in the lady's chamber," apparently, for various open doors showed pleasant groups of big boys, little boys, and middle-sized boys in all stages of evening relaxation, not to say effervescence.
Clemens_and_Warner_The_Gilded_Age_82650.22There were only a handful of coarse men and ten or twelve still coarser women, lolling upon the benches and scattered about singly and in couples.
Bronte_Villette_34400.21"Wheel yourself to the table, lazy boy: no seat will serve you but mine; if you had one spark of a sense of propriety, you would always leave that chair for the Old Lady."
Alcott_Eight_Cousins_26130.21But it was best of all to see him finally established in grandfather's chair, with his "little woman" beside him, his three youngest boys in his lap, and Archie hovering over him like a large-sized cherub.
Hawthorne_The_House_of_the_Seven_Gables_34720.20"In the name of common-sense," asked the old gentleman rather testily, "what can be better for a man than his own parlor and chimney-corner?"
The_Alpine_Fay_Clean_49900.19One group, however, assembled about a severely wounded man, was quiet enough, and in a few moments this group became a centre of attraction.
Holmes_Ethelyns_Mistake_11690.19Eunice was gone off on an errand, and so she felt at liberty to speak her mind freely to her boys as they gathered around the table.
Schubin_Erlach_Court_Clean_8250.18She sat with her father in the midst of them all at the upper end of the table, the lower end, where the other inmates of the hotel were crowded together, being the subject of much merry scorn and stigmatized as 'the menagerie.'
Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_222310.18it will be nothing, madame," said the doctor, throwing down his hat upon a chair, and hastily approaching the group which surrounded the sick man.
Alcott_Little_Women_67500.18As I went upstairs after dinner, two of the young men were settling their hats before the hall mirror, and I heard one say low to the other, "Who's the new party?"
Ingelow_Fated_to_be_Free_47130.18Then Justina observed a good-sized doll, comfortably put to bed on one of the hall chairs, and tightly tucked up in some manifest pinafores; near it stood a child's wheel-barrow, half full of picture-books.
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_75570.18"Indeed," returned the count, motioning the two young men to sit down.
Bronte_Villette_61350.18Now I should be miserable to sit at table unsupported, amidst such a party.
Yonge_Heir_of_Redclyffe_32380.17Mrs. Edmonstone thought it best on all accounts to sit in the drawing- room the next morning; but she need not have taken so much pains to chaperon her young ladies, for the gentlemen did not come near them.
Whitney_The_Other_Girls_51980.17In their own separate places sat solitary girls and women who sought neither yet.
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_29120.17The young man obeyed, mounted on the table, and, divining the wishes of his companion, placed his back securely against the wall and held out both hands.
Alcott_Little_Women_2960.16A poor, bare, miserable room it was, with broken windows, no fire, ragged bedclothes, a sick mother, wailing baby, and a group of pale, hungry children cuddled under one old quilt, trying to keep warm.
Holmes_Ethelyns_Mistake_32200.16But Mrs. Dobson led her on until she stood in the center of Richard's room, surrounded by the unmistakable paraphernalia of a man, with so many things around her to remind her of the past.
The_Sign_of_Flame_Clean_28140.16It was quite vacant now, which the Ambassador seemed to have counted upon when he entered with his wife and offered her a seat upon a divan.
Hillern_Only_a_Girl_14080.16The gentlemen took their seats, and arranged a table for writing from the sick man's dictation.
Harland_Jessamine_37500.16To say nothing of the manifest unkindness to our poor girl here," he said, as his wife entered the room where he was sitting.
Auerbach_On_the_Heights_178340.16She gazed calmly at the cheerful fire--a solitary child of man, alone on the heights.
Warner_Queechy_56200.16said the sewing-woman.
Collins_Man_and_Wife_153760.16Liberty Hall here.
Cooper_The_Deerslayer_66350.15Following the hunter into the cabin, she took a seat on a stool, while the young man brought Killdeer, the rifle she had given him, out of a corner, and placed himself on another, with the weapon laid upon his knees.
Cooper_The_Deerslayer_20290.15No one opposed this proposition, and the girls withdrew into the cabin to prepare the evening meal, while the two young men took their seats on the head of the scow and began to converse.
Cervantes_Don_Quixote_4920.15Round the skins six of the men belonging to the fold seated themselves, having first with rough politeness pressed Don Quixote to take a seat upon a trough which they placed for him upside down.
Whitney_Faith_Gartneys_Girlhood_16440.15Here a very fat young woman, with a rather pleasant face, was seated, sewing, in a rocking-chair.
Trollope_Can_You_Forgive_Her_51740.15The gentlemen joined them just as they were settling themselves round the table, and as many of them stayed there, the billiard-room became full.
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_76860.15The young men rose and returned into the salon, while the count, again apologizing, left by another door.
Braddon_Lady_Audleys_Secret_47260.15My lady had her own apartments, as we know--luxurious chambers, in which all conceivable elegancies had been gathered for the comfort of their occupant.
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol3_17400.15In the office, properly so-called, surrounded by rows of shelves, ornamented with pasteboard boxes, containing the papers of the clients of M. Ferrand, five young men, stooping over black wooden desks, were laughing, gossiping, or scribbling perpetually.
Howells_Their_Wedding_Journey_1100.15In the midst of the disquiet there entered at last an old woman, so very infirm that she had to be upheld on either hand by her husband and the hackman who had brought them, while a young girl went before with shawls and pillows which she arranged upon the seat.
The_Alpine_Fay_Clean_28400.14No sooner did the doctor explain that the young lady wished to look on at the dance than all began eagerly to arrange a place for her.
Streckfuss_Castle_Hohenwald_Clean_340.14His doubt on this head vanished, however, as his eye fell upon a young girl seated upon a low divan near him.
Reade_Put_Yourself_in_His_Place_121600.14When Little came down-stairs he found his uncle and a distinguished- looking young gentleman standing before the fire; both were in full dress.
Lever_Charles_OMalley_vol2_53200.14When I joined the count in the evening, I found him surrounded by maps, rent-rolls, surveys, and leases.
Longfellow_Hyperion_4040.14A crowd of students were sitting at three long tables, in the large hall; a medley of fellows, known at German Universities under the cant names of Old-Ones, Mossy-Heads, Princes of Twilight, and Pomatum-Stallions.
Blackmore_Lorna_Doone_95770.14Now after all my labouring to pay every man to a penny, and to allow the women over, when among the couch-grass (which is a sad thing for their gowns), to be charged like this, I say, so amazed me that I stood, with my legs quite open, and ready for an earthquake.
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol6_31610.14In a large, low apartment, occupied at one end by musicians, surrounded by benches and tables laden with the fragments of a repast, broken plates, empty bottles, etc., a dozen men and women, in various disguises and half drunk, were dancing with the utmost excitement that frantic and obscene dance called _La Chahut_.
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_116770.14Madame de Villefort closed the door carefully after the child, the count appearing not to notice her; then casting a scrutinizing glance around the chamber, the young wife returned to her chair, in which she seated herself.
Ingelow_Fated_to_be_Free_75350.14Valentine was seated on a low garden-chair, and his young guests were grouped about him on a Persian carpet which had been spread there.
Cooper_The_Pioneers_51280.14A few women were in the crowd, most carrying infants, and followed, at a lounging, listless gait, by their rustic lords and masters.
Macdonald_St._George_and_St._Michael_48330.14The two gentlemen went down into the crowd, one from each side of the dais.

Wister_Marlitt_OMS_9070.23What a contrast between this little room, fresh and spotless as the thoughts of a pure and healthy mind, and the gloomy boudoir in the house below, where Frau Hellwig knelt in prayer every morning upon a priedieu, upon whose embroidered cushion space was found for the representa- tion of all the cruel symbols of the Passion, but none for any emblem of the Love which endured all that suiferingl Upon a little table beside the bed was a large wellworn Bible.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_40290.22Frau Hellwig left her arm-chair, and approached her son clothed in all the commanding dignity of her character. "
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_8110.18It was crowded with antique furniture, and in an old-fashioned arm-chair, on one side Was placed the banished por- trait of the old ‘Frau.’ It was not even turned toward a protecting wall.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_3590.17Frau Hellwig seldom visited this garden, she preferred to sit knit- ting in her large, quiet room, behind the spotless curtains; and there was a peculiar reason for this preference.

Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_17830.14"You who are never weary of vaunting your literary efforts, and already base your pretensions in society upon a reputation yet to be acquired——" "Henriette, your tea-table requires your attention," the Frau President called, in a sharp stern tone,—the talk in the music-room was growing too loud,—and Henriette sullenly returned to her charge.
Wister_Marlitt_Owls_6300.13he asked, with emotion, gazing blankly at these witnesses to a gay bachelorhood, when there were frequent suppers at Herr and Frau von Berg’s, and baccarat afterwards in the pretty woman's blue drawing-room.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_43080.12Behind the bronze tracery of the balcony, the Frau President’s lap-dog was running to and fro, barking at the visitor with all his old hostility, and the parrot, in his gilded cage in the blue drawing-room, screamed in chorus.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_31040.12And in addition to all this stir packages were arriving from Berlin,—a wheeled-chair for the invalid Frau and arm-chairs for both the old people ; while later —Herr Markus could not but laugh as he helped to unpack it——came a piano for the bow-windowed room.

Hugo_Les_Miserables_34590.25CHAPTER VI A CHAPTER IN WHICH THEY ADORE EACH OTHER Chat at table, the chat of love; it is as impossible to reproduce one as the other; the chat of love is a cloud; the chat at table is smoke.
Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_224850.17By her side sat Ninny Moulin, in all his majestic bulk, who often pretended to be looking for his napkin under the table, in order to have the opportunity of pressing the knees of his other neighbor, Modeste, the representative of LOVE.
Bronte_Villette_98230.17He went out and ordered what was needful from the restaurant; he placed the small gueridon and two chairs in the balcony outside the French window under the screening vines.
Trollope_Orley_Farm_30840.16His chambers were luxuriously furnished, he had his horse in Piccadilly, his father's house at Noningsby was always open to him, and the society of London spread out for him all its allurements.
Evans_Infelice_6180.15What a blessed, comforting atmosphere of love and protection seemed to encompass her, when, after handing one of the pew cushions to the sexton, Mr. Lindsay came to the spot where she lay.
Reade_The_Cloister_and_the_Hearth_179950.15"Ting I a tong.
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_101350.15--'Well, then, so I will!'
Reade_It_is_Never_Too_Late_to_Mend_160830.13he fell --ting tong!
Mulock_John_Halifax_Gentleman_81720.13They say there's six devils inside on her, theer."
Wister_Schillingscourt_2970.12" N 0," Frau Lucian replied from the window where she stood.
Reade_It_is_Never_Too_Late_to_Mend_76010.07"Yes.
Reade_A_Terrible_Temptation_72550.07That's catechism.
Evans_Infelice_39600.07"Between you?
Evans_Beulah_77340.07Oh, no!
Collins_Woman_in_White_7440.07What an ass you are.

Wister_Marlitt_OMS_25650.13There stood the beloved piano, and on one side glimmered the glass panes of the old cabinet, but the shelves were empty-—-the old piece of furniture had proved but a faithless guardian of its musical treasures, which it had yielded up to the ruthless despoiler, and which were now devoured by thc flames; but it had tightly clutched other treasures.

Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_37360.13She was alone here in the salon, and made use of the favourable chance to throw my little treasure, my pretty pink note, into the fire, eh, what do you think of it?

Warner_Queechy_17970.21In the middle of the table the polished amber of the pig's arched back elevated itself,--a striking object,--but worthy of the place he filled, as the honours paid him by everybody abundantly testified.
Collins_Armadale_70020.20Hanging to the wall, ranged on the chimney-piece, scattered over the table, were a host of little objects, some associated with Allan's past life, others necessary to his daily pleasures and pursuits, and all plainly testifying that the room which he habitually occupied at Thorpe Ambrose was the very room which had once recalled to Midwinter the second vision of the dream.
Sheppard_Charles_Auchester_vol1_20820.17When Santonio entered, there began a buzzing, and various worthies in white kid gloves clustered round the piano.
Whitney_The_Other_Girls_60810.17It had a soft down cushion, covered with a damask patterned patch of wild and divaricating device; and its rockers were short, giving a jerk and thud if you leaned to and fro in it, like the trot an old nurse gives a child in an ordinary, four-legged, impracticable seat.
Holmes_Tempest_and_Sunshine_44740.15The hangings and drapery of the latter were as white and pure as was she who so patiently worked on, while each fresh beauty added to the room pierced her heart with a deeper anguish, as she thought what and whom it was for.
Mulock_John_Halifax_Gentleman_93580.14He went right up to the desk, behind which, flanked by a tolerable array of similar canvas bags, full of gold--but nevertheless waiting in mortal fear, and as white as his own neck-cloth--the old banker stood.
Evans_Macaria_3570.14In a low chair before the open window sat the widow knitting a blue and white nubia.
DeMille_The_Dodge_Club_7380.14Here are the locksmiths, there the cabinet-makers; here the builders, there the armorers; in this place the basket-weavers, in that the cork-makers.
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_80140.14"Where was this window with white hangings?"
Heimburg_Gertrudes_Marriage_Clean_10100.13Then the white apron appeared again under the hotel lamp, but there was somebody before it.
Harland_Alone_53400.12He was gone before she could object; and she strolled idly around the giant trunk of the sycamore, admiring the al fresco boudoir, of which it was the centre ornament.
Bronte_Villette_25650.12Underneath this aperture I pushed a large empty chest, and having mounted upon it a smaller box, and wiped from both the dust, I gathered my dress (my best, the reader must remember, and therefore a legitimate object of care) fastidiously around me, ascended this species of extempore throne, and being seated, commenced the acquisition of my task; while I learned, not forgetting to keep a sharp look-out on the black-beetles and cockroaches, of which, more even, I believe, than of the rats, I sat in mortal dread.
DeMille_The_Dodge_Club_53470.12The Senator had his arms outstretched to indicate the hanging-out process.
Holmes_Elsie_Venner_58810.11A box of white kids was lying open on the table.
Macdonald_Robert_Falconer_9840.10He carried with him his books from the other garret-room where he kept them, and sat down at the table by his grandmother, preparing his Latin and geography by her lamp, while she sat knitting a white stocking with fingers as rapid as thought, never looking at her work, but staring into the fire, and seeing visions there which Robert would have given everything he could call his own to see, and then would have given his life to blot out of the world if he had seen them.
Mulock_John_Halifax_Gentleman_12770.07"You know.
Hugo_Les_Miserables_202170.07That throne.
DeMille_The_Dodge_Club_60690.07"Then Leather!

Bronte_Jane_Eyre_37710.07"A stranger!

Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_54700.29At the sight of the stranger, M. Morrel closed the ledger, arose, and offered a seat to the stranger; and when he had seen him seated, resumed his own chair.
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_54790.29At the sight of the stranger, M. Morrel closed the ledger, arose, and offered a seat to the stranger; and when he had seen him seated, resumed his own chair.
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_167060.27Valentine arose, placed a chair for Morrel, requested Barrois not to admit any one, and having tenderly embraced her grandfather, and sorrowfully taken leave of Morrel, she went away.
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_214080.19"Now," said Valentine, motioning to Morrel to sit down near her grandfather, while she took her seat on his footstool,--"now let us talk about our own affairs.
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_215200.19"Now," said Valentine, motioning to Morrel to sit down near her grandfather, while she took her seat on his footstool, -- "now let us talk about our own affairs.
Kingsley_Westward_Ho_100090.16Yeo has installed himself as major domo, with no very definite functions, save those of walking about everywhere at Amyas's heels like a lank gray wolf-hound, and spending his evenings at the fireside, as a true old sailor does, with his Bible on his knee, and his hands busy in manufacturing numberless nicknacks, useful and useless, for every member of the family, and above all for Ayacanora, whom he insults every week by humbly offering some toy only fit for a child; at which she pouts, and is reproved by Mrs. Leigh, and then takes the gift, and puts it away never to look at it again.
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_231640.15Then she went to the fireplace and lit the fire, and although she had just left her bed, she could not resist the temptation offered by Valentine's sleep, so she threw herself into an arm-chair to snatch a little more rest.
Collins_Man_and_Wife_34860.14"Mair litter in the room, after I've doosted and tidied it wi' my ain hands!"
Ingelow_Fated_to_be_Free_72390.12Valentine had placed Emily at the other end of the table.
Reade_A_Terrible_Temptation_14880.07oh!
Ingelow_Fated_to_be_Free_52120.07"What do they mean?"
Evans_Beulah_37780.07"What do you mean?"
Dumas_The_Three_Musketeers_122910.07"That?
Collins_No_Name_156860.07"You _shall_ tell it," he said.

Wister_Schillingscourt_2750.31He sat down silently at the dining-table, and took from his pocket at morocco case containing a silver knife, fork, and spoon, the only relic of the Lucians which the angry and implacable woman had brought with her from her Konigsberg home, the gift of the old Colonel Lucian, long since dead, to his grandchild and godson, Felix.
Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_152250.23He placed on the table, by the side of an inkstand, furnished with pens, the slice of bread and the radish; then seating himself on his stool, with the stove, as it were, between his legs, he drew a horn-handled knife from his pocket, and cutting alternately a morsel of bread and a morsel of radish, with a sharp, well-worn blade, he began his temperate repast with a vigorous appetite, keeping his eye fixed on the hand of his watch.
Prentiss_Stepping_Heavenward_42530.19He steers straight for the best seat, leaving her standing, if need be, accepts her humble attentions with the air of one collecting his just debt and is continually snubbing and setting her right.
Bronte_Villette_65830.18I also accepted a roll and glass, but being now more than ever interested in my work, I kept my seat of punishment, and wrought while I munched my bread and sipped my beverage, the whole with easy _sang-froid_; with a certain snugness of composure, indeed, scarcely in my habits, and pleasantly novel to my feelings.
Bronte_Villette_1520.18On descending, I found Paulina (the child called herself Polly, but her full name was Paulina Mary) seated at the breakfast-table, by Mrs. Bretton's side; a mug of milk stood before her, a morsel of bread filled her hand, which lay passive on the table-cloth: she was not eating.
Bronte_Shirley_67950.17"You will find a good one in the dining-room sideboard--a lady's knife, light to handle, and as sharp-pointed as a poniard."
Reade_The_Cloister_and_the_Hearth_84740.13The warlike hosier nodded.
Heimburg_Gertrudes_Marriage_Clean_16810.12The curtains were drawn in the dining-room, which had a northern aspect, the lamps were lighted, and all the family silver shone and sparkled on the table.
Macdonald_Robert_Falconer_38380.12Sandy threw the knife on his stool, and sat down beside it.
Ingelow_Fated_to_be_Free_31020.10Miss Crampton saw a youth sitting on a low chair, with his legs on rather a higher one; the floor under him was strewed with shavings, which looked, Swan thought, "as natural as life," meaning that they looked just as if he had made them by his own proper whittling.
Yonge_The_Dove_in_the_Eagles_Nest_10010.10One huge, old, lean, high-backed sow, with a large family, truly feminine in her want of presence of mind, actually charged into the midst of the bonfire itself, scattering it to the right and left with her snout, and emitting so horrible a smell of singed bacon, that it might almost be feared that some of her progeny were anticipating the invention of Chinese roasting-pigs.
Macdonald_Robert_Falconer_22090.07'He's deid.'

Bronte_Jane_Eyre_17050.14Mr. Rochester lay down on a sofa in a pretty room called the salon, and Sophie and I had little beds in another place.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_38750.09"I cannot find him in his bed."
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_72050.08I examined first, the parlour, and then its occupant.

Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_20220.15The waiter was deposited with a clatter on the table, and little Louise was no longer prevented from entering the room. "
Wister_Marlitt_Owls_110.15He was sitting at present in his quiet back room, in the corner where the syringas grew high above the windows.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_24600.14A low rustle as of the trailing of a woman’s dress upon the bare floor of the room caused him to retreat still farther into the darkness; he must know more of what was at present occupying the odious occupant of the attic-room before he presented himself before her.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_4420.14"How comes it that I find you here in this wretched little back room?
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_47670.13With a farewell wave of her fan, the royal lady passed by Liana, who curtsied as she passed, and went back to the music-salon. "
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_50340.13Besides, there will, be some con- solation for you in your adopted son Gabriel 1" The folding-doors were thrown open, and Liana entered the salon and stood opposite the arm-chair in which sat the old man laughing scornfully.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_13320.13"It breathes of the peace of mind of a self-forgetting feminine nature; that is why I like so to come to our quiet home, aunt, with its old-fashioned furniture and your orderly arrangements.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_11750.12The next morning Liana discovered, adjoining her dressing- room, a small, rather scantily-furnished, but cheerful apartment, evidently intended for her wardrobe.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_18430.11She had opened one of the kitchens, and in spite of all offers of service from the maid, had prepared the breakfast herself.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_4140.11asked Frau Grriebel, who had just entered and setdown the coffee-tray on the sofa—table.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_43620.11In the dining-room the Frau President was sitting at breakfast with Flora and the councillor.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_36430.11Moritz furnished this room entirely according to my desire, it is true, but so far as I know he has given me neither the furniture nor the hangings.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_8250.09to sleep. "

The_Sign_of_Flame_Clean_61220.27He left the room to appoint an orderly to guard the expected prisoner and give him the necessary instructions; but Egon tore the window open and leaned out; it seemed as if he should suffocate.
Aguilar_The_Mothers_Recompense_vol1_33710.26There was a moment's silence, for Ellen had turned away, pained to her heart's core, and soon after she quitted the room to seek her own, where, throwing herself on a low seat by the side of her couch, she gave way to an unrestrained and violent flow of tears.
Collins_No_Name_99480.25When she entered the parlor where her solitary breakfast was waiting for her, she was surprised to see a letter lying on the table.
Whitney_Faith_Gartneys_Girlhood_100.25A pair of slippers on the hearth and the morning paper thrown down beside an armchair, gave hint of the recent presence of the master of the house.
Longfellow_Hyperion_1280.24In the warm breakfast-parlour he found the Baron, waiting for him.
Harland_Alone_40920.24As she quitted the table, Josephine pointed to the untouched "present."
Collins_Woman_in_White_32750.24She said, very quietly, that she wished to speak to him after breakfast, and that he would find her in her sitting-room with me.
Warner_Wide_Wide_World_142500.23She silently gave her her father's letter, with which the lady left the room.
Warner_Wide_Wide_World_161220.22"Come to breakfast, Mr. Humphreys, will you?"
Collins_The_Moonstone_42040.22I tried the morning-room, and found him at last.
Reade_White_Lies_54060.22At night when the young ladies went up to bed, what did they find but a little cloth laid on a little table in Josephine's room, and the remains of the pate she had liked.
Reade_White_Lies_66190.21She went up to the tapestried room, and found the doctor in the act of wishing Josephine good-night.
Lever_Tom_Burke_of_Ours_vol2_1480.21When I entered the _salon_, I found to my surprise that the breakfast table was all laid and everything ready.
Evans_St_Elmo_39420.21An hour later she entered the breakfast-room, and found the members of the family already assembled.
Ingelow_Fated_to_be_Free_5950.21Mrs. Peter Melcombe was desirous not to leave it, and this they arranged to allow, giving orders that the apartments which the family had always occupied should remain untouched till the rest of the house was finished and ready for her.
Trollope_Can_You_Forgive_Her_186600.21Then he took her into the breakfast-parlour and showed her his present.
Yonge_Heir_of_Redclyffe_110480.20She was in the sitting-room soon after nine next morning, and found breakfast on one table, and Charles writing a letter on the other.
Evans_Vashti_52520.20Wrapping a cloak around her, she quitted the parlor, and found Dr. Grey leaning against one of the columns.
Alcott_An_Old-Fashioned_Girl_20650.20We finished off by having the book-shelves tumble on our heads as we went down a hill, and losing my chair off behind, as we went up a hill.
Aguilar_Home_Influence_13380.20"Finish your toilet, and when you have found your shoes and put them away, you may join me in the breakfast-room, Edward.
Reade_Love_Me_Little_Love_Me_Long_23710.20Lucy, on entering the drawing-room, was surprised to find it blazing with candles, but she was more surprised at what she saw seated calmly in an armchair--Mrs. Bazalgette.
Trollope_The_Way_We_Live_Now_3490.19She had hardly finished two galloping notes after completing her letter to Mr Ferdinand Alf, when Felix entered the room with a cigar in his mouth and threw himself upon the sofa.
Prentiss_Stepping_Heavenward_11180.19"I suppose, then, you keep your room in nice lady-like order, and that the parlor is dusted every morning, loose music put out of the way, books restored to their places-" "Now I know mother has been telling you."
Lewald_Hulda_5950.19Hulda was ashamed of herself; but she would have given much not to stay at the bailiff's that night, but to go quietly to bed in the cosy parsonage, in her little room adjoining the one where her father and mother slept.
Holmes_Lena_Rivers_29290.19Mabel had gone out, and 'Lena sat alone in the little room adjoining the parlor which Mr. Douglass termed his library, but which Nellie had fitted up for a private sewing-room.
Holmes_Darkness_and_Daylight_16600.19"Mr. St. Claire," she said, throwing down her pencil and leaning back in her chair, "I can endure this no longer.
Yonge_The_Dove_in_the_Eagles_Nest_28170.19"We quit the house as poor as we came, in homespun and with the old mare."
Warner_Wide_Wide_World_25870.19So she finished dressing, and then set out to find her way to the kitchen.
Trollope_The_Way_We_Live_Now_115290.19Had Mr Longestaffe seen the 'Morning Breakfast Table'?
Heimburg_Gertrudes_Marriage_Clean_12850.19You would have been an ornament to any salon and now you are going to the Niendorf cow-stalls."
Collins_No_Name_12590.19On entering the philosopher's study that morning, Mr. Vanstone had found him still dawdling over his late breakfast, with an open letter by his side, in place of the book which, on other occasions, lay ready to his hand at meal-times.
Reade_White_Lies_84900.18She helped her to dress, and breakfasted with her in the tapestried room, and dissembled, and put on gayety, and made light of everything but Josephine's health.
Braddon_Lady_Audleys_Secret_22880.18He put the books aside on a little table in a corner of the fire-place, and waited patiently while the laundress finished her work.
Alcott_Little_Men_2210.18Indeed the family called him the "Blunderbuss," and always expected to see him tumble over the chairs, bump against the tables, and knock down any small articles near him.
Collins_The_Moonstone_57080.18A second letter I put purposely on the floor in the breakfast-room.
Collins_The_Law_and_the_Lady_25760.18There was a letter waiting for me upstairs on the table in our sitting-room.
Trollope_The_Way_We_Live_Now_139750.18The 'Breakfast-Table,' which had supported Mr Melmotte's candidature, gave no reason, and expressed more doubt on the result than the other papers.
Fleming_Norines_Revenge_17980.18In an upper room, a private parlor of a Boston hotel, seated in an easy chair, was Miss Norine Bourdon.
Evans_Vashti_35730.18Taking a lamp from the escritoire in the back parlor, he went from room to room, finding nowhere the object he sought, and at length became alarmed.
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_54780.18The Englishman entered, and found Morrel seated at a table, turning over the formidable columns of his ledger, which contained the list of his liabilities.
Collins_Woman_in_White_45080.18Sir Percival was as silent at breakfast as he had been the evening before, on the subject of the mysterious "arrangement" (as the lawyer called it) which is hanging over our heads.
Holmes_Lena_Rivers_11350.17Accordingly, as soon as Mrs. Nichols was able to sit up, her room underwent a thorough renovation, and though no great amount of money was expended upon it, it was fitted up with so much taste that the poor old lady, whom John Jr., 'Lena and Anna, had adroitly kept out of the way until her room was finished, actually burst into tears when first ushered into her light, airy apartment, in which everything looked so cheerful and pleasant.
Trollope_The_Way_We_Live_Now_187020.17Nidderdale went on with his breakfast with perfect equanimity, and when he had finished lighted his cigar.
Reade_White_Lies_65580.17Yet Edouard recognized the carpet of the tapestried room--which was a very large room.
Evans_Vashti_28750.17Granville, if you have finished your cigar, we will adjourn to the parlor, where the ladies are taking their tea."
Cummins_The_Lamplighter_27690.17Breakfast over, Emily hastily sought her room, where she was joined by Gertrude.
Collins_Man_and_Wife_56350.17Sir Patrick had entered the room to restore the newspaper to the place from which he had taken it.
Bronte_Shirley_56650.17Shirley, who could not be inhospitable, now called out the neglected pair in the oak parlour.
Braddon_Lady_Audleys_Secret_36370.17He seated himself upon one of the rickety chairs, and waited patiently for the advent of the schoolmistress.
Trollope_Can_You_Forgive_Her_34140.17She found Mr Grey standing in the middle of the room waiting to receive her, and the look of majesty which had cowed Lady Macleod had gone from his countenance.

Wister_Marlitt_OMS_7850.18Upon her knees lay Robinson Crusoe, which Heinrich had brought her from Na- thanael’s book-shelves, but she had not opened it.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_13720.17Felicitas immediately drew out a volume from under as pile of other French books.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_24350.15contemptuous smile hovered about her lips as she passed through the little suite of rooms, each of which revealed in its tasteful arrangement the poetic mind, the gentle spirit of its former inhabitant; but she contracted her brows with an expression of hate as her glance rested upon the rows of volumes in their costly morocco bindings upon the shelves of the various _ book-cases—those books which bore the names of the poets and authors who had been the old Mam’selIe’s favourites.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_10930.08.

Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_1760.23In each of the four corners stood a black marble pedestal, each supporting a bust of the same material, which brought into harsh relief the features it portrayed; book-shelves lined the long wall, harmonizing in colour and decoration with the writing-table, and containing finely-bound modern books as well as parchment-covered folios, and piles of pamphlets.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_4590.19He had given a still more comfortable air to the little room by bringing to it a. number of books selected from the ‘ book-room,’ all kinds of writing-materials, and a box of cigars.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_39550.18She took up one of the gorgeously bound books that were lying about, and mechanically turned over the leaves; but, although her eyes rested upon the engravings that filled its pages, she could not have told whether it were portrait or landscape that lay open before her.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_12220.17A table standing beside her was piled with books and pictures, which she was engaged in dusting.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_18830.15Herr Markus sat on the corner lounge with a little case on the table before him from which he had just taken some sticking-plaster.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_55640.15She could no longer resist the impulse to open it, but pushed aside the pile of papers, and removed the cover.
Wister_Marlitt_Owls_1060.11They contained my books, Claudine, my valuable little library, which it had broken my heart to see tossed into baskets by profane hands to be taken to the auction-room,my beloved books, faithful companions of‘ my solitude!
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_4840.10An air of comfort pervaded the formerly cheerless apartment ; and it was well that such was the case, for here the wedding-breakfast was to be spread.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_2930.08Its owners had never occupied it.

Harland_At_Last_2410.29There was a pile of account-books at the side against the wall, but they were shut, and over heaped by pamphlets and newspapers; while before the owner's seat lay an open portfolio, an unfinished letter within it.
Warner_Wide_Wide_World_147200.28The book-cases are open--perhaps you can find something there; or there are prints in those portfolios; or you can go over the house and make yourself acquainted with your new home.
Warner_Queechy_133500.28A long table stood in the middle of the floor, with materials for writing, and a good many books were about the room, in cases and on the tables, with maps and engravings and portfolios, and a nameless collection of articles, the miscellaneous gathering of a man of leisure and some literary taste.
Hugo_Les_Miserables_27550.28Here and there vague and confused forms were distinguishable, which in the daylight were papers scattered on a table, open folios, volumes piled upon a stool, an arm-chair heaped with clothing, a prie-Dieu, and which at that hour were only shadowy corners and whitish spots.
Hillern_Only_a_Girl_10700.26It was a kind of wash-room,--at least there was a huge pile of soiled linen in one corner.
Collins_Armadale_43870.25Midwinter put the book back with a heavy sigh, and opened no other volume on the shelves.
Stowe_Uncle_Toms_Cabin_97650.24In one corner of the room was a table covered with a green cloth, where was an open writing-desk, pens, paper, and over it a shelf of well-selected books.
Schubin_Erlach_Court_Clean_5100.23Embarrassed, confused by the sight of the scientific apparatus that surrounded him on all sides, he sat leaning forward, his sabre between his knees, in an arm-chair from which he had been obliged to remove a Greek lexicon and two volumes of the 'Revue,' and stammering all sorts of childish nonsense while he gazed at her with adoring eyes.
Evans_Beulah_78920.22She opened the glass doors and saw her books carefully arranged on the shelves.
Sheppard_Charles_Auchester_vol1_30870.22It was a very young head, almost that of an infant, lying, rather than bending, over an oblong book, such in shape as those represented in pictures of literary cherubs.
Collins_Armadale_43680.21The walls were plainly papered, and bare--broken to the eye in one place by a door leading into the interior of the house; in another, by a small stove; in a third, by the book-shelves which Midwinter had already noticed.
Alcott_Little_Women_8080.21The dim, dusty room, with the busts staring down from the tall bookcases, the cozy chairs, the globes, and best of all, the wilderness of books in which she could wander where she liked, made the library a region of bliss to her.
Collins_The_Law_and_the_Lady_19820.21On the upper shelf there appeared, in solitary grandeur, one object only--a gorgeously bound book.
Collins_Armadale_43530.21Attracted by the book-shelves which he noticed on one of the walls, Midwinter stepped into the room.
Marryat_Mr._Midshipman_Easy_53350.20The book-cases and books had all been removed, and in the centre, suspended from the ceiling, was an apparatus which would have puzzled anyone, composed of rods in every direction, with screws at the end of them, and also tubes in equal number, one of which communicated with a large air-pump, which stood on a table.
The_Eichhofs_Clean_15980.20He was now standing before a pretty open set of book-shelves, from which he took several books and brought them to the table.
Alexander_Ralph_Wiltons_Weird_33490.20There was some torn paper lying at his feet, and a picture in an open case on the floor at a little distance.
Evans_Macaria_26640.19Nellie will show you the library, and on the lower book-shelf, on the right-hand side of the door, you will find a large volume in leather binding--'Plutarch.'
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_52810.19"See, sir," replied Caderousse, "in this corner is a crucifix in holy wood -- here on this shelf is my wife's testament; open this book, and I will swear upon it with my hand on the crucifix.
Alexander_Ralph_Wiltons_Weird_9870.19Books and music, a piano, drawing-materials, globes, pictures, maps, all appliances for amusement and study, gave a pleasant aspect to the apartment.
Bronte_Villette_69620.19Gathering an armful of his books out of my desk, I filled my apron and poured them in a heap upon his estrade, at his feet.
Ingelow_Fated_to_be_Free_9640.19The room was strewed with account-books and cards.
Hardy_Far_From_the_Madding_Crowd_12530.19He also thought of plans for fetching his few utensils and books from Norcombe.
Yonge_The_Daisy_Chain_43880.18"There were nice things about, a beautiful inlaid work- box of Flora's, and a rosewood desk, and plenty of books, and a Greek book and dictionary were spread open.
Hugo_Les_Miserables_137810.18In a corner, on a tattered fragment which had been a piece of an old carpet, a thin woman and a number of children were piled in a heap.
Harland_Alone_95010.18Her fingers wandered; and Mr. Lacy, bending over to adjust the book, said softly, "Do not attempt to play, if you are indisposed."
Bronte_Shirley_68010.18You will find them suspended over the mantelpiece of my study in cloth cases."
Macdonald_Alec_Forbes_75860.17Seeking refuge from their gaze, he rushed to the library, and threw himself on a heap of foreign books, which he had that morning arranged for binding.
Harland_Jessamine_8720.17mournfully, taking out a thin volume bound in gilded leather and carved boards, and redolent of the scent of some Indian wood.
Harland_Jessamine_52030.17He had been to the sitting-room for the volume, carried it into the library, and re-read the poem again and yet again, detecting what he imagined was a tear blister on the second page.
Clemens_and_Warner_The_Gilded_Age_62260.17In Laura's room there were the marks of a confused and hasty departure, drawers half open, little articles strewn on the floor.
Aguilar_Home_Influence_8280.17There were many admirable pictures suspended on the walls, and well-filled book-cases, desks, and maps, stands of beautiful flowers, and some ingenious toys, all seeming to proclaim the apartment as the especial possession of the young party who were this evening busily engaged at the large round table which occupied the centre of the room.
Hardy_Far_From_the_Madding_Crowd_49920.17The central space, together with the recess at one end, was emptied of all incumbrances, and this area, covering about two-thirds of the whole, was appropriated for the gathering, the remaining end, which was piled to the ceiling with oats, being screened off with sail-cloth.
Fleming_Norines_Revenge_49080.17Lady Thetford sat in the long drawing-room, after her solitary dinner, and little Sir Rupert played with his rocking-horse, and a pile of picture-books in a remote corner.
Whitney_The_Other_Girls_11940.17The window draperies were as I have said; there was a large, plain library table in the middle of the room, with books and baskets and little easels with pictures, and paper weights and folders, and other such like small articles of use and grace and cosy expression lying about upon it, as if people had been there quite a while and grown at home.
Schubin_Erlach_Court_Clean_19920.17She uses the hour for afternoon tea to rest from her literary labours; with her feet upon the round of a chair in front of her, a volume of Buckle in her lap, a pile of books beside her, a number of the 'Revue des deux Mondes' in her left hand, and her teacup in her right, she partakes alternately of the refreshing beverage and of an article upon Henry the Eighth.
Hardy_A_Pair_of_Blue_Eyes_36750.17She softly arose, got a light, and fetched a Chess Praxis from the library.
Evans_Macaria_1920.17He laid down his pen, and taking a box of gloves from the shelves, placed it on the counter before her.
Reade_Put_Yourself_in_His_Place_4650.17He now drew some more arabesques on the remaining part of the board, and told Miss Carden she must follow those outlines with the saw, and he would examine her work on Monday morning.
Ingelow_Fated_to_be_Free_8770.17Behind it, in a comfortable room fitted up with library tables, leather chairs, and cases for books and papers, sat old Augustus Mortimer.
Harris_Rutledge_17720.16My eyes wander around inquiringly upon the simple furniture of the room, the dark, low walls, the piles of books and pamphlets that heap the shelves irregularly, till they rest upon the two figures at the other end of the room.
Cooper_The_Pioneers_8640.16As the latter appeared in succession, from a case of red morocco, their owner held up each implement to the strong light of the chandelier, near to which he stood, and examined it with the nicest care.
Collins_No_Name_2840.16Norah, whose fondness for reading had passed into a family proverb, took up book after book from table and shelf, and laid them down again, in despair of fixing her attention.
The_Eichhofs_Clean_14840.16"Books for Bernhard," he said, as Thea opened the bundle and began to arrange the volumes.
Evans_Beulah_15390.16The study was an oblong room, and on one side book-shelves rose almost to the ceiling.
Collins_The_Moonstone_56140.16I put a book near the matches on one side, and a book under the box of chocolate drops on the other.
Collins_The_Law_and_the_Lady_17780.16Assisted by a library ladder which stood against the book-case, I looked next into the two china bowls.
Collins_Armadale_70240.16He had taken Allan into the room, and had shown him the books on the shelves, and all that the writing in the books disclosed.
Aguilar_Home_Influence_8290.16They were only four in number, but what with a large desk piled with books and some most alarming-sized dictionaries, which occupied the elder of the two lads, the embroidery frame of the elder girl, the dissected map before her sister, and two or three books scattered round the younger boy, the table seemed so well filled that Miss Harcourt had quietly ensconced herself in her own private little corner, sufficiently near to take an interest, and sometimes join in the conversation of her youthful charge; but so apart as to be no restraint upon them, and to enable her to pursue her own occupations of either reading, writing, or working uninterruptedly.
Hugo_Les_Miserables_42360.16He had a well-selected little library.

Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_32300.19She hastily withdrew, with a haughty turn of her head, into the salon, where the baron and baroness found her seated comfortably upon a lounge with the court chaplain and the Hofmarschall.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_39980.16She came to the moment when the court chaplain had thrown both paper and note into the fire.

Evans_Beulah_93170.23They were comfortably seated in the dining room, and Beulah knew that the discussion was about to be renewed, when a carriage dashed up to the door.
Bronte_Shirley_23140.23He courted Sarah, Mr. Moore's sarvant lass, and so it seems she would have nothing to say to him; she either didn't like his wooden leg or she'd some notion about his being a hypocrite.
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol1_27850.21Snatched by the Chourineur from a certain death, and removed to the house in the Allée des Veuves which had been reconnoitred by the Chouette, previously to the attempt on it by the Schoolmaster, Rodolph was placed in bed, in a comfortably furnished apartment; a cheerful fire was burning on the hearth.
Whitney_Faith_Gartneys_Girlhood_6840.18There was a settling down into seats, and a resumption of knitting and needlework.
Trollope_Can_You_Forgive_Her_27860.18"If you were to go into a court of law, Grimes, you wouldn't have a leg to stand upon."
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol1_31300.17The negro doctor was seated at one side of the table, the Chourineur on the other.
Hillern_Only_a_Girl_39780.16There he found Hilsborn sitting with the schoolmaster upon one of the low, broad window-seats, while the schoolmaster's old wife, Brigitta, sat knitting upon the other.
Evans_Beulah_62570.15Cornelia crossed the room, threw herself on a couch, and settled her pillow comfortably.
Collins_Woman_in_White_83510.15They took a whole carriage yesterday, and made a bed for her on the seat in case she felt tired.
Reade_A_Terrible_Temptation_29220.15"Oh, if that is all," said Richard, "we can soon settle it.
Harris_Rutledge_72110.15You know, as I shall have the packing up and settling of all at the last, it is necessary I should know your wishes."
Lawrence_Guy_Livingstone_12210.15"Well, I don't know," said Charley, settling himself comfortably in his cushions, and glancing almost imperceptibly at Bruce; "they seem to fancy us, notwithstanding.
Collins_Woman_in_White_122800.15His small stature was no hindrance to him--here he could see over the heads of the ladies who were seated near the outermost part of the bench.
Harris_Rutledge_25540.14It wouldn't stand in any court of law."
Alcott_Little_Men_20270.14Now them, come on," and in a minute Dan found himself settled in the carriage, his foot on a cushion on the seat opposite, nicely covered with a shawl, which fell down from the upper regions in a most mysterious manner, just when they wanted it.
Warner_Wide_Wide_World_147700.13Comfortably placed in the corner of the front seat of the barouche, leaning on the elbow of the carriage, she was left to her own musings.
Macdonald_Robert_Falconer_29220.13But she said of herself, 'Now I will play something to you, if you like,' and he resumed his seat devoutly.
Heimburg_Gertrudes_Marriage_Clean_18650.13asked the old gentleman, settling himself comfortably in a chair.
Lawrence_Guy_Livingstone_26690.12Very well; make your book up; the _maitre d'hotel_ will settle with you.
Collins_No_Name_152330.12said the captain, seating himself comfortably at the bedside, in his old confidential way.
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol1_10820.12"And put it on the table where that gentleman sits, if he will permit," added Thomas, who, with Sarah, seated themselves beside the Chourineur, who was as much astonished as flattered by such politeness.
Cooper_The_Spy_22020.12The retreat of the ladies was the signal for the appearance of the surgeon's cigar, which, being established in a corner of his mouth, in a certain knowing way, caused not the slightest interruption to his discourse.
Wood_East_Lynne_50570.11I think he was tall, but he was sitting down, and Otway Bethel stood behind his chair.
Collins_Armadale_29310.11he went on, looking at his watch, and settling himself comfortably on deck with his back against the bulwark.
Auerbach_On_the_Heights_125460.11Having satisfied himself on this point, he stretched himself still more comfortably than before and fell asleep.
Hawthorne_Twice_Told_Tales_54270.11Happier my lot, who will straightway hie me to my familiar room and toast myself comfortably before the fire, musing and fitfully dozing and fancying a strangeness in such sights as all may see.
Harland_Jessamine_4470.11She had read the book, and would have enjoyed listening to their discussion of it, as did Eunice, to whom Mr. Wyllys appealed at her re-entrance, setting a chair for her by her father's, and establishing himself in front of them.
Cooper_The_Pioneers_25320.11The head of the turkey was seen to dash on one side, and its wings were spread in momentary fluttering; but it settled itself down calmly into its bed of snow, and glanced its eyes uneasily around.
Yonge_The_Daisy_Chain_115900.10She thought he walked weakly, and rather tottering, and had run to make him lean on her, which he did, as far as his own room door.
Howells_A_Forgone_Conclusion_2440.10She settled herself luxuriously upon the feather-stuffed leathern cushions when the cabin was removed.
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol4_54520.10At last she was standing up, close to the seat on which Sarah was sitting, and, stooping over a table, was preparing to write.
Cooper_The_Pioneers_65450.10Until his parent was placed comfortably in bed, with Natty seated at his side, Effingham did not quit him.
Mulock_John_Halifax_Gentleman_5540.09He led the refractory horse, settled him comfortably under a tree, and gave him in charge to a small boy.
Collins_No_Name_97230.09Mrs. Lecount saw her master established in his place, and ascertained that the other three inside seats were already occupied by strangers.
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol3_1570.07"And what has become of her?"
Reade_The_Cloister_and_the_Hearth_87650.07"And?"
Reade_Put_Yourself_in_His_Place_23450.07But, when he had settled on this course, lo!
Reade_It_is_Never_Too_Late_to_Mend_33990.07Have you seen the new chaplain--where is he?"
Kingsley_Westward_Ho_95400.07"The little maid here.
Ingelow_Fated_to_be_Free_68370.07He is comfortably off."
Heimburg_A_Sisters_Love_Clean_48550.07"'Oh, see, just see!'
Harland_Alone_62800.07"You never saw such a tiger!
Dumas_The_Three_Musketeers_109620.07"Take Planchet.
DeMille_Cord_and_Creese_25140.07"For you.
Alcott_Little_Women_64010.07I like him, and we get on comfortably together.
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_171220.07"Well, sir," asked Franz, "what do you wish me to do with this paper?"

Bronte_Jane_Eyre_89060.07I might have said, "Where is it?"

Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_44340.17In the adjoining dressing-room sat Nanni, sewing spangles upon a cloud of gauze that was wanted by the decorators of the stage below-stairs.

Warner_Wide_Wide_World_63770.21She hurried to finish her dressing, and wrapping her double-gown over all, went down to the kitchen.
Collins_The_Law_and_the_Lady_3630.21In the fear of disturbing him I rose, and put on my dressing-gown and slippers.
Wood_East_Lynne_34810.21Isabel was in her dressing-gown, attended by Joyce, whom she was just asking to take the place of her late maid, if Miss Carlyle would consent to the transfer.
Harland_At_Last_16910.21The stormy dawn was revealing, with dreary distinctness, the shabby disorder of the lumber-room, when Dr. Ritchie appeared in his dressing-gown, rubbing his eyes, and yawning audibly.
Yonge_Heir_of_Redclyffe_93230.19Amabel arose first, for Guy, though serene, looked greatly exhausted, and as she sprinkled him with vinegar, the others stood up.
Yonge_Heir_of_Redclyffe_62120.19It seemed as if the lengthening days of January were bringing renewed comfort with them, when Charles, who ever since October had been confined to bed, was able to wear the Chinese dressing-gown, be lifted to a couch, and wheeled into the dressing-room, still prostrate, but much enjoying the change of scene, which he called coming into the world.
Holmes_Lena_Rivers_20470.19Anna and 'Lena bade her a more affectionate adieu, and then advancing toward John Jr., who, in his dressing-gown and slippers, reclined upon the sofa, she offered him her hand.
Reade_It_is_Never_Too_Late_to_Mend_111360.18She returned in about ten minutes with a dressing-gown over her arm and a pair of curling-irons in her hand.
Yonge_Heir_of_Redclyffe_46270.18They had been so busy, and Mr, Edmonstone so excited, that Philip thought it best to accept the offer of tea being sent them in the dining-room, and it was not till nearly midnight that their conference broke up, when Mr. Edmonstone found his wife sitting up by the dressing-room fire, having shut Charles's door, sorely against his will.
Evans_Infelice_34720.18After a sleepless night, Cuthbert Laurance sat in dressing gown and slippers before the table, on which was arranged his breakfast.
Harris_Rutledge_37510.17"If you will stop crying," I said, taking her up in my arms, and wrapping her dressing-gown about her.
Collins_The_Moonstone_117330.17He sat, in his dressing-gown and slippers, for nearly an hour, thinking over his position.
Trollope_Orley_Farm_38550.16There were some eighteen or twenty gathered now at the table, among whom the judge sat pre-eminent, looming large in an arm-chair and having a double space allotted to him;--some eighteen or twenty, children included.
Cummins_The_Lamplighter_70450.16At the head of the staircase she met Isabel, wrapped in a dressing gown, with a large pitcher in her hand, and a most discontented expression of countenance.
Yonge_Heir_of_Redclyffe_70370.15There were various conferences in the dressing-room, and Guy and Amy both had burning faces when they came down to dinner.
Stowe_Uncle_Toms_Cabin_44500.15said St. Clare, the next day, as he sat in his library, in dressing-gown and slippers.
Hardy_A_Pair_of_Blue_Eyes_43360.15Entering her room that evening Elfride found a packet for herself on the dressing-table.
Wood_East_Lynne_63430.15Joyce --surely a supernatural strength was given her, for though she had been able to put her foot to the ground, she had not yet walked upon it--crept downstairs, and went into Lady Isabel's dressing-room.
Warner_Wide_Wide_World_153050.15At eleven o'clock regularly every day she went to her grandmother's dressing-room for a very elaborate bathing and dressing; though not a very long one, for all Mrs. Lindsay's acts were energetic.
Lever_Charles_OMalley_vol1_12880.15"'Your dressing-gown!'
Lever_Charles_OMalley_vol1_12790.15'If I could only get as far as my dressing-gown.'
Wood_East_Lynne_38480.14Joyce sat, in its gray dawn, over a large fire in the dressing-room of Lady Isabel Carlyle, her hands clasped to pain, and the tears coursing down her cheeks.
Collins_No_Name_126400.14Mrs. Lecount helped him on with his dressing-gown -- then went down-stairs again to make his warm drink for him at the parlor fire.
Reade_Love_Me_Little_Love_Me_Long_50010.14"That your gown fits me ever so much better than my own."
Trollope_Orley_Farm_54420.13Come, my dear, he's got his dressing-gown on, and you may just come to the door and ask him how he does."
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol1_44030.13Then I went softly up-stairs with only my list slippers on.
Cervantes_Don_Quixote_72770.13He sat up in bed and remained listening intently to try if he could make out what could be the cause of so great an uproar; not only, however, was he unable to discover what it was, but as countless drums and trumpets now helped to swell the din of the bells and shouts, he was more puzzled than ever, and filled with fear and terror; and getting up he put on a pair of slippers because of the dampness of the floor, and without throwing a dressing gown or anything of the kind over him he rushed out of the door of his room, just in time to see approaching along a corridor a band of more than twenty persons with lighted torches and naked swords in their hands, all shouting out, "To arms, to arms, senor governor, to arms!
Trollope_Orley_Farm_96840.13When Graham was again in his room, and the servant who was obliged to undress him had left him, he sat over his fire, wrapped in his dressing-gown, bethinking himself what he would do.
Yonge_Heir_of_Redclyffe_65400.12cried Charles, drumming on the back of his sofa.
Hillern_Only_a_Girl_100000.12I was just out of bed, and would gladly have run to you in my dressing-gown!
DeMille_Cord_and_Creese_90220.12He rose at once, and slipping on his dressing-gown, opened it.
Collins_The_Moonstone_56190.12I observed a dressing-gown thrown across a chair.
Yonge_Heir_of_Redclyffe_11970.11Charles became sullenly silent; Guy stood thoughtful; and Laura and Amabel could not easily sustain the conversation till the visitors took their leave.
Harland_At_Last_34440.11She ought, therefore, to have been surprised when, while admitting that the pain in his head was intense, he yet, on the morrow succeeding Mrs. Tazewell's funeral, persisted in rising and dressing for breakfast.
Hughes_Tom_Brown_at_Oxford_24780.11In three steps they joined the rest of the gown, now numbering some twenty men.
Sheppard_Charles_Auchester_vol2_27990.09"See here, Charles," said Clo, who, sitting in her own corner, over her own book, was unwontedly excited; "here is a piece of news for you, and my mother found it first!"
Holmes_Tempest_and_Sunshine_47440.09Near the water's edge he had discovered a shawl, which he knew belonged to Julia, and near by lay a pair of slippers, on the inside of which her name was marked.
Yonge_Heir_of_Redclyffe_59350.07'Yes--yes!
Holmes_Tempest_and_Sunshine_6770.07asked Fanny.
DeMille_The_Cryptogram_128620.07he asked.
Cooper_Last_of_the_Mohicans_21270.07"What says it?"
Collins_Man_and_Wife_52640.07"Nothing.

Bronte_Jane_Eyre_29780.15It was drawing to an end now; but the evening was even warm, and I sat at work in the schoolroom with the window open.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_58660.09Wood, close your book and take off your surplice; John Green (to the clerk), leave the church: there will be no wedding to-day."
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_9100.09I sat down by her on the floor.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_50940.09I shall begin to-day.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_47210.09Not long; of that I was sure.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_20320.09I sat down quite disembarrassed.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_42260.08"And are the family well at the house, Robert?"

Wister_Marlitt_OMS_31890.15Felicitas brought a garden—ehair into the hall of the summer-house, seated herself, and took out her sewing.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_29900.12She was leaning comfortably back in a fauteuil and knitting, while he read aloud to her.

Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_25740.18In the evening the Ferber family were sitting in the shade of the lindens at the spring.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_65590.17My father was sitting in his room, in a comfortable arm-chair, alternately reading and writing, with a steam- ing cup of tea beside him.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_4800.15Here, in summer- time, the table stood not far from the hearth, and the Fleet was to me the cosiest place in the whole house.
Wister_Marlitt_Owls_4220.14Oh, how often Claudine had sat here before her in the snug room, with its still‘, costly furniture dating from the time of the First Empire, and the many, many pictures on the walls, enjoying the magnificent prospect with her ducal mistress!
Wister_Marlitt_Owls_2560.11She occupied the best room on the ground-floor, the pleasant corner-room, where she sat day after day with her knitting and a novel from the circulating library, and where she could overlook the road at no great distance.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_11990.11He went into the house for a moment that he might exchange his uniform for the more comfortable garment worn at home, and soon returned, pipe and newspaper in hand, to the linden, where Sabina soon began to lay the table.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_16380.10"I cannot prevent people from coming to me here, and I should have sacrificed myself long ago, and been seated at one of your green-covered tables, if I had not been interrupted."
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_4820.09Through the open door the gray twilight from without fell upon the front cattle-stalls; they were empty, for at the Dierkhof we only kept what live stock was necessary for our own use.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_52760.09Her maid arranged everything as comfortably as possible, putting flowers upon the little mahogany table, and bringing from the bedroom many a trifle that her spoiled mistress had been accustomed to use; but the old lady never noticed the pains she was taking: she sat by the window gazing towards the pavilion, the new roof of which was just visible among the trees.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_17960.09he said, nervously.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_33640.09"What!
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_41120.07He was sitting, writing, at the southern window.

Lewald_Hulda_30270.28He enjoyed reading aloud to the pastor, for Hulda would sit by with her sewing.
Mulock_John_Halifax_Gentleman_73670.27It was already evening, when, having each contributed our quota, great or small, to the entertainment, we all came and sat on the long bench under the walnut-tree.
Holmes_Ethelyns_Mistake_35360.27But this time it was at the governor's house in Davenport, and another was added to the number--a pretty little waxen thing, which all through the elaborate dinner slept quietly in its crib, and then in the evening, when the gas was lighted in the parlors, and Mr. Townsend was there in his gown, behaved most admirably, and lay very still in its father Richard's arms, until it was transferred from his to those of the clergyman, who in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost baptized it "Daisy Adelaide Grant."
Eggleston_End_of_the_World_1470.26The very next day Julia sat sewing on the long porch in front of the house.
Cummins_The_Lamplighter_13490.26The winter passed away, and spring days came, when Gerty could sit at the open window, when birds sang in the morning among the trees, and the sun at evening threw bright rays across True's great room, and Gerty could see to read almost until bed-time.
Whitney_Real_Folks_12790.25You could keep it for old times' sake, and sit there mornings; the house is big enough; and then have furniture like other people's in the parlor?"
Heimburg_Gertrudes_Marriage_Clean_7230.25Oh, if he had never come here, or better still if she were only the daughter of the foreman like her grandmother, and sat on the bench before the little house under the lilac tree, then everything would be so simple.
Whitney_Faith_Gartneys_Girlhood_14610.25"Father," said Faith, one evening, after she had read to him the paper while he lay resting upon the sofa, "if you had money enough to live on, how long would it take you to wind up your business?"
Stowe_Uncle_Toms_Cabin_25780.24However, the day wore on, and the evening saw Haley and Tom comfortably accommodated in Washington,--the one in a tavern, and the other in a jail.
Ingelow_Fated_to_be_Free_20520.24"It used not to be here," said Laura; "the dear grandmother, as long as she lived, always had it in her bedroom.
Evans_Beulah_89090.24The long afternoon wore away; still they sat round the table.
Trollope_Orley_Farm_35730.23So they sat through the long evening, speechless; each seated with the pretence of reading, but neither of them capable of the attention which a book requires.
Cooper_The_Spy_15780.23One of the former served for kitchen and sitting room; in the other lay the father of Birch; of the latter, one was the sanctuary of the vestal, and the other contained the stock of provisions.
Yonge_Heir_of_Redclyffe_92110.21Philip had, the last two mornings, risen in time to breakfast with Amabel, in the room adjoining his own; he was still very weak, and attempted no more than crossing the room, and sitting in the balcony to enjoy the evening air.
Prentiss_Stepping_Heavenward_1860.21In the long evenings we all sit around the table with our books and our work, and one of us reads aloud.
Heimburg_A_Sisters_Love_Clean_55340.21We sat together at coffee in the garden-parlor, or on the terrace on warm summer evenings.
Auerbach_On_the_Heights_88810.20He was sitting on the bench under the cherry-tree.
Auerbach_On_the_Heights_13840.20He went out and sat down on the bench under the cherry-tree.
Mulock_John_Halifax_Gentleman_58980.20Or else, in the summer evenings, she would be at the window sewing--always sewing-- but so placed that with one glance she could see down the street where John was coming.
Success_and_How_He_Won_It_Clean_35530.20Baron Windeg had had another and a longer interview with his daughter in the afternoon, and directly afterwards the lady's maid had received orders to pack up her mistress's wardrobe.
Lewald_Hulda_33660.20Hulda put her fether's hand within her arm and led him into the house, and to the old sofa in his study, where he had so often sat by her mother's side, reading aloud to them.
Bronte_Villette_14920.19Under the vast and vine-draped berceau, Madame would take her seat on summer afternoons, and send for the classes, in turns, to sit round her and sew and read.
Whitney_The_Other_Girls_37570.19Mrs. Argenter sat in her low easy-chair, watched away the time, and worried about the time to come.
Braddon_Lady_Audleys_Secret_32650.19"Would other people live in the old house, and sit under the low oak ceilings in the homely familiar rooms?"
Reade_The_Cloister_and_the_Hearth_85370.19He was away on business; but the rest of the family sat at Supper.
Lever_Charles_OMalley_vol2_41450.19Dear Charley,--Here we sit in the little parlor with your last letter, the "Times," and a big map before us, drinking your health, and wishing you a long career of the same glorious success you have hitherto enjoyed.
Alcott_Work_25100.19"Thee may be right about Davy, but I am only a prudent old woman, and have taken much pleasure in privately knitting this light wrap to wear when thee sits in the porch, for the evenings will soon grow chilly.
Trollope_Can_You_Forgive_Her_174580.18They sat together the whole morning,--while Mr Palliser was seeing to the springs and cushions,--and by degrees Alice began to enjoy her happiness.
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol5_24950.18"I suppose I may recollect, if I please, how chilly you used to be of an evening, though all the time you tried to conceal it, that you might hinder me from putting more wood on my fire when you came to sit with me.
Hawthorne_Scarlet_Letter_27380.18By this time Pearl had reached the margin of the brook, and stood on the further side, gazing silently at Hester and the clergyman, who still sat together on the mossy tree-trunk waiting to receive her.
Reade_Foul_Play_76070.18But one day, as this pale figure in deep mourning sat at his table, going listlessly and mechanically through the business of scraping money together for others to enjoy, whose hearts, unlike his, might not be in the grave, his father burst in upon him, with a telegram in his hand, and waved it over his head in triumph.
Warner_Wide_Wide_World_116280.18The whole wall of trees was in shadow when the little family sat down to table; but there was still the sunlit picture behind; and there was another kind of sunshine in every face at the table.
Warner_Wide_Wide_World_131800.17At all times of the day and night, in her intervals of business, Ellen might be seen with one of these in her hand; nestled among the cushions of the sofa, or on a little bench by the side of the fireplace in the twilight, where she could have the benefit of the blaze, which she loved to read by as well as ever.
Mulock_John_Halifax_Gentleman_56460.17We settled ourselves, my father and I; and while the old man smoked his meditative pipe I sat thinking of the winter evenings when we two lads had read by the fire-side; the summer days when we had lounged on the garden wall.
Reade_It_is_Never_Too_Late_to_Mend_132210.17At evening on the third day they looked up and saw a figure perched watching them with a pipe in its mouth.
The_Eichhofs_Clean_26280.17Lothar, who had meant to see and to read nothing, had seen and read enough to make him stride to and fro in the room like a madman, muttering in broken sentences, "He loves her,--she has been sitting to him!
Hugo_Les_Miserables_248390.17One evening,--it was the 24th of June, which did not prevent Father Gillenormand having a rousing fire on the hearth,--he had dismissed his daughter, who was sewing in a neighboring apartment.
Holmes_Ethelyns_Mistake_30080.17It was something to have a governor of Richard's reputation in the house, and the guests made the most of it, wishing he would join them in the parlor or on the piazza, and regretting that he stayed so constantly in his room.
Reade_A_Terrible_Temptation_29840.17Since the day when Sir Charles allowed her to sit in a little room close to his study while he received Mr. Wheeler's visit she had fitted up that room, and often sat there to be near Sir Charles; and he would sometimes call her in and tell her his justice cases.
Hardy_Far_From_the_Madding_Crowd_83270.17The two sat down very quietly to tea in Bathsheba's parlour in the evening of the same day, for it had been arranged that Farmer Oak should go there to live, since he had as yet neither money, house, nor furniture worthy of the name, though he was on a sure way towards them, whilst Bathsheba was, comparatively, in a plethora of all three.
Wood_East_Lynne_4140.17In this sitting-room, on a chilly evening, early in May, a few days subsequent to that which had witnessed the visit of Mr. Carlyle to the Earl of Mount Severn, sat Mrs. Hare, a pale, delicate woman, buried in shawls and cushions: but the day had been warm.
Cummins_The_Lamplighter_22400.16There it remained during the winter, unpacked, and when the family went into the country, the box went also, carefully protected by its owner, who had put it in a corner behind the bed, and the evening before her expedition to the city had been engaged in inspecting its contents, endeared to her by the charm of old association, and many a tear had the little maiden shed over her stock of valuables.
Harris_Rutledge_63430.16It was a matter of very little moment to Miss Janet, however, what any one but "Papa" thought of her, and she was sure of a tender judgment from him always; but at last it seemed to strike her that even he might consider it rather negligent to leave the parlor so long, so springing up, she said: "I must go back to those people; but remember, you are not to stir; or, yes, you may sit here by the table, and look over these engravings.
Roe_Jest_to_Earnest_24270.16A few moments later they were sitting round the parlor fire, recounting the experiences of the evening.
Holmes_The_English_Orphans_910.16Placing her arm affectionately around him, she led him into the parlor, saying, "I am so glad that you have come to live with me and be my brother.
Holmes_Lena_Rivers_20780.16"Father is absent most of the day," said she; "and as I am much in my chamber, we seldom keep a fire in the front parlor."
Holmes_Darkness_and_Daylight_17570.16"Mr. St. Claire," and Edith sprang from her chair, "I can unlock that door, and I will."
Evans_Beulah_107640.16One Sabbath afternoon she sat in her room, with her cheek on her hand, absorbed in earnest thought.
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_239250.16"And now," he said, "after to-day, you will come and live with me; you can occupy Haidee's apartment, and my daughter will at least be replaced by my son."
Warner_Queechy_98360.16Come!--everybody's been out but you, and you have sat here over this the whole day.

Bronte_Jane_Eyre_22870.12We were, as I have said, in the dining-room: the lustre, which had been lit for dinner, filled the room with a festal breadth of light; the large fire was all red and clear; the purple curtains hung rich and ample before the lofty window and loftier arch; everything was still, save the subdued chat of Adele (she dared not speak loud), and, filling up each pause, the beating of winter rain against the panes.

Wister_Marlitt_OMS_24360.12She picked up a large bunch of keys which was lying upon the ‘table and opened a desk, apparently the most interesting article of furniture in the room to her.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_21010.11I saw this beautiful table-cloth exposed for sale; now could I walk coldly by?
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_41520.08She was an odd com- bination.

Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_3770.25Beyond this apartment, and opening into it, was another much larger, with two windows; it was also completely furnished, although in antique style, and evidently with furniture hunted up from various other rooms for the purpose.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_3000.18She turned and strode back to the fireplace, which, although modern in size, still maintained its place, as in all old houses in Lower Saxony, at the very farthest end of the threshing- or barn-floor.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_3430.16We must say abounding, for the room was rather small, and contained the entire furniture of a large apartment.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_5890.12And she left the apartment to get jacket and cap from Susie’s room.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_42630.11Those present grouped themselves around her ; my father alone was absent ; he was looking through one of the most distant apartments, carefully examining the antique furniture, he seemed totally to forget whom he had accompanied hither, and his absence of mind was smilingly condoned.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_12140.09At that time, little Kitty used to slip into what was called the fruit-room, an apartment adjoining the kitchen, with whitewashed walls and a large green stove, and fill her apron with rosy-cheeked apples and mellow pears.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_17100.08That handsome Charlotte, perhaps ?

Hughes_Tom_Brown_at_Oxford_3710.37The large room in which the breakfast-table was laid for five, was lofty and well proportioned, and panelled with old oak, and the furniture was handsome and solid, and in keeping with the room.
Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_130610.27Four stools, an old oak press, and a square table with twisted legs, formed the sole furniture of this apartment.
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_142860.27They began by walking through the apartments, many of which were fitted up in the Eastern style, with cushions and divans instead of beds, and pipes instead of furniture.
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_143580.27They began by walking through the apartments, many of which were fitted up in the Eastern style, with cushions and divans instead of beds, and pipes instead of furniture.
Collins_No_Name_136470.27The door admitted them to a large and lofty drawing-room, decorated, like all the other apartments, with valuable old-fashioned furniture.
Collins_Woman_in_White_107370.24He opened the door of one of the presses--the press from the side of which the surplices were hanging--and produced a large volume bound in greasy brown leather.
Auerbach_On_the_Heights_126020.23The oaken furniture was in the Renaissance style--the large writing-table stood in the center of the room.
Collins_No_Name_118000.23The bed-chamber was not very large, and the furniture was heavy and old-fashioned.
Yonge_The_Daisy_Chain_103000.23Her dressing-room, with the large bay window, commanding a beautiful view of Stoneborough, and filled, but not crowded, with every sort of choice article, was a perfect exhibition to eyes unaccustomed to such varieties.
Whitney_Faith_Gartneys_Girlhood_12430.23Between the windows stood an old, old-fashioned secretary, that filled up from floor to ceiling; and over the fireplace a mirror of equally antique date tilted forward from the wall.
Hawthorne_The_House_of_the_Seven_Gables_8090.22She was the more inclined to devotion from the grim aspect of the chamber and its furniture, especially the tall, stiff chairs; one of which stood close by her bedside, and looked as if some old-fashioned personage had been sitting there all night, and had vanished only just in season to escape discovery.
Hawthorne_Twice_Told_Tales_37280.21Among the time-worn articles of furniture that had been left in the mansion, there was a tall antique mirror which was well worthy of a tale by itself, and perhaps may hereafter be the theme of one.
Reade_Foul_Play_23370.21OUR scene now changes from the wild ocean and its perils to a snug room in Fenchurch Street, the inner office of Wardlaw & Son: a large apartment, paneled with fine old mellow Spanish oak; and all the furniture in keeping; the carpet, a thick Axminster of sober colors; the chairs of oak and morocco, very substantial; a large office-table, with oaken legs like very columns, substantial; two Milner safes; a globe of unusual size with a handsome tent over it, made of roan leather, figured; the walls hung with long oak boxes, about eight inches broad, containing rolled maps of high quality and great dimensions; to consult which, oaken scepters tipped with brass hooks stood ready.
Disraeli_Lothair_31690.21There was not a refinement of modern furniture that was wanting; even the tables were covered with the choicest publications of the day.
Auerbach_On_the_Heights_35790.21The hallway and rooms were adorned with statuettes and pictures; the furniture was simple and massive.
Harland_Alone_84250.20These were chambers: the lower story, the parlour, dining-room, and the apartments appropriated to her mother and herself, were light, large, and finished in a more modern style.
Collins_The_Moonstone_102480.20He produced a huge old-fashioned leather pocket-book, with a pencil of dimensions to match.
Yonge_The_Dove_in_the_Eagles_Nest_40.20The eastern end of the apartment was adorned with an exquisite small group carved in oak, representing the carpenter's shop at Nazareth, with the Holy Child instructed by Joseph in the use of tools, and the Mother sitting with her book, "pondering these things in her heart."
Warner_Wide_Wide_World_81080.19A little dark mahogany bookcase in one place--an odd toilet-table of the same stuff in another: and opposite the fire an old-fashioned high post-bedstead, with its handsome Marseilles quilt and ample pillows, looked very tempting.
The_Alpine_Fay_Clean_18570.19The bright, spacious apartments had a most comfortable aspect, the pleasantest being his office, with its dark hangings and rugs, its carved oaken furniture, and its well-filled bookshelves.
Ebers_Bride_of_Nile_Clean_4490.19A few stools, couches and small tables, all of cool-looking metal, formed the sole furniture of this lofty apartment which was brilliantly lighted by numerous lamps.
Wood_East_Lynne_95230.19The old familiar drawing-room; its large handsome proportions, the well arranged furniture, its bright chandelier!
Disraeli_Lothair_62320.18At a certain hour, the consul, attended by his male guests, crossing a court, proceeded to his divan, a lofty and capacious chamber painted in fresco, and with no furniture except the low but broad raised seat that surrounded the room.
Hughes_Tom_Brown_at_Oxford_81990.18Tom followed this portly personage through the large handsome hall, on the walls of which hung a buff-coat or two and some old-fashioned arms, and large paintings of dead game and fruit--through a drawing room, the furniture of which was all covered up in melancholy cases--into the breakfast parlor, where the owner of the mansion was seated at table in a lounging jacket.
Disraeli_Lothair_49810.18They laid her on their arrival on a large bed, without poles or canopy, in a lofty whitewashed room of considerable dimensions, clean and airy, with high, open windows.
Aguilar_Home_Influence_10210.18These were only saved from being disagreeably modern--Percy would declare--by their beautiful richly-polished oaken panels, and by the recesses which the large windows still formed, making almost a room by themselves.
Alcott_An_Old-Fashioned_Girl_47280.18It was not a large room, and Tom seemed to fill it entirely; not that he had grown so very much, except broader in the shoulders, but there was a brisk, genial, free-and-easy air about him, suggestive of a stirring, out-of-door life, with people who kept their eyes wide open, and were not very particular what they did with their arms and legs.
Collins_Man_and_Wife_51250.17THE Library at Windygates was the largest and the handsomest room in the house.
Hugo_Les_Miserables_144110.17He occupied an ancient and vast apartment on the first floor, between street and gardens, furnished to the very ceilings with great Gobelins and Beauvais tapestries representing pastoral scenes; the subjects of the ceilings and the panels were repeated in miniature on the arm-chairs.
Collins_The_Law_and_the_Lady_17870.17The ample heavy folds of the velvet left just room at the two corners of the wall for two little upright cabinets in buhl, containing rows of drawers, and supporting two fine bronze productions (reduced in size) of the Venus Milo and the Venus Callipyge.
Bronte_Villette_71120.17When I shall have saved one thousand francs, I will take a tenement with one large room, and two or three smaller ones, furnish the first with a few benches and desks, a black tableau, an estrade for myself; upon it a chair and table, with a sponge and some white chalks; begin with taking day- pupils, and so work my way upwards.
Yonge_The_Daisy_Chain_132900.17asked Harry, looking round on the beautifully furnished apartment, which, to many eyes besides those fresh from a Milanesian hut, might have seemed a paradise of luxurious ease.
Reade_Put_Yourself_in_His_Place_39390.17But, in the midst of the easy banter and jocose airy nothings of the modern dining-room, an object attracted Grace's eye.
Heimburg_A_Sisters_Love_Clean_30170.17"Isabella lay in a beautiful large room, in a fine bed with white hangings; evidently a guest chamber.
Cooper_The_Pioneers_16820.17They entered an apartment that was fitted as a parlor, though the large fireplace, with its culinary arrangements, betrayed the domestic uses to which it was occasionally applied.
Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_193380.16I will reduce their rent one-half, and, instead of small, unwholesome rooms, they shall have large, airy apartments, well-warmed and lighted, at a trifling charge.
Aguilar_The_Days_of_Bruce_280.16The deep embrasures of the casements were thus in a manner severed from the main apartment, for even when the curtains were completely lowered there was space enough to contain a chair or two and a table.
Aguilar_Home_Influence_36990.16On this dais was the raised reading-desk of superbly carved oak, at which Mr. Hamilton officiated morning and evening, and two library tables of more modern workmanship stood on each side, but rather lower down.
Bronte_Villette_54930.16Repairing to my own little sea-green room, there also I found a bright fire, and candles too were lit: a tall waxlight stood on each side the great looking glass; but between the candles, and before the glass, appeared something dressing itself--an airy, fairy thing--small, slight, white--a winter spirit.
Reade_Put_Yourself_in_His_Place_39010.16It was entirely paneled with oak, carved by old Flemish workmen, and adorned here and there with bold devices.
Heimburg_Gertrudes_Marriage_Clean_7870.16Jenny turned her large and wondering eyes upon Gertrude, who was still standing behind her mother's chair.
Disraeli_Lothair_25090.16The chandelier is the great abomination of furniture; it makes a noble apartment look small.
Auerbach_On_the_Heights_79480.16In Walpurga's room stood two large chests, filled to the very top and locked.
Collins_Armadale_129660.15For the fiftieth time, the impenetrable waiter had just returned his one pacifying answer, "All right, sir; you may leave it to me"--when the sound of leisurely footsteps was heard on the stairs; the door opened; and the long-expected son sauntered indolently into the room, with a neat little black leather bag in his hand.
Stowe_Uncle_Toms_Cabin_45270.15The kitchen was a large brick-floored apartment, with a great old-fashioned fireplace stretching along one side of it,--an arrangement which St. Clare had vainly tried to persuade Dinah to exchange for the convenience of a modern cook-stove.
Collins_The_New_Magdalen_10630.15To the educated eye the dining-room, with its modern furniture and conservatory, its ancient walls and doors, and its lofty mantelpiece (neither very old nor very new), presents a startling, almost a revolutionary, mixture of the decorative workmanship of widely differing schools.
Warner_Wide_Wide_World_39130.15Carpeted with moss, and furnished with fallen stones and pieces of rock, this was a fine resting-place for the wayfarer, or loitering-place for the lover of nature.
Collins_Armadale_140090.15"He was seated in the great, ugly, old-fashioned chair, which I ordered to be removed into the dressing-room out of the way when we first came here.
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_132630.14He was placed before a large glass, which reflected the whole apartment, and so, without any attempt to move, which would have been impossible, he could see all who entered the room and everything which was going on around him.
Collins_Armadale_44460.14Between ourselves, Midwinter, these splendid rooms of mine are a size too large for me; I don't feel as if I should ever be on intimate terms with my own furniture.

Bronte_Jane_Eyre_70360.21A kind of pleasant stupor was stealing over me as I sat by the genial fire.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_2510.15Abbot, too, was sewing in another room, and Bessie, as she moved hither and thither, putting away toys and arranging drawers, addressed to me every now and then a word of unwonted kindness.

Roe_What_Can_She_Do_56710.20As she entered she saw a portly man standing on the rug before the glowing grate, with a shock of white hair, and a genial, kindly face.
Fleming_Norines_Revenge_66550.18Marian Fletcher sat before the blazing fire in a long, low, gloomy parlor, and Capt.
Stowe_Uncle_Toms_Cabin_94930.17He lay, for the most part, in a quiet stupor; for the laws of a powerful and well-knit frame would not at once release the imprisoned spirit.
Alexander_Ralph_Wiltons_Weird_13570.17Sundry sporting prints, a deer's head, various pipes, and plenty of writing-materials, with a splendid fire, and several comfortable easy-chairs, made it a pleasant apartment.
Harland_Jessamine_57890.17The room was not needed for the use of the guests, and was unlighted except by the low fire in the grate.
Reade_Put_Yourself_in_His_Place_21180.16He also bought a powerful magnifying-glass; and next morning he came to the factory, examined the cinders, and everything else, with the magnifier, lighted his forge, and resumed his work.
Broughton_Nancy_12610.16We did not begin by being _tete-a-tete_; indeed, several lately-occupied chairs intervene between us, but first one and then another has slipped away, and we are alone.
Blackmore_Lorna_Doone_73540.16Madam Benita Odam--for the name of the man who turned the wheel proved to be John Odam--showed me into a little room containing two chairs and a fir-wood table, and sat down on a three-legged seat and studied me very steadfastly.
Mulock_John_Halifax_Gentleman_18140.15That Abel Fletcher was not quite himself was proved by the fact that his unlighted pipe lay on the table, and his afternoon tankard of ale sank from foam to flatness untouched.
Holmes_Ethelyns_Mistake_8900.15It was pleasant up there, and the room looked very pretty with the brackets and ornaments, and pictures she had hung there instead of in the parlor, and she decided within herself that though disappointed in every respect, she could be quite comfortable for the few weeks which must intervene before she went to Washington.
Fleming_Norines_Revenge_44620.14In the luxurious sitting-room of Mrs. Liston-Darcy a coal fire is burning, and in a purple arm-chair before this genial fire Mrs. Darcy sits.
Collins_Man_and_Wife_51140.12The landlord and the police inspector smugled him out by the back way unknown to the expectant populace in front The two men stood on the river-bank admiring him, as he pulled away from them, with his long, powerful, easy, beautiful stroke.
Fleming_Norines_Revenge_66110.12Marian Fletcher arose and swept into the next room.
Cummins_The_Lamplighter_58390.12Plenty of flowers graced the parlour, and all was very comfortable.
Whitney_The_Other_Girls_57480.11They were all in the large back room, with western windows, over the parlor.
Mulock_John_Halifax_Gentleman_11610.11"The lad can go into the kitchen, Abel Fletcher: his breakfast is waiting there."
Whitney_The_Other_Girls_63690.11Whereupon five minutes after, the amiable traitress was seated at her writing-desk replying to Rodney's last imperative inquiry, and telling him, under protest, as something he could not possibly help, or have to do with, the further misfortune of Sylvie and her mother.
Whitney_Faith_Gartneys_Girlhood_18970.11Hendie's blocks and picture books were stowed in a corner cupboard.
Evans_Beulah_36600.11When Harriet proffered a glass of cordial she declined it, and said composedly: "I will come, after a while, and take my breakfast.
Alcott_An_Old-Fashioned_Girl_41620.10"We will," said Polly, and mounting a chair, she put up, bid in, and knocked down Fan's entire wardrobe to an imaginary group of friends, with such droll imitations of each one that the room rang with laughter.
Holmes_Tempest_and_Sunshine_30980.09Mr. Stafford leaned from the window, and said, "Is it possible that my brother, with all his wealth, lives in such a heathen place as this?"
Yonge_The_Daisy_Chain_85790.07asked Norman.
Werner_No_Surrender_Clean_27090.07"By your patient?"
Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_32440.07Not thus--do not look at me thus!'"
Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_132240.0750c .
Streckfuss_Castle_Hohenwald_Clean_35980.07You are mistaken.
Reade_The_Cloister_and_the_Hearth_8490.07But he seems urgent to see you.
Reade_Love_Me_Little_Love_Me_Long_85800.07All the same.
Harland_Jessamine_17820.07said Jessie.
DeMille_The_Dodge_Club_59060.07"What's that?"
DeMille_Cord_and_Creese_18850.07But Brandon did not fire.
Cooper_The_Prairie_17710.07"As the antelope!
Cooper_The_Pioneers_61600.07I will come!

Wister_Marlitt_OMS_7810.09N ow he was sitting in the kitchen cutting and carving a head upon his cane, and whistling most unmelodiously.

Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_5000.23She went on to remove every particle of dust that had accumulated during Susie’s illness upon tables and chairs, and closed the other windows.

Blackmore_Lorna_Doone_12730.24This may be false, and indeed I doubt it; in the first place, because Southmolton is a busy place for talking; and in the next, that I do not think the action would have lain at law, especially as the maid lost nothing, but used it all for her wedding next month with Dick Vellacott, of Mockham.
Whitney_Real_Folks_1890.22It was old-time then, when kitchens had fire-places; or rather the house was chiefly fire-place, in front of and about which was more or less of kitchen-space.
Holmes_Lena_Rivers_43330.19A natural delicacy prevented 'Lena from objecting to the delay, and, as calmly as possible, she watched Mrs. Aldergrass while she put the room to rights, and then patiently submitted to the arranging of her curls, which during her illness had become matted and tangled.
Whitney_We_Girls_4670.18Barbara was busy: she was more apt to be the busy one of a morning than Rosamond; not because Rosamond was not willing, but that when she _was_ at leisure she looked as though she always had been and always expected to be; she would have on a cambric morning-dress, and a jimpsey bit of an apron, and a pair of little fancy slippers,--(there was a secret about Rosamond's slippers; she had half a dozen different ways of getting them up, with braiding, and beading, and scraps of cloth and velvet; and these tops would go on to any stray soles she could get hold of, that were more sole than body, in a way she only knew of;) and she would have the sitting-room at the last point of morning freshness,--chairs and tables and books in the most charming relative positions, and every little leaf and flower in vase or basket just set as if it had so peeped up itself among the others, and all new-born to-day.
Stowe_Uncle_Toms_Cabin_48820.17'T is like looking too close into the details of Dinah's kitchen;" and St. Clare lay back on the sofa, and busied himself with his paper.
Hillern_Only_a_Girl_119590.17The room was a gloomy garret, a kind of kitchen,--at all events, there was a cooking-stove in it, and a cupboard containing articles of crockery.
Alcott_Little_Women_30950.17Jo's desk up here was an old tin kitchen which hung against the wall.
Alcott_Little_Men_26960.17"Here are two nice new ones to remember us by," said Dick and Dolly, presenting fresh whistles, quite unconscious that seven old ones had been privately deposited in the kitchen-stove.
Holmes_Elsie_Venner_17020.16There were portraits of different date on the walls of the various apartments, old painted coats-of-arms, bevel-edged mirrors, and in one sleeping-room a glass case of wax-work flowers and spangly symbols, with a legend signifying that E. M. (supposed to be Elizabeth Mascarene) wished not to be "forgot" "When I am dead and lay'd in dust And all my bones are"--- Poor E. M.!
Whitney_We_Girls_2320.16A kitchen exodus is like other small natural commotions,--sure to happen when anything greater does.
Reade_Foul_Play_47150.15Placing his tin baler before him, on which he had scratched his notes, he drew a map of the island.
DeMille_Cord_and_Creese_95960.13Perhaps they are busy arranging some dark plan.
Hardy_A_Pair_of_Blue_Eyes_50600.12The fatted animal hanging in the back kitchen was cleft down the middle of its backbone, Mrs. Smith being meanwhile engaged in cooking supper.
Dumas_The_Three_Musketeers_20030.12It is true that the three others had endeavored to knock the young man down with chairs, stools, and crockery; but two or three scratches made by the Gascon's blade terrified them.
Warner_Queechy_123050.11She thought Barby's punctiliousness however a little ill-timed, as she rose from her sofa and went into the kitchen.
Hawthorne_The_House_of_the_Seven_Gables_1620.11Had we the secret of that mirror, we would gladly sit down before it, and transfer its revelations to our page.
Stowe_Uncle_Toms_Cabin_45340.10When Miss Ophelia entered the kitchen Dinah did not rise, but smoked on in sublime tranquillity, regarding her movements obliquely out of the corner of her eye, but apparently intent only on the operations around her.
Holmes_Darkness_and_Daylight_50610.10"There's mam- ma," and in an instant Little Dick, as he was called, found himself rather unceremoniously set down upon his feet, as Richard adjusted his shade, and resumed the air of helplessness so natural to the blind.
Collins_Man_and_Wife_117960.09The domestic ledgers, and the kitchen report for the day, were ranged modestly behind the devout book.
Collins_Armadale_44470.09My views in life are of the snug and slovenly sort--a kitchen chair, you know, and a low ceiling.
Alexander_Ralph_Wiltons_Weird_33160.09These portraits were all in rooms and cabinets the most distant, dust-covered, and evidently rarely opened.
Macdonald_Alec_Forbes_11140.08The floor was covered with shavings, or _spales_, as they are called by northern consent, which a poor woman was busy gathering into a sack.
Yonge_Heir_of_Redclyffe_100320.07how is she?'
Whitney_The_Other_Girls_35880.07Susie!
Trollope_Can_You_Forgive_Her_20360.07"I'm quite sure of that."
Success_and_How_He_Won_It_Clean_12270.07Hartmann, what are you about?"
Stowe_Uncle_Toms_Cabin_20710.07"O, Chloe!"
Macdonald_St._George_and_St._Michael_18610.07'What!
Lever_Charles_OMalley_vol2_10810.07but you are quite mistaken.
Collins_Man_and_Wife_156590.07Anne went to the kitchen.
Alcott_An_Old-Fashioned_Girl_500.07"Yes.

Bronte_Jane_Eyre_110.17I mounted into the window-seat: gathering up my feet, I sat cross-legged, like a Turk; and, having drawn the red moreen curtain nearly close, I was shrined in double retirement.

Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_15960.07I shall not take the Dierkhof.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_24420.07What are you doing here?"

Lever_Charles_OMalley_vol1_32460.23"Only think, O'Malley, a whole brass bed, camp-stool, basin-stand, all complete, for sixty pounds!
Hillern_Only_a_Girl_17210.21In the greatest distress she walked to and fro beside the high bed, and at last brought a tall stool, from which, when she had mounted it, she could reach Ernestine.
Hugo_Les_Miserables_54040.21He stood there thoughtfully for a moment, mechanically taking pinches of powdered wood for blotting ink from the wooden bowl which stood on the table, and he added:-- "And even now that I have seen the real Jean Valjean, I do not see how I could have thought otherwise.
Schubin_Erlach_Court_Clean_4240.19Our last maid-of-all work was a dwarf not quite four feet tall, who had to mount on a stool to set the table.
Marryat_Mr._Midshipman_Easy_56270.18Mr Easy, who had had the machine raised four feet higher, for the platform and steps to be placed underneath, must have mounted on the frame modelled by the carpenter for his work, and have fixed his head in, for the knob was pressed on his bump of benevolence.
Warner_Queechy_220.18In high glee then she climbed to her seat in the little wagon, and her grandfather coming out coated and hatted with some difficulty mounted to his place beside her.
Eggleston_Hoosier_Schoolmaster_13840.17Everybody on Flat Creek seemed to be there, except the old wooden-legged basket-maker.
Bronte_Shirley_83670.17Sitting on a stool at her feet, she talked to her, first about religion and then about politics.
Bronte_Villette_1040.17there she was risen and mounted on a stool near the washstand, with pains and difficulty inclining the ewer (which she could not lift) so as to pour its contents into the basin.
Holmes_Ethelyns_Mistake_26800.16Then it began to seem real again--began to seem as if the last six years were blotted out, and things restored to what they were when Ethie was wont to sit at her aunt's feet as she was sitting now.
Lever_Tom_Burke_of_Ours_vol1_29800.16She was perfect; her leg and foot were three certain rounds of applause from the pit and gallery."
Collins_No_Name_77090.16His collars were higher than ever, and he carried a brand-new camp-stool in his hand.
Collins_No_Name_8910.15The manager perched himself, book in hand, on a stool close in front of the stage.
Collins_No_Name_79330.15He shifted the camp-stool back again, and looked at Mrs. Lecount with his ingratiating smile.
Wood_East_Lynne_112210.15He was wont, therefore to take his seat on the bow-window, and, that was not altogether convenient either, for it was but narrow, and he hardly dared move an arm or a leg for fear of pitching over on the upturned faces.
Hugo_Les_Miserables_285100.15Jean Valjean also had seen and heard, and he had silently removed his coat and flung it on the pile with the rest.
Bronte_Villette_2810.14And the mighty burden slid to the rug, and establishing itself on carpet or stool just at "papa's" feet, the white work-box and the scarlet-speckled handkerchief came into play.
Mulock_John_Halifax_Gentleman_33910.14And I was once nearly drowned in the Severn, close by."
Hugo_Les_Miserables_100590.14Beside her bed there was only one of her wooden shoes.
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_84980.14"Would you like to see a camp of bandits in repose?"
Collins_No_Name_74630.14She took a stool at his feet, and persisted in looking up at him.
Trollope_The_Way_We_Live_Now_176860.14'Perhaps I oughtn't to have promised,' he said to Squercum, sitting in the lawyer's office on a high-legged stool with a cigar in his mouth.
Alcott_An_Old-Fashioned_Girl_12540.14On a stool, at the old lady's feet, sat Polly, looking up with intent face and eager eyes, quite absorbed in the history of a high-heeled brocade shoe which lay in her lap.
Reade_Put_Yourself_in_His_Place_4460.13On their return to the drawing-room, Henry asked for a high wooden stool, or chair, and said it would be as well to pin some newspapers over the carpet.
Aguilar_The_Mothers_Recompense_vol2_26290.13On the conclusion of her song, Ellen reseated herself on the stool she had occupied at her aunt's feet, her heart too full to speak.
Harse_Luck_of_Roaring_Camp_440.13The camp rose to its feet as one man!
Alcott_Eight_Cousins_9200.13She certainly did, for Mr. Whang Lo had given her a Chinese umbrella; Uncle Alec had got some lanterns to light up her balcony; the great fan lay in her lap, and the tea-set reposed at her feet.
Wood_East_Lynne_20.13In an easy-chair of the spacious and handsome library of his town- house, sat William, Earl of Mount Severn.
Collins_No_Name_78560.13"A busy scene, Mrs. Lecount," said the captain, politely waving his camp-stool over the sea and the passing ships.
Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_213610.12And Morok paced the room in great agitation.
Hugo_Les_Miserables_27050.12On arriving at the window, Jean Valjean examined it.
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol5_39610.12Gargousse was chained as usual to the foot of the bed, and in the middle of the room stood a chair, from the back of which hung a strong cord.
Collins_No_Name_135600.12The veteran stood there, with his legs wide apart and his balance carefully adjusted, as if the dining-room had been a cabin, and the house a ship pitching in a sea-way.
Bronte_Shirley_79990.12Her study is the rug, her seat a footstool, or perhaps only the carpet at Mrs. Pryor's feet: there she always learned her lessons when a child, and old habits have a strong power over her.
Hugo_Les_Miserables_309920.11Jean Valjean, who was chiefly concerned in keeping his back to the light, let him have his way.
Braddon_Lady_Audleys_Secret_15500.11The girl was sitting on a low stool at her mistress feet.
Broughton_Nancy_16570.11I rise, on pretense of getting a little wooden stool from under an unoccupied table close to the object of my curiosity, and, as I stoop to pick it up, I fraudulently glance over the nearest warrior's shoulder.
Whitney_Real_Folks_17680.11Not a whit dismayed was she either, when the tall manservant opened to her, and admitted her into the square, high, marble-paved hall, out of which great doors were set wide into rooms rich and quiet with noble adorning and soft shading,--where pictures made such a magic upon the walls, and books were piled from floor to ceiling; and where her little figure was lost as she went in, and she hesitated to take a seat anywhere, lest she should be quite hidden in some great arm-chair or sofa corner, and Mrs. Geoffrey should not see her when she came down.
Harland_Alone_85840.11said Mrs. Diggans, dusting a wooden cricket with the convenient apron.
Blackmore_Lorna_Doone_75720.11Here there was a ledger desk, and a couple of chairs, and a long-legged stool.
Clemens_and_Warner_The_Gilded_Age_20440.10A half dozen tents were pitched under the trees, horses and oxen were corraled at a little distance, and a group of men sat on camp stools or lay on blankets about a bright fire.
Wood_East_Lynne_1590.10They took their seats at the table, Lord Mount Severn at its head, in spite of his gout and his footstool.
Harland_Alone_12250.10They were sitting thus one forenoon, when an assistant teacher drew near, and inquired if there were a vacant seat in their vicinity.
Trollope_Orley_Farm_124900.10Some few law papers there were scattered on the library table, but none of those piles of dusty documents which give to a stranger, on entering an ordinary attorney's room, so terrible an idea of the difficulty and dreariness of the profession.
Hawthorne_The_House_of_the_Seven_Gables_37310.09Now, when there needs little more than to signify your acceptance, why do you sit so lumpishly in your great-great-grandfather's oaken chair, as if preferring it to the gubernatorial one?
Yonge_Heir_of_Redclyffe_99380.07'Do you know how she is?
Yonge_Heir_of_Redclyffe_5450.07'Really!'
Warner_Wide_Wide_World_52560.07"But all alone, so far from everybody?"
Warner_Queechy_151640.07"It's oysters."
Reade_White_Lies_7180.07"Who is it?"

Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_20300.10Meanwhile he stepped up to the large table in the middle of the room and poured some water from a caraffe into a goblet.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_5120.08Hanover."

Hughes_Tom_Brown_at_Oxford_103320.26He found Tom standing with his back to the fire, while the lieutenant was sitting at the table, writing on a scrap of paper, which the landlady had produced after much hunting over of drawers.
Wood_East_Lynne_290.26Perhaps the earl himself was thinking so, as he sat there before an enormous mass of papers which strewed the library table.
The_Eichhofs_Clean_28690.24I feel convinced the pistol was discharged through carelessness, for--for--there were materials for cleaning it lying upon the table."
Porter_Scottish_Chiefs_91300.23This scheme being approved, a litter of hurdles was formed for the invalid monarch, and the old woman's pallet spread upon it.
The_Alpine_Fay_Clean_33570.23The doctor was hesitating, in fact, but Veit had already opened the cabinet, and in a few minutes the rather meagre collection of papers belonging to the late engineer was spread out on the table.
Dumas_The_Three_Musketeers_60000.22Aramis, in a black gown, his head enveloped in a sort of round flat cap, not much unlike a CALOTTE, was seated before an oblong table, covered with rolls of paper and enormous volumes in folio.
Lever_Charles_OMalley_vol1_20540.22"When they had left the room, I leisurely examined the all-important document, spreading it out before me upon the table, and surveying it as a newly-anointed sovereign might be supposed to contemplate a map of his dominions.
Collins_Woman_in_White_34270.21As she spoke she went to a side-table near the window, on which her sketching materials were placed, gathered them together carefully, and put them in a drawer of her cabinet.
Dumas_The_Three_Musketeers_94010.21"In fact," said the cardinal, placing his hand upon a bundle of papers, "I have here a whole pile which concerns you.
Collins_The_Law_and_the_Lady_68400.20I moved on its pivot the invalid-table on which she had taken her meals and written her poems, poor soul.
Disraeli_Lothair_29860.19So you see, my dear lord," speaking more briskly, and rising rather suddenly from her seat, "that for my part I think it best to arrange all that concerns one in this world while one inhabits it, and this reminds me that I have a little business to fulfil in which you can help me," and she opened a cabinet and took out a flat antique case, and then said, resuming her seat at her table: "Some one, and anonymously, has made me a magnificent present; some strings of costly pearls.
Harris_Rutledge_13420.18"I beg your pardon, sir, but you haven't had a paper in your hand since tea," I said, hunting among the piles of books and papers on the table for it.
Lever_Charles_OMalley_vol1_18790.17At these words he took a folio atlas of maps from a small table, and displayed beneath a pack of cards, dealt as if for whist.
Reade_The_Cloister_and_the_Hearth_32440.16The landlady sat on a chair an inch or two higher than the rest, between two bundles.
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_25860.16He entreated to be allowed to walk about, to have fresh air, books, and writing materials.
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_160610.16Then, instead of plunging into the mass of documents piled before him, he opened the drawer of his desk.
Collins_The_New_Magdalen_6660.16Instead, however, of seating herself to write, she stood by the table, absently looking down at the morsel of paper.
Whitney_Leslie_Goldthwaite_29680.16And I want you to take the money from that particular little corner of your purse where my carpet and wall-paper and curtains, that were to new-furnish my room on my leaving school, are metaphorically rolled up.
Stowe_Uncle_Toms_Cabin_97900.16Cassy had seated herself more composedly, and would have carried on her part very well, had not little Eliza suddenly appeared before her in exact shape and form, every outline and curl, just as her daughter was when she saw her last.
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_212330.16Then he arranged all his beautiful Turkish arms, his fine English guns, his Japanese china, his cups mounted in silver, his artistic bronzes by Feucheres and Barye; examined the cupboards, and placed the key in each; threw into a drawer of his secretary, which he left open, all the pocket-money he had about him, and with it the thousand fancy jewels from his vases and his jewel-boxes; then he made an exact inventory of everything, and placed it in the most conspicuous part of the table, after putting aside the books and papers which had collected there.
Warren_Ten_Thousand_a_Year_6300.16Three gentlemen were sitting at a large table, on which he saw, by the strong but circumscribed light of two shaded candlesticks, were lying a great number of papers and parchments.
Holmes_Tempest_and_Sunshine_48310.15In the large, handsome dining room, the supper table was neatly spread, while Aunt Dilsey bustled about with the air of one who felt her time was short, but was determined to contest every inch of ground ere yielding it to another.
DeMille_The_Cryptogram_34590.15The Earl looked over the papers.
Yonge_Heir_of_Redclyffe_98510.15There were his most prized and used books, covered with marks and written notes; there was Laura's drawing of Sintram, which had lived with him in his rooms at Oxford; there was a roll of music, and there was his desk.
Roe_What_Can_She_Do_32330.15So Edith pushed her chair back, laid seven dollars on the table, saying: "That's all the money I have in the world.
Aguilar_The_Days_of_Bruce_27170.15entreated Margaret, as clinging to his arm, she retained him a few minutes ere he placed her in the litter.
Streckfuss_Castle_Hohenwald_Clean_19710.14the Finanzrath asked, when the litter was nearly completed.
DeMille_Cord_and_Creese_31120.14A litter of papers lay all around.
The_Eichhofs_Clean_18630.14He sprang up, pushed away the case of pistols, and, going to the writing-table, took a sheet of paper, and began to write.
Lever_Tom_Burke_of_Ours_vol1_10440.14Barton sat down again, and appeared to reflect for a few minuted; then taking a roll of paper from his pocket, he began leisurely to peruse it.
Evans_Beulah_62240.14She wheeled a light table toward the hearth; but the invalid motioned it away, and answered moodily: "I am in no humor for games.
Collins_The_Law_and_the_Lady_30620.14She had her books and her writing materials on an invalid table, which worked on a pivot, and could be arranged in any position most agreeable to her.
Hawthorne_Twice_Told_Tales_33680.13On a table in the centre of the chamber stood a branched silver candlestick, throwing down the glow of half a dozen waxlights upon a paper apparently ready for the lieutenant-governor's signature.
Reade_White_Lies_48280.13At last, one afternoon, she locked herself in her own room, and, after a long contest with her pride, which, if not indomitable, was next door to it, she sat down to write him a little letter.
Evans_St_Elmo_15960.13"I left a MS. on the library table, and as it is very rare and valuable I want to replace it in the glass box where it belongs before I go to sleep."
Cooper_The_Spy_52810.13While Harper was speaking, he carefully rolled up the map he had been studying, and placed it, together with sundry papers that were also open, into his pocket.
Ouida_Under_Two_Flags_97620.13He let her draw the paper from him and fold it away in her belt.
Evans_Beulah_62980.13She threw down the roll of paper on a chair.
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_98090.13"Go on, M. Bertuccio; you will supply the want of the evening papers."
Marryat_Peter_Simple_70280.12He put a large folio packet into my hand, and went below.
Heimburg_Gertrudes_Marriage_Clean_35580.12She rested her hands on the table and looked towards the window as if it did not concern her in the least.
Hardy_Far_From_the_Madding_Crowd_48490.12Troy appeared inside, carrying a bedroom candlestick.
Collins_No_Name_126540.12He was sitting at the table in the corner -- still with his back to her, writing.
Stowe_Uncle_Toms_Cabin_19740.12He took down a candle, and lighting it, set it upon the table, and then addressed himself to Eliza.
Harland_Alone_40990.12Ida stretched herself upon a lounge, and set seriously about reasoning herself out of her despondency.
Dumas_The_Three_Musketeers_77680.12This last apartment was a sort of dark room, littered with papers.
Mulock_John_Halifax_Gentleman_93070.11He sat down and wrote: curiously the attitude and manner reminded me of his sitting down and writing at my father's table, after the bread riot--years and years ago.
Reade_Put_Yourself_in_His_Place_67190.11Mrs. Little smiled, and took a roll of paper out of her muff, that lay on the sofa.
Lever_Charles_OMalley_vol1_20990.11"'You appear warm, old gentleman,' said Casey, putting up the letter and rising from the table.
Collins_The_Moonstone_65400.11"I have something more to say on my side," he announced, bringing down the flat of his hand on the table with a bang.

Bronte_Jane_Eyre_72070.22The old-fashioned chairs were very bright, and the walnut-wood table was like a looking-glass.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_72060.21The parlour was rather a small room, very plainly furnished, yet comfortable, because clean and neat.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_16370.20The chamber looked such a bright little place to me as the sun shone in between the gay blue chintz window curtains, showing papered walls and a carpeted floor, so unlike the bare planks and stained plaster of Lowood, that my spirits rose at the view.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_72090.19There was no superfluous ornament in the room -- not one modern piece of furniture, save a brace of workboxes and a lady's desk in rosewood, which stood on a side-table: everything -- including the carpet and curtains -- looked at once well worn and well saved.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_74990.18CHAPTER XXXI My home, then, when I at last find a home, -- is a cottage; a little room with whitewashed walls and a sanded floor, containing four painted chairs and a table, a clock, a cupboard, with two or three plates and dishes, and a set of tea-things in delf.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_6960.16I stood and warmed my numbed fingers over the blaze, then I looked round; there was no candle, but the uncertain light from the hearth showed, by intervals, papered walls, carpet, curtains, shining mahogany furniture: it was a parlour, not so spacious or splendid as the drawing-room at Gateshead, but comfortable enough.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_15230.15"That is one of my paintings over the chimney-piece."
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_68470.13I could see a clock, a white deal table, some chairs.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_17860.06The furniture once appropriated to the lower apartments had from time to time been removed here, as fashions changed: and the imperfect light entering by their narrow casement showed bedsteads of a hundred years old; chests in oak or walnut, looking, with their strange carvings of palm branches and cherubs' heads, like types of the Hebrew ark; rows of venerable chairs, high-backed and narrow; stools still more antiquated, on whose cushioned tops were yet apparent traces of half-effaced embroideries, wrought by fingers that for two generations had been coffin-dust.

Wister_Marlitt_OMS_17430.26and through it were plainly seen the bare whitewashed walls and clumsy scanty furniture; it was the same small dreary room in which the child of four years of age had sobbed through her first night of childish longing for her mother.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_24330.13The marble busts still looked down unchanged from their brackets, but the genius of the place had fled from the room which Madame now entered with the air of 9. possessor.

Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_16350.26Instead, Luther’s strongly-marked features looked down from the neatly papered walls of the room; and the few articles of furniture were clean and inviting.
Wister_Marlitt_Owls_3110.18Where she now stood taking off her hat and mantle to stay was her own, her home, with its old-fashioned convenient furniture, its antique bookcase, and its odd corner-cupboards containing her grandmother's porcelain and china.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_4270.18The dear old room must have looked ridiculously enough at that time, for its walls were only whitewashed; behind the stove there was still the old worn brown wooden bench, and the tables and chairs were of rough, unplaned boards.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_17660.18There are quantities of such papers there," and he pointed to a lofty rococo cabinet. "
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_3420.17On one side the waste, empty hall, with its re-echoing marble pavement, and without one article of furniture; on the other, an apartment abounding in luxury.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_3470.15Gay curtains hung before the windows, and the gigantic stove, coarse and rude in shape, projected far into the room, and destroyed every vestige of harmony in its arrangement.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_2480.14How tottering and shabby was all that rococo furniture !
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_330.13Susie hastily picked up housecloth and broom, and betook herself to her neat and shining kitchen, there to forget the stains upon the table.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_3730.13Upon each of the four corners of the ceiling were painted the arms of the Gnadewitzes.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_55110.11Small, and low," said my aunt, raising her arm as if to touch the snowy ceiling. "
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_16610.10The table had always stood in the same place, ever since Baron Fleury had called the White Castle his own and arranged the furniture according to his pleasure; and the mahogany case was his Excellency’s inseparable traveling- companion, always to be found at his private olfice at A , when he was there himself Now, while his feet evidently avoided the little piece of furniture, he continually looked askance at it, as if some magnetic, serpent- like fascination were hid beneath the lid of the case.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_18970.10She took the box from the floor, and placed it upon the rococo " cabinet of curiosi- ties," beside which the old man sat. "
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_45950.08262 THE SECOND WIFE.

Holmes_Lena_Rivers_46860.30"It's the very best chamber in the house--Brussels carpets, marble and rosewood furniture, damask curtains.
Whitney_We_Girls_14090.28The dark stained floor, showing clean, undefaced margins,--the new, pretty drugget,--the freshly clad, broad old sofa,--the high wainscoted walls, painted in oak and walnut colors, and varnished brightly,--the ceiling faintly tinted with buff,--the buff holland shades to the windows,--the dresser-closet built out into the room on one side, with its glass upper-halves to the doors, showing our prettiest china and a gleam of silver and glass,--the two or three pretty engravings in the few spaces for them,--O, it was a great deal too nice to take for a kitchen.
Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_277430.27In the midst of all this gilded luxury, on a rich, inlaid floor of costly woods, were seen arranged in regular order four rows of beds, of every shape and kind, from the humble truckle-bed to the handsome couch in carved mahogany.
Holmes_Ethelyns_Mistake_26370.26Her house was not hard to clean, and the chambers were soon done, except Ethie's own room, where Aunt Barbara lingered longest, turning the pretty ingrain carpet the brightest side up, rubbing the furniture with polish, putting a bit of paint upon the window sills where it was getting worn, and once revolving the propriety of hanging new paper upon the wall.
Evans_Beulah_73590.26The house was small arid comfortless; the scanty furniture of the plainest kind.
Bronte_Shirley_82250.26The plaster of the parlour ceilings, the paper on the walls, the curtains, carpets, chairs, are still the same."
Hillern_Only_a_Girl_56100.26We cushion the chairs on which we sit, we plane and polish the rough wood of our furniture, we clothe the bare walls of our rooms with tapestry, we do not devour our meat raw like the Cossacks, but delicately cooked to please our palates.
Whitney_We_Girls_28410.25We did not care to carpet the dining-room; we liked the drugget and the dark wood-margins better.
Collins_No_Name_158160.25But the housekeeper declined to let us off without first looking at a singular piece of furniture, the only piece of furniture in the comfortless place.
Yonge_Heir_of_Redclyffe_73170.25He owned himself to be profoundly ignorant about upholstery matters, and his ideas of furniture seemed to consist in prints for the walls, a piano, a bookcase, and a couch for Charles.
Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_191140.25A pretty large piece of carpet, a comfortable arm-chair, some pretty-looking china on a stand of well- polished wood, some prints hung against the walls, a clock of gilt bronze, a bed, a chest of drawers, and a mahogany secretary, announced that the inhabitants of this apartment enjoyed not only the necessaries, but some of the luxuries of life.
Hugo_Les_Miserables_6970.24The bookcase was a large cupboard with glass doors filled with books; the chimney was of wood painted to represent marble, and habitually without fire.
Hughes_Tom_Brown_at_Oxford_7040.24The carpet and rug were dingy, and decidedly the worse for wear; and the college had evidently neglected to paper the room or whitewash the ceiling for several generations.
Collins_Armadale_69970.24The books which Mrs. Armadale had left behind her, the furniture, the old matting on the floor, the old paper on the walls, were all undisturbed.
Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_78160.24A greenish paper covered the walls, and a low, little iron bedstead, the head of which formed a kind of shelf, stood in one corner; a stove, fixed in the chimney-place, was surrounded by an iron grating, which forbade a near approach; a table fastened to the wall, a chair placed before this table, and also clamped to the floor, a mahogany chest of drawers, and a rush- bottomed armchair completed the scanty furniture.
Collins_The_Moonstone_56010.23My aunt's plain old-fashioned fan was on the chimney-piece.
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_154490.23The two lower rooms consisted of a dining-room, with a table, chairs, and side-board of walnut,--and a wainscoted parlor, without ornaments, carpet, or timepiece.
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_155300.23The two lower rooms consisted of a dining-room, with a table, chairs, and side-board of walnut, -- and a wainscoted parlor, without ornaments, carpet, or timepiece.
Cummins_The_Lamplighter_5120.23You haven't got any bed here, and all the chairs stand in a row, and the table shines, and the floor is so clean, and the stove is new, and the sun comes in so bright!
Warner_Queechy_47650.22There was hardly any piece of furniture, there was no book or marble or picture, that she could take leave of without a pang.
Hugo_Les_Miserables_252260.22His bookcase with glass doors was the only piece of furniture which he had kept beyond what was strictly indispensable.
The_Sign_of_Flame_Clean_1690.22A dozen straightback chairs standing in stiff rows like grenadiers, a heavy dining table, and two old-fashioned sideboards constituted all of the furniture, which, as one could see, had already served several generations.
Heimburg_A_Sisters_Love_Clean_560.22She had known it thus long since; nothing in it had been altered since her youth--the same deep arm-chairs around the table, the artistic inlaid cupboards, even the dark, stamped leather wall-paper was still the same, and the old rococo clock still ticked its low, swift to-and-fro, as if it could not make the time pass quickly enough.
Evans_St_Elmo_10020.22They looked into the parlor, with its cool matting and white curtains and polished old-fashioned mahogany furniture, but the room was unoccupied; then passing on to the library or study, where tiers of books rose to the ceiling, they saw, through the open window, the form of the pastor, who was stooping to gather the violets blooming in the little shaded garden at the rear of the house.
Auerbach_On_the_Heights_193270.22He sat down sadly on the bench before the hut, and taking up a piece of carved wood which lay on the ground, he looked at it as carefully as if it were marble and turned it again and again.
Broughton_Nancy_32260.21I look at the clock on the mantel-piece.
Harland_Jessamine_1230.21Venerable portraits adorned the walls, and the furniture belonged to the era when mahogany was plentiful and upholstery expensive, if one might judge from the disproportion in the quantity of polished wood and that of cushions.
Clemens_and_Warner_The_Gilded_Age_9450.21A dreary old hair-cloth sofa against the wall; a few damaged chairs; the small table the lamp stood on; the crippled stove--these things constituted the furniture of the room.
Warner_Queechy_55360.21A painted yellow floor under foot, a room that looked excessively _wooden_ and smelt of cheese, bare walls and a well-filled table, was all that she took in besides.
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_242090.21The room was whitewashed, as is the custom in prisons, but it looked quite brilliant to a prisoner, though a stove, a bed, a chair, and a table formed the whole of its sumptuous furniture.
Clemens_and_Warner_The_Gilded_Age_9460.21There was no carpet on the floor; on the wall were occasional square-shaped interruptions of the general tint of the plaster which betrayed that there used to be pictures in the house--but there were none now.
Hugo_Les_Miserables_331960.20Not a single piece of furniture was in its place.
Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_256550.20Some pieces of mahogany furniture, plain, but very clean and bright, stood round the room.
Macdonald_Alec_Forbes_95050.20For the holes in floor and roof had been mended; the sky-light was as clean as glass a hundred years old could be; a square of carpet lay in the middle of the floor; and cheque-curtains adorned the bed.
Collins_Armadale_25620.19The supper was badly cooked; the waiting-maid was impenetrably stupid; the old-fashioned bell-rope in the coffee-room had come down in Allan's hands, and, striking in its descent a painted china shepherdess on the chimney-piece, had laid the figure in fragments on the floor.
Holmes_Tempest_and_Sunshine_47950.19We'll have a buster," said he, "marble mantletrys, windows that come to the floor, Brussels carpets, and if you're a mind to, you may have them four-legged split things, though, Lord knows I'll never eat with them."
Braddon_Lady_Audleys_Secret_36300.19The square parlor into which Robert was ushered bore in every scrap of ornament, in every article of furniture, the unmistakable stamp of that species of poverty which is most comfortless because it is never stationary.
Warner_Queechy_47710.19Their furniture was all left behind; and in its stead went some of neat light painted wood which looked to Fleda deliciously countryfied.
Reade_The_Cloister_and_the_Hearth_114000.19The furniture in their inns is walnut, in Germany only deal.
Hillern_Only_a_Girl_89410.19Ernestine leaned against the chimney-piece, or she would have fallen.
Ouida_Under_Two_Flags_53960.19She was sitting on the edge of a grabat, hard as wood, comfortless as a truss of straw, and looking down the long hospital room, with its endless rows of beds and its hot sun shining blindingly on its glaring, whitewashed walls.
Collins_The_Moonstone_97540.18A book-case filled with dingy medical works, and ornamented at the top with a skull, in place of the customary bust; a large deal table copiously splashed with ink; wooden chairs of the sort that are seen in kitchens and cottages; a threadbare drugget in the middle of the floor; a sink of water, with a basin and waste-pipe roughly let into the wall, horribly suggestive of its connection with surgical operations-- comprised the entire furniture of the room.
Hughes_Tom_Brown_at_Oxford_59800.18He obeyed his orders, and pensively arranged the rest of the flowers in the china ornaments on the mantle-piece, and in a soup plate which he got and placed in the middle of the table, and then spent some minutes examining a pair of gloves and other small articles of women's gear which lay scattered about the room.
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol2_23670.18"Madame la Duchesse speaks of carpets, furniture, and many _et coeteras_; now we have no carpets here, and our furniture is of the most homely description.
Macdonald_Robert_Falconer_85910.18In the bed in the recess--the room unchanged, with its deal table, and its sanded floor--lay the form of his friend.
Reade_Put_Yourself_in_His_Place_87320.18However, he named a low public-house in a back slum, and there these two met that night, and for greater privacy were soon seated in a place bigger than a box and smaller than a room with discolored walls, and a rough wooden table before them splashed with beer.
Hugo_Les_Miserables_180660.18Then drawing himself up and leaning against the chimney-piece:-- "Now," said he, "we can receive the philanthropist."
Collins_The_Law_and_the_Lady_17700.18Taking the doorway wall first, what was there, in the shape of furniture, on either side of it?
Collins_Armadale_43670.18Two cane chairs and a plain table comprised the whole of the furniture.
Howells_A_Chance_Acquaintance_22120.18The chief's house was a handsome cottage, papered and carpeted, with a huge stove in the parlor, where also stood a table exposing the bead trumpery of Mrs. Ellison's scorn.

Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_2600.11As the Countess Trachenberg entered, the lady started as in terror, the flower was hastily dropped on the table, and a white kerchief thrown over the materials of her work. "

Auerbach_On_the_Heights_19390.26For a long while, Walpurga stood looking at the curtains, behind which the countess had disappeared, and at last said to Mademoiselle Kramer: "You told the truth, when you said that the palace isn't a church."
Auerbach_On_the_Heights_19500.24Mademoiselle Kramer went into the adjoining room, and Walpurga could not help feeling astonished when she observed how, in the palace, people were pushed hither and thither, just like so many chairs.
Bronte_Villette_24670.21For a looker-on, it sufficed to pass through the rooms once or twice, observe what changes were being wrought, how a green-room and a dressing-room were being contrived, a little stage with scenery erected, how M. Paul Emanuel, in conjunction with Mademoiselle St. Pierre, was directing all, and how an eager band of pupils, amongst them Ginevra Fanshawe, were working gaily under his control.
Whitney_Real_Folks_34430.18The dais was large enough for two or three to sit upon at once, and it was covered with green carpet of a small, mossy pattern, and the window was open into the butternut on one side, and into the honeysuckle on the other, and it was really a bower.
Sheppard_Charles_Auchester_vol2_8330.18Thauch sat at the head of the middle table, and we scarcely saw him otherwise or spoke to him; thus I was astonished, and rather appalled, to be called upon by him when I reached his room, which was enclosed, and where he was writing accounts.
Lever_Tom_Burke_of_Ours_vol1_80240.16The corporal having despatched the fowls to the kitchen, proceeded to arrange a little table at a short distance from where mademoiselle sat,--an arrangement, I could perceive, which called forth some rather angry looks from those around the room, and I could overhear more than one muttered Sacre!
Cooper_The_Pioneers_64300.16On a rude chair, covered with undressed deer-skins, they supported a human being, whom they seated carefully and respectfully in the midst of the assembly.
Auerbach_On_the_Heights_28980.16Mademoiselle Kramer wrapped a piece of cake in a paper, and said: "Take this to your son."
Lewald_Hulda_49250.15She was in torture ; she rose from her couch, and her glance encoun- tered Emanuel's portrait.
Hugo_Les_Miserables_6910.15Mademoiselle Baptistine had also in her own room a very large easy-chair of wood, which had formerly been gilded, and which was covered with flowered pekin; but they had been obliged to hoist this bergere up to the first story through the window, as the staircase was too narrow; it could not, therefore, be reckoned among the possibilities in the way of furniture.
Macdonald_St._George_and_St._Michael_17800.15When husband and wife had conferred for a while, the former stretched on a settee embroidered by the skilful hands of the latest-vanished countess, his mother, and the latter seated near him on a narrow tall-backed chair, mending her lace, there came a pause in their low-toned conversation, and his lordship looking up seemed anew to become aware of the presence of Dorothy.
Auerbach_On_the_Heights_19370.10The countess busied herself with the papers, and then, with cheerful voice, took leave of Walpurga.
Auerbach_On_the_Heights_17280.10Countess Irma, who sat at the lower end of the table, received the congratulations of all.
Warner_Queechy_156200.07"You?"
Hardy_Far_From_the_Madding_Crowd_11270.07"Chok' it all!

Fleming_A_Terrible_Secret_38590.26In the luxuriant depths of a puffy arm-chair, reclined Edith Darrell, as much at home, as though puffy chairs and luxuriant reclining, had ever been her normal state.
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_179400.22The lower rooms were entirely filled with Koorshid's troops; that is to say, with our enemies.
Alcott_Little_Women_48810.19Going in to exult over a fallen enemy and to praise a strong-minded sister for the banishment of an objectionable lover, it certainly was a shock to behold the aforesaid enemy serenely sitting on the sofa, with the strongminded sister enthroned upon his knee and wearing an expression of the most abject submission.
Fleming_A_Terrible_Secret_58380.17Leaning on her lover's arm, Edith Darrell walked through scores of stately rooms, immense, chill halls, picture-galleries, drawing-rooms, and chambers.
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_178380.17The lower rooms were entirely filled with Koorshid's troops; that is to say, with our enemies.
Ingelow_Fated_to_be_Free_52540.14"I have thought of one for the Reform Bill," said Emily: "get a portrait of Lord Russell, and let his scroll say, 'They've passed my bill.'"
Sheppard_Charles_Auchester_vol1_11400.11She sat as serenely as at the class, and criticised as severely as our master.
Cooper_The_Pioneers_33630.11and wasn't it a standing order to fire low, and to hull your enemy!
Stowe_Uncle_Toms_Cabin_92360.11The whooping and shouts of their pursuers were still filling the air; and, looking from the sitting-room windows, Cassy and Emmeline could see the troop, with their flambeaux, just dispersing themselves along the edge of the swamp.
Hugo_Les_Miserables_24300.10When it rained, an old woman, the portress, took pity on him; she took him into her den, where there was a pallet, a spinning-wheel, and two wooden chairs, and the little one slumbered in a corner, pressing himself close to the cat that he might suffer less from cold.
Holmes_Tempest_and_Sunshine_16960.07said Raymond.

Bronte_Jane_Eyre_70980.14She pointed to the rocking-chair: I took it.

Roe_Opening_a_Chestnut_Burr_27640.23Annie dozed away the night in a creaky old rocking-chair, the nearest approach to a thing of comfort that the hovel contained.
Whitney_Leslie_Goldthwaite_12300.23And then we walked to the upper village and bought that extraordinary chintz, and frilled and cushioned our trunks into ottomans, and curtained the dress-hooks; and Lucinda got us a rocking-chair, and Maud came in with me to sleep, and we kept our extra pillows, and we should be comfortable as queens if it wasn't for Graywacke."
Eggleston_End_of_the_World_31160.22She hushed, and sat down in her splint-bottomed rocking-chair, which snapped when she rocked, and which seemed to speak for her after she had shut her mouth.
Holmes_The_English_Orphans_18850.22Offering the seat of honor, viz., the splint-bottomed chair, Mary resumed her usual duties, occasionally casting a look of curiosity at the stranger, whose eyes seemed constantly upon her.
Collins_Woman_in_White_68890.21A chair fell on the pavement of the verandah--fell with a crash, as if it had been kicked down.
Warner_Wide_Wide_World_61580.20he asked if I would like a rocking-chair; and of course I said yes, for these other chairs are dreadful, they break my back; and there wasn't such a thing as a rocking-chair in Aunt Fortune's house, she hates 'em, she says; and this morning, the first thing I knew, in walked Mr. Van Brunt with this nice rocking-chair.
Heimburg_A_Sisters_Love_Clean_51050.19I begged the young wife, gently; 'go over to your room; I think Klaus is in a high fever, and he must have quiet."
Heimburg_A_Sisters_Love_Clean_9850.18To-night Klaus did not take his pipe from the shelf in the corner; Susanna Mattoni's delicate form sank into his comfortable easy-chair, and her small head nestled back in the cushions; but Klaus, like a true cavalier, with a chivalry that became him admirably, sat on a stool opposite her.
Harris_Rutledge_27400.18I am bored with the heat, and the whimpering of the pale children, whom a lean, sallow-looking mother feeds unremittingly with "bolivars" and "taffy;" I am tired with the swinging of those lamps overhead, and the everlasting rocking of a stout lady in a red plush rocking-chair, and with looking at the gaudy colors in the carpet, and I rush out for a brisk walk on the deck with Mr. Rutledge.
Howells_Their_Wedding_Journey_8380.18'In the Bierhauagarten I linger By the Falls of the Geneses: From the Table-Rock in the middle Leaps a figure bold and free.
Holmes_Ethelyns_Mistake_29150.18That he was a person of consequence she readily guessed, for an extra pair of pillows was taken in, and the rocking-chair possessed of two whole arms, and No.
Holmes_The_English_Orphans_32550.16The sight of her, so young, so fair, and apparently so low, hushed all selfish feelings, and a gay bridal party who had taken possession of the ladies' saloon, immediately came forward, offering it to Mr. Lincoln, who readily accepted it, and laying Rose upon the long settee, he made her as comfortable as possible with the numerous pillows and cushions he had brought with him.
Stowe_Uncle_Toms_Cabin_18640.16She sat down in her little rocking-chair before the fire, swaying thoughtfully to and fro.
Bronte_Shirley_118280.16The poor gentleman bounced from his chair, and first rushed and then trotted through the room.
Auerbach_On_the_Heights_85980.16It's just as if every chair and every table had eyes, and was looking at me and saying: 'Yes, we still know you, and have waited for you'; and now, I beg of you, do let me rest awhile."
Roe_Jest_to_Earnest_54400.15A little later, Dan, who had been oblivious of proceedings thus far, was startled by seeing Lottie rush by him, comfortably ensconced in a rocking-chair and propelled by Hemstead's powerful strokes.
Reade_Foul_Play_24600.15He sat stupefied awhile, then put on his hat and rushed to his solicitor; on the way, he fell in with a great talker, who told him there was a rumor the _Shannon_ was lost in the Pacific.
Yonge_The_Dove_in_the_Eagles_Nest_11510.15The Freiherrinn sat by the chimney, rocking herself to and fro, and holding consultation with Hatto.
Hawthorne_Twice_Told_Tales_52480.15THE SHAKER BRIDAL.
Stowe_Uncle_Toms_Cabin_29380.15A large, roomy, neatly-painted kitchen, its yellow floor glossy and smooth, and without a particle of dust; a neat, well-blacked cooking-stove; rows of shining tin, suggestive of unmentionable good things to the appetite; glossy green wood chairs, old and firm; a small flag-bottomed rocking-chair, with a patch-work cushion in it, neatly contrived out of small pieces of different colored woollen goods, and a larger sized one, motherly and old, whose wide arms breathed hospitable invitation, seconded by the solicitation of its feather cushions,--a real comfortable, persuasive old chair, and worth, in the way of honest, homely enjoyment, a dozen of your plush or _brochetelle_ drawing-room gentry; and in the chair, gently swaying back and forward, her eyes bent on some fine sewing, sat our fine old friend Eliza.
Whitney_Leslie_Goldthwaite_24890.14"I won't take this till the time comes," said Sin, laying her hand on the back of the Shaker chair.
Fleming_A_Terrible_Secret_104830.14Charley, lying back in his mother's comfortable, cushioned rocking-chair, takes it calmly.
Holmes_The_English_Orphans_24610.14The stuffed rocking chair, with two extra cushions, and a pillow, was drawn up to the table, indicating that an invalid was expected to occupy that seat, while near one of the plates was a handsome bouquet, which Lydia Knight had carefully arranged, and brought over as a present for her young teacher.
Roe_Jest_to_Earnest_20070.14When they had been to nearly all, Lottie said to her now beaming companion, "Go and get Mrs. Dlimm, and seat her in the large rocking-chair in the parlor."
Reade_Foul_Play_38220.14She rocked herself gently to and fro.
Heimburg_A_Sisters_Love_Clean_36760.14Klaus was constantly at her side.
Evans_Infelice_280.14Pray take this rocking chair."
Marryat_Mr._Midshipman_Easy_43080.13"I should like to argue the point," thought Jack, in spite of himself; and then he threw the letter on the table, and went into Gascoigne's room, displeased with his father and with himself.
Warner_Wide_Wide_World_43690.13Take off your things and lay them on that settee by the door.
Reade_It_is_Never_Too_Late_to_Mend_41500.13The man sat rocking himself to and fro, trying not to think of anything.
Broughton_Nancy_9390.13The rocking-chair has ceased rocking.
Whitney_Real_Folks_24000.13Up into her own room, in the third story, where the old furniture was, and no "fadging,"--and sat down, bonnet, gloves, sunshade, and all, in her little cane rocking-chair by the window.
Warner_Queechy_48690.13"Now aunt Lucy," said Fleda, "you are just going to put yourself down in the corner, in the rocking-chair there, with your book, and make yourself comfortable; and Hugh and I will see to all these things.
Alcott_Work_7240.13Mr. Fletcher sat down just where her hat-brim was no screen, pulled off his gloves, and leisurely composed himself for a comfortable lounge.
Hughes_Tom_Brown_at_Oxford_4140.12However, nothing happened but a little sparring, and the breakfast things were cleared away, and the tankards left on the table, and the company betook themselves to cigars and easy chairs.
Bronte_Villette_34330.12His mother filled the teapot from the urn, she drew nearer the hearth the stuffed and cushioned blue chair--her own chair by right, but I saw there was one who might with impunity usurp it.
Collins_No_Name_59570.12Sit down, Lecount; I beg you will make yourself comfortable.
The_Alpine_Fay_Clean_54490.11"I am so comfortable here in the corner with you, and if you go I shall be obliged to talk to some of these celebrities, to whom I positively have nothing whatever to say."
Eggleston_End_of_the_World_10310.11She sat down upon an old-fashioned settee with rockers, and began to rock.
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_189790.11Ah, yes; you look at my room, my four straw chairs, my images, three francs each.
Alcott_Little_Women_6610.11It aches so, I can hardly stand, and I don't know how I'm ever going to get home," she said, rocking to and fro in pain.
Bronte_Villette_7060.11Picture me then idle, basking, plump, and happy, stretched on a cushioned deck, warmed with constant sunshine, rocked by breezes indolently soft.
Whitney_Real_Folks_2460.11asked Luke, breathless, without looking up, and paddling with the shovel, from an inverted rocking-chair.
Whitney_Faith_Gartneys_Girlhood_16920.11And she sat in a rocking-chair and rocked all the time--and she says her name is Miss Battis!"
Collins_Woman_in_White_48510.11Madame Fosco sat near her, in an arm- chair, imperturbably admiring her husband, who stood by himself at the other end of the library, picking off the dead leaves from the flowers in the window.
Macdonald_St._George_and_St._Michael_47840.10Immediately below the dais, chairs were placed by the walls for the ladies and officers of the household.
Reade_The_Cloister_and_the_Hearth_11730.10"I did say so, as plain as I could speak," snapped Peter; and they growled over this small bone of contention so zealously, that they did not see Catherine and her daughter had thrown their aprons over their heads, and were rocking to and fro in deep distress.
Broughton_Nancy_9020.10asks Barbara, who, enervated by the first hot day, is languishing in the rocking-chair, slowly seesawing.
Yonge_The_Daisy_Chain_96200.07"By no means.
Warner_Wide_Wide_World_118970.07Oh, I wish you would ask Him!"

Wister_Marlitt_OMS_26120.19with Fclicitas by the old Mam’selle’s bedside.

Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_114330.38On the evening of one of the warmest days spring had yet bestowed on the inhabitants of Paris, might be seen negligently thrown upon the stone bench, a book, a parasol, and a work-basket, from which hung a partly embroidered cambric handkerchief, while at a little distance from these articles was a young woman, standing close to the iron gate, endeavoring to discern something on the other side by means of the openings in the planks, -- the earnestness of her attitude and the fixed gaze with which she seemed to seek the object of her wishes, proving how much her feelings were interested in the matter.
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_113650.36On the evening of one of the warmest days spring had yet bestowed on the inhabitants of Paris, might be seen negligently thrown upon the stone bench, a book, a parasol, and a work-basket, from which hung a partly embroidered cambric handkerchief, while at a little distance from these articles was a young woman, standing close to the iron gate, endeavoring to discern something on the other side by means of the openings in the planks,--the earnestness of her attitude and the fixed gaze with which she seemed to seek the object of her wishes, proving how much her feelings were interested in the matter.
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_77290.23Two men, seated on the movable plank on which the victim is laid, were eating their breakfasts, while waiting for the criminal.
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_77640.23Two men, seated on the movable plank on which the victim is laid, were eating their breakfasts, while waiting for the criminal.
Reade_Love_Me_Little_Love_Me_Long_21700.17She had them all dusted and brought down, and a table-cloth laid on a long table in the drawing-room, and spelled them with a good-humored patience that belonged partly to her character, partly to her sex.
Cooper_The_Pioneers_17930.14For ten or fifteen minutes the different individuals, who intended either to bestow or receive edification before the fires of the "Bold Dragoon" on that evening, were collecting, until the benches were nearly filled with men of different occupations.
Holmes_The_English_Orphans_18910.14He nodded, and seemed very much interested in two little boys who sat near him, engaged in the laudable employment of seeing which could snap spittle the farthest and the best.
Lever_Charles_OMalley_vol2_1070.13As for us, partly from exhaustion, partly to stimulate our energies, and in some degree to drown reflection, we drank deep, and when we reached the drawing-room, not only the agreeable guests themselves, but even the furniture, the venerable chairs, and the stiff old sofa seemed performing 'Sir Roger de Coverley.'
Lever_Charles_OMalley_vol1_25280.12There stood this most singular apparition, holding before her a fan about the size of a modern tea-tray; while at each repetition of her name by the servant, she curtesied deeply, bestowing the while upon the gay crowd before her a very curious look of maidenly modesty at her solitary and unprotected position.
Hillern_Only_a_Girl_23260.11By the time that his light began to fade, he had laid all his plans, and arose from his seat with the feeling of satisfaction experienced by an author who has just thought out successfully the plot of a new work.
Warner_Wide_Wide_World_80030.09Ellen was engaged in munching almonds and raisins, admiring the brightness of the mahogany, and the richly-cut and coloured glass, and silver decanter stands, which were reflected in it, when a door at the farther end of the room half-opened, a little figure came partly in, and holding the door in her hand, stood looking doubtfully along the table, as if seeking for some one.

Wister_Marlitt_OMS_25150.19There stood the basket, it still contained some music and some exercises for the piano, but the portfolios were lying open and defaced upon the brick floor, not a sheet of their contents remained.

Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_36580.30She had sent Kitty to the piano in the music-room, and was awaiting, with hands folded in her lap, the beginning of Schubert’s "Lob der Thränen."
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_36750.22The smoke of the burning paper, borne on the wind of spring, floated into the music-room; and as Flora, biting her under lip, and with a strange gleam in her eyes, stepped back from the fire-place, Kitty took her seat at the piano and began Liszt’s arrangement of the "Lob der Thränen."
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_32430.21Through the doorway 1 could see the two handsome figures standing side by side, while Dagobert sat at the piano playing the accompani- ment.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_16530.20She went into the drawing-room to resume her neglected duties at the tea-table; but Kitty remained standing by the piano, turning over some music.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_17330.20As she seated herself upon the piano-stool, which Fräulein von Giese readily vacated for her, Flora took up the notes she had placed on the music-desk, and asked, pointing to the title-page, "Who is the composer?"
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_29950.11"The grand piano will be here to-morrow, and will be placed for the present in your room."
Wister_Marlitt_Owls_7580.08The girl leaned for support against the carved end of the book-shelves as she heard her Grace say, in a tone of extreme contempt,- "Your love for this lady, Baron, is no guarantee in my eyes for the excellence of character of one who is to be my grand-daughter’s step-mother."

Holmes_Ethelyns_Mistake_8100.26It was open, too, and the sheet of music upon the rack told that it had been used.
Trollope_Orley_Farm_9240.24There's three tables, eight chairs, easy rocking-chair, music-stand, stool to match, and pair of stand-up screens, all gilt in real Louey catorse; and it goes in three boxes 4-2 by 2-1 and 2-3.
Braddon_Lady_Audleys_Secret_12130.24My lady was sitting on a music-stool before the grand piano, turning over the leaves of some new music.
Harland_At_Last_13230.24The suggestion was acceded to by acclamation, and while one gentleman led her to the grand piano which stood between the front windows of the drawing-room, and another opened a music-book which she named, a set was quickly formed in the long apartment, the soberer portion of the crowd ranging themselves along the walls as lookers-on.
Collins_The_Moonstone_86150.20CHAPTER VII At the moment when I showed myself in the doorway, Rachel rose from the piano.
Schubin_Erlach_Court_Clean_27010.20Fräulein Fuhrwesen, in her tassel-bedecked water-proof, is seated at the piano, upon the lid of which the 'Bible' lies open.
Evans_Vashti_9460.19An Erard piano occupied one corner of the parlor, and the large harp-shaped stand at its side was heaped with books and unbound sheets of music.
Evans_Macaria_23100.18She stood by the table half-irresolute, then folded down the sheet, and exposed the handsome, untroubled face.
Bronte_Shirley_20970.18And now, in the natural course of events (Caroline, knowing how it would be, had opened the piano, and produced music-books in readiness), music was asked for.
Harland_Jessamine_28230.18The piano stood open as he had left it in the morning.
Holmes_Ethelyns_Mistake_9670.18As yet, the open piano had been untouched, no one having the courage to ask Ethelyn to play; but Tim was fond of music, and unhesitatingly seating himself upon the stool, thrust one hand in his pocket, and with the other struck the keys at random, trying to make out a few bars of "Hail, Columbia!"
Holmes_Darkness_and_Daylight_33610.17By a thousand little devices she strove to put it off, and remembering that the piano was open, she walked with a faltering step across the parlor, closed the instrument, smoothed the heavy cover, arranged the sheets of music, whirled the music stool as high as she could, turned it back as low as she could, sat down upon it, crushed with her fingers two great tears, which, with all her winking she could not keep in subjection, counted the flowers on the paper border and wondered how long she should probably live.
Kingsley_Hypatia_80250.16Although he was somewhat soothed by the old woman's last speech, yet a sense of terror, of danger, of coming temptation, kept him standing sternly on his feet, looking warily round the chamber, lest a fresh siren should emerge from behind some curtain or heap of pillows.
Warren_Ten_Thousand_a_Year_34980.16You stand on a mountain; and it is for your adversary to displace you, not by showing merely that you have no real title, but that _he has_.
Yonge_Heir_of_Redclyffe_22840.16In the drawing-room, cool and comfortable in the green shade of the Venetian blinds of the bay window, stood Laura, leaning on the piano, close to Guy, who sat on the music-stool, looking thoroughly at home in his brown shooting-coat, and loosely-tied handkerchief.
Sheppard_Charles_Auchester_vol1_3470.15The wood of the mantelshelf was the same tone, and so was that of a plain piano that stood to the left of the fireplace, in the only nook that was not books from floor to ceiling; but the books began again over the piano.
Braddon_Lady_Audleys_Secret_47500.15My lady's piano was open, covered with scattered sheets of music and exquisitely-bound collections of scenas and fantasias which no master need have disdained to study.
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol5_13760.15Try!"
Roe_What_Can_She_Do_10010.14Later, light airy music floated through the rooms, followed by the rhythmic cadence of feet.
Evans_Vashti_46440.14Holding his arm for support, she drew a chair instead of the piano-stool to the instrument, and seated herself.
Collins_The_Law_and_the_Lady_95970.14In a frenzy of terror and loathing, I caught up the vile sheets of paper and threw them into the fire.
Holmes_Elsie_Venner_34470.14If, however, he or she really wishes to see the way the pieces stood as they were placed at the beginning of the game, (the Widow's gambit,) he or she had better at once take a sheet of paper, draw an oval, and arrange the characters according to the following schedule.
Cooper_The_Pioneers_59240.14They recoiled from the heat, and stood on a point of the rock, gazing in a stupor at the flames which were spreading rap idly down the mountain, whose side, too, became a sheet of living fire.
Trollope_Orley_Farm_41770.14And hence, after many inner misgivings, had arisen that purchase of a drawing-room set from Mr. Kantwise,--that set of metallic "Louey Catorse furniture," containing three tables, eight chairs, &c., &c., as to which it may be remembered that Mrs. Mason made such an undoubted bargain, getting them for less than cost price.
Heimburg_Gertrudes_Marriage_Clean_6880.14And with astounding agility she turned over the things on the consumptive little piano and tossed the antique sheets of music about.
Harris_Rutledge_39680.14There were notes and cards on the table, and a lovely basket of violets; the piano was open, and some new music lay on it.
Alcott_Little_Men_45140.13At last, after much rustling, hammering, and very audible directions from the stage manager, the curtain rose to soft music, and Bess was discovered sitting on a stool beside a brown paper fire-place.
Schubin_Erlach_Court_Clean_4040.13Meanwhile, Stella goes on in the same satirical tone: "As soon as some one of these æsthetic proprietors has come to a decision as to where the piano is to stand, we shall certainly be invited to admire the new furniture.
Roe_Opening_a_Chestnut_Burr_32280.13"Like the multiplication table set to music."
DeMille_Cord_and_Creese_62280.13But you know, also, that I could not sit down idly and calmly under this conviction.
Whitney_Faith_Gartneys_Girlhood_1000.13As she spoke, she withdrew a little within the curtained archway, and, placing the crimson-covered book of destiny upon an inlaid table, brought forward a piano stool, and seated herself thereon, as a priestess upon a tripod.
Evans_St_Elmo_32710.13Edna was arranging some sheets of music that were scattered on the piano; but as he mentioned the hour of his return, she remembered that the clock struck one just as she went into the sitting-room where he kept his books and cabinets; and she knew now that he was at that very time in the inner room, beyond the arch.
Trollope_Orley_Farm_27360.12The table was quite sprung, and the music-stool wouldn't twist."
Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_15100.12That done, I crept back into my cellar, carrying my stool with me.
Reade_The_Cloister_and_the_Hearth_187540.12"Who grudges a brave soldier supper and bed?
Collins_The_Moonstone_55970.12My aunt's favourite musical pieces were on the piano.
Evans_St_Elmo_52680.12When they reached home the children begged for some music, and placing her hat on a chair, Edna sat down before the piano, and played and sang; while Felix stood leaning on his crutches, gazing earnestly into the face of his teacher.
The_Eichhofs_Clean_32260.11From the grand piano to the smallest footstool, all was perfect of its kind.
Trollope_Orley_Farm_9500.11"It's the real Louey catorse," said Mr. Kantwise, stooping down to go on with table number two, which was, as he described it, a "chess," having the proper number of blue and light-pink squares marked upon it; but this also had been made Louey catorse with reference to its legs and edges.
Sheppard_Charles_Auchester_vol1_3480.11All this wood, so darkly striking the eye, had an indescribably soothing effect (upon me I mean), and right glad was I to see Mr. Davy seat himself upon a little brown bench before the piano and open it carefully.
Reade_Put_Yourself_in_His_Place_101130.08There was a pair of old-fashioned bellows by the side of the fire; Amboyne seized them, and opened Jael's mouth with more ease than he expected.
Yonge_Heir_of_Redclyffe_112760.07'Philip,' said she, 'you must let me have this piano.'
Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_203140.07"I believe you!
Sheppard_Charles_Auchester_vol1_35500.07We will therefore go now."
Reade_A_Terrible_Temptation_89780.07Laws!
Macdonald_St._George_and_St._Michael_55590.07'A soldier and seatless!'
Lever_Tom_Burke_of_Ours_vol1_47870.07But come, come!
Hugo_Les_Miserables_294060.07What were they?
DeMille_The_Dodge_Club_22930.07Not one.
Blackmore_Lorna_Doone_77880.07"Then there is no help for thee."

Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_11530.19Frau von Herbeck sat crouched, in spite of the sultry atmosphere outside, shivering and sighing, in one of the spindle-legged arm-chairs.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_31410.16Yes, there it is; it had got wedged in behind the bureau, and when we moved the bureau away to make room for your writing-table, Herr Markus, the rogue clattered down upon the floor.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_22130.15Outside of it stood Herr von Walde, with his arms leaning upon the broad sill looking in.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_33120.15Herr Claudius opened this odd piece of antique furni- ture and drew out a shallow tray, whereon lay rows of such medals as my father had told me were so rare, neatly arranged on dark velvet.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_32520.11In the recess of a side window sat Herr Claudius entirely alone.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_46840.10The old lady herself took nothing, she sat silently by my side " Is Herr Claudius in danger out there ?"
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_25170.10Herr Claudius permitted the unpacking and arrangement of the objects of art, and placed apartments in the lower story at my father's disposal, granting him, also, entire command of the library.

Lever_Tom_Burke_of_Ours_vol2_22210.19Whether from thoughtless inattention or studied affectation I cannot say, but at that moment, when all stood in respectful silence before the Emperor, Duchesne had approached the grille of the Palace, next to the Place du Carrousel, and was busily chatting with a pretty-looking girl, who, with a number of others, sat in a hired calèche.
Trollope_Orley_Farm_30720.17Let Von Bauhr have his pedestal among the flowers, even though it be small and humble!
Hillern_Only_a_Girl_27140.14She went upstairs with Leuthold; and, when seated upon the couch in his study, she could not but observe the comfortable, cosy arrangement of the room, the delicate cleanliness and order reigning in it; while upon the table before her lay several exercise-books labelled "Ernestine von Hartwich."
Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_46660.13Agricola, that he might not wound her delicacy, had come to a secret arrangement with the housekeeper, and hired a garret for her, just large enough to hold a small bed, a chair, and a table; for which the sempstress had to pay five shillings a year.
The_Eichhofs_Clean_14830.13When Herr von Rosen entered his daughter's room she joyfully bade him welcome, and took from him a package of books that he had under his arm.
Lever_Tom_Burke_of_Ours_vol2_19280.12It was Duchesne himself, who for some time had been seated behind my chair and looking on at the game.
Lewald_Hulda_7270.11The more she reproached, the more they laughed, the gayer grew their humour, until Clarissa finished by throwing her arms around hei' " darling old Kennej" and assuring her that no one would enjoy the new arrangement of the rooms more than their occupant ; after which the young people departed to dress for dinaer.
Clemens_and_Warner_The_Gilded_Age_74490.10It set forth Laura's threats, but there was a significant addition to it, which the newspaper report did not have.
Cooper_The_Prairie_43800.10The old man took his seat, with the utmost deliberation, in the vessel of skin (so soon as it had been duly arranged for his reception), and having carefully disposed of Hector between his legs, he beckoned to his companion to occupy the third place.
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_242100.10Bertuccio sat down upon the chair, Andrea threw himself upon the bed; the keeper retired.

Bronte_Jane_Eyre_41580.14"Sit," he said; "the bench is long enough for two.

Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_19570.29Upon the stone bench under the tree Bertha was sitting, apparently quite composed, trimming carrots.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_31170.18Her embarrassment was relieved, however, by the forester's wife bringing out a cane chair ; she placed Leo upon the bench and herself took the chair.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_30880.12The young wife in her light summer dress wight well have passed for the forester's fair daughter, so maidenly and young did she look sitting under the tree, while the forester's huge striped cat, showing small respect for Liana's air aw hat, which was lying beside her, occupied the other half of the bench.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_31110.11he said, taking a seat upon the bench, carefully pushing the cat only a little aside, that her rights might not be too much infringed.

Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol2_41620.28And, seeing these two ill-looking strangers come closer to his working-bench, on which his precious stones were still lying, Morel, fearful of some evil intentions, ran towards the table, and covered the jewels with his two hands.
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_64430.27He stretched forth his hand, and touched stone; he rose to his seat, and found himself lying on his bournous in a bed of dry heather, very soft and odoriferous.
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_64560.27He stretched forth his hand, and touched stone; he rose to his seat, and found himself lying on his bournous in a bed of dry heather, very soft and odoriferous.
Eggleston_Hoosier_Schoolmaster_15820.25All at once he became conscious that Shocky sat yet in his accustomed place upon the hard, backless bench.
Hawthorne_Twice_Told_Tales_26300.24Beneath the window is a wooden bench on which a long succession of weary wayfarers have reposed themselves.
Hugo_Les_Miserables_40760.22Moreover, the cat and the dog were her habitual table-companions; Cosette ate with them under the table, from a wooden bowl similar to theirs.
Eggleston_Hoosier_Schoolmaster_3980.21But on one of the backless little benches that sat in the middle of the school-room was little Shocky, who also cast many love glances at the young master; glances as grateful to his heart as Mirandy's ogling--he was tempted to call it ogring--was hateful.
Cooper_The_Deerslayer_20420.19As the sun drew near the horizon he repaired to the rock, where, on emerging from the forest, he was gratified in finding the Ark lying, apparently in readiness to receive him.
Hughes_Tom_Brown_at_Oxford_45570.19Meantime, the crowd of small ragged urchins had filled the room, and were swarming on to the benches and squabbling for the copy-books which were laid out on the thin desks.
Longfellow_Hyperion_14520.18Under them, on a bench at the door, sit school-girls; and barefoot urchins in breeches are spelling out their lessons.
Warren_Ten_Thousand_a_Year_4400.18Mr. Titmouse did not, on reaching his room, take off and lay aside his precious Sunday apparel with his accustomed care and deliberation.
Hillern_Only_a_Girl_21170.17Rieka was carefully pushing along the rolling-chair, which, after so long affording shelter to the cats and chickens, had lately been recushioned and repaired.
Harris_Rutledge_2570.16The slender vases on the mantel, the pictures in their carved oak frames, had an inexpressible charm for eyes so long accustomed to the bare walls and wooden presses of a boarding school dormitory.
Clemens_and_Warner_The_Gilded_Age_71440.16The Sunday School children occupied ten of the front benches.
Macdonald_Robert_Falconer_111610.16Then he went to a corner of his sitting-room, and from beneath the table drew out a long box, and from the box lifted Dooble Sandy's auld wife, tuned the somewhat neglected strings, and laid the instrument on the table.
Yonge_The_Daisy_Chain_27870.15"He went on with Mr. Ernescliffe, and saw it all," said Ethel, as her father drew out her words, apparently with his eye; "and then came up to my room so faint that he was obliged to lie on the floor ever so long."
Bronte_Villette_92370.15Pere Silas stooped over the seat with its single occupant, the rustic bench and that which sat upon it: a strange mass it was--bearing no shape, yet magnificent.
Harris_Rutledge_3550.15That, since the occupation of that _some one_, the room had never been arranged or touched, seemed evident, from the confusion and disorder that prevailed.
Hugo_Les_Miserables_96650.15In the meantime, the man, laying his bundle and his cudgel on a bench, had seated himself at a table, on which Cosette made haste to place a bottle of wine and a glass.
The_Sign_of_Flame_Clean_51100.14The Chief Forester, who had accepted a seat in the meantime, leaned back comfortably in his chair.
Collins_Man_and_Wife_164090.14We had cleared our way so far through this last--in certain places where the repairs were most needed--that we had to be careful not to burst through the paper in the room on the other side.
Bronte_Shirley_61410.14Long lines of benches were arranged in the close-shorn fields round the school.
Hugo_Les_Miserables_34160.14A large but ugly room, with an alcove and a bed at the end (they had been obliged to put up with this accommodation in view of the Sunday crowd); two windows whence they could survey beyond the elms, the quay and the river; a magnificent August sunlight lightly touching the panes; two tables; upon one of them a triumphant mountain of bouquets, mingled with the hats of men and women; at the other the four couples seated round a merry confusion of platters, dishes, glasses, and bottles; jugs of beer mingled with flasks of wine; very little order on the table, some disorder beneath it; "They made beneath the table A noise, a clatter of the feet that was abominable," says Moliere.
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol3_15240.14Although his hand-wheel was placed on the other side of his working-table, and he had not in his hands either stones or tools, yet the occupied artisan was feigning the operations of his daily labour, and affecting to use his implements.
Stowe_Uncle_Toms_Cabin_27980.14"S'pose you'd be selling him tol'able cheap," said the stranger, mounting the pile of boxes, and sitting down comfortably.
Hawthorne_Scarlet_Letter_10390.12Whether moved only by her ordinary freakishness, or because an evil spirit prompted her, she put up her small forefinger and touched the scarlet letter.
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol2_43610.12"I cannot leave these diamonds about in this manner,--my wife is half distracted," cried Morel, pointing to the stones lying on his work-table.
Whitney_Leslie_Goldthwaite_2550.12It is a Sunday put off, too probably, with but odds and ends of thought as well as apparel.
Ingelow_Fated_to_be_Free_43600.12"Yes; she has rheumatism in her foot; so that she is obliged to sit up-stairs.
Hillern_Only_a_Girl_76080.12Frau Leonhardt sat upon the bench by the stove.
Hillern_Only_a_Girl_16530.12The servant removed the dinner-table; Gretchen amused herself on the floor with some paper, which she tore into a thousand fragments, to make a mimic snow-storm; and Bertha tried on before the mirror several articles of mourning-apparel, which she had had in readiness for some time.
Ingelow_Fated_to_be_Free_61520.11She made out that he was sitting on the wooden bench his boys had carved for him.
Hillern_Only_a_Girl_86110.11Mllner sat down upon the bench before the house and took Kthchen upon his knee.
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_29030.11As the stranger asked the question, he dragged the table beneath the window.
Bronte_Villette_65500.11It was very well for Ginevra to be gummed to me, "keeping herself warm," as she said, on the winter evenings, and harassing my very heart with her fidgetings and pokings, obliging me, indeed, sometimes to put an artful pin in my girdle by way of protection against her elbow; but I suppose M. Emanuel was not to be subjected to the same kind of treatment, so I swept away my working materials, to clear space for his book, and withdrew myself to make room for his person; not, however, leaving more than a yard of interval, just what any reasonable man would have regarded as a convenient, respectful allowance of bench.
Cooper_Last_of_the_Mohicans_44190.11A fierce growl repelled the eavesdropper, and then the scout boldly threw open the covering of bark, and left the place, enacting the character of a bear as he proceeded.
Cooper_The_Pioneers_19030.11Mohegan found a place on an end of one of the benches, and somewhat approximated to the bar.
Ebers_Bride_of_Nile_Clean_2610.10Haschim was sitting in shadow; he could see without being seen, and note all that took place on the bench, which was lighted by one of the barge's lanterns.
Reade_Love_Me_Little_Love_Me_Long_74480.07She wanted to think on what she had done.
Macdonald_Robert_Falconer_15710.07'Robert.'
Hughes_Tom_Brown_at_Oxford_119060.07"No.
Evans_Beulah_95430.07Can this be all?
Alcott_Little_Men_28490.07"Yes."

Bronte_Jane_Eyre_34870.21"Indeed, mama, but you can -- and will," pronounced the haughty voice of Blanche, as she turned round on the piano-stool; where till now she had sat silent, apparently examining sundry sheets of music.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_37920.15He sat down, and made me sit beside him.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_68920.14said she, "it fair troubles me to go into yond' room now: it looks so lonesome wi' the chair empty and set back in a corner."
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_27470.12I was about to address her, for I wished to know what account had been given of the affair: but, on advancing, I saw a second person in the chamber -- a woman sitting on a chair by the bedside, and sewing rings to new curtains.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_13060.11I saw the outline of a form under the clothes, but the face was hid by the hangings: the nurse I had spoken to in the garden sat in an easy-chair asleep; an unsnuffed candle burnt dimly on the table.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_18350.11The conversation, thus turned on Adele, continued till we reached the light and cheerful region below.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_74260.09I asked.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_15900.09"How do you do, my dear?

Wister_Marlitt_OMS_11150.15She went back to the round table near the cabinet, where she had been counting the money, and, as if nothing had happened, finished her work.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_38040.09John!"
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_21920.09"It is quite in your power to do so."

Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_13630.21And, as he spoke, he turned and went into the corner room.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_44860.16Only one shy glimpse towards the corner window, where stood the doctor’s writing-table.
Wister_Marlitt_Owls_3330.15She looked round; before her sat Lothar. '
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_55820.12She was sitting among a group of ferns just where I had sat on the evening when I told about my grandmother.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_42990.11And I cannot leave Schnwerth before the questions now opened are settled and the coming strife concluded."
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_41220.11Upon the table stood a salver of refreshments, and Helene’s corner of the sofa was arranged for her.
Wister_Marlitt_Owls_2170.11He had spent long nights at the gaming-table, and had sacrificed huge sums there.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_16600.11He went to the tea-table to talk with Henriette, but one of the newly-arrived ladies detained him in conversation.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_16660.10On the threshold he turned round once more, the night wind blew in a strong draught between the opened door and the opposite window, and stirred the flame of the lamp upon the Writing-table,—it flared very near to the curtain.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_16600.10He seemed to have a kind of horror of a certain delicate table near the window, upon whose round top was a small mahogany case.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_47440.10Oh, the thing delights me for old Falkenberg’s sake," she said, in a whisper, to another young lady who sat at the window embroidering.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_110.09The outer walls might mimic poverty and simplicity, but surely it was impossible to eat from deal tables, or to rest from play upon wooden benches.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_6280.08One afternoon they were all sitting together at their coffee.

Heimburg_A_Sisters_Love_Clean_22650.27"I was silent and so were the others; we finished the meal in silence, and then sat silent about the table in the sitting-room, without a suspicion of what was happening meanwhile.
Trollope_Can_You_Forgive_Her_33570.24As Alice had questioned her at the breakfast table she would say nothing about it then, but waited till the teacups were withdrawn, and till the maid had given her last officious poke to the fire.
Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_68590.24Then, addressing the marquis, the doctor, and the baron, she said to them, "Pray, be seated, gentlemen," and they all took their places round the table.
Trollope_Orley_Farm_139380.23And then they both sat silent in the gig till they came to the corner of Noningsby wall.
Alcott_Little_Women_60660.23Oh, dear, I wish I hadn't asked you to speak, Mama," said May, looking disconsolately at the empty spaces on her table.
Trollope_Can_You_Forgive_Her_81070.22He was sitting at breakfast in his study there, and opposite to him, lounging in an arm-chair, with a _Quarterly_ in his hand, was the most intimate of his friends, Frank Seward, a fellow of the college to which they had both belonged.
Heimburg_A_Sisters_Love_Clean_54720.22Then we sat silent about the table.
Roe_Barriers_Burned_Away_76860.22Then she added, sharply, "Please don't stand there keeping our friends waiting"; and she led the way into the lecture-room, now filled with tables and hungry people.
Wister_Schillingscourt_5770.21Meanwhile, Baron Schilling had approached the piano, where he stood turning over some sheets of music.
Trollope_Can_You_Forgive_Her_104900.21For a few minutes he sat silent, fingering some article belonging to her which was lying on the table.
Sheppard_Charles_Auchester_vol1_32160.21Then the little one came down and into the room, shy of Santonio, and keeping behind his chair, as he murmured "Good-night" to Aronach.
Macdonald_Robert_Falconer_112420.21Robert had come in, and after a little talk was sitting silent at the opposite corner of the chimney-piece.
Lever_Tom_Burke_of_Ours_vol2_21530.21"_Parbleu!_ I believe you," said he, laughing; "nor did I, till you sat on the bench, when I was so pleased with your coolness, I could not for the life of me interrupt you."
Trollope_Orley_Farm_64520.21Dearest, dearest friend; dearest of all friends,"--and then she knelt before him, leaning on his knees, as he sat in his accustomed large arm-chair.
Wood_East_Lynne_80760.21"And why did you not turn the tables, and set the officers upon him?"
Roe_Opening_a_Chestnut_Burr_56880.21It would be a neat way of turning the tables on Hunting."
Reade_The_Cloister_and_the_Hearth_169610.21Look round the street, look round the parish.
Bronte_Shirley_28160.21You can talk, I suppose, as well sitting as standing?"
Blackmore_Lorna_Doone_96430.21And that was the place where I had been used to sit, and to watch for Lorna.
Reade_Foul_Play_30.21In the center, bristling and gleaming with silver and glass, was a round table, at which fourteen could have dined comfortably; and at opposite sides of this table sat two gentlemen, who looked as neat, grave, precise, and unromantic, as the place: Merchant Wardlaw, and his son.
Whitney_The_Other_Girls_69130.20She gave the girls freely to understand that a friend or two happening in now and then to see them, were as welcome to their down-stairs table as her own happeners in were to hers.
Sheppard_Charles_Auchester_vol2_41100.20I could not speak, and we both sat silent, side by side, until the sun in setting streamed into the room.
Evans_Beulah_53650.20The lamp was brought in and the fire renewed, and the two friends sat by the hearth, silent, quiet.
Collins_Man_and_Wife_164020.20The place that his bed happened to be set in (which I had never remarked particularly before) seemed, in a manner of speaking, to force itself on my notice now.
Dumas_The_Three_Musketeers_118490.19Felton sat down upon an armchair which happened to be near the door, and waited without speaking a word, without making a gesture.
Heimburg_A_Sisters_Love_Clean_9800.19"Klaus talked to Susanna, who sat opposite him.
Collins_No_Name_144280.19Magdalen set the candle on the table again, and watched him.
Streckfuss_Castle_Hohenwald_Clean_54450.18In an arm-chair before a table, upon which stood his beloved brandy-flask, sat the Baron de Nouart.
Roe_Jest_to_Earnest_47080.18Their friends waved them off with numberless good wishes, and then from their windows watched till the boat seemed quite across, before drawing the curtains and concluding that all was well.
Heimburg_A_Sisters_Love_Clean_6050.18"She wishes to be alone with her thoughts," remarked Aunt Rosamond at the supper table, where she and Klaus sat, right and left of the absent one's place.
Sheppard_Charles_Auchester_vol1_20410.18And thus we talked and laughed until Santonio had finished his coffee, quite as if no one was either in that room or in the next.
Lever_Tom_Burke_of_Ours_vol2_29080.18"Come, sit down to your breakfast; and perhaps when we talk it over some plan may present itself for your exchange."
Trollope_Orley_Farm_16650.18She would have exchanged them all with a happy heart for very moderate accommodation at Margate, could she have seen Mr. Furnival's blue nose on the other side of the table every morning and evening as she sat over her shrimps and tea.
Ingelow_Fated_to_be_Free_8350.18Peter's little love, a fair and dimpled creature, was forthwith accommodated with a chair close to her godfather, while the twins withdrew to practise their duets, and more viands were placed on the table.
Collins_No_Name_58130.18She placed a chair for herself exactly on a line with Magdalen's, and sat so close to the wall as to force her visitor either to turn her head a little further round toward the window, or to fail in politeness by not looking at the person whom she addressed.
Macdonald_Robert_Falconer_91500.18At this moment he sat silent--a rock against which the noisy waves of a combative Bible-reader were breaking in rude foam.
Heimburg_A_Sisters_Love_Clean_42010.18And then she sat in Klaus's chair for perhaps a quarter of an hour, without speaking a word, her hands folded on the table, her eyes cast down.
Alcott_An_Old-Fashioned_Girl_2710.18They nodded affably when Fanny introduced her, said something civil, and made room for her at the table round which they sat waiting for Monsieur.
Sheppard_Charles_Auchester_vol1_30410.17He drew me after him gently and carefully to the first floor, and again to the second without speaking, and then we stood still to take breath.
Mulock_John_Halifax_Gentleman_84000.17He turned abruptly, and saw all the chairs placed round the table-- all save one.
Heimburg_Gertrudes_Marriage_Clean_29740.17Frank Linden gave his friend a cigar and took one himself, though he did not light it, and as he sat down again he said: "You can ask that?
Warner_Wide_Wide_World_70310.17Ellen was not suffered to help, nor even to stand and see what was doing, so she sat down in the corner by her old friend Mrs. Van Brunt, and with her head in her lap watched by the firelight the busy figures that went back and forward, and Mr. Van Brunt, who still sat working at his bits of board.
Collins_Woman_in_White_8470.17Mrs. Vesey took her dimpled hands off the edge of the table and crossed them on her lap instead; nodded contemplatively at the boiled chicken, and said, "Yes, dear."
Collins_Man_and_Wife_66680.17The talk in the library--aimless and empty enough, for the most part--was talk to the purpose, in one corner of the room, in which Sir Patrick and Blanche were sitting together.
Bronte_Shirley_111360.17Freedom is mine till then; till then I may occupy her room, sit opposite her chair, rest my elbow on her table, have her little mementoes about me.
Trollope_Orley_Farm_53760.16Do you think that I could sit down to table with you all after that?
Collins_Woman_in_White_67630.16"Why don't you come in and sit down?"
Collins_The_Law_and_the_Lady_56620.16We sat watching one another.
Broughton_Nancy_66380.16It is a round table.
Bronte_Villette_97460.16"Must we sit down here and wait?"

Bronte_Jane_Eyre_26670.15If you are not warm enough, you may take my cloak yonder; wrap it about you, and sit down in the arm-chair: there, -- I will put it on.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_15480.11All this is visible to you by the light of an oil lamp hanging from the ceiling, and by that of an excellent fire, near which I sit in my cloak and bonnet; my muff and umbrella lie on the table, and I am warming away the numbness and chill contracted by sixteen hours' exposure to the rawness of an October day: I left Lowton at four o'clock a.m., and the Millcote town clock is now just striking eight.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_94090.07"Because I had come in, in Mary's stead, with the tray."

Wister_Marlitt_OMS_13410.12The gay chintz curtains had shared a kindred fate with the garlands,—they had been sacrificed to the Professor’s love of light,—several coarse, brilliantly-coloured battle pieces which had adorned the walls had been removed, and instead, just above the writing-table, hung a copperplate engraving, rescued from some dark corner of the house,—an exquisite picture of a young mother wrapping her child tenderly in her own fur-lined cloak.

Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_23310.11Mainau was approaching; probably to bring from the house the shawl that the duchess had laid aside there.
Wister_Marlitt_Owls_6030.08All has gone here!"

Lever_Charles_OMalley_vol2_8390.29The next thing to do was to make himself comfortable for the night; and then he made a roaring fire on the ould hearth,--for there was plenty of bog-fir there,--closed the windows with the black cloaks, and wrapping two round himself, he sat down to cook a little supper he brought with him in case of need.
Evans_Macaria_36400.27Irene went to her own apartment, which adjoined Electra's, put on her bonnet and veil, and, though the night was warm, wrapped a shawl about her.
Harris_Rutledge_22480.20I told her I should never have the least respect for her again, if she lost her courage now, and then I talked to her a little _à la_ Shenstone, and then rallied her a little _à la_ myself, and finally sent her off, quite staunch again, to meet her offended mistress, while I employed the time in taking off my bonnet and cloak, and arranging the different articles that I had brought back, in the drawers.
Lever_Charles_OMalley_vol2_8420.19There was the great black coffin on three chairs in one corner; and then the mourning cloaks that he had stuck up against the windows moved backward and forward like living things; and outside, the wild cry of the plover as he flew past, and the night-owl sitting in a nook of the old church.
Hughes_Tom_Brown_at_Oxford_67970.19The breakfast things were still on the table, at which sat Miss Winter, in her bonnet, employed in examining the bill, with the assistance of Mary, who leant over her shoulder.
Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_177120.18So, Florine, quick!--my cloak and bonnet, and the carriage.
Collins_Man_and_Wife_171520.18She removed her bonnet and mantle, and sat down to rest.
Collins_The_Law_and_the_Lady_41240.17I put on my hat and shawl, and took the Report of the Trial under my arm.
Bronte_Villette_89230.17I think he looked round; could I but have caught his eye, courage, I think, would have rushed in to aid feeling, and there would have been a charge, and, perhaps, a rescue; but already the room was all confusion, the semicircle broken into groups, my figure was lost among thirty more conspicuous.
Sheppard_Charles_Auchester_vol1_22830.16The camp-stool was for her, as I always reposed on the grass, wrapped in a veritable tartan.
Harris_Rutledge_42520.16Kitty, busying herself about putting away my bonnet and shawls, chatted on eagerly.
Evans_Beulah_101550.16"I will go down to him immediately," was the cheerful answer, and, putting away her bonnet and shawl, she went at once to the library.
Braddon_Lady_Audleys_Secret_50560.16She went back into her dressing-room, and put on her cloak and bonnet for the second time.
Evans_Infelice_28290.16Concealing the shawl and bonnet, and gathering up the most conspicuous fragments of glass on the hearth, she put them out of sight, and hurried to Mrs. Palma's room.
Yonge_The_Daisy_Chain_66600.15Moreover, to the extreme satisfaction of Mary, she left her crochet-needle on the floor at night.
Wood_East_Lynne_4760.15Barbara, listless still, went into the hall, took a woolen shawl from the stand there, threw it over her shoulders, and went out.
Lever_Charles_OMalley_vol2_8630.15There he was, divil a lie in it, wrapped up in one of the mourning cloaks, trying to warm his hands at the fire.
Bronte_Villette_52720.15Making the women stand apart, I undressed their mistress, without their well-meaning but clumsy aid.
Macdonald_Robert_Falconer_61770.15THE LAST OF THE COALS.
Holmes_The_English_Orphans_36560.15The next morning Mary was to leave, and as she stood in the parlor talking with Ida, George came in with a travelling satchel in his hand, and a shawl thrown carelessly over his arm.
Harris_Rutledge_7290.15I am afraid to go to my trunk to put it away, for Dorothy, the cook, sleeps in the room where we keep our trunks, and she's just gone upstairs."
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_68330.15Cucumetto placed his sentinels for the night, and the bandits wrapped themselves in their cloaks, and lay down before the fire.
Warner_Wide_Wide_World_70640.14Loud talking and laughing--a vast deal of unrobing--pushing back and pulling up chairs on the hearth--and Nancy and Ellen running in and out of the room with countless wrappers, cloaks, shawls, comforters, hoods, mittens, and moccasins.
Hughes_Tom_Brown_at_Oxford_75010.14Or, why not put Katie upstairs?"
Evans_Macaria_33910.14My shawl was thick and warm."
Collins_Armadale_28270.14Can you sit by yourself, if I put you against the bulwark, so?"
Bronte_Shirley_52030.14I shall take the liberty, then, of removing my bonnet, without being asked."
Warner_Queechy_53170.14Linking her arm within his she went back to the deserted kitchen premises to see how her promise about taking Mary's place was to be fulfilled.
Evans_Inez_27560.14Mr. Carlton had placed Mary in the wagon, and carefully arranged her shawls that she might rest easily.
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_247730.14"The sitting is adjourned, gentlemen," said the president; "fresh inquiries will be made, and the case will be tried next session by another magistrate."
Evans_Vashti_18800.14The mistress of the house sat with her back turned towards him, and was apparently absorbed in putting purple shadows into the folds of a mantle that hung from the shoulders of a kneeling figure on the canvas.
Yonge_The_Daisy_Chain_45340.13She leaves her books in all parts of the school-room for Mary to put away, and her table drawer is one mass of confusion.
Trollope_Orley_Farm_89460.13After a while she got herself a shawl, wrapped it close around her, and then sat down again.
Heimburg_A_Sisters_Love_Clean_57600.13She let bonnet and cloak be taken off, and sat down on the sofa.
Evans_Beulah_70620.13"Yes; heartily tired," said she, wrapping her shawl about her.
Holmes_The_English_Orphans_11920.13But as no one made her any reply, she quietly resumed her work, appropriating to her own use the only tallow candle there was burning, and leaving Billy and Mary to see as best they could by the firelight.
Fleming_A_Terrible_Secret_22410.13She looked up and down to see if the coast was clear, then put her shawl over her head, and walked very fast to the opposite end, downstairs and out of the side door.
Hugo_Les_Miserables_330680.12Should he present himself there, as though he had a right, and should he seat himself, veiled, at that luminous fireside?
Collins_No_Name_43290.12She laid aside her cloak and bonnet, and sat down to collect herself.
Collins_Armadale_146110.12I tossed off my cloak and bonnet, and sat down once more at the window.
Evans_Beulah_52760.12Beulah threw down her bonnet and shawl, and, retreating to the hearth, began to warm her fingers, as she replied, with indifference: "I have just left another of your patients.
Dumas_The_Three_Musketeers_104010.12Athos called Grimaud, pointed to a large basket which lay in a corner, and made a sign to him to wrap the viands up in the napkins.
Evans_St_Elmo_17710.12He glanced round the room, and taking his grey travelling shawl from a chair where he had thrown it, laid it in a heap on the marble tiles, and said: "Yes, this floor is icy.
Wood_East_Lynne_58340.11She drew her light shawl around her shoulders, and swept down the staircase.
Wood_East_Lynne_148950.11"It is lying by my side, under the shawl, quiet little sleeping thing."
Fleming_Norines_Revenge_10970.11She blew out her lamp, wrapped a shawl about her, and sat down by the window.
Collins_Armadale_143580.11I put on my bonnet and went downstairs, and left the house as if nothing had happened.
Whitney_Faith_Gartneys_Girlhood_5260.11And then she went down and tented over the crib with an old woolen shawl, and set a high-backed rocking chair to keep the draft from Herbert, and opened the window "a teenty crack."
Lever_Charles_OMalley_vol1_65460.11I wrapped myself in my trooper's mantle, and lay down beneath a tree,--but not to sleep.
Trollope_Orley_Farm_158520.10Then Mrs. Smiley was welcomed;--her bonnet was taken from her and her umbrella, and she was encouraged to spread herself out over the sofa.

Bronte_Jane_Eyre_17420.15After breakfast, Adele and I withdrew to the library, which room, it appears, Mr. Rochester had directed should be used as the schoolroom.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_5340.13With these words Mr. Brocklehurst put into my hand a thin pamphlet sewn in a cover, and having rung for his carriage, he departed.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_10890.10"Fetch that stool," said Mr. Brocklehurst, pointing to a very high one from which a monitor had just risen: it was brought.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_20620.10"Come to the fire," said the master, when the tray was taken away, and Mrs. Fairfax had settled into a corner with her knitting; while Adele was leading me by the hand round the room, showing me the beautiful books and ornaments on the consoles and chiffonnieres.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_5700.08"No, Mrs.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_53280.08"Adele, look at that field."

Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_32880.11M Baron Mainau asked, lightly, pointing to the rococo cabinet. "

Evans_St_Elmo_33160.26Edna left the room to obey Mrs. Murray's command, and did not return immediately; but, after the party seated themselves at the table, she noticed that the master seemed in unusually high spirits; and when the meal was concluded, he challenged his cousins to a game of billiards.
Eggleston_End_of_the_World_29850.23"Yes," said Mr. Anderson, "I am standing with my lamp trimmed and ready.
Warner_Queechy_62720.22One morning Mrs. Rossitur was seated in the breakfast-room at her usual employment, mending and patching; no sinecure now.
Wood_East_Lynne_39230.18Mr. Little, Mr. Carlyle, and Miss Carlyle were gathered in the dressing-room, round a table, on which stood a rich china bowl, containing water for the baptism.
Trollope_Orley_Farm_129370.17How would it be with them in that small carriage while Mr. Aram was sitting opposite to them?
Clemens_and_Warner_The_Gilded_Age_81850.17Mr. Dilworthy occupied his seat to the last hour of the session.
Collins_The_Moonstone_107300.17Mr. Bruff sat down on the first chair that he could find, and (emulating the usefulness of the cow) plunged back again into his papers on the spot.
Harris_Rutledge_28540.16Josephine leaned rather listlessly against the mantelpiece, said, "Mamma, how very well Mr. Rutledge is looking!"
Evans_St_Elmo_25940.16Mr. Murray took his cousin's hand and drew her to a seat beside him on the sofa.
Warren_Ten_Thousand_a_Year_18790.16Mrs. and Miss Tag-rag were sitting in the front parlor, intending to take tea as soon as Mr. Tag-rag should have arrived.
Evans_St_Elmo_18900.16Mr. Murray closed the door as he came in, and walking up to the book-cases, stood carefully examining the titles of the numerous volumes.
Trollope_Orley_Farm_38180.16In saying which final words Mrs. Furnival rose from her seat, and thrice struck her hand by no means lightly on the loo table in the middle of the room.
Evans_St_Elmo_26320.16Edna placed the fruit on the centre-table, and suspecting that she must be de trop, moved toward the door, but Mr. Murray rose and stood before her.
Trollope_Orley_Farm_37090.15said Mr. Furnival, entering the room with his arms prepared for a premeditated embrace.
Reade_Love_Me_Little_Love_Me_Long_24860.15Mrs. Bazalgette went book in hand to her bedroom, and had not been there long before she found employment.
Evans_St_Elmo_35620.15Taking the magazine, she went into Mrs. Murray's room, and found her resting on a lounge.
Stowe_Uncle_Toms_Cabin_17740.15Mr. and Mrs. Bird had gone back to the parlor, where, strange as it may appear, no reference was made, on either side, to the preceding conversation; but Mrs. Bird busied herself with her knitting-work, and Mr. Bird pretended to be reading the paper.
Macdonald_Robert_Falconer_90150.15wha's that?
Cummins_The_Lamplighter_25720.15Mr. Bruce rose and offered his chair at the same time that Mr. Graham pointed to a vacant window-seat near him, and said kindly, "Here is a place for you, Gertrude."
Wood_East_Lynne_86260.15Mrs. Hare sat in her chair, enjoying the brightness, and Mr. Carlyle stood near her.
Harland_At_Last_36940.14Mrs. Aylett, in the lounging-chair at the opposite side of the hearth from her husband, was cutting the leaves of a new magazine he had brought from the post-office, and did not seem to hear his remark.
Trollope_Orley_Farm_158360.14Moulder sat immediately in front of the fire in his own easy chair, and Snengkeld and Kantwise were on each side of him.
Trollope_Orley_Farm_111200.14"Tom, I've come back again," said Mrs. Furnival, as soon as the dining-room door was closed behind her back.
Harris_Rutledge_26050.14Mr. Rutledge was already at the carriage, superintending the packing in it of numerous valises, books, shawls, and packages.
Holmes_Darkness_and_Daylight_24140.14But she was not vexed with Nina, and running out to meet her, she laid her arm across her neck, and led her with many words of welcome to the stool she had just vacated, saying laughingly: "I know Mr. Harrington would rather you should sit here than a cross patch like me!
Evans_St_Elmo_77430.14I have found peace after much strife and great weariness--" Mr. Murray could no longer control his voice; and as he stood leaning against the mantelpiece at the parsonage, he dropped his head on his hand.
Yonge_The_Daisy_Chain_46920.13Anderson hastily shut the book over the blotting-paper, which he did not venture to retain in his hand, dragged Tom down from the desk, and was apparently entirely occupied with arranging his own box, when Mr. Harrison came in.
Harland_Alone_2420.13Ida surveyed the unsightly sheet in dismay, but there was no time for alteration, and she repaired with the rest to the recitation-room.
Evans_St_Elmo_30750.13Taking the candle from the table, where Mr. Murray had placed it, Edna went back to her own room and sat down before the window.
Warner_Queechy_149250.13Mrs. Rossitur was alone in the breakfast-room when they went in.
Holmes_Lena_Rivers_47350.13asked Mrs. Graham, leaning across the table.
Wood_East_Lynne_77430.13In one of the comfortable sitting-rooms of East Lynne sat Mr. Carlyle and his sister, one inclement January night.
Reade_Love_Me_Little_Love_Me_Long_62930.13He burst into the drawing-room, and there sat Mrs. Bazalgette overlooking, and Lucy working with a face of beautiful calm.
Evans_Beulah_67550.13In the study they found the remainder of the party; Mr. Lockhart was wrapt in a heavy dressing-gown, and reclined on the sofa.
Warner_Queechy_27580.12"Mr. Carleton," said she a few minutes after, "is that story in a book?"
Trollope_Orley_Farm_160370.12"At any rate we shall have pictures of her in all the papers," said Mrs. Smiley.
Reade_Love_Me_Little_Love_Me_Long_84540.12Mrs. Bazalgette seated herself and sighed deeply.
Harris_Rutledge_12460.12said Mr. Rutledge, rising and standing by the fire.
Evans_St_Elmo_69230.12Mrs. Murray walked up and down the room twice, then came to the hearth.
Trollope_Can_You_Forgive_Her_94970.12Mr Palliser, who had by no means given a general support to the Ministry in the last Session, took his seat on the same side of the House indeed, but low down, and near to the cross benches.
Wood_East_Lynne_77660.12He resumed his reading; but another page or two concluded the article, upon which Mr. Carlyle threw the book on the table, rose and stretched himself, as if tired of sitting.
Reade_Put_Yourself_in_His_Place_46840.12When the snow first came down, Mr. Raby merely ordered large fires to be lighted and fed in his guests' bedrooms; he feared nothing worse for them than a good wetting.
Sheppard_Charles_Auchester_vol1_28020.11"I find, Charles, that you must go immediately,--and, indeed, it will be best if you travel with Mr. Santonio.
Collins_The_Law_and_the_Lady_54190.11"Mrs. Valeria," he burst out suddenly, "you are not comfortable in that chair."
Harris_Rutledge_36490.11The captain availed himself of the front seat, and criticised the dancers for madame's benefit; Phil stood behind his cousin's chair, and Mr. Rutledge was left to me.
Warner_Queechy_24980.11So Mr. Carleton carried her down, though she could have walked, and placed her on the sofa in the parlour.
Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_232840.11"Mr. Curate, he would perhaps be better on a chair, that one could carry upright," said Ciboule.
Trollope_Orley_Farm_30620.11Men there at the congress, Mr. Chaffanbrass, young Staveley, Felix Graham, and others, had regarded him as an impersonation of dullness; but through his mind and brain, as he sat there wrapped in his old dressing-gown, there ran thoughts which seemed to lift him lightly from the earth into an elysium of justice and mercy.
Reade_Love_Me_Little_Love_Me_Long_50340.10After breakfast Mrs. Bazalgette asked Lucy how long she could give her to choose which of the two gowns to take, after all.
Collins_The_Moonstone_108880.10I drew back, with Mr. Bruff and Betteredge, into the farthest corner by the bed.

Bronte_Jane_Eyre_15470.15CHAPTER XI A new chapter in a novel is something like a new scene in a play; and when I draw up the curtain this time, reader, you must fancy you see a room in the George Inn at Millcote, with such large figured papering on the walls as inn rooms have; such a carpet, such furniture, such ornaments on the mantelpiece, such prints, including a portrait of George the Third, and another of the Prince of Wales, and a representation of the death of Wolfe.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_44640.15I approached the bed; I opened the curtains and leant over the high-piled pillows.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_6850.12I was carried into an inn, where the guard wanted me to have some dinner; but, as I had no appetite, he left me in an immense room with a fireplace at each end, a chandelier pendent from the ceiling, and a little red gallery high up against the wall filled with musical instruments.

Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_15060.19How Strang* and incomprehensible was everything that I beheld I The walls of the spacious apartment in which we stood were lined with books from floor to ceiling, as many books, I thought, as there were stalks of heather on the moor.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_30290.15The parqueted floors enjoyed an immunity from the usual blows of the Hofmarschairs stick.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_4740.14The curtain, too, blew into the room; Kitty seized it with a skilful hand and tried to replace each stiff fold as it was before.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_49030.10The stiff mate were hanging behind the windows, and the broken panes of glass had been replaced by boards.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_780.10I alone liked it, and ii I live to be a hundred the fragrance of the much-abused weed will always transport me in fancy to the warm, dark corner of the stove where I used to sit curled up upon the wooden bench beside Heinz, snugly sheltered while the wild tempest of snow rages on the moor outside, and whole batteries of hailstones rattle against the window-panes.

Mulock_John_Halifax_Gentleman_2010.24CHAPTER II Dinner was over; my father and I took ours in the large parlour, where the stiff, high-backed chairs eyed one another in opposite rows across the wide oaken floor, shiny and hard as marble, and slippery as glass.
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_75770.23The richest Turkey carpets covered the floor, and the softest and most inviting couches, easy-chairs, and sofas, offered their high-piled and yielding cushions to such as desired repose or refreshment.
Collins_Man_and_Wife_136480.22Leaning his elbows on his knees, he vacantly traced patterns on the carpet with his clumsy oaken walking-stick.
Trollope_Can_You_Forgive_Her_140090.21There was also an old Turkey carpet on the floor.
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_75400.19The richest Turkey carpets covered the floor, and the softest and most inviting couches, easy-chairs, and sofas, offered their high-piled and yielding cushions to such as desired repose or refreshment.
Whitney_Faith_Gartneys_Girlhood_18300.19I've learned to draw straight lines, and shape pictures; and so there isn't any difficulty in sweeping a carpet clean, or setting chairs straight.
Harris_Rutledge_7920.19The ceiling was very high, the fireplace wide, with tiled jambs; the wood-work carved in stiff but stately patterns; the windows were deep, with enticing window-seats, and the walls were covered with pictures.
Harland_Jessamine_21910.19They had not recommenced their game, but were standing about, and leaning upon the billiard-table, busily rehearsing the late scene, accentuating their animated periods by tapping the floor with the cues, and rapping the board with the ivory balls.
Lewald_Hulda_37860.19The got^eous costume which the maid had carried through the room, the elegant trifles that lay scattered upon the ta,bles, every detEul of the scene was clear in her mind.
Whitney_Leslie_Goldthwaite_18680.18Mamma thinks the Haughtleys are such nice people, because they came in their own carriage, and they've got such big trunks, and a saddle-horse, and elegant dressing-cases, and ivory-backed brushes!
Sheppard_Charles_Auchester_vol1_610.17The dark-blue drugget covered a polished floor, whose slippery, uncovered margin beneath the wainscot has occasioned me many a tumble, though it always tempted me to slide when I found myself alone in the room.
Hardy_A_Pair_of_Blue_Eyes_3730.17Well, I suppose such a wild place is a novelty, and so tempted you out of bed?'
Harland_Jessamine_1950.17I find it so comfortable that I shall regret the recovery which will doom me to straight-backed chairs, drawn up in line of battle against the table.
Marryat_Mr._Midshipman_Easy_48330.16Come, help me, Massy Easy; dis board" (for the loft was floored) "is loose; come help, all of you."
Yonge_The_Daisy_Chain_88240.16Come when Dr. May would into the drawing-room, there was always a line of penwipers laid out on the floor, bags pendent to all the table-drawers, antimacassars laid out everywhere.
DeMille_The_Cryptogram_3470.16The ceiling was covered with quaint figures in fresco, the walls were paneled with oak, and high-backed, stolid-looking chairs stood around.
Braddon_Lady_Audleys_Secret_28070.16The lady half rose from her seat, letting her work, which was large and awkward, fall from her lap as she did so, and dropping a reel of cotton, which rolled away upon the polished oaken flooring beyond the margin of the Turkey carpet.
Stowe_Uncle_Toms_Cabin_13370.16The woman opened to him the door of a little parlor, covered with a rag carpet, where stood a table with a very shining black oil-cloth, sundry lank, high-backed wood chairs, with some plaster images in resplendent colors on the mantel-shelf, above a very dimly-smoking grate; a long hard-wood settle extended its uneasy length by the chimney, and here Haley sat him down to meditate on the instability of human hopes and happiness in general.
Roe_Barriers_Burned_Away_65650.15Not only was it furnished with the utmost luxuriance, but everything spoke of a quaint and cultured taste, from the curious marble clock and bronze on the mantel, even to the pattern of the Turkey carpet on which the glare of the fire, as it glinted through the shutters, played faintly.
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_79580.15"Not only in the same hotel, but on the same floor."
Warner_Wide_Wide_World_158640.13Ellen at the moment had escaped from the company and the noisy sounds of the performer at her side; and while her eye was curiously tracing out the pattern of the carpet, her mind was resting itself in one of the verses she had been reading that same evening.
Hawthorne_The_House_of_the_Seven_Gables_36330.13The oaken chair, to be sure, may tempt him with its roominess.
Harris_Rutledge_44620.13She was, of course, as stiff as anything human could well be, but she was too busy to be very ungracious.
Lewald_Hulda_44620.13The curtain rose again after the close of the tragedy, dis- closing a scene representing a garden where were assembled the entire company.
Hugo_Les_Miserables_299040.12He had placed the billiard table between his assailants and himself; he had retreated into the corner of the room, and there, with haughty eye, and head borne high, with this stump of a weapon in his hand, he was still so alarming as to speedily create an empty space around him.
Warner_Wide_Wide_World_59210.12harder and straighter-backed chairs never were invented.
DeMille_The_Cryptogram_99890.12A carpet-bag was lying on the floor open.
Whitney_Faith_Gartneys_Girlhood_12440.12Opposite the secretary, a plain mahogany table; and eight high-backed, claw-footed chairs ranged stiffly around the room.
Bronte_Shirley_128890.12This wild morning not one affluent family attended, not one carriage party appeared--all the lined and cushioned pews were empty; only on the bare oaken seats sat ranged the gray-haired elders and feeble paupers.
Trollope_The_Way_We_Live_Now_151380.11He had thought, as far as he had thought at all, that he could rattle off what he had to say just as he might do it when seated in his chair at the Mexican Railway Board.
Stowe_Uncle_Toms_Cabin_4180.11In the other corner was a bed of much humbler pretensions, and evidently designed for _use_.
Reade_Put_Yourself_in_His_Place_4500.11When all was ready, he drew some arabesque forms with his pencil on the board.
Harland_Jessamine_6240.11"Penalty of insubordination--a return to the lounge and oriel-window!"
Collins_Woman_in_White_87130.11I looked at her anxiously, as she lay in the dismal, high, old-fashioned bed.
Holmes_Tempest_and_Sunshine_45930.11On the floor lay Julia, who a few moments before stood there resplendent in beauty.
Blackmore_Lorna_Doone_3850.11Fourteen cots my mother counted, all very much of a pattern, and nothing to choose between them, unless it were the captain's.
Hugo_Les_Miserables_261300.11The hall on the first floor, where "the restaurant" was situated, was a large and long apartment encumbered with stools, chairs, benches, and tables, and with a crippled, lame, old billiard-table.
Reade_A_Terrible_Temptation_80350.10This was the last ball of the over, and, as the ball was now to be delivered from the other wicket, Compton took the place of long-leg.
Macdonald_St._George_and_St._Michael_13700.10'I have had but one glimpse of him since the morning, and if he looks now as he looked then, I fear your lordship would be minded rather to drive him from your table than welcome him to a seat beside you.'
Trollope_Orley_Farm_44570.10"It's a tempting of Providence in my mind," said Kantwise, as he replenished his glass, and turned his eyes up to the ceiling.
Mulock_John_Halifax_Gentleman_51280.09John lay on an extempore sofa, made of three of our high-backed chairs and the window-sill.
Warren_Ten_Thousand_a_Year_8350.08"Me!--Why, what _are_ you after?"
Warner_Queechy_90980.08"Are you sure?
Trollope_The_Way_We_Live_Now_60350.08I wish you hadn't told me.
Trollope_Can_You_Forgive_Her_140850.08As far as they go, let him have his plunder."
The_Alpine_Fay_Clean_31190.08"Have you no other name for me?
Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_288950.08"You have killed some one?"
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol2_00.08 CHAPTER I.
Hugo_Les_Miserables_326950.08"I like that!
Hillern_Only_a_Girl_38330.08"Yes."