Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_3000.10She 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.

Schubin_Erlach_Court_Clean_8250.20She 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.'
Fleming_A_Terrible_Secret_42800.18She took a camp-stool, and made for her favorite sheltered spot behind the wheel-house.
Collins_No_Name_79330.18He shifted the camp-stool back again, and looked at Mrs. Lecount with his ingratiating smile.
Aguilar_Home_Influence_9940.18Herbert was very speedily on his favorite seat, a low stool at his mother's feet.
Hughes_Tom_Brown_at_Oxford_5840.16They then gathered towards the lower end of the long table, and surveyed the celebrities at the upper end with much respect.
Warner_Wide_Wide_World_15090.16She slid off her bench and rushed through the crowd to the red curtain that cut off the far end of the saloon; and from there down to the cabin below,--people were everywhere.
Harris_Rutledge_33880.16She was not dancing, but, with an admiring crowd around her, stood at the other end of the room, dispensing her coquettish smiles with tact and judgment.
Dumas_The_Three_Musketeers_35050.14The queen was still standing when he entered; but scarcely had she perceived him then she reseated herself in her armchair, and made a sign to her women to resume their cushions and stools, and with an air of supreme hauteur, said, "What do you desire, monsieur, and with what object do you present yourself here?"
Sheppard_Charles_Auchester_vol1_22830.14The camp-stool was for her, as I always reposed on the grass, wrapped in a veritable tartan.
Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_97140.13"Yes; but the Bacchanal Queen is six thousand feet above the level of any common leg-shaker.
Warner_Wide_Wide_World_37820.12There was nothing in it but a broad low shelf or step under the stairs, where Ellen presently decided she could stow away her books very nicely.
Cooper_The_Pilot_33670.12The seat of that gentleman was now occupied by Dillon, and Colonel Howard had resumed his wonted station at the foot of the table.
Whitney_Leslie_Goldthwaite_20130.11"Check to your queen," said Sue.
Reade_The_Cloister_and_the_Hearth_86870.11But you are all of a piece from end to end.
Holmes_The_English_Orphans_1430.11It was a small, low building which they inhabited, containing but one room and a bedroom, which last they had ceased to occupy, for one by one each article of furniture had been sold, until at last Mrs. Howard lay upon a rude lounge, which Frank had made from some rough boards.
Howells_Their_Wedding_Journey_1460.11By daylight Basil and Isabel found themselves at opposite ends of the car, struggling severally with the problem of the morning's toilet.
Reade_It_is_Never_Too_Late_to_Mend_161990.11At the native camp they fell in with Jem.
Hugo_Les_Miserables_261630.11Grantaire took a stool and drew up to the table.
Aguilar_Home_Influence_38110.10He was lounging on the sofa, playing with Emmeline's flowing ringlets, as she sat on a low stool by his side, chatting with him, in as discursive a strain as his fancy willed.
Whitney_Faith_Gartneys_Girlhood_37210.10The apparatus for working these lay at this end of the building.
Collins_The_Law_and_the_Lady_28770.10There she sits as cool and easy as if she had said nothing at all extraordinary, and was going to do nothing out of the common way!
Clemens_and_Warner_The_Gilded_Age_20530.10Early 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.
Fleming_Norines_Revenge_3390.10Seated on a low stool, before the fire and beside the sofa, he saw Norine.
Braddon_Lady_Audleys_Secret_31970.10He took his favorite meerschaum and dropped into his favorite chair with a sigh.
Braddon_Lady_Audleys_Secret_15500.10The girl was sitting on a low stool at her mistress feet.
Collins_No_Name_79100.09proceeded the captain, shifting the camp-stool to the scientific side of him.
Collins_No_Name_106940.09The end I have toiled for, at such terrible cost to myself, is an end which I must reach or die.
Hughes_Tom_Brown_at_Oxford_85850.09The old woman obeyed his injunctions, except as to talking; and, while she placed the chairs and shook up the pillow, descanted on the sovereign virtues of some green oil and opodeldoc, which was as good as a charm for sprains and bruises.
Holmes_The_English_Orphans_31090.09thought Henry, "she meets me more than half-way;" and then, lest his resolution should fail, he reseated her in the chair she had left, and drawing an ottoman to her side, hastily told her of his love, ending his declaration, by saying that from the first time he ever saw her, he had determined that she should be his wife!
Holmes_Lena_Rivers_14920.09This emboldened the old lady to offer it to Mrs. Graham, who, languidly reclining upon the end of the sofa, sat talking to Carrie, who, on a low stool at her feet, was looking up into her face as if in perfect admiration.
Hawthorne_The_House_of_the_Seven_Gables_1060.09At the first glimpse they beheld nothing extraordinary: a handsomely furnished room, of moderate size, somewhat darkened by curtains; books arranged on shelves; a large map on the wall, and likewise a portrait of Colonel Pyncheon, beneath which sat the original Colonel himself, in an oaken elbow-chair, with a pen in his hand.
Yonge_Heir_of_Redclyffe_22870.08She went for her parasol, Guy ran for her camp stool, and Philip, going to the piano, read what they had been singing.
Fleming_A_Terrible_Secret_42370.08Edith got a camp-stool and a book, and hid herself behind the wheel-house for a little of private enjoyment.
Whitney_We_Girls_14580.08The stove stood modestly sheltered, as it were, in its new position, its features softened to almost a sitting-room congruity; it did not thrust itself obtrusively forward, and force its homely association upon you; it was low, too, and its broad top looked smooth and enticing.
Trollope_The_Way_We_Live_Now_193370.08'Don't let it end unhappily, Lady Carbury,' Mr Loiter had said, 'because though people like it in a play, they hate it in a book.
Macdonald_Robert_Falconer_4290.08And then he was boxed in with the bed, and covered with no end of warm garments, while the friendly darkness closed him and his shelter all round.
Harland_Alone_79900.08He took her to the end of a counter, piled to the ceiling with goods; gave her a tall stool, and bade her "rest awhile."
Warner_Wide_Wide_World_15120.08Nobody was sitting on the three or four large mahogany steps that ran round that end of the cabin and sloped up to the little cabin window; and creeping beneath the stairs, and seating herself on the lowest of these steps, the poor child found that she was quite screened and out of sight of every human creature.
Porter_Scottish_Chiefs_59340.07The 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.
Whitney_The_Other_Girls_59490.06My ottoman, I mean.
Reade_It_is_Never_Too_Late_to_Mend_25010.06I did not know there was a garden in this prison.
Reade_Foul_Play_62400.06"Oh!
Prentiss_Stepping_Heavenward_36580.06Is it so with everybody?
Lever_Tom_Burke_of_Ours_vol1_14510.06And the end is,--what think you?
Hugo_Les_Miserables_187110.06"No."
Holmes_Tempest_and_Sunshine_16960.06said Raymond.
Hardy_Far_From_the_Madding_Crowd_30890.06His unravelling went on, but it nevertheless seemed coming to no end.
Eggleston_End_of_the_World_17840.06"Well, yes, I 'low they had; consid'able, if not more."
Dumas_The_Three_Musketeers_107500.06"Tell us."
Broughton_Nancy_8290.06up or down?

Bronte_Jane_Eyre_72090.11There 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.

Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_7620.17Here was no longer the pleasant dining-room, with its comfortable old-fashioned leather-covered furniture.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_16610.14The 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_Owls_4220.13Oh, 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_Little_Moorland_Princess_17100.06That handsome Charlotte, perhaps ?

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.
Yonge_Heir_of_Redclyffe_73170.18He 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.
Holmes_Darkness_and_Daylight_180.17It was indeed a beautiful place; and when the furnishing process began, crowds of eager people daily thronged the spacious rooms, commenting upon the carpets, the curtains, the chandeliers, the furniture of rosewood and marble, and marvelling much why Richard Harrington should care for surroundings so costly and elegant.
Collins_No_Name_158160.17But 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.
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol3_3680.16It was one of those ancient pieces of rosewood furniture, almost triangular in shape, closed by a front panel, which let down, and, supported by two long brass hinges, served for a writing-table.
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_107240.16Madame 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_107930.16Madame 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.
Braddon_Lady_Audleys_Secret_36330.16A cottage piano, a chiffonier, six sizes too large for the room, and dismally gorgeous in gilded moldings that were chipped and broken; a slim-legged card-table, placed in the post of honor, formed the principal pieces of furniture.
Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_46660.15Agricola, 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.
Hillern_Only_a_Girl_98110.15Ernestine placed a small library-ladder against one of the tall, heavily-carved bookcases, and mounted it, with the lamp in her hand.
Collins_Armadale_23760.15Replacing the various objects which formed the furniture of the dressing-case one by one, Midwinter lighted unexpectedly on a miniature portrait, of the old-fashioned oval form, primly framed in a setting of small diamonds.
Collins_Man_and_Wife_51250.15THE Library at Windygates was the largest and the handsomest room in the house.
Cooper_The_Pioneers_16850.14There was a trifling air of better life in a tea-table and work-stand, as well as in an old-fashioned mahogany bookcase; but the chairs, the dining-table, and the rest of the furniture were of the plainest and cheapest construction, Against the walls were hung a few specimens of needle-work and drawing, the former executed with great neatness, though of somewhat equivocal merit in their designs, while the latter were strikingly deficient in both.
Evans_Beulah_37980.14She unpacked and arranged her clothes, and piled her books on a small table, which was the only substitute for her beautiful desk and elegant rosewood bookcase.
Hugo_Les_Miserables_252260.14His bookcase with glass doors was the only piece of furniture which he had kept beyond what was strictly indispensable.
Warner_Wide_Wide_World_6110.13It was of mahogany, not very large, but thoroughly well made and finished, and very convenient and perfect in its internal arrangements.
Sheppard_Charles_Auchester_vol1_11160.13The only luxury amidst the furniture was a mahogany music-stand, which was placed before our two seats.
Alcott_Little_Men_19250.13cried Dan, sitting up to survey the old piece of furniture with sparkling eyes.
Evans_St_Elmo_10020.13They 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.
The_Sign_of_Flame_Clean_1690.13A 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.
Collins_Woman_in_White_40140.13My 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.
Marryat_Peter_Simple_27520.13He was in his library, a large room, surrounded with handsome bookcases, sitting on an easy chair.
Prentiss_Stepping_Heavenward_16360.12Indeed, I am as it is.
Harland_Jessamine_58380.12While she was speaking, a shape had loomed into motion from a recess formed by two bookcases at the further end of the library, and was now at her side.
Collins_Armadale_44460.12Between 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.
Mulock_John_Halifax_Gentleman_73670.12It 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.
Macdonald_Robert_Falconer_8410.12It was a comfortable little room, though its inlaid mahogany chairs and ancient sofa, covered with horsehair, had a certain look of hardness, no doubt.
Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_191140.11A 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.
Collins_The_New_Magdalen_10630.11To 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.
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol3_3660.11I dare say it was a family piece of 'furniture.'"
Hugo_Les_Miserables_8770.11I have all the philosophers in my library gilded on the edges."
Holmes_Elsie_Venner_1480.11He had a small library of professional books, which he could take with him.
Harris_Rutledge_18270.11The room was entirely unfamiliar, long and old-fashioned looking.
Harland_Jessamine_1240.11A modern piano was there, however, and the carpet was new and handsome.
Stowe_Uncle_Toms_Cabin_97900.11Cassy 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.
Evans_Beulah_78910.11The evening passed quickly, and when she retired to her own room she was surprised to find a handsome rosewood bookcase and desk occupying one corner.
Holmes_Ethelyns_Mistake_18240.11The vacancy left by the piano would strike him at once, she knew, and so she moved a tall bookcase up there, and put a sofa where the bookcase had been, and a large chair where the sofa had been, and pushed the center table into the large chair's place; and then her work was done--the last she would ever do in that room, or for Richard either.
Hillern_Only_a_Girl_36840.10And 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.
Hawthorne_Marble_Faun_vol2_24320.10As they returned through the studio, with the furniture and arrangements of which the sculptor was familiar, he missed a small ebony writing-desk that he remembered as having always been placed on a table there.
Alcott_Little_Men_19200.10Dan did see two tall old-fashioned ones standing on either side of the piano; he knew them well, and had often seen nice bits of string, nails, brown paper, and such useful matters come out of the various drawers.
Whitney_We_Girls_5170.10It was "trimmed in the piece"; and that was precisely what Leslie had said when she chose it.
Reade_Put_Yourself_in_His_Place_38430.10She admired the old-fashioned furniture, and said, "Oh, what a palace of a bedroom!
Lewald_Hulda_45700.10Shall you always ble^ the evening that carried us to that castle in the north ?"
Harris_Rutledge_68170.10There's the lower part of a bookcase in the library empty.
Yonge_The_Dove_in_the_Eagles_Nest_20380.10Were not these citizens to suppose that everything was tenfold more costly at the baronial castle?
Trollope_Orley_Farm_9510.10The third table was a "sofa," of proper shape, but rather small in size.
Trollope_Orley_Farm_129370.10How would it be with them in that small carriage while Mr. Aram was sitting opposite to them?
Hugo_Les_Miserables_133350.10to be buried in Pere-Lachaise is equivalent to having furniture of mahogany.
Collins_The_Law_and_the_Lady_17700.10Taking the doorway wall first, what was there, in the shape of furniture, on either side of it?
Aguilar_Home_Influence_10210.10These 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.

Bronte_Jane_Eyre_30800.11Some of them threw themselves in half-reclining positions on the sofas and ottomans: some bent over the tables and examined the flowers and books: the rest gathered in a group round the fire: all talked in a low but clear tone which seemed habitual to them.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_47210.07Not long; of that I was sure.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_21730.06He spread the pictures before him, and again surveyed them alternately.

Wister_Marlitt_OMS_1620.12The lamp stood upon a little round sofa-table, behind which sat Frau Hellwig knitting a long woollen stocking.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_11150.09She 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_Baliff_17640.16Supper was ready; he had but to seat himself at the spread table.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_4920.12Only when she opened the table-drawer and took out a white cloth with a woven red border, to spread it upon the little table in front of the arm-chair, did she turn to him and say, "There is something delightful in this old bourgeois order; nothing is ever out of place.

Braddon_Lady_Audleys_Secret_19290.19Robert looked at her thoughtfully as she spread the cloth, and drew the table nearer to the fireplace.
Hillern_Only_a_Girl_71780.18The Staatsrthin had superintended the arrangement of the breakfast-table, and was seated with her work at the window.
Collins_Woman_in_White_5130.18My first glance round me, as the man opened the door, disclosed a well-furnished breakfast-table, standing in the middle of a long room, with many windows in it.
Cervantes_Don_Quixote_27610.16The hour therefore having arrived they all took their seats at a long table like a refectory one, for round or square table there was none in the inn, and the seat of honour at the head of it, though he was for refusing it, they assigned to Don Quixote, who desired the lady Micomicona to place herself by his side, as he was her protector.
Yonge_Heir_of_Redclyffe_10.16There were two persons in the room--a young lady, who sat drawing at the round table, and a youth, lying on a couch near the fire, surrounded with books and newspapers, and a pair of crutches near him.
Holmes_Ethelyns_Mistake_29150.16That 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.
Trollope_Can_You_Forgive_Her_42400.15said Mrs Greenow, as Kate came into the sitting-room one morning, and saw on the table a small hamper lined with a clean cloth.
Reade_White_Lies_54060.15At 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.
Trollope_Orley_Farm_8520.15So they now sat round the fire together, the attorney still keeping his seat in the middle.
Stowe_Uncle_Toms_Cabin_20050.15The little table stood out before the fire, covered with an ironing-cloth; a coarse but clean shirt or two, fresh from the iron, hung on the back of a chair by the fire, and Aunt Chloe had another spread out before her on the table.
Hugo_Les_Miserables_276520.15He thought the dining-room charming, though it was hideous, furnished with an old round table, a long sideboard surmounted by a slanting mirror, a dilapidated arm-chair, and several plain chairs which were encumbered with Toussaint's packages.
Trollope_Orley_Farm_155760.14The attorneys had their seats and their big tables, and the somewhat familiar respect of the tipstaves.
Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_228770.14A leaf of the table will make a litter, and the table- cloth a covering."
Reade_Put_Yourself_in_His_Place_68750.14Mrs. Little's rooms being nearly square, she set up a round table, at which eight could dine.
Collins_No_Name_138680.14While 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.
Whitney_The_Other_Girls_45750.14I'll spread a sheet on the floor, and put a white cloth on the table.
Heimburg_A_Sisters_Love_Clean_29890.14In a one-windowed room was a little table spread for three persons, shining with glass and silver.
Disraeli_Lothair_7640.13"Our refreshment at council is very spare," he continued, and he pointed to a vase of water and some glasses ranged round it in the middle of the table; "but we always drink one toast, general, before we separate.
Broughton_Nancy_34930.13But now I have reached the shelter of our own seat, near the top of the church, with all the gay bonnets behind me, and only the pulpit, the spread-eagle reading-desk, and the gaudy stained window in front.
Trollope_Orley_Farm_38540.13It was a pleasant sight to see, the long, broad, well-filled breakfast table, with all that company round it.
Trollope_Orley_Farm_124850.13He had no great paraphernalia of books and boxes and clerks' desks, as are apparently necessary to attorneys in general.
Clemens_and_Warner_The_Gilded_Age_72390.13There was a little stir when the Prosecuting Attorney, with two assistants, made his way in, seated himself at the table, and spread his papers before him.
Stowe_Uncle_Toms_Cabin_13800.13Behold, then, the candles lighted, the fire stimulated to the burning point in the grate, and our three worthies seated round a table, well spread with all the accessories to good fellowship enumerated before.
Hughes_Tom_Brown_at_Oxford_7020.13It consisted of one large table in the middle, covered with an old chequered table-cloth, and an Oxford table near the window, on which lay half-a-dozen books with writing materials.
The_Alpine_Fay_Clean_52620.13"Then, Said, have the table cleared.
Bronte_Shirley_117530.13Shut into the drawing-room, the pair took seats, each in an arm-chair, placed opposite, a few yards between them.
Blackmore_Lorna_Doone_54130.13For in the settle was my Lorna, propped with pillows round her, and her clear hands spread sometimes to the blazing fireplace.
Alcott_Little_Women_68770.13It was so homey and refreshing that I sat down on the floor and read and looked and ate and laughed and cried, in my usual absurd way.
Whitney_Real_Folks_3140.12They only came to the middle round of _their_ carpet.
Stowe_Uncle_Toms_Cabin_95820.12George spread his cloak in the wagon, and had the body carefully disposed of in it,--moving the seat, so as to give it room.
Reade_White_Lies_5510.12And in one little distant corner of the long room a gray-haired gentleman and two young ladies sat round a small plain table, on which burned a solitary candle; and a little way apart in this candle's twilight an old lady sat in an easy-chair, thinking of the past, scarce daring to inquire the future.
Whitney_The_Other_Girls_30960.11He had come round behind her chair, where she had seated herself at her sewing.
Trollope_The_Way_We_Live_Now_26170.11'Of course papa doesn't mean it,' said Georgiana, rising to her feet.
Trollope_Can_You_Forgive_Her_175790.11Burgo looked up and smiled at them all round the table.
Reade_It_is_Never_Too_Late_to_Mend_49010.11He went to his own room, took a paper off the table, and came into the yard.
Reade_It_is_Never_Too_Late_to_Mend_155990.11Why, George, it is the clearing we crossed before breakfast."
Collins_The_New_Magdalen_10670.11The persons seated at the table are three in number.
Collins_Armadale_146150.11"The sun sank; the short twilight came and went.
Broughton_Nancy_66480.11He is still as white as the table-cloth, and hardly speaks.
Warren_Ten_Thousand_a_Year_29180.11"Then," said the doctor, with a smile, looking round the church, "let Jonas get up and stick some of it into those old hatchments; and," looking up at the clerk, busy at work in the pulpit, "don't you put quite so much up there into my candlesticks!"
Streckfuss_Castle_Hohenwald_Clean_1540.11It 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.
Eggleston_End_of_the_World_22790.11By this time a new actor had appeared on the scene in the person of a man with a black mustache and side-whiskers, who took a seat behind a card-table near the bar.
Evans_St_Elmo_1010.11Mr. Dent's body was brought up on a rude litter of boards, and temporarily placed on Edna's bed, and toward evening when a coffin arrived from Chattanooga, the remains were removed, and the coffin rested on two chairs in the middle of the same room.
Trollope_Orley_Farm_27390.11"A table that you have never acted upon--have never shown off on; standing in the middle, you know?"
Trollope_Can_You_Forgive_Her_153600.11Why did you go on waltzing in that way when every pair of eyes in the room was watching you?"
Collins_No_Name_82610.11Pull your chair to the middle of the table -- more to the left -- more still.
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol3_8960.11In the middle of the attic which we have already described, there lay, stretched on the idiot's mattress, the body of the little girl who had died in the morning, now covered by a ragged cloth.
Heimburg_Gertrudes_Marriage_Clean_19790.11Frank was in earnest conversation with Aunt Rosa, who in her best array, sat enthroned in the seat Mrs. Baumhagen had left only a short time before.
Hawthorne_Marble_Faun_vol2_12280.11Crowded as the square was, a juggler found room to spread out a white cloth upon the pavement, and cover it with cups, plates, balls, cards, w the whole material of his magic, in short,--wherewith he proceeded to work miracles under the noonday sun.
Hawthorne_Marble_Faun_vol1_7340.10She withdrew the cloth that Hilda had drawn over the picture, and took another long look at it.

Bronte_Jane_Eyre_10520.12Meantime, Mr. Brocklehurst, standing on the hearth with his hands behind his back, majestically surveyed the whole school.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_81270.06I surveyed him.

Wister_Marlitt_OMS_26590.11The old lady dismissed her with a warm pressure of the hand, and a few minutes afterward she stood in the adjoining garden with little Anna in her arms.

Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_21640.10The old lady again approached the bed, and leaned over the invalid.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_47670.08With a farewell wave of her fan, the royal lady passed by Liana, who curtsied as she passed, and went back to the music-salon. "

Bronte_Shirley_103780.23He stood on the hearth, leaning his elbow on the mantelpiece, musing not unblissfully.
Lever_Charles_OMalley_vol2_13090.20Directing his steps to a large mirror, he stood for some minutes contemplating himself with what, from his attitude, I judged to be no small satisfaction.
Yonge_The_Daisy_Chain_16680.19When he had brought the tray, he stood leaning against the bed-post, musing.
Collins_Woman_in_White_5140.19I looked from the table to the window farthest from me, and saw a lady standing at it, with her back turned towards me.
Trollope_Orley_Farm_149600.18He was still standing with his back to the fire, leaning against the mantelpiece, and thinking over the occurrences of the day that was past.
Macdonald_St._George_and_St._Michael_10320.17As he spoke, he stood leaning on Richard's arm, and behind them stood Lady, still as a horse of bronze.
Alcott_Eight_Cousins_31840.17Dr. Alec set both photographs on the chimneypiece, and, falling back a step or two, surveyed them with infinite satisfaction for several minutes, then wheeled round, saying briefly, as he pointed to the two faces "Time is up; how do you think my experiment has succeeded, ladies?"
Whitney_The_Other_Girls_2010.15She laid back her canvas and wools into the graceful Fayal basket-stand, and came down the first flight of stone steps to meet them.
Trollope_Can_You_Forgive_Her_167640.14When all was finished, he stood for awhile with his back to the fireplace contemplating his work.
Dumas_The_Three_Musketeers_149660.14Richelieu remained standing, leaning against the mantelpiece; a table was between him and d'Artagnan.
Bronte_Shirley_114590.14"Yorke, I stood on the hearth, backed by the mantelpiece; against it I leaned, and prepared for anything--everything.
Aguilar_Home_Influence_22160.14Edward, who was very ingenious, had turned a very pretty stand for his uncle to put his watch in at night; and manufactured two little vessels out of cork for his aunt, so delicately, and neatly, that she promised him they should stand on the mantelpiece of her dressing-room, as long as they would last.
Hughes_Tom_Brown_at_Oxford_44580.13He leaned back in his chair and sat for a few minutes, letting his thoughts follow their own bent.
Harris_Rutledge_17740.13Another in an attitude that is familiar to me, stands with his arm upon the mantelpiece shading his eyes from the light.
Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_137890.13He left the chimney, drew near to Gabriel, and leaned against the table, upon which stood paper and inkstand.
Reade_The_Cloister_and_the_Hearth_31640.13Two men in sober suits stood leaning lazily on each side of a horse, talking to one another.
Hardy_Far_From_the_Madding_Crowd_21570.13He again placed the letter on the mantelpiece, and sat down to think of the circumstances attending it by the light of Gabriel's information.
Alcott_Little_Women_10200.13"I'll right it up in two minutes, for it only needs to have the hearth brushed, so--and the things made straight on the mantelpiece, so--and the books put here, and the bottles there, and your sofa turned from the light, and the pillows plumped up a bit.
Mulock_John_Halifax_Gentleman_35410.12He leaned on the mantelpiece.
Evans_Macaria_33450.12She unwrapped an oval portrait, placed it on the mantelpiece, and, stepping back, fixed her gaze on Irene.
Macdonald_Robert_Falconer_4430.12At that moment Miss Letty was standing at the back of Miss Napier's chair, leaning her arms upon it as she talked to her.
Fleming_A_Terrible_Secret_12640.12An arm-chair stood near this window, and lying back in the arm-chair was my lady, fast asleep.
Fleming_A_Terrible_Secret_86000.11Lady Gwendoline yawns drearily over her book--Algernon Swineburne's latest--and pulls out her watch impatiently every few minutes.
Evans_St_Elmo_61440.11He pointed to that lovely statuette of Pallas that stands on the mantelpiece, and said bitterly, 'Edna Earl has no more heart than that marble Athena.'
Bronte_Shirley_37400.11On each side of the high mantelpiece stood two antique chairs of oak, solid as silvan thrones, and in one of these sat a lady.
Wood_East_Lynne_35700.11She said so; and then leaned back in her chair and mused.
Success_and_How_He_Won_It_Clean_55530.11Next minute Arthur stood by his side.
Harris_Rutledge_11700.11I came up to the fire, and stood leaning against the mantelpiece.
Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_270180.11The reverend father, according to his habit, stands leaning against the mantelpiece, with his hands thrust into the pockets of his old brown great-coat.
Evans_Inez_30630.11Dr. Bryant leaned his elbow on the mantel-piece, and fell into a fit of musing, not unusual to him since leaving San Antonio.
Cooper_The_Pioneers_8310.11The delusion, however, was but momentary, and his eye glanced rapidly from the daughter to the earnest dignity of the father's countenance; thence to the busy strut of Richard, who was cooling his impatience at the hunter's indifference to his assistance, by pacing the hall and cracking his whip; from him to the Frenchman, who had stood for several minutes unheeded with a chair for the lady; thence to Major Hartmann, who was very coolly lighting a pipe three feet long by a candle in one of the chandeliers; thence to Mr. Grant, who was turning over a manuscript with much earnestness at one of the lustres; thence to Remarkable, who stood, with her arms demurely folded before her, surveying, with a look of admiration and envy, the dress and beauty of the young lady; and from her to Benjamin, who, with his feet standing wide apart, and his arms akimbo, was balancing his square little body with the indifference of one who is accustomed to wounds and bloodshed.
Porter_Thaddeus_of_Warsaw_4700.11While 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.
Whitney_Faith_Gartneys_Girlhood_20170.11Faith 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.
Streckfuss_Castle_Hohenwald_Clean_17970.10Not until all was arranged to his satisfaction did he take his seat beside her in the well-cushioned vehicle.
Roe_Barriers_Burned_Away_12120.10For a moment I thought that the lady on the canvas had stepped out upon the floor."
Heimburg_Gertrudes_Marriage_Clean_9770.10Jenny sat near her while Arthur was standing by the stove.
Porter_Scottish_Chiefs_56960.10Wallace was standing when he entered, and so were the chieftains, but at his appearance they sat down.
DeFoe_Robinson_Crusoe_15150.10Upon seeing this boat, Friday stood musing a great while, and said nothing; I asked him what it was he studied upon?
Lewald_Hulda_19300.10I must talk with some one who will not despise me because I gave my whole heart to a man who, simply because he stood upon the steps of a throne, felt him- self justified in playing with the poor toy and tossing it back to me.
Whitney_The_Other_Girls_66730.09If she had moved,--pushed back her chair,--put by her book,--it would have begun to seem strange, she would have been back in a bond of circumstance which would have embarrassed her; she would have been receiving an evening call at an unusual hour.
Braddon_Lady_Audleys_Secret_9450.09Robert obeyed her implicitly, and George submissively following his friend, found himself, in five minutes, standing amidst the elegant disorder of Lady Audley's dressing-room.
Holmes_Darkness_and_Daylight_14090.09slily interrupted Edith, who was standing near him as he leaned against the marble mantel.
Cummins_The_Lamplighter_54240.09"The same one, was it not," asked Ellen, "who towards the close of the concert came in and stood leaning against the wall for some minutes?"
Success_and_How_He_Won_It_Clean_47300.09Arthur was evidently deeply moved by this disclosure; he leaned heavily on the table.
Heimburg_Gertrudes_Marriage_Clean_7870.09Jenny turned her large and wondering eyes upon Gertrude, who was still standing behind her mother's chair.
Evans_St_Elmo_24250.09As he ascended the steps and removed his hat, the pastor rose and placed a chair for him near his own.
Hughes_Tom_Brown_at_Oxford_21590.09After standing for a few seconds in the same position, with his back to them, he turned around with a careless air, and sauntered to the table where they were sitting.
Harland_Jessamine_12730.09From his leisurely and approving survey of the apartment, his eyes came back to dwell longest upon Eunice.
DeMille_The_Cryptogram_16210.09So she went to a Davenport which stood in the corner of the room, and saying, quietly, "I will write here, papa," she seated herself, with her back toward him.
Howells_Their_Wedding_Journey_7240.08They reclined in luxury upon the easy-cushioned, revolving chairs; they surveyed with infinite satisfaction the elegance of the flying-parlor in which they sat, or turned their contented regard through the broad plate-glass windows upon the landscape without.

Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_113650.41On 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_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_114330.40On 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.
Bronte_Villette_65830.19I 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.
Harland_At_Last_4340.19The evening was warm and still to sultriness, and the moonlight, filtered into pensive pallor through a low-lying haze, yet sufficed to show how confidingly Imogene leaned upon her attendant in sauntering dowa the long main alley of the garden.
Harland_Jessamine_4480.12Roy apparently did not object to this arrangement, for he drew a stool to the sofa, and talked to Jessie, aside, of things that would have interested her beyond all other subjects, but for the sight of that group in the moonlight that now flooded the room.
Reade_Put_Yourself_in_His_Place_127370.12He found Joseph Galton and another man carrying Mrs. Galton and her new-born child away in a blanket.
Auerbach_On_the_Heights_162740.11The grandmother is well again, and is sitting in the spring sunshine.
The_Eichhofs_Clean_19340.10She was so much interested that she bestowed only a careless 'good-day' upon Lothar, who entered the room and, seated in a low arm-chair, became both spectator and auditor of the debate.
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol3_8230.06"Why should you know what she is charged with?"
Reade_The_Cloister_and_the_Hearth_134510.06She believes it.
Hawthorne_Marble_Faun_vol2_15090.06"It is not so now."
Evans_Inez_12480.06"Oh!

Wister_Marlitt_OMS_16850.09When Felicitas entered the room the old Mam’selle had been arranging papers, which, having lain year after year behind the glass doors of the antique cabinet, exhaled a strong odour of mould.

Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_16350.15Instead, 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_The_Second_Wife_17660.15There are quantities of such papers there," and he pointed to a lofty rococo cabinet. "
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_2480.11How tottering and shabby was all that rococo furniture !
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_52250.10Suddenly I felt a crash* ing blow upon my head, it had come in contact with the heavy bronze chandelier that bung low in the farthest apartment.

Hugo_Les_Miserables_10020.22Just imagine, while washing and dusting the ceilings and walls, Madam Magloire has made some discoveries; now our two chambers hung with antique paper whitewashed over, would not discredit a chateau in the style of yours.
Macdonald_Robert_Falconer_300.20This was the only piece of furniture in the room, unless some shelves crowded with papers tied up in bundles, and a cupboard in the wall, likewise filled with papers, could be called furniture.
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_154490.20The 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_155300.20The 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.
Holmes_Ethelyns_Mistake_26370.20Her 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.
Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_260590.18On the secretary opposite was a small bronze bust of the emperor, the only ornament of the apartment.
Bronte_Shirley_82250.18The plaster of the parlour ceilings, the paper on the walls, the curtains, carpets, chairs, are still the same."
Hugo_Les_Miserables_329950.17All the little feminine objects which Cosette was attached to had been carried away; nothing remained except the heavy furniture and the four walls.
Braddon_Lady_Audleys_Secret_36300.17The 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.
Wister_Schillingscourt_7890.17The panther- and bearskins were gently lifted, as though once more curving with the motions of their former owners; from pedestal and fragment of pillar the ibises and the vases of cacti toppled down; even the cabinets and cupboards against the wall stirred, as though their carved legs were shaken by strong hands, and all the sparkling ware, the cups and goblets, the Venetian glasses and mirrors, fell crashing from the shelves.
Evans_St_Elmo_15690.16The room was tempting indeed to students, and as the two sat down before the glowing grate, and Mr. Leigh glanced at the warm, rich curtains sweeping from ceiling to carpet, the black-walnut book- cases girding the walls on all sides, and the sentinel bronze busts keeping watch over the musty tombs within, he rubbed his fingers and exclaimed: "Certainly this is the most delightful library in the world, and offers a premium for recluse life and studious habits.
Braddon_Lady_Audleys_Secret_50790.16It was a simple, cheerful chamber, with brightly papered walls and pretty maple furniture, and was more occupied by Alicia than any one else.
Hugo_Les_Miserables_116400.16The walls were bare, the chamber was not furnished; there was not even a chair.
Warner_Queechy_47880.15But the colour had been unfortunately chosen--perhaps there was no help for that;--the paper was _very_ coarse and countryfied; the big windows were startling, they looked so bare, without any manner of drapery; and the long reaches of wall were unbroken by mirror or picture-frame.
Hillern_Only_a_Girl_48230.15Upon a polished marble pedestal in the centre of the room stood a bronze of the Farnese bull, and to the right and left of the lounge were placed bronzes of the horse-tamers of the Monte Cavallo at Rome.
Hawthorne_Twice_Told_Tales_37280.15Among 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.
Heimburg_A_Sisters_Love_Clean_560.15She 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.
Collins_No_Name_118000.15The bed-chamber was not very large, and the furniture was heavy and old-fashioned.
Collins_No_Name_143620.15The first objects of furniture in the room which attracted her attention were an old bureau of carved oak, and a heavy buhl table with a cabinet attached.
Lever_Tom_Burke_of_Ours_vol1_29100.14Mumbling a half apology for the locale, he introduced me into a long, low attic, where a settle bed of the humblest pretensions and a single rush-bottomed chair supporting a basin were the only articles of furniture.
Hughes_Tom_Brown_at_Oxford_7040.14The 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.
Whitney_Faith_Gartneys_Girlhood_12430.14Between 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.
Cervantes_Don_Quixote_78930.13On the cloth being removed Don Antonio, taking Don Quixote by the hand, passed with him into a distant room in which there was nothing in the way of furniture except a table, apparently of jasper, resting on a pedestal of the same, upon which was set up, after the fashion of the busts of the Roman emperors, a head which seemed to be of bronze.
Streckfuss_Castle_Hohenwald_Clean_53570.13He found himself in a large room hung with blue, and somewhat dark, as it was lighted by but one window; it was only a thoroughfare, as was plain from the furniture, that consisted simply of cabinets placed against the walls.
Holmes_Lena_Rivers_46860.13"It's the very best chamber in the house--Brussels carpets, marble and rosewood furniture, damask curtains.
Evans_Vashti_66640.12The floor was bare, except a strip of faded carpet stretched in front of a small single bedstead; and the additional furniture consisted of two chairs, a tall table where hung a mirror, and a washstand that held beside bowl and pitcher a candlestick and china cup.
Collins_Armadale_69970.12The 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.
Whitney_Real_Folks_3260.12Behind, where it had been, was a blank, brown-stained cobwebbed wall, thrown up harsh and sudden against them, making the room small, and all the enchanted chamber, with its red slanting carpet, and its far reflected corners, gone.
Mulock_John_Halifax_Gentleman_74210.12During the owners' absence there had been a distraint for rent; every bit of the furniture was carried off; two or three aged and sick folk were left lying on the bare floor--and the poor families here would have to go home to nothing but their four walls.
Warner_Queechy_47850.12The ceilings were low; the walls rough papered or rougher white-washed; the sashes not hung; the rooms, otherwise well enough proportioned, stuck with little cupboards, in recesses and corners and out of the way places, in a style impertinently suggestive of housekeeping, and fitted to shock any symmetrical set of nerves.
Hugo_Les_Miserables_67780.12He stared at the wall, then he looked at himself, wondering that it should be that chamber and that it should be he.
Hillern_Only_a_Girl_56100.11We 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.
Collins_Armadale_160580.11But one of the four walls of the room was unoccupied by shelves, and here the vacant space was filled by a handsome antique cabinet of carved wood, curiously out of harmony, as an object, with the unornamented utilitarian aspect of the place generally.
Trollope_Can_You_Forgive_Her_140080.11There were three or four chairs round the wall, and there was the one arm-chair which the occupant of the chamber had dragged away from its sacred place to the hearth-rug.
Hugo_Les_Miserables_19800.11At eight o'clock he was still at work, writing with a good deal of inconvenience upon little squares of paper, with a big book open on his knees, when Madame Magloire entered, according to her wont, to get the silver-ware from the cupboard near his bed.
Bronte_Villette_92370.10Pere 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.
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol5_10610.10"And one evening they brought furniture covered up with a carpet."
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol2_23390.10Send there all the requisite furniture, such as carpets, curtains, etc., etc.
Hawthorne_The_House_of_the_Seven_Gables_2930.10As for ornamental articles of furniture, we recollect but two, if such they may be called.
Broughton_Nancy_2800.10There is a ladder against the wall, set for the gardener to replace it.
Lewald_Hulda_42660.10She went from her mirror to the window, and back again to the mirror, to convince herself that it was her own fefle which she saw there.
Harland_Jessamine_44120.10Indeed, as I told Orrin, it isn't safe to leave such carpets and furniture as ours unprotected."
Hardy_A_Pair_of_Blue_Eyes_37510.10Nothing is now heard but the ticking of a quaint old timepiece on the summit of a bookcase.
Collins_Armadale_33060.10The only object of furniture or of ornament that I saw (or that I can now remember having seen) was a little statue placed near me.
Hugo_Les_Miserables_116370.09If one opened it, one found one's self in a little chamber about six feet square, tiled, well-scrubbed, clean, cold, and hung with nankin paper with green flowers, at fifteen sous the roll.
Reade_It_is_Never_Too_Late_to_Mend_75530.09Mr. Eden was in his room busy collecting and arranging several papers.
Reade_A_Terrible_Temptation_77730.09His bed was just above the cupboard door, and he attached the gut to a bell by his bedside.
Heimburg_A_Sisters_Love_Clean_7890.09He rose, went to an old-fashioned desk, and took a little packet of papers from the middle drawer.
Collins_Woman_in_White_103710.09I entered a little room, with a flaring paper of the largest pattern on the walls.
Collins_The_Law_and_the_Lady_46830.09I saw (or fancied I saw, in the ob scurity) a long room with a low ceiling.

Warner_Queechy_64580.15A carpet for the best room from the ladies of the township, who had clubbed forces to furnish it; and a home-made concern it was, from the shears to the loom.
Hardy_A_Pair_of_Blue_Eyes_73400.09Elfride's dressing-room lay in the salient angle in this direction, and it was lighted by two windows in such a position that, from Knight's standing-place, his sight passed through both windows, and raked the room.
Fleming_A_Terrible_Secret_69870.06"I would, no doubt, only--I am not going."
Auerbach_On_the_Heights_53950.06"Where are their highnesses?"

Bronte_Jane_Eyre_15900.06"How do you do, my dear?

Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_7250.09A large group was instantly gathered around the old man and his costly burden.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_47000.08As they had passed quickly through the rooms, neither had noticed sitting in the last, which was apparently empty, the Hofmarschall and his friend the court chaplain.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_15200.07Intrigue is the favorite amuse- ment of such as she; and if it cannot be carried on in the drawing-rooms of the rich and great, they will condescend, for the love of it, to pursue it in a lower sphere.

Warner_Wide_Wide_World_78410.20There were several men gathered round the fire, and in a corner, on a miserable kind of bed, I saw the sick child.
Bronte_Villette_89230.18I 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.
Trollope_Orley_Farm_64520.18Dearest, 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.
Roe_Opening_a_Chestnut_Burr_22190.17Soon they were all standing round the piano, save Mr. Walton, who sat near in his arm-chair, his face the picture of placid enjoyment as he looked on the little group so dear to him.
Mulock_John_Halifax_Gentleman_60170.17All were gathered in a group at the window, the child being held on her father's lap, while Dr. Jessop was trying to open the small white lids, kept so continually closed.
Sheppard_Charles_Auchester_vol1_23750.14"My dear Charles, Margareth is gone up to bed; stay until I can light you with my candle.
Hillern_Only_a_Girl_17240.14She opened it at a picture and held it up before her, saying, "Look, dear Ernestine, only look at your beautiful book!"
Blackmore_Lorna_Doone_84270.13The thought of that so flurried her--for she never yet could see a joke--that she laid her scissors on the table and said, "The Lord forbid, John!
Cooper_Last_of_the_Mohicans_40830.13Just 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.
Collins_The_New_Magdalen_55370.13A single lamp diffused its mild light over the books, pictures, and busts round her, leaving the further end of the room, in which the bed was placed, almost lost in obscurity.
Alcott_An_Old-Fashioned_Girl_41620.13"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.
Aguilar_The_Mothers_Recompense_vol2_15710.12There 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.
Collins_Man_and_Wife_51140.11The 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.
Hughes_Tom_Brown_at_Oxford_29540.11No time was lost in the dressing-room, and in two minutes they were all standing in flannel trousers and silk jerseys at the landing-place.
Bronte_Villette_57980.11Often had I seen her standing at Graham's side, resting that volume on his knee, and reading to his tuition; and, when the lesson was over, begging, as a treat, that he would tell her all about the pictures.
Alexander_Ralph_Wiltons_Weird_3380.11In the midst of the buzz of voices, while all except Wilton were gathered round the table discussing the viands placed thereon, he observed the door of the ladies' room open gently and his _protégé_ appear, his cloak over one shoulder, and trailing behind.
Harland_At_Last_5200.11"Don't think hardly of me, dear," he began, seating himself beside her on the sofa.
Hardy_Far_From_the_Madding_Crowd_28210.11Standing beside the sheep already shorn, they went on talking again.
Prentiss_Stepping_Heavenward_42530.10He 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_Shirley_79990.10Her 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.
Sheppard_Charles_Auchester_vol1_33700.10I saw it go downstairs, and I sat there all day and cried; I was very miserable, I know.
Lever_Charles_OMalley_vol1_55490.10cried he, as I seated myself beside him, "what a pity all our fun is so soon to have an end!
Cummins_The_Lamplighter_59300.10"I beg you to be seated;" politely handing a chair.
Collins_The_New_Magdalen_25960.10Julian pointed to the group at the sofa, and to the servants looking on.
Reade_White_Lies_10980.10"Go to bed, my little son, since you have got hashed," said she.-- "Bed be hanged," cried he.
Hillern_Only_a_Girl_9020.09She stood hesitating and looked sorrowfully at the beautiful binding, with its gay arabesques.
Alcott_Little_Women_60660.09Oh, dear, I wish I hadn't asked you to speak, Mama," said May, looking disconsolately at the empty spaces on her table.
Hugo_Les_Miserables_153820.09We are going to learn the most minute details; we are going to lay our finger on the debaucheries of our sly friend!
Whitney_Real_Folks_33720.08They had never used to do this; they had stayed in the old back sitting room with all the litter round, and never thought of it till those girls had come and showed them how.
Trollope_Can_You_Forgive_Her_51740.08The gentlemen joined them just as they were settling themselves round the table, and as many of them stayed there, the billiard-room became full.
Reade_The_Cloister_and_the_Hearth_141620.08A gigantic friar sat by his bedside, reading pious collects aloud from his breviary.
Longfellow_Hyperion_9310.08But in the midst of his reverie and saint-painting, the landlord came in, andtold him he had found a chamber, which he begged him to go and look at.
Collins_Woman_in_White_27420.08"You used often to sit on my knee when you were a child, my dear," I said, "and now your little dog seems determined to succeed you in the vacant throne.
Evans_Vashti_52990.08She took the pictures, and a derisive smile distorted her lips, as she looked shiveringly at them, and hastily replaced them on their velvet cushions.
Broughton_Nancy_6170.07"Well, I must be going, I suppose," cry I, leisurely rising, stretching, sighing, and beginning to collect the various articles of my wardrobe, scattered over the furniture.
Collins_The_Law_and_the_Lady_19730.07The second cupboard revealed (in the upper division of it) some really beautiful cameos--not mounted, but laid on cotton-wool in neat cardboard trays.
Yonge_The_Daisy_Chain_7330.06"No; I don't see what you can do.
Yonge_Heir_of_Redclyffe_38860.06You think we may tell him?'
Wood_East_Lynne_111510.06"Do I mean you, or do I mean me?
Werner_No_Surrender_Clean_58310.06he cried.
Trollope_The_Way_We_Live_Now_14420.06Can I see Henrietta for a few minutes?'
Trollope_Orley_Farm_45450.06"I do not say so," said Round.
Trollope_Can_You_Forgive_Her_76900.06It does look so dreadful, your standing up over one in that way."
Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_600.06"And the description?"
Reade_Foul_Play_67660.06A cry came down to him from above.
Reade_Foul_Play_63530.06"How shall we know?"
Reade_A_Terrible_Temptation_16100.06But perhaps it will not always be so."
Lever_Charles_OMalley_vol2_40870.06"'No, no, no!'
Holmes_Lena_Rivers_48410.06"And her son, if she had one?"
Hillern_Only_a_Girl_58870.06"Yes, yes!

Harland_Alone_81490.22As a loaded upper limb was roughly shaken, and screams of laughter and pretended fright arose from the group, upon whose heads the hurtling shower descended, our friend Charley might be seen, sauntering away, in suspicious unconcern;--Ellen Morris was weaving her gay-coloured meshes around Mr. Euston's susceptible heart, and Mary Truman, with Charley, as aid, was pioneer to a dozen children of assorted sizes.
Clemens_and_Warner_The_Gilded_Age_16550.14Philip and Harry both said they should like to see a hotel that had been so famous in its day--a cheerful hostelrie, Philip said it must have been where duels were fought there across the dining-room table.
Clemens_and_Warner_The_Gilded_Age_67790.11Harry went back to the city.
Fleming_Norines_Revenge_17980.11In an upper room, a private parlor of a Boston hotel, seated in an easy chair, was Miss Norine Bourdon.
Fleming_A_Terrible_Secret_51450.09Captain Hammond and Charley betook themselves to the billiard room.
Ingelow_Fated_to_be_Free_47180.09Then a library, with a capital billiard-table, and lastly John's den.
Yonge_The_Daisy_Chain_23240.06Harry fidgeted.
Trollope_The_Way_We_Live_Now_50050.06'And because I am such a fool.'
Reade_The_Cloister_and_the_Hearth_10120.06he!
Cummins_The_Lamplighter_35080.06said Kitty.

Bronte_Jane_Eyre_6330.16"I don't think I shall ever be afraid of you again, Bessie, because I have got used to you, and I shall soon have another set of people to dread."
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_55370.09I could not lay a finger anywhere but I was pricked; and now I seem to have gathered up a stray lamb in my arms.

Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_62550.11There 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_The_Second_Wife_40480.08The little trunk had been instantly unpacked, and everything put back into the place which it was to occupy, as the second wife did hers in her husband's heart.

Blackmore_Lorna_Doone_70320.16The scanty light showed me no figure moving through the length of the tunnel behind me; only a heavy groan or two went to my heart, and chilled it.
Braddon_Lady_Audleys_Secret_36370.14He seated himself upon one of the rickety chairs, and waited patiently for the advent of the schoolmistress.
Holmes_Tempest_and_Sunshine_44920.14In the midst of all this Fanny lay calmly and quietly on her low bed, counting each succeeding sun as it rose and set, bringing nearer and nearer a day she so much dreaded.
Porter_Scottish_Chiefs_52220.13Lady Ruthven sat composedly, on a tapestried bench, awaiting the arrival of the company.
Lever_Tom_Burke_of_Ours_vol1_68860.13And then, without waiting for a reply, continued: "It is settled, all finally arranged; I told you, Madame, the 'pear was ripe.'
Broughton_Nancy_61080.13As I pass Roger's door, having reentered the house, the thought strikes me to set them on his writing-table.
Reade_The_Cloister_and_the_Hearth_184590.12When 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.
Howells_A_Forgone_Conclusion_2170.12Florida," said Mrs. Vervain, for her daughter had reentered the room, and stood with some shawls and wraps upon her arm, patiently waiting for the conclusion of the elder lady's speech, "I wish you would bring down that set of corals.
Warner_Wide_Wide_World_119290.12Before ten minutes had passed Margery came to set the table for dinner; Ellen's papers and desk must move.
Warner_Queechy_143530.12A table was set and partially spread with evidently much more care than the one of the morning; and Fleda sat looking at it afraid to trust herself to look anywhere else.
Collins_No_Name_115080.12He waited at the window until he heard Louisa's knock at the door, then turned back sullenly to the breakfast-table and told her to come in.
Collins_Armadale_167590.12He moved away, and looked into the two empty rooms in the row occupied by Allan and himself, then walked to the window at the staircase end of the corridor.
Warner_Wide_Wide_World_15270.12Nobody did see her; they all went off into the next cabin, where breakfast was set.
DeMille_Cord_and_Creese_45240.12Brandon seated himself and waited.
Cooper_The_Prairie_41270.11Then he placed the little flame in a bed of the standing fog, and withdrawing from the spot to the centre of the ring, he patiently awaited the result.
Lever_Charles_OMalley_vol2_10460.11There lay the guitar to whose thrilling chords my heart had bounded; there, the drawing over which I had bent in admiring pleasure, suggesting some tints of light or shadow, as the fairy fingers traced them; every chair was known to me, and I greeted them as things I cared for.
Kingsley_Hypatia_28680.11There she sat, without moving a finger, as the two entered.
Collins_The_Law_and_the_Lady_58170.11I returned to my chair, and waited for the truffles.
Collins_No_Name_136080.11Magdalen sat down patiently to wait for him.
Bronte_Shirley_134710.10"After breakfast this morning, when I had seen her, and listened to her, and, so to speak, felt her, in every sentient atom of my frame, I passed from her sunny presence into the chill drawing-room.
Stowe_Uncle_Toms_Cabin_26690.10And over head, in the cabin, sat fathers and mothers, husbands and wives; and merry, dancing children moved round among them, like so many little butterflies, and everything was going on quite easy and comfortable.
Harland_Alone_88450.10It costs her a twinge to see me teach my sable class, and she modestly hinted, this morning, that her chamber, or the dining-room would be a more proper place for their recitations, than mine.
DeMille_Cord_and_Creese_52420.10In a little street that runs from Broadway, not far from Wall Street, there was a low doorway with dingy panes of glass, over which was a sign which bore the following letters, somewhat faded: BROCKET & CO., CONTRACTORS About a month after his arrival at New York Brandon entered this place and walked up to the desk, where a stout, thick-set man was sitting, with his chin on his hands and his elbows on the desk before him.
Mulock_John_Halifax_Gentleman_11610.10"The lad can go into the kitchen, Abel Fletcher: his breakfast is waiting there."
Collins_The_Law_and_the_Lady_80970.10Miserrimus Dexter moved his chair a little closer to mine.
Hillern_Only_a_Girl_27040.10She stroked the child's thick, short curls, and then turned to Leuthold, while Angelika, who had a large doll in her arms, drew Ernestine away to a deep window-seat.
Ingelow_Fated_to_be_Free_50270.09In the meantime, Dorothea was cosily resting on the sofa in her dressing-room, her husband was with her, and St. George Mortimer Brandon,--the latter as quiet as possible in his cot, now nobody cared whether his behaviour did him credit or not.
Whitney_We_Girls_2320.09A kitchen exodus is like other small natural commotions,--sure to happen when anything greater does.
Mulock_John_Halifax_Gentleman_77630.09For, at Longfield, already we began to make a natural almanack and chronological table.
Holmes_The_English_Orphans_15190.09"Now, do tell," said Widow Perkins, vigorously rapping her snuff-box and passing it around.
DeMille_Cord_and_Creese_9830.09Brandon went back into the cabin and stood looking at the open doorway of that other room.
Collins_Man_and_Wife_164030.09"The head of the bedstead was set against the wall which divided his room from mine.
Alcott_An_Old-Fashioned_Girl_1800.09It gave Polly quite a turn, for she thought no one was hearing her but the old lady dozing by the fire.
Hugo_Les_Miserables_107240.09It was this good woman who had lighted the fire in the stove, and prepared everything on the evening of their arrival.
Yonge_Heir_of_Redclyffe_101200.09He turned round, threw the letter on the table, and with a sign that forbade her to come with him, left the room.
Whitney_Faith_Gartneys_Girlhood_17110.09She entered Mrs. Gartney's presence with nonchalance, and "flumped" incontinently into the easiest and nearest chair.
Evans_Inez_11710.09I sat down in his chair, and laid my head on his desk, and groaned in mine anguish of spirit.
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_63160.09Ali alone was present to wait at table, and acquitted himself so admirably, that the guest complimented his host thereupon.
DeMille_The_Cryptogram_58420.09In front was a roomy forecastle; in the stern was a spacious cabin, with an after-cabin adjoining; between the two was the hold.
Collins_No_Name_102900.09She waited patiently until Mrs. Wragge had made an end of the meal, and then went upstairs to her own room.
Collins_Man_and_Wife_117960.09The domestic ledgers, and the kitchen report for the day, were ranged modestly behind the devout book.
Collins_Armadale_8300.09The discovery of his wife's jewel box, close under him, on the floor, explained his presence in the cabin.
Collins_Armadale_43580.09He glanced from the statuette to the window, with a sudden doubt which set his heart throbbing fast.
Bronte_Villette_5680.09There is the wonderful Great Wall of China; here is a Chinese lady, with a foot littler than mine.
Whitney_The_Other_Girls_26860.08Down in the cabin they seated themselves together where they had had many a talk before, at a corner table near Mr. Kirkbright's state-room door.
Reade_Love_Me_Little_Love_Me_Long_82540.08The good-natured Frenchman insisted on Lucy taking sole possession of his cabin, in which was a cheerful stove.
Collins_The_Moonstone_109140.08After waiting irresolute, for a minute or more, in the middle of the room, he moved to the corner near the window, where the Indian cabinet stood.
Whitney_Faith_Gartneys_Girlhood_100.07A 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.
Whitney_The_Other_Girls_56940.06"There!"
Whitney_Faith_Gartneys_Girlhood_36410.06"Nowhere to rest--nobody to take care of me!"

Bronte_Jane_Eyre_7280.13When it subsided, I saw them all drawn up in four semicircles, before four chairs, placed at the four tables; all held books in their hands, and a great book, like a Bible, lay on each table, before the vacant seat.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_58660.12Wood, 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_30660.10I retired to a window-seat, and taking a book from a table near, endeavoured to read.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_82990.09I showed him the volume on the shelf: he took it down, and withdrawing to his accustomed window recess, he began to read it.

Wister_Marlitt_OMS_7850.12Upon 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_24350.12contemptuous 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_13720.10Felicitas immediately drew out a volume from under as pile of other French books.

Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_39550.17She 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_The_Second_Wife_7700.12There knelt Gabriel with bowed head before a chair, his hands folded on a huge book that lay open upon it. "
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_29650.12She had laid aside her bonnet and hymn-book, and was standing with a flushed face in front of the flower-stand in my room.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_22570.10Elizabeth took the book which he had laid upon the window-sill, and went to the bookcase to close it.
Wister_Marlitt_Owls_6980.08As in a dream Claudine passed on to what was called the Duchess’s study,—a small room wainscoted with costly foreign woods, and with walls covered with antique pressed and gilded leather, The book-shelves and writing-table were of dark oak; heavy curtains and rugs, and the busts of Goethe, Shakespeare, and Byron, lent it a home-like air.
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."
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_10740.07Beside the bed, upon a round mahogany table, were some handsomely-bound books and a glass bowl of flowers from the garden and forest most artistically arranged.

Warner_Queechy_84330.25Several huge timbers lay close by, ready for the saw; and on one of them where he had been sitting Fleda saw his Bible lying open.
Collins_No_Name_2840.21Norah, 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.
Whitney_Faith_Gartneys_Girlhood_12890.20At nine o'clock Aunt Faith came in, took down the great leather-bound Bible from the corner shelf, and laid it on the table.
Collins_Man_and_Wife_158830.19The lower shutters would not be closed at that hour; and if they were, she could lay her hand on the Bible, in its place on the parlor book-shelf, in the dark.
Trollope_Orley_Farm_18540.19It was surrounded by shelves which were laden with books and dust, which by no chance were ever disturbed.
Evans_Beulah_62780.19The outer wrappings fell off, and disclosed an oblong, papier-mache case.
Evans_Infelice_33070.18The book which she had been reading that day lay on the table, and taking it up he leisurely turned over the leaves.
Collins_The_Law_and_the_Lady_19820.18On the upper shelf there appeared, in solitary grandeur, one object only--a gorgeously bound book.
Collins_Woman_in_White_107370.18He 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.
The_Eichhofs_Clean_15980.17He was now standing before a pretty open set of book-shelves, from which he took several books and brought them to the table.
Collins_Armadale_43870.17Midwinter put the book back with a heavy sigh, and opened no other volume on the shelves.
Sheppard_Charles_Auchester_vol2_14160.17"No, she is not," returned Anastase, coolly; and he left the sofa and walked to the table in the window where it lay,--a green-bound oblong volume of no slight thickness.
Evans_Macaria_26640.17Nellie 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.'
Mulock_John_Halifax_Gentleman_25320.17And from the handful of books that usually lay strewn about wherever we two sat, I took up one he had lately got, with no small pains I was sure, and had had bound in its own proper colour, and presented it to me--"The Purple Island," and "Sicelides," of Phineas Fletcher.
Lewald_Hulda_34940.16She took her knitting, placed a book upon the table before her, and tried to read.
Harland_Jessamine_52030.15He 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.
Warner_Wide_Wide_World_138370.15He's fetched over his mother's old Bible, and there it lays on a shelf in the cupboard; and he has it out every once in a while.
Trollope_Can_You_Forgive_Her_137900.15Mr Levy had taken out the four bills from the same case, and had placed them on the table before him.
Hardy_Far_From_the_Madding_Crowd_17690.15On the table lay an old quarto Bible, bound in leather.
Clemens_and_Warner_The_Gilded_Age_42940.15"Ah, come in, sit down," and the Senator closed the book and laid it down.
Evans_St_Elmo_18900.15Mr. Murray closed the door as he came in, and walking up to the book-cases, stood carefully examining the titles of the numerous volumes.
Evans_Beulah_78920.14She opened the glass doors and saw her books carefully arranged on the shelves.
Alcott_Little_Men_21800.14asked Mr. Laurie, pointing to the volume that lay open by the cabinet.
Evans_Beulah_31020.14But lines and angles swam confusedly before her, and, shutting the book, she sat looking into the fire.
Evans_Beulah_15390.14The study was an oblong room, and on one side book-shelves rose almost to the ceiling.
Collins_Armadale_70240.14He had taken Allan into the room, and had shown him the books on the shelves, and all that the writing in the books disclosed.
Evans_Vashti_43920.13The lamp was burning very dimly on a table close to the bed, and upon the open Bible lay the spectacles which the old lady had placed there twelve hours before, when she finished reading the nightly chapter that generally composed her mind and put her to sleep.
Reade_Foul_Play_89390.13That lady came in, and laid a prayer-book on the table, saying, "I have brought it you back, miss; and I want you to do something for my satisfaction."
Hugo_Les_Miserables_312220.13Beside the bed, three candles burned on a table where the case of surgical instruments lay spread out.
Evans_Inez_1730.13In the center of the apartment, with an open book on the table before him, sat the teacher who officiated at prayers.
Collins_The_Moonstone_102480.13He produced a huge old-fashioned leather pocket-book, with a pencil of dimensions to match.
Collins_The_Law_and_the_Lady_18980.13Some were bound in cloth, some were only protected by paper covers; one or two had fallen, and lay flat on the shelves.
Collins_Man_and_Wife_51270.13On the shelves which ran round the walls were the books which humanity in general respects--and does not read.
Collins_Woman_in_White_107060.13"What is there in the packing-cases?"
Bronte_Shirley_105040.13"Shut the book.
Whitney_Faith_Gartneys_Girlhood_23740.13By and by she reverted, at last, as she always did, to that question of its being a "leading," or not; and, taking down the old Bible from the corner shelf, she laid it with solemnity on the little light stand at her side, and opened it, as she had known her father do, in the important crises of his life, for an "indication."
Warner_Queechy_21690.13At a little table between the windows, with her back turned towards the bed, Fleda was sitting, her face bowed in her hands, upon the old quarto bible that lay there open; a shawl round her shoulders.
Mulock_John_Halifax_Gentleman_96140.13Maud vanished; the younger boys also; Guy settled himself on his sofa, having first taken the pains to limp across the room and fetch the Flora, which Edwin had carefully stowed away in the book-case.
Mulock_John_Halifax_Gentleman_2540.13He looked at the writing for a minute or two, dried it carefully by the fire, replaced the book in its two cases, and put it into his pocket.
Longfellow_Hyperion_3040.13"And what think you of Tiedge's Urania," said the Baron smiling, as Paul Flemming closed the book, and laid it upon the table.
Broughton_Nancy_41030.13On a small table at the owner's elbow, a blue-velvet jeweler's case stands open.
Aguilar_Home_Influence_28110.13Hurried by him, she left her book open on the table to dry, and, finding it closed on her return, put it away, without looking at it.
Collins_The_Moonstone_97580.12I looked at the mahogany instrument case, and at the huge roll of lint, occupying places of their own on the book-shelves, and shuddered inwardly as I thought of the sounds, familiar and appropriate to the everyday use of Ezra Jennings' room.
Hugo_Les_Miserables_4620.12This book was on one of the upper shelves.
Collins_Armadale_138960.12"I have shut up the dressing-case again.
Alcott_An_Old-Fashioned_Girl_37380.12"Utterly done with, and laid upon the shelf.
Warner_Wide_Wide_World_132370.12The empty seat beside her, the unused hymn-book on the shelf, the want of her sweet voice in the singing, oh, how it went to Ellen's heart.
Trollope_Can_You_Forgive_Her_25990.12The furniture in the sitting-room was very neat, and the book-shelves were filled with volumes that shone with gilding on their backs.
Mulock_John_Halifax_Gentleman_30390.12John read it all through to me--not for the first time either; and then, thinking I had fallen asleep, he sat with the book on his knee, gazing out of the open window.
Lever_Tom_Burke_of_Ours_vol1_70590.12The walls of the room were covered with shelves filled with books; and on the chairs about, and even on the floor, lay maps and drawings in every disorder; a sword and belt, as if just taken off, lay on the table among the writing materials, and a cocked hat beside them.

Warner_Queechy_57810.21Fleda looked up at them and drew large draughts of bodily and mental refreshment with the bracing air.
Heimburg_A_Sisters_Love_Clean_19050.14The candles flickered restlessly on the table, a chilling draught of air came through the open window, and thunder faintly muttered in the distance.
Verne_Tour_of_the_World_in_Eighty_Days_6940.12These three were as madly devoted to whist as Mr. Fogg himself, and they spent whole days silently enjoying it.
Bronte_Shirley_47730.12She merely showed her concern for Miss Helstone in an indirect way, by asking her if the fire made her too warm, placing a screen between her chair and the hearth, closing a window whence she imagined a draught proceeded, and often and restlessly glancing at her.
Stowe_Uncle_Toms_Cabin_92360.10The 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.
Collins_The_Moonstone_110300.06Surely not!
Collins_Man_and_Wife_35950.06come!"

Stowe_Uncle_Toms_Cabin_63510.24It was towards the middle of the afternoon, as she was so reclining,--her Bible half open, her little transparent fingers lying listlessly between the leaves,--suddenly she heard her mother's voice, in sharp tones, in the verandah.
DeMille_The_Dodge_Club_49620.15asked the Senator in a slightly argumentative tone of voice, throwing one leg over another, tilting back his chair, and folding his arms.
Kingsley_Westward_Ho_14350.14And when he walked self-invited, like the loud-shouting Menelaus, into the long dark wainscoted hall of the court, the first object he beheld was the mighty form of Amyas, who, seated at the long table, was alternately burying his face in a pasty, and the pasty in his face, his sorrows having, as it seemed, only sharpened his appetite, while young Will Cary, kneeling on the opposite bench, with his elbows on the table, was in that graceful attitude laying down the law fiercely to him in a low voice.
Alcott_Work_17190.12From a room near by, came the soothing creak of a rocking-chair, the rustle of a newspaper, and now and then a scrap of conversation common-place enough, but pleasant to hear, because so full of domestic love and confidence; and, as she listened, Christie pictured Mrs. Wilkins and her husband taking their rest together after the week's hard work was done.
Lewald_Hulda_9310.12Emanuol, quite carried away by the music and her singing, would have expressed bis admiration of Tier ber thoroughly avtistie rendering of the air, but she suddenly arose, and, laying down her guitar, made as if she would leave the room.
Bronte_Villette_64510.11One 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.
Cummins_The_Lamplighter_4650.11But it did not alarm Gerty; she was used to rat-inhabited walls, and accustomed to hearing such sounds all her life, when she slept in the garret at Nan Grant's.
Cummins_The_Lamplighter_22590.11Whatever it might be, it was something that had a soothing influence, for, after every fresh struggle, she grew calmer, and rising, seated herself in a chair by the window, leaned her head on her hand, and looked out.
Evans_Vashti_26840.10Suddenly he placed his hand on her arm, and said, "Listen!
Yonge_Heir_of_Redclyffe_68640.10said he, in a lower tone, leaning over the back of Amy's chair.
Evans_St_Elmo_21480.10Leaning back in his chair, St. Elmo laughed.
Porter_Thaddeus_of_Warsaw_46040.09When the cloth was removed, she rose suddenly from her chair, and turning to Miss Dorothy, who sat at the other end of the parlor, with her foot on a stool, said in a low voice, "Good-by, aunt!
Kingsley_Westward_Ho_111480.09There is no need for me to detail every incident of that long and weary chase; how they found the Sta.
Evans_Beulah_70570.08A gentleman stood by the fire; but, without noticing him, she pushed the sofa aside, secured her fan, and was turning away when a well-known voice startled her.
Harland_At_Last_26180.07"I heard a piece of news to-day," he said, presently, in his most even tone; but Mabel's start upon her seat was almost a leap, while her fingers moved faster and more irregularly.
Warren_Ten_Thousand_a_Year_25240.06_Eighty_-four at the very lowest!"
Sheppard_Charles_Auchester_vol1_34060.06There is precious Aronach himself.
Reade_White_Lies_7180.06"Who is it?"
Reade_It_is_Never_Too_Late_to_Mend_76010.06"Yes.
Ouida_Under_Two_Flags_2520.06No more do I.
Harland_Jessamine_17820.06said Jessie.
Collins_The_New_Magdalen_24620.06"_I_ will listen to you," he said.
Collins_No_Name_125380.06she asked.

Bronte_Jane_Eyre_38030.15I 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_38010.09"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_93900.06"I never take supper."

Ingelow_Fated_to_be_Free_61310.25"They want you to come in and eat something," he urged, "there is supper spread in the dining-room."
Broughton_Nancy_74230.15The supper-room is rather full--(when, indeed, was a supper-room known to be empty?)
Collins_Man_and_Wife_144970.14As 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.
Reade_White_Lies_66190.13She went up to the tapestried room, and found the doctor in the act of wishing Josephine good-night.
Hillern_Only_a_Girl_16220.13She took the plate and carried it on high into the dining-room, where she placed it before her husband with exultation.
Evans_Beulah_29930.13"There is a good fire in the dining room; better go in there and sit with Mrs. Watson.
Blackmore_Lorna_Doone_81710.13A couch is a small bed, set up in a room without space for a good four-poster.
Bronte_Shirley_119920.13He bounced out of the room, but immediately bounced back again, shut the door, and resumed his seat.
Yonge_Heir_of_Redclyffe_99610.12Philip went with them into the dining-room, but had scarcely sat down before he said he could not stay, and returned to the drawing-room sofa.
Trollope_Can_You_Forgive_Her_182670.12The affair simply amounted to this, that they were to eat their dinner uncomfortably in the field instead of comfortably in the dining-room.
Harland_Alone_19720.12Ida hardly saw him until the second supper was served; Carry insisting that she should occupy her accustomed seat, and go through the form of eating.
Hardy_A_Pair_of_Blue_Eyes_20100.12She ultimately heard the two men come from the study and cross to the dining-room, where supper had been lingering for more than an hour.
Warner_Wide_Wide_World_8250.12Ellen joyfully allotted the whole morning to the examination and trial of her new possessions; and as soon as breakfast was over and the room clear she set about it.
Harland_Alone_95060.12Arthur glanced at Ida, and was arrested in the act of rising, by seeing her wheel a chair to the stand, and beckon to Charley.
Harland_Alone_2420.12Ida surveyed the unsightly sheet in dismay, but there was no time for alteration, and she repaired with the rest to the recitation-room.
Bronte_Villette_44410.12Martha had not forgotten us; a cheerful fire was burning, and a neat supper spread in the dining-room: we were glad of both.
Trollope_The_Way_We_Live_Now_150390.11Lord Nidderdale looked round the room and became aware of the awful expression of dismay which hung upon the features of all the dining members.
Hugo_Les_Miserables_327920.11The guests, preceded by M. Gillenormand with Cosette on his arm, entered the dining-room, and arranged themselves in the proper order around the table.
Heimburg_A_Sisters_Love_Clean_54870.11The table was set in a festal manner in the dining-room, and at Susanna's place was a bunch of splendid white roses.
Collins_The_Law_and_the_Lady_57560.11Drawers and cupboards, plates, dishes, and saucepans, were ranged around the alcove--all on a miniature scale, all scrupulously bright and clean.
Bronte_Shirley_67950.11"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."
Holmes_Tempest_and_Sunshine_48310.11In 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.
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol2_1900.11It was now the hour of supper, and the rooms were nearly deserted.
Mulock_John_Halifax_Gentleman_20260.11Jem shall bring you a light and supper.
Hughes_Tom_Brown_at_Oxford_94450.11"Then let us stand here, and we will take them as they pass to the supper-room."
Trollope_The_Way_We_Live_Now_183480.11He went from the dining-room to the smoking-room, and there, taking from his pocket a huge case which he always carried, proceeded to - light a cigar about eight inches long.
Trollope_Orley_Farm_8030.11"Goodness me, Mr. Moulder, how many times have I seen you sitting there with a pipe in your mouth, and half a dozen gents eating their teas the while in this very room?
Reade_The_Cloister_and_the_Hearth_102230.11And she took me to a fine house hard by, and into a noble dining-hall hung with black; and there was set a table with many dishes, and but one plate and one chair.
Hugo_Les_Miserables_19810.11A moment later, the Bishop, knowing that the table was set, and that his sister was probably waiting for him, shut his book, rose from his table, and entered the dining-room.
Reade_The_Cloister_and_the_Hearth_187570.10"Nor I of soldiers; but what is supper and bed between two true men?"
Reade_The_Cloister_and_the_Hearth_187540.10"Who grudges a brave soldier supper and bed?
Mulock_John_Halifax_Gentleman_20680.10Faithfully, at supper-time, Jem entered.
Ingelow_Fated_to_be_Free_48600.10I went through the dining-room and saw the names on the plates, and I took the liberty to change one or two.
Harland_At_Last_10170.10While the work is going on, you had better occupy some other bed-room.
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_142480.10Villefort complied, and they passed on to the dining-room.
Collins_Armadale_32510.10You don't know what I ate and drank at the doctor's supper-table; I do.
Warner_Wide_Wide_World_25660.10The room was good-sized, and perfectly neat and clean.
Stowe_Uncle_Toms_Cabin_67840.10Whatever she had, she seemed to survey only to pick flaws in it; but, once fairly away, there was no end to her valuation of it.
Reade_White_Lies_5990.10She rose from her chair, and said quietly, "Both you and he and Rose will be so good as to let me see you eat."
Sheppard_Charles_Auchester_vol1_44480.09We saw about as little of each other as it was possible to see, living in the same house and dining in the same room; but we never talked at meals, we had no time.
Macdonald_Alec_Forbes_61000.09At length, one day, he was brought down to the dining-room and laid upon the sofa.
Bronte_Shirley_68720.09The occupants of the dining-room listened too, and not merely now to the flow of the mill-stream.
Cooper_The_Deerslayer_53200.09He 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.
Wood_East_Lynne_31820.09Miss Carlyle led the way to a sitting-room, where the supper-tray was laid.
Trollope_Can_You_Forgive_Her_115620.09This was still true, for Mr Bott had now again got his eyes on them, round the supper-room door.
Reade_White_Lies_85150.09Be good enough to sit there;" with which the baroness pointed imperiously to a sofa at the other side of the room.
Harland_Alone_66330.09"My little library is at your service," said Ida, parting the curtains before a handsome set of shelves.
Clemens_and_Warner_The_Gilded_Age_60560.09Below, a few Senators lounged upon the sofas set apart for visitors, and talked with idle Congressmen.
Yonge_Heir_of_Redclyffe_72540.08The great drawing-room had never been unpacked since his grandmother's time, so that must be in repair; and, as for a garden, they would lay it out together.
Lewald_Hulda_29990.08Meanwhile Ma'amselle Ulrika bad been laying the cloth in the next room, and she now called them to supper.

Bronte_Jane_Eyre_20400.16I and Adele went to the table; but the master did not leave his couch.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_30650.10Adele, who appeared to be still under the influence of a most solemnising impression, sat down, without a word, on the footstool I pointed out to her.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_30.10The said Eliza, John, and Georgiana were now clustered round their mama in the drawing-room: she lay reclined on a sofa by the fireside, and with her darlings about her (for the time neither quarrelling nor crying) looked perfectly happy.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_18350.09The conversation, thus turned on Adele, continued till we reached the light and cheerful region below.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_53280.07"Adele, look at that field."
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_46370.07or is there no one in the room but you?"
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_45310.07I then left her.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_60980.07I say, why do you assign Adele to me for a companion?"
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_13830.07I walked about the chamber most of the time.

Wister_Marlitt_OMS_24330.08The 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_OMS_28340.07He left her.

Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_1850.23"Well, Flora, have you left the drawing-room?"
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_27680.16The 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_43620.14In the dining-room the Frau President was sitting at breakfast with Flora and the councillor.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_10160.14When the two sisters reached the first room of the upper story they found Flora gracefully reclining among the crimson cushions of a lounge, with a lighted cigarette between her fingers, looking on while the councillor brewed the afternoon coffee in the silver coffee-pot.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_17580.12Then the drawing-room awoke to life.
Wister_Marlitt_Rubies_4970.11The 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_Little_Moorland_Princess_17520.11It had been a state apartment, but it was evidently used as a cosy drawing-room.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_5890.11And she left the apartment to get jacket and cap from Susie’s room.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_2380.10Before long she will set up her pigeon-cote and daws’-nests in your drawing-room."
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_12710.08In a few moments he brought in the boiling water, bread and butter, and pushed the invalid’s chair nearer to the table; then he retired to his quiet room on the ground-floor of the northern tower, made a good fire in his stove, filled his pipe, and began to read—astronomy.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_3680.07~ Next came the sleeping-room.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_67860.07I am sitting in Charlotte's former room.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_11560.06"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_The_Second_Wife_8050.06As they traversed the mirrored gallery he did not speak.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_19330.06After supper Elizabeth walked down to the Lodge.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_32700.05"I am content; it will do no harm in your possession, Raoul ; let it hang in the recess of the window.

Evans_Beulah_36820.20Descending to the breakfast room, she drank a cup of coffee, and, telling Mrs. Watson she would be absent an hour or two, left the house and proceeded to Madam St. Cymon's.
Trollope_Orley_Farm_77640.19Such 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.
Reade_A_Terrible_Temptation_42100.19I 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."
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_176840.19Haidee was awaiting her visitors in the first room of her apartments, which was the drawing-room.
Bronte_Villette_7220.19She always sat upstairs: her drawing-room adjoined her bed-room.
Lever_Charles_OMalley_vol2_55300.18A 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.
Trollope_Orley_Farm_77460.17I'll not be told in my own drawing-room, even by you, that I am disgracing myself."
Lever_Charles_OMalley_vol2_57360.17I arose from breakfast a hundred times,--now walking impatiently towards the window, now strolling into the drawing-room.
Trollope_Orley_Farm_27100.16"You'll allow me to put you up one of those drawing-room sets?"
Collins_Woman_in_White_26180.16He thanked her, nodded pleasantly, and left us, to go and establish himself in his own room.
Collins_Woman_in_White_9750.16The drawing-room, to which we had now withdrawn for the rest of the evening, was on the ground-floor, and was of the same shape and size as the breakfast-room.
Warner_Wide_Wide_World_119310.16"No, Miss Ellen," said Margery under her breath, for John was in one corner of the room reading, "but by-and-by I'll be busy with the chops and frying the salsify, and I couldn't leave the kitchen; if you'll let me have the table now."
Fleming_A_Terrible_Secret_73050.16* * * * * Edith Darrell left Charley Stuart, and returned to the brilliantly-lit drawing room, where her lover and Lady Helena and their friends sat waiting the announcement of dinner.
Whitney_We_Girls_18610.16We'll begin in there, and out here we'll have the fortune tricks and the nuts later; and then the supper, bravely and comfortably, in the dining-room, where it belongs.
Trollope_Orley_Farm_1130.16On 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.
Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_134530.16At this, Rodin quitted the mantelpiece, on which he had been leaning, begin to walk up and down the room, with a meditative air, and without ceasing to bite his nails.
Stowe_Uncle_Toms_Cabin_24640.15he added, as he nervously rose, and began walking the room.
Heimburg_A_Sisters_Love_Clean_4770.15And now she began to walk up and down the room, but this time the pictures were undisturbed.
Fleming_A_Terrible_Secret_51290.15They reached Powyss Place--they entered the drawing-room.
Collins_Man_and_Wife_38410.15He bowed lower than ever--and, without a word more, quietly left the room.
Collins_Man_and_Wife_144940.15Geoffrey established himself in the back-room, over the drawing-room.
Marryat_Mr._Midshipman_Easy_6990.15It was on the eighth day that Jack left his bed and came down into the drawing-room.
Collins_Armadale_153630.15While it was coming, he walked up and down the room, and I sat by the fire, and not a word passed between us on either side.
Yonge_The_Daisy_Chain_39330.14said Flora, turning them over as they lay heaped on the drawing-room sofa; "what a confusion!"
Whitney_Faith_Gartneys_Girlhood_20270.14Sounds and odors betrayed that Mis' Battis and breakfast were in the little room adjoining.
Trollope_The_Way_We_Live_Now_6440.14The three saloons on the first or drawing-room floor had been prepared for dancing, and here Marie was stationed.
Holmes_Darkness_and_Daylight_49150.14Arthur arose to leave the room, but Richard held him back, saying to him, "You have answered well.
Evans_Inez_680.14With these words he was leaving the room, but Florence said, "Father, is she to stay with us always, and will she sleep in my room, with me?"
Trollope_Orley_Farm_61940.13You can make Staveley believe everything in a drawing-room or over a glass of wine; but I'll be hanged if I can ever get him to believe anything when he's on the bench."
Heimburg_Gertrudes_Marriage_Clean_12900.13Jenny nodded, looked hastily at a half-finished piece of embroidery and left the room.
Warner_Wide_Wide_World_147330.13He left the room.
Reade_Love_Me_Little_Love_Me_Long_58610.13He alone knew that she walked before breakfast.
Kingsley_Westward_Ho_10250.13or I must leave the room.
Alexander_Ralph_Wiltons_Weird_5890.13Perhaps she will be in the drawing-room when we go there.
Yonge_Heir_of_Redclyffe_92110.13Philip 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.
Harland_Jessamine_50380.13She folded her work as neatly as if handling satin instead of flannel, laid it within her basket and set it back, and, with a word of apology, left the room to order refreshments for the guests.
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.'
Yonge_Heir_of_Redclyffe_56450.13And she laughed about her journey to Scotland, and got into spirits, only she could not bear I should go out of the room; and after a time she grew very anxious for him to come back.
Trollope_Orley_Farm_77020.13He walked across the drawing-room, sat down in an arm-chair by the table, and took up the last number of a review, without speaking to either of them.
Fleming_A_Terrible_Secret_60860.13Papa Stuart from his place at the whist table beamed paternal approval down the long room.
Collins_No_Name_7150.13I left the window-seat -- I rushed into the morning-room -- I smelled cigars -- I followed the smell -- and here I am."
Clemens_and_Warner_The_Gilded_Age_39970.13When the visitors swept into the drawing-room they filled the place with a suffocating sweetness procured at the perfumer's.
Alcott_Eight_Cousins_15930.13They had not time to retire, without unseemly haste, before she walked into the parlour and sat down at the work-table without a word.
Ingelow_Fated_to_be_Free_64320.13She came down very late, and after her breakfast sauntered into the drawing-room, looking fresh as a white blush rose, lovely and content; next to the joy of possession stands, to such as she was, the good of doing good, and being necessary to the objects of their love.
Hughes_Tom_Brown_at_Oxford_86220.13"Yes, and she sends you her love, and says you are to go down to the drawing-room;" and with that the window closed, and he went down with a lightened conscience into the drawing-room, and, after joining in the talk by the fire for a few minutes, took a book, and sat down at the further side of the table.
Clemens_and_Warner_The_Gilded_Age_34620.13On the last day of the journey as the railway train Philip was on was leaving a large city, a lady timidly entered the drawing-room car, and hesitatingly took a chair that was at the moment unoccupied.
Wood_East_Lynne_3110.12"They saw my diamonds at the drawing-room."
Whitney_The_Other_Girls_31090.12And she sat so still, and let him go out of the room with hardly another word or look.
Verne_Tour_of_the_World_in_Eighty_Days_33210.12It was not unlikely, for every now and then he got up and walked round the room.
Mulock_John_Halifax_Gentleman_96400.12She may leave--she shall leave, immediately."

Bronte_Jane_Eyre_41580.12"Sit," he said; "the bench is long enough for two.

Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_26240.20I stood there upon the veranda, and through the window I aw him upon his knees at her feet.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_55820.20She was sitting among a group of ferns just where I had sat on the evening when I told about my grandmother.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_60520.20This has been a charming evening for us, little Prin- cess," she said, sitting wearily down upon a footstool at my feet, and resting her head upon my knee. "
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_33340.14If her mother had been sitting in her arm-chair in the window recess of the dwelling-room behind the protecting curtains, looking upon the green domain without, above which stretched the calm evening skies,—the dear familiar corner would have become a confessional, where Elizabeth, kneeling upon the cushion at her mother’s feet, would have poured out her overcharged mind and heart.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_4900.08She 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_5800.06She 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.

Holmes_Tempest_and_Sunshine_35750.18Fanny obeyed and retired to her room, where she found Julia sitting up and waiting for her.
Fleming_Norines_Revenge_54160.17"Yes," said May, sitting on his knee contentedly.
Trollope_Orley_Farm_35580.17The whole of that evening Lucius and his mother sat together, saying nothing.
Howells_A_Forgone_Conclusion_5730.17Florida was sitting alone on a bench near the fountain.
Hawthorne_The_House_of_the_Seven_Gables_17980.17It pleased him best, however, when she sat on a low footstool at his knee.
Lawrence_Guy_Livingstone_22700.16If 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.
Holmes_Tempest_and_Sunshine_26350.16On a low stool, at her feet, sits Fanny.
Heimburg_A_Sisters_Love_Clean_10020.15"'There, Klaus, I beg of you, don't be so nonsensical in the future as to sit on a footstool.
Mulock_John_Halifax_Gentleman_85300.14The mother sat by him at the fireside, rocking Maud softly on her knees.
Howells_A_Forgone_Conclusion_4430.14The ladies went to their room, where Florida lifted from the table a vase of divers-colored hyacinths, and stepping out upon the balcony flung the flowers into the canal.
Bronte_Villette_52010.14"Lucy will sit still, I know," said he, glancing down at me with the same serene goodness, the same repose of firmness that I have seen in him when sitting at his side amid the secure peace of his mother's hearth.
Lewald_Hulda_34430.13She helped bim from bis couch to his old arm-chair, and seated herself upon the footstool at his feet.
Holmes_Tempest_and_Sunshine_27340.13Springing up, Julia darted through the window out upon the balcony, and by the time Fanny reached the room she was seated at the furthest end of the veranda, busily engaged with her forgery.
Holmes_Tempest_and_Sunshine_4430.12While Fanny was after the camphor, Julia arose, and seizing her books, threw them hastily into her bureau drawer.
Holmes_Tempest_and_Sunshine_19920.12Fanny was seated in the parlor in company with Stanton when Julia suddenly entered the room and said, "Oh, here you are, sister.
Heimburg_A_Sisters_Love_Clean_36800.12Like an anxious mother, he bundled her up in shawls and rugs when she sat out on the terrace in the warm midday sun.
Aguilar_The_Mothers_Recompense_vol2_1940.12Edward, there is a vacant seat reserved for you by my mother's side, who looks much as if she would choose you for her knight this evening; and, therefore, though your place in future is amongst the young ladies, to whom by-and-bye I mean to introduce you by name and character, we will permit you to sit there to-night.
Mulock_John_Halifax_Gentleman_92690.12Before it, with breakfast untasted, sat Josiah Jessop--his feet on the fender, his elbows on his knees, the picture of despair.
Warner_Queechy_136480.12Constance was sitting on the floor looking at her.
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol5_35290.12"Let him sit on the front bench."
Sheppard_Charles_Auchester_vol1_22510.12"Come, sit down, and I will sit by you and tell you the story."
Macdonald_Alec_Forbes_4320.12She was left sitting on the sack.
Broughton_Nancy_51570.12I shall sit on a footstool at his feet.
Heimburg_Gertrudes_Marriage_Clean_9750.11She walked with a light step and a grave face up to her mother, who was reclining in the corner of the sofa as if she were entirely worn out by the important discussion.
Heimburg_Gertrudes_Marriage_Clean_11160.11He had stretched himself out comfortably in an arm-chair, and his young niece pushed a footstool under his feet and put an afghan over his knees.
Yonge_Heir_of_Redclyffe_48990.11'Here, sit on my knee, and rest after your scramble.'
Mulock_John_Halifax_Gentleman_101970.11His mother rose up to follow him--then sat down again.
Hillern_Only_a_Girl_63680.11cried her mother, seating herself upon a bench.
Collins_Man_and_Wife_8650.11They sat on the same bench, and sided with the same party.
Cummins_The_Lamplighter_21940.11If so, however, the culprit seemed remarkably at ease, for, before the coach had gone many steps, she deliberately placed her feet on the opposite seat, and proceeded to make herself comfortable.
Bronte_Shirley_81840.11Let me alone, then," said Rose, speaking from a corner where she was sitting on the carpet at the foot of a bookcase, with a volume spread open on her knee.--"Miss Helstone, how do you do?"
Alcott_An_Old-Fashioned_Girl_40920.11Fanny brought out her "rags" and was astonished to see how many she had, for chair, sofa, bed, and bureau were covered, and still Maud, who was burrowing in the closets, kept crying, "Here 's another."
Hawthorne_The_House_of_the_Seven_Gables_32290.11But she believed that her brother's schemes were as destitute of actual substance and purpose as a child's pictures of its future life, while sitting in a little chair by its mother's knee.
Eggleston_End_of_the_World_28600.11The mother sat by his bed, Gottlieb sat stupefied at the foot, with Jonas by his side, and Wilhelmina was crying in a still fashion in one corner of the room.
Trollope_The_Way_We_Live_Now_80810.10She would sit down on a stool at his feet, and it was impossible to drive her away from him.
Mulock_John_Halifax_Gentleman_86180.10The mother lit a candle, and he followed her up-stairs.
Hugo_Les_Miserables_180400.10The mother obeyed, and threw herself heavily on one of the pallets.
Holmes_Darkness_and_Daylight_41970.10"I remember so well," she said "when you called me your Florida rose, and asked for one of my curls.
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_256670.10The man who had followed Danglars sat down on a bench.
Bronte_Villette_83660.10He told her how she would set a footstool beside him, and climb by its aid to his knee.
Alcott_Little_Women_30280.10"You need a motive, Mother says, and when you get it, she is sure you'll work splendidly."
Stowe_Uncle_Toms_Cabin_72230.10She found Marie sitting up in her easy-chair, with Mammy standing by her, combing her hair; Jane sat on the ground before her, busy in chafing her feet.
Macdonald_Robert_Falconer_21250.10They rose from their knees, and Mrs. Falconer sat down by her fire, with her feet on her little wooden stool, and began, as was her wont in that household twilight, ere the lamp was lighted, to review her past life, and follow her lost son through all conditions and circumstances to her imaginable.
Trollope_Orley_Farm_50940.10He was now sitting down, with his feet hanging into the ditch, and Peregrine was kneeling behind him.
Holmes_Tempest_and_Sunshine_18860.10So saying she departed, and Fanny sat down by the window to await her return.
Broughton_Nancy_18780.10I draw a chair into the balcony, where he has already established himself with his cigar, and sit down beside him.
Yonge_Heir_of_Redclyffe_89010.09She was laid on the sofa, and made comfortable with pillows, in her mother's gentlest way.
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol1_21010.09"M. Rodolph, I have told you: she had scarcely entered my room, when, seeing the crucifix, she fell on her knees before it.
Schubin_Erlach_Court_Clean_6460.09One of the first words she put together upon his writing-table as she sat upon his knee was 'phosphorescence.'
Collins_Woman_in_White_54110.09There sat the Count, filling out the largest easy-chair in the house, smoking and reading calmly, with his feet on an ottoman, his cravat across his knees, and his shirt collar wide open.

Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_21600.09She went to the table and began to arrange her coffee-tray, and the girl Went out of the room.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_4140.09asked Frau Grriebel, who had just entered and setdown the coffee-tray on the sofa—table.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_20220.08The waiter was deposited with a clatter on the table, and little Louise was no longer prevented from entering the room. "
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_8760.08And I heard you with my own ears telling your mother that you put your pierced ducat last evening in the glass cup on the bureau, as you always do.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_35960.08The maid of honour silently handed her mistress a cup of tea, and then, seemingly convinced, went back to her embroidery.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_65590.07My father was sitting in his room, in a comfortable arm-chair, alternately reading and writing, with a steam- ing cup of tea beside him.

Warner_Queechy_49980.20Mother, give her a cup of coffee, will you, and set her to work."
Sheppard_Charles_Auchester_vol1_18640.16As I walked into the parlor the fire shone, and so did the kettle, singing to itself; for in our English life we eschewed urns.
Warner_Wide_Wide_World_990.16Now, however, when her eyes fell upon the little kettle, she recollected her mother had not had her tea, and must want it very much; and silently slipping off the sofa she set about getting it as usual.
Whitney_The_Other_Girls_44850.16Sylvie, has your mother had her fresh camomile tea?"
Trollope_Orley_Farm_80670.14"I had as nice a set of mahoganys as ever a woman could want, and bought with my own money too, John; but he's took them away to furnish some of his lodgings opposite, and put them things here in their place.
Howells_A_Chance_Acquaintance_10030.14"Well, Kitty," said the tenant of the sofa, as Kitty and the colonel drew up to the table on which the tea was laid at the sofa-side, "you've had a nice walk, haven't you?"
Hillern_Only_a_Girl_40340.14Who has not in early childhood seen some old aunt or grandmother, upon refusing a fifth cup of coffee, turn the cup upside down in the saucer and lay the spoon carefully upon it?
Holmes_Ethelyns_Mistake_29320.13There was more talking after a little--more going in and out, while Mary Ann brought up some supper on a tray, and John brought up a traveling trunk much larger than himself, and then, without Mrs. Pry's assurance, Ethie knew that the occupant of No.
Warner_Queechy_25030.13Mr. Thorn brought a little table to the side of the sofa for her cup of tea to stand on, and handed her the toast most dutifully; and her cousin Rossitur went back and forth between her and the tea-urn.
Yonge_The_Daisy_Chain_116650.12She sat behind her urn, and asked about tea or coffee, quite accurately, in a low, subdued voice, that nearly overcame Dr. May.
Heimburg_Gertrudes_Marriage_Clean_19120.12Then Mrs. Baumhagen put down her dainty coffee cup and leaned back in her garden chair.
Stowe_Uncle_Toms_Cabin_16710.12CHAPTER IX In Which It Appears That a Senator Is But a Man The light of the cheerful fire shone on the rug and carpet of a cosey parlor, and glittered on the sides of the tea-cups and well-brightened tea-pot, as Senator Bird was drawing off his boots, preparatory to inserting his feet in a pair of new handsome slippers, which his wife had been working for him while away on his senatorial tour.
Ouida_Under_Two_Flags_36110.12He was thrown on his cushions, rich enough for a seraglio, while the rest squatted on the morocco carpet that covered the bare ground, and that was strewn with round brass Moorish trays and little cups emptied of their coffee.
Warner_Queechy_70170.12His mother sat musing by the tea-board still, softly clinking her spoon against the edge of her tea-cup.
Warner_Wide_Wide_World_116060.12Now you've done; shall I set them on the table?
Collins_Man_and_Wife_88030.12Nothing more was said until the waiter appeared at the bar with his tray.
Warner_Wide_Wide_World_3590.11Captain Montgomery was away, which indeed was the case most of the time; friends had taken their departure; the curtains were down, the lamp lit, the little room looked cosy and comfortable; the servant had brought the tea-things, and withdrawn, and the mother and daughter were happily alone.
Wood_East_Lynne_115910.11"When she brought in the tea, and I was lying on the rug.
Warner_Wide_Wide_World_45900.11Come, Ellen, you and I will go and set the tea-table."
Prentiss_Stepping_Heavenward_13130.11Mother wanted to set off at once to see her, but I would not let her go, as she has one of her worst colds.
Warner_Wide_Wide_World_21230.10Timmins brought another chair to her side, and placed the tray with her supper upon it, and prepared her muffin and tea; and having fairly seen Ellen begin to eat, she next took off her shoes, and seating herself on the carpet before her, she made her lap the resting-place for Ellen's feet, chafing them in her hands and heating them at the fire, saying there was nothing like rubbing and roasting to get rid of the leg-ache.
Roe_What_Can_She_Do_16440.10"I've engaged him to bring up my furniture and trunks.
Collins_Man_and_Wife_155540.10The silence in the room justified the inference that he was asleep.
Collins_Armadale_76680.10Neelie put the tray down on the bedside table.
Collins_Armadale_153610.10"'I think a cup of tea would do you good,' remarked the doctor.
Whitney_We_Girls_15010.10Rosamond had been busy in the brown room; that was all nice now for the day; and she came in with a little glass vase in her hand, in which was a tea-rose, that she put before mother at the edge of the white waiter-napkin; and it graced and freshened all the place; and the smell of it, and the bright September air that came in at the three cool west windows, overbore all remembrance of the cooking and reminder of the stove, from which we were seated well away, and before which stood now a square, dark green screen that Rosamond had recollected and brought down from the garret on Saturday.
Whitney_The_Other_Girls_61440.10With her own hands, Asenath made the room as fresh and nice as could be; put little frilled covers over the pillows of the low bed, and on the half-high bureau top; brought in and set upon the middle of this last a slender vase from her own table, with a tea-rose in it, and said to herself when all was done,-- "How sweet and still it will be for them to come up to, after all!
Warner_Wide_Wide_World_20130.10Mrs. Dunscombe set about arranging herself for the tea-table.
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol2_40390.10"You know he threatens Louise that if she quits him he will put you in prison directly."
Roe_What_Can_She_Do_390.10She therefore opened her bundle and set out the little baskets before her mother very quietly.
Hillern_Only_a_Girl_52710.10The maid then silently withdrew, and brought coffee and the newspapers.
Collins_No_Name_102850.10"Don't be angry with me for asking," said Mrs. Wragge, as they sat together at the tea-table.
Kingsley_Hypatia_62680.10I suspect that you were all at the bottom of the sea once, and that the old Earth-shaker Neptune, tired of your bad ways, gave you a lift one morning, and set you up as dry land, in order to be rid of you.'
Macdonald_Alec_Forbes_91080.09Cupples followed him up-stairs, murmuring to himself: "Shades o' Wallace and Bruce!
Collins_Woman_in_White_6910.09Do you mind putting this tray of coins back in the cabinet, and giving me the next one to it?
Collins_Armadale_34190.09you remember the miniature you found on the floor of the cabin when we were putting the yacht to rights?
Heimburg_A_Sisters_Love_Clean_10730.09By the fire-place I overturned a little silver kettle and a cup that were standing on the floor.
Alcott_Eight_Cousins_28730.09Phebe ran away singing the multiplication table as she set the tea ditto.
Wood_East_Lynne_36140.08She carried a cup of tea to him, and never came back, leaving her own on the table till it was perfectly cold.
Whitney_The_Other_Girls_43280.08Desire had delicately withdrawn by this time; and presently coming back with a cup of tea upon a little tray, which refreshment she was sure Mrs. Argenter would need at once after her journey, she found the lady sitting quite serenely in the low cushioned chair before the obnoxious grate, in which Sylvie had kindled the lump of cannel that lay all ready for the match, in a folded newspaper, with three little pitch-pine sticks.
Collins_The_Moonstone_57070.08I put one of my second set of six letters on the chimney-piece by itself; leaving it to attract her curiosity, by means of its solitary position, apart from the rest.
Holmes_The_English_Orphans_10700.08Jenny Lincoln was up before the sun, and in the large dark closet which adjoined her sleeping room, she rummaged through band-boxes and on the top shelves until she found and brought to light a straw hat, which was new the fall before, but which her mother had decided unfit to appear again in the city.
Werner_No_Surrender_Clean_22410.07He entered the cabinet, his head full of the statement he had prepared, set his papers in order, and waited for the signal to begin.
Alexander_Ralph_Wiltons_Weird_6160.07Wilton betook himself, coffee-cup in hand, to Miss Saville, who was turning over a book of photographs in a conspicuously-disengaged position.
Yonge_The_Daisy_Chain_161680.06"I think you ought to consider well before you set it going."
Wood_East_Lynne_61900.06And no wonder.
Warner_Queechy_36250.06"No."
Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_119040.06"Oh, M.
Schubin_Erlach_Court_Clean_29900.06I never liked her."
Roe_Barriers_Burned_Away_940.06"Is your mother dead?"

Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_160.14In the cool water of the little basin two small brown feet were standing.

Lever_Charles_OMalley_vol1_32460.24"Only think, O'Malley, a whole brass bed, camp-stool, basin-stand, all complete, for sixty pounds!
Trollope_The_Way_We_Live_Now_162660.17This he spoke openly in the coffee-room of the club, and was still speaking as Nidderdale was taking his seat at one of the tables.
Collins_No_Name_20440.11The maid sat waiting in senseless doubt, with the hot-water jugs for the bedrooms ranged near her in their customary row.
Hugo_Les_Miserables_293260.10The swans were far away, in the centre of the basin, and busy with some prey.
Collins_The_Law_and_the_Lady_55440.07Miserrimus Dexter dropped his embroidery on his lap, and laughed softly to himself, with an impish enjoyment of my poor little narrative, which set every nerve in me on edge as I looked at him.
Wood_East_Lynne_33310.06Here's my coffee.
Hardy_Far_From_the_Madding_Crowd_67690.06Is that she there?"
DeMille_The_Cryptogram_86290.06said she.

Holmes_Elsie_Venner_28240.17Had she not her bits of furniture stowed away which had been got ready for her own wedding,--two rocking-chairs, one worn with long use, one kept for him so long that it had grown a superstition with her never to sit in it,--and might he not come back yet, after all?
Collins_Man_and_Wife_51340.17While a row of luxurious arm-chairs, in the main thoroughfare of the room, invited the reader of solid lit erature to reveal himself in the act of cultivating a virtue, a row of snug little curtained recesses, opening at intervals out of one of the walls, enabled the reader of light literature to conceal himself in the act of indulging a vice.
Ingelow_Fated_to_be_Free_47210.16The 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.
Harland_At_Last_13230.14The 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_Law_and_the_Lady_19600.14The top compartment contained nothing but boxes of cigars, ranged in rows, one on another.
Mulock_John_Halifax_Gentleman_6220.14Here Jael, who had been busy pulling back the table, replacing the long row of chairs, and re-sanding the broad centre Sahara of the room to its dreary, pristine aridness, stopped, fairly aghast with amazement.
Harland_Alone_84240.13It was an old-fashioned family mansion, rambling and picturesque; some rooms wainscotted to the ceiling, and lighted by rows of narrow windows, with surprisingly small panes.
Lever_Tom_Burke_of_Ours_vol1_19280.12Barton's eye ranged the little chamber till it fell on me, as I sat still and motionless against the wall.
Evans_Beulah_14190.12she hugs that ugly, old-fashioned thing as if it were kin to her," said Harriet, who sat sewing at one of the windows.
Roe_Jest_to_Earnest_25080.12With this comforting statement Bel left her friend to herself, who sat staring into the fire in the most discontented manner.
Reade_White_Lies_72720.11La Croix went for it himself, and on his return found Cadel sitting on one side of Death's Alley, and Dard with his head bound up on the other.
Evans_Vashti_15540.11The thoughtful act warmed the orphan's heart more effectually than the thick woollen cover; and when he sat down in an easy-chair close to the bed, and within range of Salome's vision, she yielded to the comforting consciousness of his presence.
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol3_17400.11In 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.
Whitney_Faith_Gartneys_Girlhood_12440.11Opposite the secretary, a plain mahogany table; and eight high-backed, claw-footed chairs ranged stiffly around the room.
Hillern_Only_a_Girl_48160.09Around the walls were ranged low Turkish divans of the same material.
Macdonald_Alec_Forbes_5980.09There she saw a double row of desks, with a clear space down the middle between the rows.
Lever_Charles_OMalley_vol1_12740.09The bell-rope lay against the opposite wall; and even if it did not, would he be exactly warranted in pulling it?
Trollope_Can_You_Forgive_Her_1410.09said Lady Macleod, seating herself stiffly on one of the small ugly green chairs.
Warner_Queechy_139110.08She took a long look that same morning at the little vinaigrette which still lay on the centre-table, wishing very much to take it up stairs and pack it away among her things.
Trollope_Orley_Farm_14400.06"Anything is not better than a row.
Reade_The_Cloister_and_the_Hearth_96720.06"Then let me see her."
Harland_Alone_62800.06"You never saw such a tiger!
Cooper_The_Prairie_17710.06"As the antelope!
Bronte_Shirley_112170.06But what could _I_ do with anything so nearly faultless?

Bronte_Jane_Eyre_98040.06He and I went up to London.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_89060.06I might have said, "Where is it?"

Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_2700.06What are they ?"

Trollope_Orley_Farm_30840.22His 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.
Alcott_Little_Men_150.17There 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.
Collins_Man_and_Wife_10030.14The mansion-house was intelligently laid out, and luxuriously furnished.
Mulock_John_Halifax_Gentleman_104800.14--With a lighting-up of the eye that furnished a flat contradiction to the mother's statement.
Lawrence_Guy_Livingstone_12210.13"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.
Mulock_John_Halifax_Gentleman_5540.12He led the refractory horse, settled him comfortably under a tree, and gave him in charge to a small boy.
Bronte_Shirley_125470.12That lady was just comfortably settled to stocking-mending in the back parlour, when Martin--laying down a book which, stretched on the sofa (he was still indisposed, according to his own account), he had been perusing in all the voluptuous ease of a yet callow pacha--lazily introduced some discourse about Sarah, the maid at the Hollow.
Cummins_The_Lamplighter_53560.11When Gertrude went to her room after dinner, which she did as soon as she had seen Emily comfortably established in the drawing-room in conversation with Madam Gryseworth, she found there a beautiful bouquet of the choicest flowers, which the chamber-maid said she had been commissioned to deliver to herself.
Whitney_We_Girls_15430.11Then there was the second-sized basket, into which they would all go comfortably when they were folded up.
Heimburg_Gertrudes_Marriage_Clean_18650.11asked the old gentleman, settling himself comfortably in a chair.
Collins_The_Law_and_the_Lady_54080.11Recovering from his astonishment, he laid his head luxuriously on the back of his chair, with the expression of a man who was listening critically to a performance of some sort.
Warner_Wide_Wide_World_59210.10harder and straighter-backed chairs never were invented.
Heimburg_Gertrudes_Marriage_Clean_15000.10Moreover we can live very comfortably there in the old rooms, though they are low and small.
Bronte_Shirley_96580.10inquired the boy, as she settled him in an arm-chair.
Collins_No_Name_19550.10When Mrs. Vanstone was comfortably established on the sofa, Norah and Miss Garth left her to repose, and withdrew to the library to look over the last parcel of books from London.
Collins_The_Moonstone_102910.10"Impossible to furnish that, sir, as it was furnished last year--to begin with."
Collins_Armadale_29310.10he went on, looking at his watch, and settling himself comfortably on deck with his back against the bulwark.
Alcott_Eight_Cousins_25330.10The boys settled down at once on any article of furniture that was nearest and listened dutifully.
Alcott_Little_Men_20270.09Now 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_142440.09The house was handsome, comfortably, luxuriously furnished; but without any attempt at display.
Alexander_Ralph_Wiltons_Weird_9880.07The boy was seated in a chair of elaborate make, furnished with a desk and candle-holder, and which could be raised or lowered to any angle.
Yonge_Heir_of_Redclyffe_59350.06'Yes--yes!
Yonge_Heir_of_Redclyffe_4250.06'Rather under-sized,' said Charles.
Reade_Put_Yourself_in_His_Place_23450.06But, when he had settled on this course, lo!
Reade_A_Terrible_Temptation_29220.06"Oh, if that is all," said Richard, "we can soon settle it.
Lawrence_Guy_Livingstone_16350.06"I have settled it," he said.
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_199920.06"Then it is settled?"

Bronte_Jane_Eyre_44130.09Tea ready, I was going to approach the table; but she desired me to sit still, quite in her old peremptory tones.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_79340.07He sat down.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_28190.07"Evening approaches," said I, as I looked towards the window.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_21560.06"Approach the table," said he; and I wheeled it to his couch.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_20830.06And so you were waiting for your people when you sat on that stile?"
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_36390.06But, as I was saying: sitting in that window-seat, do you think of nothing but your future school?

Wister_Marlitt_OMS_36090.10He would enter and sit down unsuspeetingly in the pleasant ivy-hung room.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_7180.05She had hitherto been sitting silently by the window in her husband’s arm-chair.

Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_46280.19The poor girl lay upon the old-fashioned couch from the doctor’s study.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_18350.16Doctor Bruck, however, was sitting alone by the tea-table, looking over a newspaper,—he was apparently absorbed by it, and had hardly looked up upon Henriette’s return to his side.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_4170.13Elizabeth sat down beside her.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_14920.12There 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-AtTheCouncillors_24550.12Now she approached the doctor standing by the table.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_27590.11Henriette was sitting propped up in bed while her maid was arranging her abundant hair, the doctor having retired to take some rest only an hour previously.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_1220.11Doctor Bruck paused for a moment, as if petrified, at the door of the room, then silently laid his hat upon the table, and approached the bed.
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_Gisela_18640.09In the cosy twilight within, almost upon the same spot where the tea-table of the old blind woman once stood, the small blue flame is burning that gives the room such a comfortable air at the fall of evening.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_20750.09The young wife, however, quietly laid the papers in the box and tried to fit the cover over it. "
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_8790.09She took her seat in a windowed recess, and looked out upon the landscape, upon which the first shadows of approaching evening were falling.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_45950.07262 THE SECOND WIFE.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_30390.07All this terrified the young girl; it was inexplicable, and as uncomfortable as the close crimson room, with its musty odour of books and papers upon which she now turned her back to return to the house by the river.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_25740.06In the evening the Ferber family were sitting in the shade of the lindens at the spring.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_23310.05Mainau was approaching; probably to bring from the house the shawl that the duchess had laid aside there.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_7280.05I must go home,—I have so much to do there; and, besides, I must iron: my poor invalid must have fresh bed-curtains to-morrow.

Collins_No_Name_155240.23"She has nobody else to amuse her, poor thing," he used to think, sadly, sitting alone in his small second-floor room.
Wood_East_Lynne_20.19In an easy-chair of the spacious and handsome library of his town- house, sat William, Earl of Mount Severn.
Mulock_John_Halifax_Gentleman_75540.18Sitting down to tea, with no small relief that all was over, John asked his wife after the sick lad.
Harland_Jessamine_37500.18To say nothing of the manifest unkindness to our poor girl here," he said, as his wife entered the room where he was sitting.
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol6_27290.18When the doctor entered, Morel was sitting at a table, imitating the movements of a lapidary at his wheel.
Porter_Scottish_Chiefs_5530.18After you have had repose, that will be time enough to revisit the remains of the poor earl, and to bring them with the box to the house.
Kingsley_Hypatia_78950.17But as he, the porter, and his negro wife were sitting silently and sadly enough together, Miriam came in, apparently in high good humour, and lingered a moment on her way to her own apartments upstairs.
Roe_What_Can_She_Do_55230.17She had an application for Rose's little room from one who gave more prospect of being able to pay, so she quietly told the poor girl to vacate it.
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_82910.16He was in a small room which Franz had not yet seen, and which was surrounded with divans.
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_83310.16He was in a small room which Franz had not yet seen, and which was surrounded with divans.
Trollope_Can_You_Forgive_Her_117240.16The lawyer rose from his chair as Vavasor entered, and bowed his powdered head very meekly as he asked his visitor to sit down.
Alcott_Little_Women_33990.16Writing, thinking, and directing all at once might well bewilder the poor lady, and Meg begged her to sit quietly in her room for a little while, and let them work.
Evans_Vashti_37970.16Weary of sitting on one of the hard, uncomfortable walnut chairs, that stood with its high carved back close to the wall, Salome rose, and amused herself by studying the engravings that surrounded her.
Wood_East_Lynne_117730.16"No, I don't," added Barbara, stoutly, as she approached the sofa vacated by William, and sat down upon it, thus bringing herself opposite and near to Madame Vine.
Warner_Wide_Wide_World_17770.16Another gentleman, however, joining them, and entering into conversation, Ellen silently quitted her friend's hand and went and sat down at the side of the boat.
Roe_What_Can_She_Do_33870.15She found herself so sadly rusty that she would have to study almost as hard as any of her pupils, were they obtained.
Mulock_John_Halifax_Gentleman_98480.15She leant over him, whispering--I think she kissed him--then slowly, quietly, she walked out of the study.
Evans_Beulah_31000.15He pointed to a chair near the fire, and said quietly: "Sit down, my child; sit down."
Harland_Jessamine_39050.14Eunice had made her preparations for a lonely evening by her chamber-fire; collected her books and work about her that she might not feel too sadly the want of human converse.
Roe_What_Can_She_Do_23090.14who are hunting such poor girls to perdition will sit on the sofa with your daughters this evening.
Evans_Vashti_38830.14Robert and the servants soon joined them, and Salome stole into the room and sat down in one corner.
Bronte_Shirley_33160.14"You are very diligent at that sewing, Miss Caroline," continued the girl, approaching her little table.
Ebers_Bride_of_Nile_Clean_3180.14Her hand was still conscious of his burning kiss as she entered the cool room where the Lady Neforis sat awaiting the return of the party, turning her spinning-wheel by the couch of her invalid husband who always went to rest at late hours.
Trollope_Can_You_Forgive_Her_130090.13Then the doctor went, and John Vavasor was left alone, standing with his back to the dining-room fire.
Ingelow_Fated_to_be_Free_63980.13He therefore approached quietly, entered the library, and feeling very tired and disquieted, sat down among his books.
Holmes_Elsie_Venner_6330.13The pews of this meeting-house were the usual oblong ones, where people sit close together, with a ledge before them to support their hymn-books, liable only to occasional contact with the back of the next pew's heads or bonnets, and a place running under the seat of that pew where hats could be deposited,--always at the risk of the owner, in case of injury by boots or crickets.
Mulock_John_Halifax_Gentleman_114940.13As she lay on her sofa in the study, where one or two evenings John carried her down, almost as easily as he used to carry little Muriel, his wife would rest content with her hand in his, listening to his reading, or quietly looking at him, as though her lost son's face, which a few weeks since she said haunted her continually, were now forgotten in his father's.
Lever_Tom_Burke_of_Ours_vol2_36820.13Following 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.
Warner_Wide_Wide_World_29170.13On the evening of that day, as Miss Fortune was setting the table for tea, and Ellen sitting before the fire, feeling weary of everything, the kitchen door opened, and a girl somewhat larger and older than herself came in.
Schubin_Erlach_Court_Clean_5060.13Lina sat from morning until evening like a kind of feminine Doctor Faust among bookcases, retorts, and globes in a spacious, dreary room, trying to work and longing 'to recover herself.'
Lever_Tom_Burke_of_Ours_vol2_22210.13Whether 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.
Warner_Wide_Wide_World_151660.13He made her bring her books and study where he was; he went out and came in with her; and kept her by his side whenever they joined the rest of the family at meals or in the evening.
Mulock_John_Halifax_Gentleman_118960.13I sat for some time in my room--then John came to fetch me for our customary walk along his favourite "terrace" on the Flat.
Lever_Charles_OMalley_vol2_53200.13When I joined the count in the evening, I found him surrounded by maps, rent-rolls, surveys, and leases.
Harland_Jessamine_38000.13she said, quietly, and laid it down by her plate until the meal was finished,--Eunice hurrying through hers in the belief that the wife wished to be alone when she read it.
Evans_St_Elmo_22620.13Giving one to his mother, who sat looking over a newspaper, he crossed the room and silently laid the other on Edna's lap.
Evans_Macaria_24320.13She went promptly, though so wearied she could scarcely stand, and took a seat by the bed where tossed the poor boy in whom she had taken such an interest.
Alcott_Little_Men_44820.13"Now, my 'pilgrims' amuse yourselves quietly till tea-time, for you will have enough excitement this evening," said Mrs. Jo, as they rose from the table after a protracted sitting, finished by drinking every one's health in cider.
Yonge_The_Daisy_Chain_82680.12said the doctor, entering the hall.
Harland_Jessamine_35960.12Had Eunice sat with her, last evening?
Alcott_Little_Women_10150.12Tell the girl to put it away for your tea.
Roe_Jest_to_Earnest_52650.12Now come with me into the boat-house, and let me tell you in the mean time that a lace curtain in my room is sadly torn, and one of my window-panes broken."
Macdonald_Robert_Falconer_47070.12A small square window, small as the window in John Hewson's, looked out upon a garden neatly kept, but now 'having no adorning but cleanliness.'
Lever_Charles_OMalley_vol1_27940.12Before the luckless doctor had a moment for thought, his legs were lifted from under him, and he was jerked, rather than placed, upon a chair, and put sitting upon the table.
Hugo_Les_Miserables_96860.12Her fear was such, that on her arrival, wet as she was, Cosette did not dare to approach the fire and dry herself, but sat silently down to her work again.
Macdonald_Alec_Forbes_57540.12When all had entered and seated themselves, the head of the house went slowly to the side-table, took from it reverentially the late minister's study Bible, sat down by the window, laid the book on his knees, and solemnly opened it.
Alcott_Work_37850.12Lisha sat eating a late breakfast one morning, with a small son at either elbow, waiting for stray mouthfuls and committing petty larcenies right and left, for Pa was in a brown study.
Alcott_Eight_Cousins_14050.12Hour after hour she sat in the dusky room, with one ray of light on her book, reading to the boy, who lay with shaded eyes silently enjoying the only pleasure that lightened the weary days.
Collins_Woman_in_White_45080.12Sir 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.
Aguilar_Home_Influence_24780.12Caroline, who would have enjoyed it, more out of politeness to her friend than inclination, sat down with her, and a cheerful group of some of the older lads, and one or two young ladies, joined them.

Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_36430.08Moritz 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.

Mulock_John_Halifax_Gentleman_18330.15"Preach not to others while the sin lies on thy own head."
Cummins_The_Lamplighter_4580.14Gerty was standing at the window, watching for True's returning from his lamplighting.
Cummins_The_Lamplighter_8040.12After Willie went home that evening, and Gerty was left alone with True, she sat beside him for some time without speaking.
Cummins_The_Lamplighter_3570.11Gerty lay still, and then True came in.
Cummins_The_Lamplighter_7260.09After tea, she sat beside Willie on the great settle, and, in her peculiar way, gave him a description of her life at Nan Grant's, winding up with a touching account of the death of her kitten.
Whitney_Real_Folks_22910.06Isn't that true?
Warner_Wide_Wide_World_141120.06"Ain't there something I can do for you when you are gone?"
Trollope_The_Way_We_Live_Now_144650.06How is it possible you should marry him?
The_Alpine_Fay_Clean_6160.06"Not at all!
Stowe_Uncle_Toms_Cabin_86540.06Isn't it just as I told you?"
Reade_Love_Me_Little_Love_Me_Long_89180.06is he not well?
Reade_Foul_Play_2880.06But he never went.
Fleming_A_Terrible_Secret_29960.06She was not entirely alone.
Cummins_The_Lamplighter_69830.06"But what are all these, Gerty, to one who knows her as we do?
Cummins_The_Lamplighter_6820.06"I don't know where that is," said Gerty.

Roe_Barriers_Burned_Away_53830.26She beamed at him through her spectacles over her knitting-needles; and he thought, as he gazed fondly at her, that in spite of her quaint, old-fashioned garb, and homely occupation, she appeared more truly a saint than any painted on cathedral windows.
Evans_Vashti_38860.12Crossing the floor, she stood at Robert's side, and the minister rose and began the burial service.
Harland_At_Last_7720.11Too restless to remain quiet, she tossed her book aside and wandered from side to side of the room, halting frequently to hearken for Mrs. Sutton's return, or some noise from the conference chamber that might alleviate her suspense.

Mulock_John_Halifax_Gentleman_31890.17And Mrs. Tod bustled about, well aware what a cosy and cheerful old-fashioned kitchen it was, especially of evenings.
Collins_The_Moonstone_28960.14Mrs Yolland sat down opposite to him, and gave him his nip.
Yonge_Heir_of_Redclyffe_60840.14However, old Sir Guy's arm-chair was never used by his grandson; Markham might sit there, and Bustle did sometimes, but Guy always used one of the unpretending, unluxurious chairs, which were the staple of the room.
Yonge_Heir_of_Redclyffe_109700.14Markham's eye was on the little white bundle in her lap, but he did not speak of it, and went on with explanations about Mrs. Drew and Bolton and the sitting-room, and tea being ready.
Braddon_Lady_Audleys_Secret_65660.14I'll have the gas laid on to-morrow and I'll engage Mrs. Maloney's eldest son to sleep under the letter-box in the lobby.
Braddon_Lady_Audleys_Secret_22870.13Mrs. Maloney was clearing away the remains of his repast when he returned to the sitting-room.
Wood_East_Lynne_86260.12Mrs. Hare sat in her chair, enjoying the brightness, and Mr. Carlyle stood near her.
Trollope_Orley_Farm_66930.12Sir Peregrine Orme has made me an offer of marriage and I have accepted it-- Lucius Mason when he had read so far threw down the letter upon the table, and rising suddenly from his chair walked rapidly up and down the room.
Mulock_John_Halifax_Gentleman_102880.11Mrs. Halifax sat sewing.
Trollope_Orley_Farm_160370.10"At any rate we shall have pictures of her in all the papers," said Mrs. Smiley.
Harris_Rutledge_10390.09Mrs. Roberts was sitting by a small table with a small lamp upon it, reading a Bible, which, upon my entrance, she shuffled away, very much as if she were ashamed to be caught at it; then turned toward me with a look of surprise that was anything but agreeable.
Trollope_Orley_Farm_26330.09and Lucius Mason pushed his drawings and books from him with a vengeance.
Yonge_Heir_of_Redclyffe_54870.09Up the stone steps into the spacious dark hall, and into the large, gloomy library, partially lighted by a great wood fire, replying to Mrs. Drew's questions about his dinner and his room, and asking Markham to stay and dine with him, Guy at length found himself at home, in the very room where he had spent every evening of his boyhood, with the same green leather arm-chair, in the very place where his grandfather used to sit.
Holmes_Ethelyns_Mistake_10450.09Mrs. Markham's bed had been removed from the sitting room, and the carpet taken from the floor, for they were going to dance, and Eunice's mother had been working hard all day to keep her liege lord away from the Cross Roads tavern so that he might be presentable at night, and capable of performing his part, together with his eldest son, who played the flute.
Holmes_Ethelyns_Mistake_5840.09Adjoining Richard's chamber was a little room where Mrs. Markham's flour and meal and corn were kept, but which, with a little fitting up, would answer nicely for a bedroom, and after an amount of engineering, which would have done credit to the general of an army, Melinda succeeded in coaxing Mrs. Markham to move her barrels and bags, and give up the room for Ethelyn's bed, which looked very nice and inviting, notwithstanding that the pillows were small, and the bedstead a high poster, which had been in use for twenty years.
Trollope_Orley_Farm_158520.09Then Mrs. Smiley was welcomed;--her bonnet was taken from her and her umbrella, and she was encouraged to spread herself out over the sofa.
Trollope_Orley_Farm_154110.08Mrs. Orme at once went to him, and found him seated at the breakfast-table with his head resting on his arm.
Howells_A_Forgone_Conclusion_4920.08Mrs. Vervain fitted on her glasses, but even then felt uncertainly about for the empty vase on the table before her.
Mulock_John_Halifax_Gentleman_91310.08Then Sir Herbert appeared to lead Mrs. Halifax in to supper, Guy limped along with pretty Grace on his arm, and all the guests, just enough to fill our longest table in John's study, came thronging round in a buzz of mirthfulness.
Holmes_Ethelyns_Mistake_15590.07Thus reasoning, he sat down by the side light as far away from the bedroom door as possible and commenced Mrs. Dr. Van Buren's letter.
Wood_East_Lynne_41870.07A small box in front for the driver, and a wide seat with a head behind, accommodating Barbara well between them when Mr. and Mrs. Hare both sat in.
Trollope_Orley_Farm_32880.06Orme."
Trollope_Can_You_Forgive_Her_20360.06"I'm quite sure of that."
Cooper_The_Pioneers_57640.06"Natty!

Stowe_Uncle_Toms_Cabin_5350.23And George and Tom moved to a comfortable seat in the chimney-corner, while Aunte Chloe, after baking a goodly pile of cakes, took her baby on her lap, and began alternately filling its mouth and her own, and distributing to Mose and Pete, who seemed rather to prefer eating theirs as they rolled about on the floor under the table, tickling each other, and occasionally pulling the baby's toes.
Harris_Rutledge_2670.17These edibles, Kitty, with all the pomp and circumstance of war, arranged upon the little table beside me, placing the tall wax candles in the centre, and distributing the diminutive pieces of the dainty little tête-à-tête set in the most advantageous manner.
Alcott_Work_16910.16sighed Christie, half devouring the warm and rosy little bunch in her lap, while baby lay back luxuriously, spreading her pink toes to the pleasant warmth and smiling sleepily up in the hungry face that hung over her.
Whitney_The_Other_Girls_57510.14Baby Karen was rolled up in a blanket on the middle of a bed.
Mulock_John_Halifax_Gentleman_3990.10My father sat down beside me on the bench--pushed aside an intrusive branch of clematis--finally, because it would come back and tickle his bald pate, broke it off, and threw it into the river: then, leaning on his stick with both hands, eyed John Halifax sharply, all over, from top to toe.
Roe_What_Can_She_Do_19690.09said Mrs. Allen sharply from her cushioned arm-chair.
Whitney_The_Other_Girls_61420.08This time the development was a very busy Friday forenoon; in which the silver rubbing was omitted, and the dinner preparations put off,--the man who came for "chores" detained for heavy lifting,--the large dining-table turned up on edge and rolled into the back parlor, the sideboard brought in and put in the place of a sofa, which was wheeled to an obtuse angle with the fire-place,--nine square yards of gray drugget, with a black Etruscan border, sent up by Mr. Scherman from Lovejoy's, and tacked carefully down by seam and stripe, under Asenath's personal direction; cradle, rocking-horse, baby-house, tin carts and picture-books removed from the nursery and arranged in the new quarters,--the children themselves following back and forth untiringly with their one-foot-foremost hop over the stairs, and their hands clasping the rods of the balusters,--some little shabby treasure always hugged in the spare arm, chairs and crickets, and the low table suited to their baby-chairs, at which they played and ate, transferred also; until Asenath stood with a sudden sadness in the deserted chamber, reduced to the regular bedroom furnishings, and looking dead and bleak with the little life gone out of it.
Stowe_Uncle_Toms_Cabin_28750.08Mrs. Stowe attempted unsuccessfully to have this identifying note removed from the stereotype-plate of the first edition.
Yonge_Heir_of_Redclyffe_8980.06'What did he say?'
Wood_East_Lynne_4990.06"How are you?"
Holmes_Darkness_and_Daylight_39800.06Nina was right.
Collins_The_New_Magdalen_43420.06Look at yourself, and look at Me!"

Bronte_Jane_Eyre_7670.11Miss Miller approaching, seemed to ask her a question, and having received her answer, went back to her place, and said aloud - "Monitor of the first class, fetch the globes!"

Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_5120.06Hanover."
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_33220.06"Why, uncle, are you a collector?"

Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_110470.21Thus the count was halfway turned towards his visitor, having his back towards the window, his elbow resting on the geographical chart which furnished the theme of conversation for the moment, -- a conversation which assumed, as in the case of the interviews with Danglars and Morcerf, a turn analogous to the persons, if not to the situation.
Blackmore_Lorna_Doone_2250.20One with another they hung back, where half a cart-load of hay was, and they looked to be sure that she would not turn round; and then each one laughed at the rest of them.
Trollope_Can_You_Forgive_Her_114440.20And then they were actually dancing, whirling round the room together, before a word had been said of that which was Burgo's settled purpose, and which at some moments was her settled purpose also.
Ouida_Under_Two_Flags_48490.16The chessmen had become in some sort like living things to him, through long association; he had parted from them not without regret, though for the moment courtesy and generosity of instinct had overcome it; and he knew that it was but too true how in all likelihood these trifles of his art, that had brought him many a solace and been his companion through many a lonely hour, would be forgotten by the morrow, where he had bestowed them, and at best put aside in a cabinet to lie unnoticed among bronzes or porcelain, or be set on some boudoir table to be idled with in the mimic warfare that would serve to cover some listless flirtation.
Lever_Charles_OMalley_vol2_47370.14"Then you had better present yourself at the levee to-morrow morning," replied he, carelessly, while he turned into one of the window recesses, and resumed the conversation with one of the gentlemen-in-waiting.
Collins_The_New_Magdalen_4560.14Monsieur Surville felt that he had asserted himself; he looked round invitingly at Mercy.
Werner_No_Surrender_Clean_8310.13The Baroness was sitting on the little sofa in her boudoir, turning over the leaves of a fashion-book.
Trollope_The_Way_We_Live_Now_187010.13'Then you may just go to the devil,' said the old Marquis turning himself round in his chair, and lighting a cigar as he took up the newspaper.
Roe_Jest_to_Earnest_7770.13But after he gets back to Michigan, the doctrines will come creeping back into their old place, and he will get comfortably over it like the rest.
Macdonald_Robert_Falconer_18440.13that the figure of an old woman sat solemnly turning and turning the hand-wheel?
Macdonald_Alec_Forbes_35150.13"Gentlemen," he continued upon this occasion, "the Scripture says you're to heap c-c-c-coals of fire on your enemy's head.
Warner_Wide_Wide_World_101230.12I ain't agoing to have Mimy Lawson, nor nobody else, poking all round into every hole and corner, and turning every cheese upside down to see what's under it.
Blackmore_Lorna_Doone_73540.11Madam 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.
Aguilar_The_Mothers_Recompense_vol1_33710.11There 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.
Reade_Put_Yourself_in_His_Place_55760.11But the moment he saw the specimens of Henry's work lying about, he drew back, and wheeled upon the man of the day with huge disdain.
Wood_East_Lynne_80760.11"And why did you not turn the tables, and set the officers upon him?"
Trollope_The_Way_We_Live_Now_38230.11Roger turned round and took up his book.
Collins_The_New_Magdalen_260.11Surgeon Surville, entering from the kitchen, drew aside the canvas screen, and approached the little round table at which his superior officer was sitting.
Ingelow_Fated_to_be_Free_19580.10Then, as they turned the edge of a wood, Peter looked back.
Collins_The_New_Magdalen_78870.10"Mercy and I had an interview with my aunt upstairs before we left.
Collins_The_New_Magdalen_68110.10Julian passed on, and approached Mercy's chair.
Hugo_Les_Miserables_138460.10The two mothers consulted for a few moments in very low tones in the corner of the parlor, then the prioress turned round and said:-- "Father Fauvent, you will get another knee-cap with a bell.
Success_and_How_He_Won_It_Clean_35990.10Hitherto, they had only met in her boudoir, at table, or in the drawing-rooms.
Roe_Barriers_Burned_Away_16570.10Arrange that counter sufficiently well to prove that it was your hands that arranged this."
Collins_Man_and_Wife_147120.10He strolled round into the back garden, and lit his pipe.
Broughton_Nancy_530.10says Algy, turning away from the window to meet her, and setting her a chair.
Trollope_The_Way_We_Live_Now_37360.09At that moment Roger was walking round the garden by himself, and Henrietta was in her own room.
Hugo_Les_Miserables_140270.09[18] Theatres are a sort of ship turned upside down with the keel in the air.
Evans_Beulah_46930.09Clara sat by the fire, with a piece of needlework in her hand; she looked listless and sad.
Collins_Armadale_120820.08The one little room he possessed met him cruelly, look round it where he might, with silent memorials of Miss Gwilt.
Collins_Armadale_159610.08After a short lapse of time the surgeon drew back from the sofa and motioned to the landlady to stand aside.
Hugo_Les_Miserables_153780.08And a moment later, he made his entrance into the salon, where Mademoiselle Gillenormand was already seated, busily embroidering her cart-wheels.
Yonge_Heir_of_Redclyffe_97750.07Laura, who was settling some things on the table, started back and coloured, then, unable to resist the desire of hearing of him, looked earnestly at her sister.
Ouida_Under_Two_Flags_50920.07he thought, as he stood on his head, with his legs at an acute angle in the air, in position very favored by him for moments of reflection--he said his brain worked better upside down.
Yonge_Heir_of_Redclyffe_47420.06'He?
Warner_Wide_Wide_World_92120.06I couldn't keep it, Alice!--I couldn't!"
Trollope_The_Way_We_Live_Now_12750.06I hardly know how to turn.
Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_34240.06He approaches the cabin.
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol3_15590.06Nothing!
Macdonald_St._George_and_St._Michael_30220.06said the marquis a little roughly.
Lever_Charles_OMalley_vol2_10810.06but you are quite mistaken.
Kingsley_Westward_Ho_69420.06"Back, men!"
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_190240.06"When I like."
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_250440.06"You are not exactly right, M. Procureur; you must go farther back."
DeMille_The_Dodge_Club_62990.06She ought indeed.
Cooper_Last_of_the_Mohicans_14310.06"What has Renard done?"
Collins_Armadale_127440.06Let me think a little.
Alexander_Ralph_Wiltons_Weird_22560.06do not turn away from me!
Alcott_An_Old-Fashioned_Girl_14420.06" 'Mercy on me!
DeMille_The_Cryptogram_135480.06He went back home, and I took to the desk.

Hawthorne_The_House_of_the_Seven_Gables_11500.15Silently, and rather surprised at her own compliance, Phoebe accordingly betook herself to weeding a flower-bed, but busied herself still more with cogitations respecting this young man, with whom she so unexpectedly found herself on terms approaching to familiarity.
Hawthorne_The_House_of_the_Seven_Gables_12430.09A chair and plate for Hepzibah,--the same for Phoebe,--but what other guest did her cousin look for?

Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_10560.10There seemed to be no one there to help him; his poor wife lay ill in bed, and the Fraulein gouvernante was probably composing, or painting her flower-pieces, or perhaps absorbed in an interesting book.

Trollope_Orley_Farm_38560.19At the bottom of the table sat Lady Staveley, who still chose to preside among her own tea cups as a lady should do; and close to her, assisting in the toils of that presidency, sat her daughter Madeline.
Trollope_Orley_Farm_152620.15When he entered the drawing-room Lady Staveley was there, and the judge with his teacup beside him, and Augustus standing with his back to the fire.
Fleming_A_Terrible_Secret_51300.15All were there--Trixy lying on a sofa, pale and interesting, Lady Helena beside her, Charley lounging in the recess of a sunny window.
Trollope_Orley_Farm_93930.14Late in the evening, when all the party had drunk their cups of tea, when Lady Staveley was beginning her nap, and Augustus was making himself agreeable to Miss Furnival--to the great annoyance of his mother, who half rousing herself every now and then, looked sorrowfully at what was going on with her winking eyes,--the judge contrived to withdraw with Madeline into the small drawing-room, telling her as he put his arm around her waist, that he had a few words to say to her.
Trollope_Orley_Farm_33970.14"I will pique him into it," said Augustus to himself, and therefore when on this occasion they came into the drawing-room, Staveley immediately took a vacant seat beside Miss Furnival, with the very friendly object which he had proposed to himself.
Trollope_Can_You_Forgive_Her_187590.13Lady 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.
Collins_Man_and_Wife_29010.13Hester Dethridge advanced slowly to the table at which Lady Lundie was sitting.
Fleming_A_Terrible_Secret_60820.12And then Charley sauntered away to the whist-table to join his father and mother and Lady Helena.
Trollope_Can_You_Forgive_Her_142610.12Lady Glencora got up from her chair near the window, on which she had been crouching close to Alice's knees, and walked away towards the fireplace.
Trollope_Can_You_Forgive_Her_113490.12Just within the dancing-room Lady Glencora found her husband, standing in a corner, looking as though he were making calculations.
Collins_Man_and_Wife_77930.12"I see Lady Lundie, at the other end of the room, with the map of Perthshire and the Baronial Antiquities of Scotland on the table.
Trollope_Can_You_Forgive_Her_57290.11Lady Glencora was now in the habit of having Alice with her in what she called her dressing-room every evening, and then they would sit till the small hours came upon them.
Collins_The_New_Magdalen_31120.10Before entering the dining-room he paused, fixing his eyes inquisitively on the back of Lady Janet's visitor--the back being all that he could see in the position he then occupied.
Collins_The_New_Magdalen_58030.10Lady Janet silently granted the boudoir.
Whitney_The_Other_Girls_22330.09At the back, they were sunny and airy; they looked through, overlapping a court-way, into Providence Square.
Clemens_and_Warner_The_Gilded_Age_74490.09It set forth Laura's threats, but there was a significant addition to it, which the newspaper report did not have.
Whitney_Real_Folks_12010.09Helena did very well to talk to; she heard anything; then she pranced round the room and chaffed the canary.
Disraeli_Lothair_5460.07Lady St. Jerome, who was leaning on the arm of the monsignore, guided him into a saloon farther than the one they had reentered, and then seating herself said, "You were telling me about Scotland, that you yourself thought it ripe."
Warner_Queechy_156200.06"You?"
Trollope_Orley_Farm_134930.06Staveley."
Hardy_Far_From_the_Madding_Crowd_11270.06"Chok' it all!
Cooper_The_Pioneers_45570.06"Oh!
Cooper_Last_of_the_Mohicans_21270.06"What says it?"
Braddon_Lady_Audleys_Secret_51350.06"Oh, yes, my lady.

Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_19570.17Upon the stone bench under the tree Bertha was sitting, apparently quite composed, trimming carrots.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_6350.14Putting down her basket, she seated herself on the green-painted wooden bench beside the door, apparently to await the return home of the master of the house.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_16790.06She seated herself again, and went on with her embroidery.

Cooper_The_Pilot_890.19When the boat had brought up to her grapnel, he sunk back at his length on the cushioned seats of the barge, and drawing his hat over his eyes in a listless manner, he continued for many minutes apparently absorbed in thoughts altogether foreign to his present situation.
Kingsley_Hypatia_48850.18The former be found at once, in a large hall where sundry Goths were lounging and toping, into the nearest corner of which he shrank, and stood, his late terror and rage forgotten altogether in the one new and absorbing thought--His sister might be in that house!....
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_203610.17"I mean," said Albert, drawing near, and without apparently noticing Cavalcanti, who stood with his back towards the fireplace--"I mean to propose a meeting in some retired corner where no one will interrupt us for ten minutes; that will be sufficient--where two men having met, one of them will remain on the ground."
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_204690.17"I mean," said Albert, drawing near, and without apparently noticing Cavalcanti, who stood with his back towards the fireplace -- "I mean to propose a meeting in some retired corner where no one will interrupt us for ten minutes; that will be sufficient -- where two men having met, one of them will remain on the ground."
DeMille_Cord_and_Creese_75170.17She sat silently while Mrs. Compton talked or prosed, absorbed in her own thoughts and plans.
Collins_Woman_in_White_47250.16He pulled aside the bench, took the little animal up in his hand, and then suddenly stopped, on his knees, looking intently at a particular place on the ground just beneath him.
Verne_Tour_of_the_World_in_Eighty_Days_29820.15Fix remained seated, apparently asleep, on a bench.
Trollope_Orley_Farm_140890.15The judges were to take their seats at ten, and therefore it was necessary that they should sit down to breakfast some time before nine.
DeMille_Cord_and_Creese_91170.15Potts was seated on the front seat, and Beatrice on the back one.
Marryat_Peter_Simple_62300.14"It appears to me, sir," said I, "that if we could remove the gas every ten minutes, it would be a very good plan."
Holmes_The_English_Orphans_7140.14and looking up, she would spy Sal, cosily seated on the top shelf, eyeing her movements complacently, and offering, perhaps, to assist her if she found the tea too strong!
Prentiss_Stepping_Heavenward_44810.13I could only laugh and try to look daggers at Ernest, who sat looking over a magazine, apparently absorbed in its contents.
Macdonald_Robert_Falconer_123840.13I know the bench where the shadowed folk Sit 'neath the music-loft--there none upbraids!
Harland_Jessamine_54330.13The work will be better done if I am on the ground to oversee operations, and it would not be pleasant for you to remain in the house while it is in confusion, not to mention the risk of taking cold from the damp walls and the open room, while the wall is down.
Lever_Tom_Burke_of_Ours_vol1_62790.13A similar bench, but unoccupied, ran along the opposite side; while directly in front of the judges were ranged the advocates in rows, closely packed as they could sit,--a small desk, somewhat advanced from the rest, being the seat reserved for the Procureur-Général of the court.
Trollope_Can_You_Forgive_Her_113960.13It was five minutes after this when he again saw her, and then she was seated on a cane bench in the gallery, and an old woman was standing close to her, talking to her.
Hawthorne_Twice_Told_Tales_26300.13Beneath the window is a wooden bench on which a long succession of weary wayfarers have reposed themselves.
Collins_Woman_in_White_122800.13His 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.
Ebers_Bride_of_Nile_Clean_2260.12So he remounted his ass to fetch the physician, while old Haschim, leaning on the Masdakite's arm, betook himself to a bench by the river.
DeMille_The_Cryptogram_49190.12I jumped in and sat down on one of the seats.
Heimburg_Gertrudes_Marriage_Clean_31280.11Johanna could see that the judge moved over from the middle of the seat opposite the young lady and that she glowed suddenly like the feathers on her hat.
Collins_Armadale_17610.11Mr. Brock left his seat on the side of the bed, trimmed his candle, and, still lost in his own thoughts, looked out absently at the night.
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_198150.11said Albert; "arranging your papers, apparently."
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_199260.11said Albert; "arranging your papers, apparently."
Trollope_Orley_Farm_130020.11Mrs. Orme and Lady Mason soon found themselves seated on a bench, with a slight standing desk before them, much as though they were seated in a narrow pew.
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_50010.11He removed his seat into a corner of the room, where he himself would be in deep shadow, while the light would be fully thrown on the narrator; then, with head bent down and hands clasped, or rather clinched together, he prepared to give his whole attention to Caderousse, who seated himself on the little stool, exactly opposite to him.
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_50130.11He removed his seat into a corner of the room, where he himself would be in deep shadow, while the light would be fully thrown on the narrator; then, with head bent down and hands clasped, or rather clinched together, he prepared to give his whole attention to Caderousse, who seated himself on the little stool, exactly opposite to him.
Harland_At_Last_17870.11When they stopped for consultation upon their plans for this, their first evening in the capital, directly beneath the central chandelier of the largest drawing-room, she stood, unintentionally, perhaps, upon the outside of the little circle, and not exerting herself to feign interest in the parley, sought amusement in a keen, but polite survey of the assembly, apparently in no wise disconcerted at the volley of glances she encountered in return.
Reade_Put_Yourself_in_His_Place_73600.10He gave the doctor the one chair, and wriggled down a path after pencil and paper: he jumped with them, like a cat with a mouse, on to the carpenter's bench, and was soon absorbed in drawing.
Reade_It_is_Never_Too_Late_to_Mend_9420.10Isaac Levi, instead of going quite away, seated himself on a bench outside the palings.
Hardy_Far_From_the_Madding_Crowd_12530.10He also thought of plans for fetching his few utensils and books from Norcombe.
Sheppard_Charles_Auchester_vol2_450.10The theorist must certainly have anticipated such a crisis, for he spread his arms and took a flying jump from that summit, descending elegantly and conveniently as a cat from a wall upon the boarded floor.
Collins_No_Name_83360.10He stopped the carriage, and insisted on an immediate change in the arrangement of the places -- the comfortable back seat for Miss Bygrave and her uncle, the front seat for Lecount and himself.
Reade_White_Lies_56020.10Sure enough, they found Josephine in the garden, seated on a low chair.
Reade_It_is_Never_Too_Late_to_Mend_181040.10Let me sit on this bench and draw my breath a minute--and then--I'll go.
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_150990.10"And I," he said, "I feel that my place is not in the judge's seat, but on the prisoner's stool."
Harland_Jessamine_38180.10Jessie had leaned back in her cushioned seat, staring, in a blank, purposeless way, at the fire for five minutes or more, when Eunice took her place with her work-box on the other side of the hearth.
Whitney_Real_Folks_3130.09So they set up two chairs from Lake Ontario in the kitchen doorway, to jump from; but they could only jump to the middle round of the carpet, and who could expect that the shadow children should be beguiled by that into a leap over bounds?
Hughes_Tom_Brown_at_Oxford_20140.09He found Drysdale lolling on his sofa, as usual, and fondling Jack.
Howells_A_Chance_Acquaintance_7240.09When he went to breakfast, he found some one had taken his seat near them, and they did not notice him as he passed by in search of another chair.
Collins_The_Law_and_the_Lady_92620.09When the searchers next assembled they met at the great table in the library at Gleninch.
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol5_34890.09Germain was one of the last to enter, absorbed in most delightful thoughts, and he went mechanically to seat himself on the ledge at the lowest window in the apartment, a place he usually occupied, and which no one disputed with him, for it was at a distance from the stove around which the prisoners were assembled.
Wood_East_Lynne_17190.09"And stick ourselves there upon empty benches, like two geese, and sit staring and counting the candles!
Whitney_Real_Folks_44520.09Then she jumped down from the window, along under which a great beam made a bench to stand on, and looked about the chamber.
Roe_Opening_a_Chestnut_Burr_64120.09Altogether it was a silent little group that Gregory left in the parlor, as all were busy with their own thoughts.
DeMille_Cord_and_Creese_91080.09Asgeelo had been left at the inn, and sat there upon a bench outside, apparently idle and aimless.
Schubin_Erlach_Court_Clean_20690.09Of course she buys the book, and, betaking herself to the small 'ladies' parlour' adjoining the spacious waiting-room, takes a seat opposite Stella, and, her eyes sparkling with enthusiasm, is soon absorbed in the study of her work.
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol1_28550.09After a moment of profound meditation, the Chourineur, less from any need he felt for repose than in obedience to the doctor's commands, took a chair with the utmost precaution, turned it upside down with an air of intense self-satisfaction at having at length devised a plan to act in strict conformity with the orders received, and yet avoid all risk of soiling the silken cushion; having laid the back on the ground, he proceeded, after all manner of delicate arrangements, to take his seat on the outer rails; but, unhappily, the Chourineur was entirely ignorant of the laws of the lever and the equilibrium of bodies, the chair overbalanced, and the luckless individual seated thereon, in endeavouring to save himself from falling, by an involuntary movement caught hold of a small stand, on which was a tray containing some tea-things.
Ebers_Bride_of_Nile_Clean_2610.09Haschim 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.
Cummins_The_Lamplighter_50510.09Your rooms are reserved, and will be made ready in a few minutes; they were vacated two days ago, and have not been occupied since."

Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_224850.15By 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.
Collins_The_Moonstone_55550.14The 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.
Braddon_Lady_Audleys_Secret_3860.09The waiter said it with consummate indifference, while he mechanically dusted the little mahogany table.
Reade_The_Cloister_and_the_Hearth_137400.08In it a lady of great beauty was seated under a canopy with gallants and dependents standing behind her.

Bronte_Jane_Eyre_1310.14My seat, to which Bessie and the bitter Miss Abbot had left me riveted, was a low ottoman near the marble chimney-piece; the bed rose before me; to my right hand there was the high, dark wardrobe, with subdued, broken reflections varying the gloss of its panels; to my left were the muffled windows; a great looking-glass between them repeated the vacant majesty of the bed and room.

Collins_Armadale_90160.23Pedgift Senior opened the door, stopped, considered, closed the door again, came back mysteriously with his pinch of snuff in suspense between his box and his nose, and repeating his invariable formula, "By-the-by, there's a point occurs to me," quietly resumed possession of his empty chair Allan, wondering, took the seat, in his turn, which he had just left.
Collins_Armadale_79670.14asked Rachel, repeating her invariable formula as she placed the desk on the bed.
Holmes_Lena_Rivers_2210.12"I wonder, now, if 'Tilda takes snuff," said Mrs. Nichols, one day, seating herself upon an empty drygoods box which stood in the middle of the floor, and helping herself to an enormous pinch of her favorite Maccaboy; "I wonder if she takes snuff, 'cause if she does, we shall take a sight of comfort together."
Hugo_Les_Miserables_297770.11The street was strewn with corpses.
Wister_Schillingscourt_2930.08Yes; only the attacks are repeated at very brief intervals," the physician said quietly, but without looking at the Bath, and still seated at the table, where he was writing a prescription.

Bronte_Jane_Eyre_83990.07When he said "go," I went; "come," I came; "do this," I did it.

Wister_Marlitt_Owls_950.10She looked around the bare room, and her eyes rested upon a small trunk. "
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_19210.09she murmured, and, dropping her hands again, she said, with downcast eyes, " The books were only a pretence to justify my coming here.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_19300.06If the carpenter never came back I could not blame him.

Harris_Rutledge_9270.20I finished it, and dropping the book in my lap, sat resting my head on my hand, and gazing dreamily into the fire.
Cummins_The_Lamplighter_16230.20When he had finished, she was kneeling by the stove; her eyes twinkled with such a merry look, that Willie exclaimed, "What are you thinking of, Gerty, that makes you look so sly?"
Heimburg_A_Sisters_Love_Clean_4950.18She had no idea, as she stood outside, whether or not she had answered him; then she sat down in her room, and her eyes wandered about the familiar spot and rested at length on her brother's portrait.
Hawthorne_Twice_Told_Tales_54270.17Happier 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.
Evans_Beulah_30240.17The volume was finished and dropped upon her lap.
Warner_Queechy_37750.17Standing by his side, with one little hand confidingly resting on his knee, she gazed alternately into his face and towards the broad highly-adorned square by the side of which they had placed themselves, and where it was hard to realize that the ground had once been soaked in blood while madness and death filled the air; and her changing face like a mirror gave him back the reflection of the times he held up to her view.
Roe_Opening_a_Chestnut_Burr_27640.17Annie dozed away the night in a creaky old rocking-chair, the nearest approach to a thing of comfort that the hovel contained.
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_154810.17The abbe replaced the large spectacles, which covered not only his eyes but his temples, and sitting down motioned to his visitor to do the same.
Evans_St_Elmo_38420.17When Mrs. Murray went to her own room later than usual that night, she found Edna sitting by the table, with her Bible lying open on her lap, and her eyes fixed on the floor.
Harland_Jessamine_45810.16Her amazement was not lessened when Orrin, replacing his weapon on the hearth, threw himself into a chair and covered his face with his handkerchief.
Harland_Alone_3030.15The paper was replaced upon the stand; the spectacles wiped and returned to their case; and those matter-of-fact eyes raised with an interrogative look.
Braddon_Lady_Audleys_Secret_20030.15Phoebe Marks shrugged her shoulders, folded her work, shut her work-box, and crossing her hands in her lap, sat with her gray eyes fixed upon her husband's bull-like face.
Macdonald_Alec_Forbes_11990.15There was nothing remarkable in the room; but to Annie's eyes it seemed magnificent, for carpet and curtains, sideboard and sofa, were luxuries altogether strange to her eyes.
Evans_St_Elmo_73840.15When the choir rose and commenced their chorus, Edna stood silent, with her book in her hand, and her eyes fixed on the Murrays' pew.
Lever_Charles_OMalley_vol1_72110.15In a few minutes more, Mr. Free appeared in a state of very satisfactory elevation, his eyebrows alternately rising and falling, his mouth a little drawn to one side, and a side motion in his knee-joints that might puzzle a physiologist to account for.
Yonge_Heir_of_Redclyffe_92540.14As to the rest, it is pleasant to think it will be in such hands if--' That 'if' gave Philip some comfort, though it did not mean what he fancied.
Trollope_Orley_Farm_112930.14Then he got up from his chair, and as he walked about the room he took his handkerchief from his pocket and wiped his eyes.
Evans_St_Elmo_22420.14Although his eyes had never once wandered from his cousin's face, toward the corner where Edna sat embroidering some mats, she felt the blood burning in her cheeks, and forced herself to look up.
Fleming_Norines_Revenge_55630.14Aileen Jocyln sat as she had sat since breakfast, aimless and dreary, by her dressing-room window, gazing blankly over the pale landscape, her hair falling loose and damp over her shoulders, a novel lying listlessly in her lap.
DeMille_The_Dodge_Club_22350.14On a stool near the fire was a familiar form--a portly, well-fed form--with a merry face--a twinkle in his eye--a pipe in his mouth--calmly smoking--apparently quite at home though his feet were tied--in short, Mr. Figgs.
Hillern_Only_a_Girl_94540.14Ernestine sat idly, with her hands in her lap, listening to her uncle's directions to the weeping housekeeper in reference to the price at which she was to dispose of the furniture of the house.
Harland_Alone_710.14In the summer evenings her mother's chair used to stand in the piazza, and she sat at her feet, her eyes fixed alternately upon her angelic face, and the shining orbs above them.
Hillern_Only_a_Girl_43580.14Ernestine sat in an easy-chair, her eyes fixed upon the flame of the lamp.
Evans_St_Elmo_60140.13Edna's eyes went back to the painting, and rested there; and little Hattie, who had been gazing up at her governess in curious perplexity, pulled her brother's sleeve and said: "Bro' Felix, do you understand all that?
Holmes_Ethelyns_Mistake_22880.13She was too much bewildered to think of anything just then, and after ordering the four o'clock dinner, which, she knew, would suit her sister's habits better than an earlier one, she, too, sat quietly down by the fire with her knitting lying idly in her lap, and her eyes looking dreamily through the frosty panes off upon the snowy hills where Ethelyn used to play.
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol5_13760.13Try!"
Alcott_Work_24240.13The cat, feeling sure of a welcome, got up into her lap, and went to sleep in a cosy bunch; Bran laid his nose across her feet, and blinked at her with sleepy good-will, while her eyes wandered round the room, from its quaint furniture and the dreaming flowers in the windows, to the faces of its occupants, and lingered there.
Fleming_A_Terrible_Secret_6030.13"In the dining-room," Mr. Hooper is but just able to gasp, as with horror pictured on his face he falls back.
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_155620.13The abbe replaced the large spectacles, which covered not only his eyes but his temples, and sitting down motioned to his visitor to do the same.
Bronte_Villette_45900.12I had time to bathe my eyes before breakfast, and I suppose I appeared at that meal as serene as any other person: not, however, quite as jocund-looking as the young lady who placed herself in the seat opposite mine, fixed on me a pair of somewhat small eyes twinkling gleefully, and frankly stretched across the table a white hand to be shaken.
Evans_St_Elmo_15960.12"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."
Collins_Man_and_Wife_165730.12"I sat me down to rest on a bench.
Broughton_Nancy_50220.12Her knitting drops into her lap.
Warner_Queechy_152670.12Leaving Mr. Carleton on the near side of the bed Fleda went round to the place she seemed to have occupied before, at Hugh's right hand; and they were all still, for he was in a little doze, lying with his eyes closed, and the face as gently and placidly sweet as it had been in his boyhood.
Hardy_A_Pair_of_Blue_Eyes_5740.12Elfride had turned from the table towards the fire and was idly elevating a hand-screen before her face, when she heard the click of a little gate outside.
Evans_Infelice_14830.12Her eyes fell upon "_La Joconde_," then wandered back to the portrait over the fireplace; and through her tears broke a radiant smile.
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_215450.11Maximilian, in his devotedness, gazed silently at her.
Collins_Armadale_17070.11It was no large fortune that had fallen into his lap, though it was enough for his wants.
Wood_East_Lynne_142970.11His bed had been moved toward the window, for he liked to sit in it, and look at the landscape.
Reade_Put_Yourself_in_His_Place_65760.11"It is not much," said Jael, frankly; "but 'a little breaks a high fall.'
Hillern_Only_a_Girl_113860.11Again she closed her eyes, but remained sitting upright.
Collins_Woman_in_White_40420.11I entered the place, and sat down for a little while to rest and get my breath again.
Collins_Man_and_Wife_159010.11She sat down heavily in the chair, with the book on her lap.
Clemens_and_Warner_The_Gilded_Age_82810.11So she supposed she must have sat down upon the sofa and afterward fallen.
Aguilar_Home_Influence_3200.11Even the comfort of sitting by her mother was at length denied her.
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol3_8990.11Morel, seated at the edge of his working-bench, with his head bent, his hands hanging listless by his sides, whilst his gaze, fixed and fierce, rested on, and did not quit, the mattress on which the remains of his poor little Adèle were deposited.
Collins_Armadale_45950.10As Midwinter took his arm, and led him back to the house, he looked round with rueful eyes at the cattle hard by, placidly whisking their tails in the pleasant shade.
Warren_Ten_Thousand_a_Year_29450.10She was sitting up, resting against the pillow, which was placed on end against the wall.
Sheppard_Charles_Auchester_vol2_35510.10Clara sat at her piano, her side-face was in the light.
Reade_Foul_Play_28760.10Wylie fidgeted, and his eye wandered round the room.

Yonge_The_Daisy_Chain_1650.19Poking and peering about with her short-sighted eyes, Ethel lighted on a work-basket in rare disorder, pulled off her frock, threw on a shawl, and sat down cross-legged on her bed, stitching vigorously, while meantime she spouted with great emphasis an ode of Horace, which Norman having learned by heart, she had followed his example; it being her great desire to be even with him in all his studies, and though eleven months younger, she had never yet fallen behind him.
Goldsmith_The_Vicar_of_Wakefield_8760.16The picture, therefore, instead of gratifying our vanity, as we hoped, leaned, in a most mortifying manner, against the kitchen wall, where the canvas was stretched and painted, much too large to be got through any of the doors, and the jest of all our neighhours.
Whitney_The_Other_Girls_25380.15"To be married to Lord Mortimer, and go and live in an Abbey," said Mary Pinfall, who sat on a box with a cracker in one hand, and the third volume of her old novel in the other.
DeMille_The_Cryptogram_113670.14The figure, crouching low behind the arbor, had seen Lord Chetwynde's departure.
Hawthorne_Scarlet_Letter_370.11And here, some six months ago--pacing from corner to corner, or lounging on the long-legged stool, with his elbow on the desk, and his eyes wandering up and down the columns of the morning newspaper--you might have recognised, honoured reader, the same individual who welcomed you into his cheery little study, where the sunshine glimmered so pleasantly through the willow branches on the western side of the Old Manse.
Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_108980.10how many times a month do you approach the Lord's table?"
Eggleston_Hoosier_Schoolmaster_13840.09Everybody on Flat Creek seemed to be there, except the old wooden-legged basket-maker.
DeMille_The_Cryptogram_4330.09An hour passed and Lord Chetwynde came down, and the two took their seats at the breakfast-table.
Dumas_The_Three_Musketeers_38110.06"Yes, much."

Collins_The_Law_and_the_Lady_65390.19He drew a slip of paper out of the drawer in his desk, dipped his pen in the ink, considered a little, and placed a chair for me close at his side.
Bronte_Villette_87760.17The pupils of the first classe sat very still; the cleanly-written compositions prepared since the last lesson lay ready before them, neatly tied with ribbon, waiting to be gathered by the hand of the Professor as he made his rapid round of the desks.
Braddon_Lady_Audleys_Secret_14260.16Very late in the evening he rose from his chair, pushed away the table, wheeled his desk over to the fire-place, took out a sheet of fools-cap, and dipped a pen in the ink.
Whitney_We_Girls_12850.14Barbara sat at the round table, where Stephen had been doing his geometry last night, twirling a pair of pencil compasses about on a sheet of paper, while this was saying.
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_32590.14Now I remember quite well, that on the table round which they were sitting were pens, ink, and paper.
Bronte_Villette_96230.13There was some joiners' work to do in the first classe, some bench or desk to repair; holidays were often turned to account for the performance of these operations, which could not be executed when the rooms were filled with pupils.
Bronte_Villette_71120.13When 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.
Hugo_Les_Miserables_80640.13After breakfast he meditated for a quarter of an hour; then two generals seated themselves on the truss of straw, pen in hand and their paper on their knees, and the Emperor dictated to them the order of battle.
Trollope_The_Way_We_Live_Now_126080.12Squercum sat at a desk, covered with papers in chaotic confusion, on a chair which moved on a pivot.
Reade_It_is_Never_Too_Late_to_Mend_54130.12He lighted candles, placed his sheets by the side of Fry's well-thumbed ledger, and plunged into a comparison.
Collins_Woman_in_White_15280.12The schoolmaster was sitting at his high desk, with his back to me, apparently haranguing the pupils, who were all gathered together in front of him, with one exception.
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_54780.11The 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_The_Moonstone_1350.11We will take a new sheet of paper, if you please, and begin over again, with my best respects to you.
Trollope_Orley_Farm_35030.11Mr. Dockwrath as he thus expressed his commiseration was sitting with his high chair tilted back, with his knees against the edge of his desk, with his hat almost down upon his nose as he looked at his visitors from under it, and he amused himself by cutting up a quill pen into small pieces with his penknife.
Alcott_Eight_Cousins_25180.10This case stood upright in a niche between two book-cases at the back of the room, a darkish corner, where Brother Bones, as the boys would call him, was out of the way.
Hillern_Only_a_Girl_41750.10"Now," said the teacher, when Kthchen was at last seated in her place, "now let us see whether you have done your task well."
Hillern_Only_a_Girl_111290.10A forgotten pen lay upon the desk, and dust was everywhere.
Hawthorne_Marble_Faun_vol1_4490.10Accordingly, as Miriam bade him, he tried to turn his attention to a great pile and confusion of pen and ink sketches and pencil drawings which lay tossed together on a table.
Disraeli_Lothair_2590.10In the next room, not less spacious, but which had a more inhabited look, a cheerful fire, tables covered with books and papers, and two individuals busily at work with their pens; he gave the card to a gentleman who wore also the cassock, and who stood before the fire with a book in his hand, and apparently dictating to one of the writers.
Hillern_Only_a_Girl_86110.10Mllner sat down upon the bench before the house and took Kthchen upon his knee.
Bronte_Villette_65150.10Thus impelled, it slid down the polished slope of the varnished and unbaized desk, carried before it the light steel- framed "lunettes," and, fearful to relate, they fell to the estrade.
Lever_Tom_Burke_of_Ours_vol2_360.09said she, throwing me a large sheet of paper, headed with the words, "Proclamation!
Collins_Armadale_136720.09The clerk gravely opened the book, and stood aside from the desk on which it lay.
Blackmore_Lorna_Doone_75720.09Here there was a ledger desk, and a couple of chairs, and a long-legged stool.
Bronte_Villette_97620.09The well-scoured boards were carpetless; it contained two rows of green benches and desks, with an alley down the centre, terminating in an estrade, a teacher's chair and table; behind them a tableau, On the walls hung two maps; in the windows flowered a few hardy plants; in short, here was a miniature classe--complete, neat, pleasant.
Blackmore_Lorna_Doone_76000.08Then he went to a chair, and sat with his chin upon the ledger-desk; as if the effort of probing me had been too much for his weary brain.
Hugo_Les_Miserables_345270.08He laboriously dragged a table and the old arm-chair to the fireside, and placed upon the table a pen, some ink and some paper.
Reade_The_Cloister_and_the_Hearth_130600.07Gerard 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.
Yonge_The_Daisy_Chain_94280.06It is gone!
Warner_Wide_Wide_World_118970.06Oh, I wish you would ask Him!"
Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_100980.06"We will plunge her into anything you please."
Reade_Put_Yourself_in_His_Place_18310.06That for the Trades!"
Hughes_Tom_Brown_at_Oxford_119060.06"No.
Whitney_Real_Folks_26150.06Nobody knew how she thought to herself inwardly, in the same spasmodic fashion that she used for speech,-- "They Mig up their parlors with upholstery, and put rose-colored paper on their walls, and call them _their_ houses; and shut the little round awfulness and goodness out!

Bronte_Jane_Eyre_25430.13Celine's chamber-maid entered, lit a lamp, left it on the table, and withdrew.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_27470.07I 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_50940.07I shall begin to-day.

Wister_Marlitt_OMS_31890.13Felicitas brought a garden—ehair into the hall of the summer-house, seated herself, and took out her sewing.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_38400.10She closed the book with an admirably simulated smile of disappointment.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_33340.07"Well, my son?"
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_38560.06If any one has any right to it it is yourself, as heir to her books and furniture.

Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_53890.14My father withdrew to his room after dinner, taking with him the newspapers, at which he had scarcely glanced.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_50610.10The maid had taken her place with her sewing behind the bed-curtains to be within call if needed.
Wister_Marlitt_Owls_2170.09He had spent long nights at the gaming-table, and had sacrificed huge sums there.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_3940.05"Why, do you think," said her uncle, "that I shall allow you to live behind this green screen, which shuts out air as well as light?

Whitney_Faith_Gartneys_Girlhood_14610.19"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?"
Hugo_Les_Miserables_248390.19One 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_The_English_Orphans_910.18Placing 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_20780.18"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."
Heimburg_A_Sisters_Love_Clean_55340.18We sat together at coffee in the garden-parlor, or on the terrace on warm summer evenings.
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_239250.18"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."
Cummins_The_Lamplighter_18980.18"There she sat, day after day, last week, on her little stool, by Uncle True's easy-chair, with her head on the cushion, and I couldn't get her to move or eat a thing.
Warren_Ten_Thousand_a_Year_29320.17As soon as, smothered with kisses, they had been dismissed to bed, old Mrs. Aubrey composed herself, in her great chair, to her usual after-dinner's nap; while her son, his wife, and sister, sitting fronting the fire--a decanter or two, and a few wine-glasses and dessert, remaining on the table behind them--sat conversing in a subdued tone, now listening to the wind oor soul!
Mulock_John_Halifax_Gentleman_115160.17The father spent all his evenings up-stairs.
Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_83230.17"When I left my son's room, I went into hers, to tell her my grief, for she is almost a daughter to me; but I did not find her in the little closet where she lives, and the bed had not even been slept in.
Hawthorne_The_House_of_the_Seven_Gables_18720.17Dinner over, Hepzibah took her knitting-work,--a long stocking of gray yarn, for her brother's winter wear,--and with a sigh, and a scowl of affectionate farewell to Clifford, and a gesture enjoining watchfulness on Phoebe, went to take her seat behind the counter.
Roe_What_Can_She_Do_16990.16As he and Hannibal carried in heavy rolls of carpet and other articles, Edith removed as far as possible the traces of her grief, and soon began to scan by the light of day with some curiosity her acquaintance of the previous evening.
Roe_Barriers_Burned_Away_17530.16After dessert, Mr. Ludolph lighted a cigar and sat down to the evening paper, while his daughter evoked from the piano true after-dinner music--light, brilliant, mirth-inspiring.
Mulock_John_Halifax_Gentleman_56460.16We 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.
Holmes_Ethelyns_Mistake_35360.15But 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."
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_180140.15That evening he had a long conference with several friends; and M. Cavalcanti, who had remained in the drawing-room with the ladies, was the last to leave the banker's house.
Disraeli_Lothair_25700.15Tell 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?"
Trollope_The_Way_We_Live_Now_145580.15That afternoon before dinner he found his sister alone in the drawing-room.
Evans_Beulah_89090.15The long afternoon wore away; still they sat round the table.
Stowe_Uncle_Toms_Cabin_22660.15His fathers were mighty hunters,--men who lived in the woods, and slept under the free, open heavens, with the stars to hold their candles; and their descendant to this day always acts as if the house were his camp,--wears his hat at all hours, tumbles himself about, and puts his heels on the tops of chairs or mantelpieces, just as his father rolled on the green sward, and put his upon trees and logs,--keeps all the windows and doors open, winter and summer, that he may get air enough for his great lungs,--calls everybody "stranger," with nonchalant _bonhommie_, and is altogether the frankest, easiest, most jovial creature living.
Collins_The_Moonstone_70770.15I had a dinner engagement that evening; and I went upstairs, in no very genial frame of mind, little suspecting that the way to my dressing-room and the way to discovery, meant, on this particular occasion, one and the same thing.
Streckfuss_Castle_Hohenwald_Clean_16080.14The Amtsrath had just finished his after-dinner nap and lighted his long pipe.
Harland_Alone_18240.14asked Ida, one evening, as she and Carry were taking their twilight promenade in the long parlor.
Collins_Man_and_Wife_17970.14With that conviction in him, he pushed one of the chairs in the summer-house to her with his foot, and signed to her to take it.
Success_and_How_He_Won_It_Clean_35530.14Baron 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.
Holmes_Ethelyns_Mistake_2020.14She was very shy, he thought--more so, even, than when he saw her last; but he loved her just as well, and never suspected that, when on the first evening of his arrival he sat with his arm around her, wondering a little what made her so silent, she was burning with mortification because the coat he wore was the very same she had criticised last spring, hoping in her heart of hearts that long before he came to her again it might find its proper place, either in the sewing society or with some Jewish vender of old clothes.
Hillern_Only_a_Girl_23140.14On the evening of the same day, Leuthold sat before his writing-table at the open windows.
Eggleston_End_of_the_World_1470.14The very next day Julia sat sewing on the long porch in front of the house.
Fleming_A_Terrible_Secret_42690.14One especial afternoon, Edith fell asleep after luncheon, on a sofa, in her own and Trixy's cabin, and slept through dinner and dessert, and only woke with the lighting of the lamps.
Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_107890.13The sewing-girl, at one of the windows on the ground floor of this house--a grated window, still more remarkable by the sort of tent-like awning above it--beheld a young female, with her eyes fixed upon the convent, making signs with her hand, at once encouraging and affectionate.
Warner_Queechy_101940.13But it was not in a light mood that she put on her bonnet after dinner and set out to pay a visit to her uncle at the library; she had resolved that she would not be near the dormeuse in whatsoever relative position that evening.
Mulock_John_Halifax_Gentleman_83040.13For Muriel lay, day after day, on her little bed in an upper chamber, or was carried softly down in the middle of the day by her father, never complaining, but never attempting to move or talk.
Lewald_Hulda_12530.13His 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.
Howells_A_Forgone_Conclusion_13650.13After dinner, Mrs. Vervain frankly withdrew for her nap, and Florida seemed to make a little haste to take some sewing in her hand, and sat down with the air of a woman willing; to detain her visitor.
Mulock_John_Halifax_Gentleman_58980.13Or 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.
Hawthorne_Twice_Told_Tales_33410.13And methinks, if the visage of this portrait be so dreadful, it is not without a cause that it has hung so long in a chamber of the province-house.
Cummins_The_Lamplighter_13490.13The 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.
Braddon_Lady_Audleys_Secret_16510.13"It's as good an answer as I shall ever get from, you, Bob," she said, impatiently; "but pray amuse yourself in your own way; loll in an easy-chair all day, with those two absurd dogs asleep on your knees; spoil my lady's window-curtains with your cigars and annoy everybody in the house with your stupid, inanimate countenance."
Hardy_A_Pair_of_Blue_Eyes_62640.13The afternoon wore on.
Reade_White_Lies_2130.13He used to watch at his window with a telescope, and whenever the sisters came out of their own grounds, which unfortunately was not above twice a week, he would throw himself in their way by the merest accident, and pay them a dignified and courteous salute, which he had carefully got up before a mirror in the privacy of his own chamber.
Whitney_Faith_Gartneys_Girlhood_25760.13Behind it, in her low chair by her sewing table sat the young sister whose fate had been so lightly decreed.
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol3_15060.13I remained the whole of the day in bed, hoping to acquire a little strength, and in the evening I arose and went down into the kitchen to warm myself.
Stowe_Uncle_Toms_Cabin_25780.13However, 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.
Sheppard_Charles_Auchester_vol1_1190.13It was a very bright day, but so chilly that we had a fire in the parlor grate, for we were all disposed to be very comfortable as part of our duty.
Bronte_Shirley_127250.13Since that time I have only walked once a day past the house, just for the satisfaction of looking up at your window, which I could distinguish by the drawn curtains.
Harland_Alone_52560.12The mornings were spent in Carry's pleasant sewing-room, from which male visitors were rigorously excluded; in the afternoon, were the siesta, and ride or walk; at night, music and social chat.
Collins_No_Name_32220.12There, at the foot of the sofa, was the clumsy, old-fashioned arm-chair, which had been her father's favorite seat on rainy days, when she and her sister used to amuse him at the piano opposite, by playing his favorite tunes.
Trollope_The_Way_We_Live_Now_114390.12He has been in bed in this house all day.
Reade_A_Terrible_Temptation_17160.12She added that it might be as well if, after dinner, he were to take a little nap.
Whitney_Real_Folks_30220.12Yet, in the pink room of a morning, and in the mellow-tinted drawing-room of an evening, it was getting to be the subject oftenest discussed.

Evans_Infelice_29950.14As Regina paused to turn a leaf, Olga began a broken recitation, grouping passages On the morning after the painful interview between Olga and Mr. Palma, the former desired to remove into her own apartment, and the easy chair in which she sat was wheeled carefully to the hearth in her room.
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol1_42040.14The deep respect implied in his voice and words somewhat mollified the porteress, who answered, rather less sourly: [Illustration: "_This Individual Was Seated by the Stove_" Original Etching by Adrian Marcel] "Yes, there is a room to let on the fourth floor, but you cannot see it now,--Alfred has gone out."
Ouida_Under_Two_Flags_52540.12He stood under the tawny awning of the Moorish house, with the thin, glazed card in his hand.
Lever_Tom_Burke_of_Ours_vol2_17990.12[Illustration: The Dance 134] "Now, Burke," said Duchesne, as he threw his eyes over the room, "shall I find a partner for you?
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol2_30460.11[Illustration: "_You Must Give Me Leave_" Original Etching by L. Poiteau] The armchair in which Madame d'Harville was reclining stood on the right hand of the chimney, and Rodolph remained without attempting to seat himself, gracefully leaning his elbow on the mantelpiece.
Lever_Tom_Burke_of_Ours_vol2_19600.10A SALLE DE POLICE When I entered the breakfast-room the following morning, I found Duchesne stretched before the fire in an easy-chair, busily engaged in reading the "Moniteur" of that day, where a long list of imperial _ordonnances_ filled nearly three columns.

Cooper_The_Water-Witch_22200.21"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.
Harland_Alone_94150.12The sleepy children's suppers were brought up, and they were snug in bed before their elders were prepared for their meal.
Aguilar_The_Mothers_Recompense_vol1_4650.12I have had such a struggle to obtain mamma's promise to go with me to-night, that I really feel exhausted," and the young lady threw herself in a most graceful attitude of listlessness on a sofa that stood invitingly beside lier.
Lever_Charles_OMalley_vol2_42570.11There's many a snug corner there in the ruins; and although we mayn't have as good an operation-room as in old 'Steevens's,' yet we'll beat them hollow in cases."
Collins_No_Name_15110.11Mr. Vanstone took his garden hat from the hall table -- opened his eyes in mute perplexity -- attempted to associate in his mind the two extravagantly dissimilar ideas of Magdalen and "business" -- failed -- and led the way resignedly into the garden.
Reade_It_is_Never_Too_Late_to_Mend_6680.09I wouldn't go there if my passage was paid, and a new suit of clothes given me, and the governor's gig to take me ashore to a mansion provided for my reception, fires lighted, beds aired and pipes laid across upon the table."
Hawthorne_Twice_Told_Tales_48250.09You shall have a room on the sunny side, old Tabby, finished and furnished as best may suit your own notions."
Alcott_Little_Women_10840.08It was lined with books, and there were pictures and statues, and distracting little cabinets full of coins and curiosities, and Sleepy Hollow chairs, and queer tables, and bronzes, and best of all, a great open fireplace with quaint tiles all round it.
Wood_East_Lynne_21410.06"What can I do?"
Lever_Tom_Burke_of_Ours_vol1_47770.06Lieutenant, don't you know me?"

Collins_Armadale_34950.16I've run the broken statue to earth; it's nothing more nor less than a china shepherdess I knocked off the mantel-piece in the hotel coffee-room, when I rang the bell for supper last night.
Collins_Armadale_25620.12The 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.
Collins_No_Name_129770.12She collected the scattered coins in her lap, and placed them in a little heap on the table, then rose and rang the bell.
Bronte_Villette_90440.12"Madame says it will make you sleep, chou-chou," said Goton, as she received back the emptied cup.
Trollope_Orley_Farm_55640.11"I hope you find everything comfortable, sir," said poor Miriam, having knocked at the sitting-room door when Crabwitz had just finished his dinner.
Trollope_The_Way_We_Live_Now_193890.11'But then there comes the reversed picture, the other side of the coin.
Ouida_Under_Two_Flags_85270.09She rose, and gathered her cashmeres about her, and smiled somewhat wearily her adieu to him.
Collins_The_New_Magdalen_58610.09She was just rising to ring the bell, when the maid appeared with a message from the boudoir.
Macdonald_Robert_Falconer_44160.08When he had played it over two or three times, he laid the fiddle in its place, and departed--able just to see, by the light of the neglected candle, that Bell sat on the bedside stroking the rosiny hand of her husband, the rhinoceros-hide of which was yet delicate enough to let the love through to his heart.
Reade_It_is_Never_Too_Late_to_Mend_82090.06"Hurrah!"
Collins_Armadale_154120.06I can let him out, or keep him in, just as I please--and he knows it.

Bronte_Jane_Eyre_27420.22"It is always dangerous to keep a candle lit at night."

Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_4810.18As I entered this room with Use, after my long evening expedition, the lamp was already lighted upon the table, looking like a mere spark in the spacious, smoky apart- ment.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_7710.17The sombre colouring and the deep corners greedily absorbed the light of the two lamps standing upon the table.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_47540.16Their feeble light penetrated the room, too, in which we were sitting; and I begged Fraulein Fliedner not to light the lamp, it was light enough.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_58570.16I lighted a lamp and went into his room to see that all was arranged for the night.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_54530.15I must," and she pointed to the bow-window, where the dim light of a lamp began to shine behind the chintz curtain, "play the part of comforter there.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_40310.14233 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_Gisela_11480.14At her bidding, a servant, with a look of surprise, brought in a large astral lamp, which appeared like a mere spark of light in the spacious apartment, now so fearfully silent.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_46920.14The black writing-table had been emptied of all its papers, and stood dusty in the recess by the window; most of the books had been taken from the shelves and were packed in boxes in the middle of the floor; the pedestals were overturned, while, over all, the hanging lamp but carelessly lighted by the servants threw a pale uncertain gleam, which, now that the morning air and dawning light came freshly in through the broken panes of glass, swung to and fro in its white globe like the last faint spark of fire from the ruins.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_49520.12Upon his writing-table a lamp, with a green shade, wag burning ; the other desks were deserted ; the clerks had departed.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_25960.11Standing in the middle of the room, she could see him in his study where the light of the lamp clearly illumined his face, which still showed traces of the passion that had so lately mastered him.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_26110.11The doctor lighted a cigar and seemed most content.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_48870.11She forgot that she had left her light cloak in the salon.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_3110.11She has forgotten again to hang up the curtain before the window,-—and on such a night!"
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_31320.10When I used to come home with Magnus from one of our expeditions in search of plants, tired and hungry, with burning hands and feet, and turned into the long alley by the fountain that you must remember, I could see from afar the table spread behind the glass wall of the garden-room, and the dear, ugly old arm-chairs that you must remember too, placed around it, while Ulrika would light the little spirit-lamp beneath the tea-kettle as soon as she saw us coming.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_60420.10In the corner of the room a shaded night-lamp was 364 THE LITTLE MOORLAND PRINCESS.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_16940.09Yes, there she was, standing by the kitchen-fire ; a broad gleam of light coming from the open stove illumined her figure.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_23080.08Through the kitchen- window she saw Frau Lhn standing upon the hearth, an<* not far from her Gabriel's pale face looked out, phantom- like, from a dark corner.

Collins_The_Moonstone_107910.21Having already been informed that he always slept with a light in the room, I placed one of the two lighted candles on a little table at the head of the bed, where the glare of the light would not strike on his eyes.
Collins_Man_and_Wife_155920.20She found the match-box, and lit the candle on her table--lit the two other candles set for ornament only on the mantle piece--and looked all round the brightly lighted little room.
Alcott_Little_Men_4890.19The light of the shaded lamp that burned in the nursery shone softly on a picture hanging at the foot of Nat's bed.
Heimburg_Gertrudes_Marriage_Clean_16810.18The 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_8390.18Meantime Robert was seated in the parlour at the little dark mahogany table, in which the lamp, shaded towards his grandmother's side, shone brilliantly reflected.
Hugo_Les_Miserables_159710.17The argand lamp was solemnly lighted.
Hillern_Only_a_Girl_70770.17And he lighted a cigar at the lamp in the hall.
Collins_Man_and_Wife_158930.17What did she want in the parlor, without a candle, at that time of night?
Evans_Vashti_39490.17Katie came in and lighted the lamp, and Dr. Grey sat beside the sofa and watched the effect of his prescription.
Evans_Inez_32270.17All had left the room, and a dim light from the hearth just faintly lighted the large, comfortless apartment.
Yonge_Heir_of_Redclyffe_61790.16Charles was asleep, and throwing a shawl round her, she sat down in the dim light of the lamp, relieved by the stillness, only broken by now and then a louder note of the music down-stairs.
Streckfuss_Castle_Hohenwald_Clean_23420.16Adèle entered, bolted it behind her, and then, going to the table in front of the sofa, lighted a match, by the flickering light of which she distinguished a dark figure sitting on the sofa.
Harland_Jessamine_12610.16Eunice was sewing by the shaded parlor lamp.
Evans_Vashti_47710.16asked Katie, who was bustling about, preparing to light the lamp.
Cummins_The_Lamplighter_59230.16It was evening, the curtains were drawn, the gas-lamps burning brightly and giving a cheerful glow to the room, the comfortable appearance of which contrasted strongly with the pale countenance and desponding attitude of its solitary inmate, who leaned upon a table in the centre of the apartment.
Lever_Tom_Burke_of_Ours_vol2_33590.15Dimly lighted by a few lamps, far apart from each other, the apartment as we entered seemed even larger than it really was.
Evans_Vashti_42230.15Taking the letters from the mantelpiece, he turned them to the lamp-light.
Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_18700.15Dagobert struck a few sparks, obtained a light, and saw that the window was indeed open, the table thrown down, and the lamp lying by the side of the knapsack.
Hugo_Les_Miserables_172320.14No light in the windows; the shades were drawn; the third floor was totally dark.
Heimburg_A_Sisters_Love_Clean_55980.14The little man was asleep, the curtains were drawn, and the night-lamp already lighted.
Hardy_A_Pair_of_Blue_Eyes_36750.14She softly arose, got a light, and fetched a Chess Praxis from the library.
Evans_Infelice_22990.14The house was already brilliantly lighted, for the day had closed prematurely, with the darkness of the increasing snow, and in the seclusion of her own room the girl threw herself down in a rocking chair.
Roe_Opening_a_Chestnut_Burr_16440.14There are hands that suggest fancy-work, light crochet needles, and neuralgia.
Hardy_Far_From_the_Madding_Crowd_65990.14A beholder was convinced that nothing on earth could be more hideous than those he saw on the north side until he went round to the south.
Evans_Beulah_101650.14Mrs. Asbury came back and lighted the gas, but Beulah was too much absorbed to notice it.
Harris_Rutledge_19710.13It was not my hand, for mine were burning with fever; and when, after a moment more of delay, a light was struck, Mrs. Arnold and Mr. Shenstone stood in the middle of the room by the table, and the doctor at the opposite end, by the mantelpiece, looking for some matches that Mrs. Arnold had said were kept there.
Reade_Put_Yourself_in_His_Place_124610.13Light your reading-lamp, and sit reading close to the window; only you must not pull down the blind.
Lever_Charles_OMalley_vol1_81190.13"He'll tell it you," said O'Shaughnessy, lighting his cigar, and leaning pensively back against a tree,--"he'll tell it you."
Harland_Jessamine_40450.13A reading-lamp, with its alabaster shade, was upon the centre-table, and a low lounging chair beside it.
Cooper_The_Water-Witch_12110.13Here, put out these flaring candles, and take a modest lamp to light thee to thy bed.
Collins_Armadale_153550.13"He rose, and suddenly removed the shade from the reading-lamp, so that the light fell on my face.
DeFoe_Robinson_Crusoe_7210.13I was struck with these reflections as one astonished, and had not a word to say, no, not to answer to myself: but rose up pensive and sad, walked back to my retreat, and went up over my wall, as if I had been going to bed; but my thoughts were sadly disturbed, and I had no inclination to sleep; so I sat down in my chair, and lighted my lamp, for it began to be dark.
Hawthorne_Twice_Told_Tales_38970.13True, our little parlor is comfortable, especially here where the old man sits in his old arm-chair; but on Thanksgiving-night the blaze should dance higher up the chimney and send a shower of sparks into the outer darkness.
Bronte_Villette_43850.13De Hamal was now a fixture beside her; Mrs. Cholmondeley sat near, and they and she were wholly absorbed in the discourse, mirth, and excitement, with which the crimson seats were as much astir as any plebeian part of the hall.
Wood_East_Lynne_72430.13"How can it have come to light?"
Stowe_Uncle_Toms_Cabin_27870.13"Taking her down south?"
Collins_No_Name_85980.13"It strikes you in that light, does it?"
Trollope_The_Way_We_Live_Now_62470.12But as he went through the hall a woman managed to shove a note into his hand which he read as soon as he found himself under a gas lamp.
Evans_St_Elmo_61090.12Softly she put the book back on the shelf, extinguished the light, and stole upstairs to her desk.
Evans_Beulah_106540.12The gas burned brightly, and the doctor sat leaning far back in his armchair, with his feet on an ottoman.
Dumas_The_Three_Musketeers_146700.12By the light of a lamp he saw a woman, wrapped in a dark mantle, seated upon a stool near a dying fire.
The_Sign_of_Flame_Clean_28130.12The tower room, opening directly from this, was not generally used in entertainments, but for tonight it had been transformed into a small, cosy apartment with curtains and carpets and a picturesque group of plants, and, with its dim lights, offered a pleasing contrast to the blinding flood of light and the commotion of the other rooms.
Bronte_Villette_65430.12There were two study tables, both long and flanked with benches; over the centre of each hung a lamp; beneath this lamp, on either side the table, sat a teacher; the girls were arranged to the right hand and the left; the eldest and most studious nearest the lamps or tropics; the idlers and little ones towards the north and south poles.
Harris_Rutledge_21600.12The blinds of the window where the light was, being open, I looked in, and saw the only occupant of it, who had been reading by the lamp on the table, rise to answer my knock.
Braddon_Lady_Audleys_Secret_47430.12She lowered the green silk shade before the reading lamp, adjusting it carefully for the repose of the baronet's eyes.
Reade_Put_Yourself_in_His_Place_57120.12The room was still brilliantly lighted.
Heimburg_Gertrudes_Marriage_Clean_30640.12The lamp was lighted and she was reading.
Auerbach_On_the_Heights_127720.12The king lit a cigar.
Holmes_Darkness_and_Daylight_47720.12Thinking to extinguish the light by turning the arm of the fixture just as he remembered having done some years before, he pushed it back within an inch of the heavy damask curtain which now shaded the window, and too much absorbed in his own painful reflections to think of ascertaining whether the light was out or not, he groped his way to the single bed, and threw himself upon it, giving way to a paroxysm of grief.
Success_and_How_He_Won_It_Clean_35670.11Without all was pitch darkness, and here within the lamp on the writing-table shed its light on a man who, for more than an hour, had been pacing restlessly to and fro.

Cervantes_Don_Quixote_8660.16The officer came up, and finding them engaged in such a peaceful conversation, stood amazed; though Don Quixote, to be sure, still lay on his back unable to move from pure pummelling and plasters.
Cervantes_Don_Quixote_84360.15Don Quixote, disconcerted and in confusion at her appearance, huddled himself up and well-nigh covered himself altogether with the sheets and counterpane of the bed, tongue-tied, and unable to offer her any civility.
Howells_A_Forgone_Conclusion_10140.15"Don Ippolito has come, signorina," said Nina, the next morning, approaching Florida, where she sat in an attitude of listless patience, in the garden.
Howells_A_Forgone_Conclusion_9140.12Florida sat down on a chair fronting the easel, and found herself looking into the sad eyes of Don Ippolito.
Marryat_Mr._Midshipman_Easy_49010.12Don Philip kept out of the way, but the captain was ushered into the room by one of the officers, where he found, in two beds, our two midshipmen stretched out, the surgeon of the forces and the regimental surgeon in consultation between them, while attendants were standing by each bed with restoratives.
Cervantes_Don_Quixote_4920.10Round 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.
Blackmore_Lorna_Doone_95770.09Now 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.
Macdonald_St._George_and_St._Michael_61050.09They found him sitting by the fire, folded in blankets, listless and sad.
Howells_A_Forgone_Conclusion_10770.08Don Ippolito rose from the sofa where he had been sitting beside her while they read, and walked the length of the room.

Bronte_Jane_Eyre_7450.13Breakfast was over, and none had breakfasted.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_10150.12The remedy was, to thrust them forward into the centre of the schoolroom, and oblige them to stand there till the sermon was finished.

Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_42820.08"Put my breakfast upon a waiter," he commanded, nod- ding his head towards the table, " and bring it into my study.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_7270.06She took up her basket. "

Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_76400.21Ah, I recollect, you asked for a place at my window; you shall have it; but let us first sit down to table, for here comes the servant to inform us that breakfast is ready."
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_76750.21Ah, I recollect, you asked for a place at my window; you shall have it; but let us first sit down to table, for here comes the servant to inform us that breakfast is ready."
Lever_Tom_Burke_of_Ours_vol2_1480.18When I entered the _salon_, I found to my surprise that the breakfast table was all laid and everything ready.
Dumas_The_Three_Musketeers_15780.18At length when they found they were likely to be really in want, they got together, as a last effort, eight or ten pistoles, with which Porthos went to the gaming table.
Disraeli_Lothair_70650.18The cardinal, who was conversing with Lothair, continued their conversation while walking up and down the gallery, far from the hearing of the servants, who were disembarrassing the breakfast-table, and preparing it for luncheon.
Marryat_Mr._Midshipman_Easy_32100.17And recollect, my lad, that whenever you come to Malta, there is a bed at the Governor's house, and a seat at his table, always ready for you."
Collins_No_Name_99480.17When she entered the parlor where her solitary breakfast was waiting for her, she was surprised to see a letter lying on the table.
Collins_No_Name_97150.16When morning came, she stole downstairs before the servant was up, restored the keys to their places, and re-occupied her position in the parlor until Noel Vanstone made his appearance at the breakfast-table.
Lewald_Hulda_6900.16Shortly returning, followed by a maid- servant, she quickly and invitingly arranged a cold luncheon on the little table in the garden beneath the awning outside the window, and then quietly took her departure.
Wood_East_Lynne_22450.16Isabel sat in the breakfast-room alone, the meal on the table untouched, and she shivering--as it seemed--on a low ottoman before the fire.
Harland_At_Last_20530.16He looked bright and cheerful, ready for sport or badinage.
Ingelow_Fated_to_be_Free_5950.15Mrs. 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.
Longfellow_Hyperion_1280.15In the warm breakfast-parlour he found the Baron, waiting for him.
Evans_St_Elmo_7090.15By the by, you are now well enough to come to the table; and from breakfast to-morrow you will take your meals with us in the dining-room."
Cooper_The_Prairie_17630.15"And what thought he and said he of the lad, in his parlour, with the comforts and ease of the settlements at his elbow?"
Auerbach_On_the_Heights_164430.15Every morning, before repairing to the gaming-table, she attends mass.
Trollope_The_Way_We_Live_Now_95190.14The 'Morning Breakfast Table' supported Mr Melmotte with all its weight.
Marryat_Peter_Simple_48250.14As soon as he had finished his cup of tea, he left the breakfast-table, and went into his study.
Schubin_Erlach_Court_Clean_8970.14* * * * * He still went daily below-stairs in the lift to take his meals, but he now dined at a small table alone with Stella, after the _table-d'hôte_ in the spacious, lonely dining-hall.
Collins_No_Name_12590.14On 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.
Yonge_Heir_of_Redclyffe_110480.13She was in the sitting-room soon after nine next morning, and found breakfast on one table, and Charles writing a letter on the other.
Trollope_Orley_Farm_45120.13He sat thinking, with his glass of claret untouched by his side, and with the biscuit which he had taken lying untouched upon the table.
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol6_13900.13I will wait for you here at the table."
Trollope_The_Way_We_Live_Now_23220.12On the other hand, nothing that pearl-powder or the 'Morning Breakfast Table' could do would avail anything, unless he could be extricated from the ruin that now surrounded him.
Schubin_Erlach_Court_Clean_19600.12The little shirt is finished; with a sigh Stella folds it together, and is just wondering what she shall do next to occupy the rest of the afternoon, when the Baroness says,-- "Have you nothing to do, Stella?"
Trollope_The_Way_We_Live_Now_115820.12'I never talk about the "Breakfast Table,"' said he.
Collins_The_New_Magdalen_33230.12The decanters were still on the luncheon-table.
Collins_The_Law_and_the_Lady_59970.12I found this on the hall table.
Collins_No_Name_132470.12"What were your duties besides waiting at table?"
Collins_No_Name_94120.11Having issued those directions, he returned to the breakfast-room, and looked at the half-spread table with an impatient wonder at his disinclination to do justice to his own meal.
Warner_Wide_Wide_World_93720.11After breakfast the needle-cases were delivered.
Trollope_Can_You_Forgive_Her_186600.11Then he took her into the breakfast-parlour and showed her his present.
Schubin_Erlach_Court_Clean_20660.11Stella and her mother have finished their supper.
Collins_Man_and_Wife_79910.11At the card-table the whist went on interminably.
Roe_Barriers_Burned_Away_3160.11As proof of his skill, a tempting meal from the simplest materials was placed smoking on the table, and the little girls were soon chatting contentedly over their breakfast.
Schubin_Erlach_Court_Clean_25050.11The broad low arm-chairs and divans are covered with Oriental rugs and carpets which Rohritz, as he informs Stella, brought from Cairo himself.
Alcott_Work_26700.11Being in the spirit of her part, Christie closed with the sleep-walking scene, using the table-cloth again, while a towel composed the tragic nightcap of her ladyship.
Trollope_The_Way_We_Live_Now_4130.11There were to be no morning papers taken, no library, no morning-room.
Schubin_Erlach_Court_Clean_20780.11And there beside the Princess, on Stella's side of the table, but with her back to her,--who is that?
Schubin_Erlach_Court_Clean_20520.11Stella thanks her, and declines the tempting delicacy, saying that she will try to sleep.
Reade_White_Lies_92100.11But by his own hearth sat comfort and ever ready sympathy.
Collins_No_Name_99630.11Before she had drawn her chair to the breakfast-table she had resolved to go.
Hughes_Tom_Brown_at_Oxford_65010.10They found it very diverting to be receiving in Tom's rooms, presiding over his breakfasts and luncheons, altering the position of his furniture, and making the place look as pretty as circumstances would allow.
Braddon_Lady_Audleys_Secret_53160.10Sir Michael and his young wife breakfasted in the library at a comfortable round table, wheeled close to the blazing fire; and Alicia was compelled to share this meal with her step-mother, however she might avoid that lady in the long interval between breakfast and dinner.
Warner_Wide_Wide_World_110350.10"Dr. Gibson, he said; but he's away off to Thirlwall; and he's been lying here all the morning a'ready!
Hillern_Only_a_Girl_77570.10He found his desk, seated himself there, and waited until the children had all taken their places.
Harris_Rutledge_47960.10"This is just the place for a fête," she said, as we were all sitting in the parlor next morning "talking it over."
Collins_Armadale_42720.10If you have not breakfasted already, let me waive all ceremony on my side, and ask you to take your place at our little table."
Clemens_and_Warner_The_Gilded_Age_10960.10When Washington left the breakfast table he could have worshiped that man.
Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_238560.10For a moment, he looked round at the spectators of this scene; then, taking his pen between his teeth, he folded and wafered another letter, placed it on the table beside the bed, and nodded to Dr. Baleinier, as if to say: "I am ready."

Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_15960.06I shall not take the Dierkhof.

Wood_East_Lynne_34810.22Isabel 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.
Warren_Ten_Thousand_a_Year_18790.18Mrs. and Miss Tag-rag were sitting in the front parlor, intending to take tea as soon as Mr. Tag-rag should have arrived.
Whitney_Faith_Gartneys_Girlhood_15120.17continued Mr. Gartney, fairly roused, and springing, despite the doctor's request, to a sitting position, throwing off, as he did so, the afghan Faith had laid over his feet.
Whitney_Faith_Gartneys_Girlhood_6420.17A large hall--where the candidates were ranged on settees under order and restraint, and the superintendent, or directress, occupied a desk placed upon a platform near the entrance--was the next scene whereon Miss Henderson and Faith Gartney entered.
Porter_Thaddeus_of_Warsaw_53620.15Meanwhile, the family at Somerset were just drawn round the breakfast-board, when they were agreeably surprised by the sudden entrance of Pembroke.
Reade_It_is_Never_Too_Late_to_Mend_154550.14WE left Robinson and Jem talking at the entrance to the tent.
Whitney_Faith_Gartneys_Girlhood_12500.13In one of these irregularly clustered apartments that opened out on different aspects, unexpectedly, from their conglomerate center, Faith sat, some fifteen minutes after her entrance into the house, at a little round table between two corner windows that looked northwest and southwest, and together took in the full radiance of the evening sky.
Cooper_The_Pilot_13140.12As he bowed, the colonel seated himself on the end of the couch, opposite to the place where his niece had been reclining, for Miss Howard had risen at his entrance, and continued standing until her uncle had comfortably disposed of himself.
Evans_St_Elmo_49580.11He handed her out, found a seat for her in the cars, which had just arrived, arranged her wrappings comfortably, and went back to attend to her trunks.
Wood_East_Lynne_125640.11Mr. Carlyle was leaning against the side of the window; Dr. Martin folded his arms before it: Lady Isabel stood near the latter.
Heimburg_Gertrudes_Marriage_Clean_2700.11This bow-window was a delightful place; here stood her work-table, and behind it on an easel, the portrait of the late Mr. Baumhagen.
Yonge_The_Daisy_Chain_115230.11Meta was out when he arrived; and, repairing to the library, he found Mr. Rivers sitting by a fire, though it was early in September, with the newspaper before him, but not reading.
Warner_Queechy_59400.10Fleda had forgotten it utterly, and deliciously enjoying the rest of mind and body she was stretched upon the sofa, luxuriating over some volume from her remnant of a library; when the inner door was suddenly pushed open far enough to admit the entrance of Miss Elster's head.
Whitney_Faith_Gartneys_Girlhood_18980.10Mr. Gartney's newspapers and pamphlets, as they came, found room in a deep drawer below; and so, through the wintry drifts and gales, they were "close hauled" and comfortable.
Wood_East_Lynne_63430.10Joyce --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_132330.09She missed her in the morning when the early sun streamed in through the empty room.
Collins_Man_and_Wife_118000.09One of the lower windows was open, affording her ladyship the necessary cubic supply of air.
Bronte_Villette_39330.08One day, at a quiet early hour, I found myself nearly alone in a certain gallery, wherein one particular picture of portentous size, set up in the best light, having a cordon of protection stretched before it, and a cushioned bench duly set in front for the accommodation of worshipping connoisseurs, who, having gazed themselves off their feet, might be fain to complete the business sitting: this picture, I say, seemed to consider itself the queen of the collection.
Whitney_Faith_Gartneys_Girlhood_19120.08Glory McWhirk sat in Miss Henderson's corner pew, and drank it in, as a soul athirst.
Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_214230.06"Faith, you are right!
Roe_Barriers_Burned_Away_21260.06"How so?
Reade_It_is_Never_Too_Late_to_Mend_136620.06Where shall you go?"
Macdonald_Alec_Forbes_95360.06Faith!
Hugo_Les_Miserables_315010.06No.
Holmes_Elsie_Venner_39850.06where is she?
Collins_The_Moonstone_60130.06He said, "Please to come down-stairs, Miss!
Collins_The_Law_and_the_Lady_94720.06Be it so!
Broughton_Nancy_80870.06So I go.
Alcott_Little_Women_38300.06"Oh, is her?
Alcott_Eight_Cousins_29610.06"What do you want?"

Wister_Marlitt_OMS_10930.06.

Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_610.05The overseer hastened to the sofa, lifted the covering from the floor, and spread it carefully over the invalid; then taking the despised and rejected teacup, he held it to his brother’s lips silently but with an air of quiet determination that was not to be resisted.

Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_167060.21Valentine 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.
Trollope_The_Way_We_Live_Now_51330.17He was sitting next to Grendall, and he thought that he observed that his neighbour moved his chair farther and farther away from him, and nearer to Dolly Longestaffe, who was next to him on the other side.
Sheppard_Charles_Auchester_vol1_30750.17Santonio sat down in one of the chairs and laughed; then arose, having recovered himself, and observed, "If this is his behavior, I may as well go and see after your boxes.
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_230400.17Then 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.
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_231640.17Then 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.
Hillern_Only_a_Girl_84610.14He arose, and the countess arose also, and stood opposite to him, a picture of despair.
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_214080.12"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_215200.12"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.
Reade_The_Cloister_and_the_Hearth_84740.11The warlike hosier nodded.
Hawthorne_Twice_Told_Tales_5340.11She arose and stood trembling before him.
Braddon_Lady_Audleys_Secret_69700.11Robert had a prim bedroom, and an uncompromising dressing-room allotted him in the square house, and he woke every morning upon a metallic spring mattress, which always gave him the idea of sleeping upon some musical instrument, to see the sun glaring in upon him through the square, white blinds and lighting up the two lackered urns which adorned the foot of the blue iron bedstead, until they blazed like two tiny brazen lamps of the Roman period.
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_167970.11To prove to Noirtier that he was in Valentine's confidence and knew all their secrets, Morrel took the dictionary, a pen, and some paper, and placed them all on a table where there was a light.
Sheppard_Charles_Auchester_vol1_31310.11Then Aronach took a chair, and admonished Santonio to do the same.
Whitney_Faith_Gartneys_Girlhood_13770.09Beyond this, embracing the corner of the house rectangularly, projected an equally sunny and cheery kitchen; at the right of which, communicating with both apartments, was divided off a tiny tea and breakfast room.
Eggleston_End_of_the_World_10150.09And she paced the floor of her room, and resolved to resist and to be revenged.
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_112730.09cried Morrel, throwing away his cigar and hastening to the carriage; "I should think we would see him.
Bronte_Villette_37770.09When I placed his chair at the table, which I hastened to do, anticipating the servant, and when I handed him his tea, which I did with trembling care, he said: "Thank you, Lucy," in as kindly a tone of his full pleasant voice as ever my ear welcomed.
Sheppard_Charles_Auchester_vol1_32160.09Then the little one came down and into the room, shy of Santonio, and keeping behind his chair, as he murmured "Good-night" to Aronach.
Alcott_Little_Women_44020.08After resisting for some time, she yielded to the impulse, and armed with a book to return, went over to the big house.
Schubin_Erlach_Court_Clean_4040.08Meanwhile, 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.
Schubin_Erlach_Court_Clean_29570.06"Insufferable!"
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_155190.06"Everywhere."
DeMille_Cord_and_Creese_25140.06"For you.
Collins_Man_and_Wife_89200.06I must do it at once."

Bronte_Jane_Eyre_35680.11CHAPTER XIX The library looked tranquil enough as I entered it, and the Sibyl -- if Sibyl she were -- was seated snugly enough in an easy-chair at the chimney-corner.

Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_450.16Without, the tempest beat with reawakened fury-against the old walls, upon which within placid, kindly family portraits were hanging.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_780.13I 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.

Alcott_Eight_Cousins_4410.17Her only salvation was trying to fix her attention upon Uncle Mac a portly, placid gentleman, who seemed entirely unconscious of the iniquities of the Clan, and dozed peacefully in his pew corner.
DeMille_The_Dodge_Club_7380.16Here are the locksmiths, there the cabinet-makers; here the builders, there the armorers; in this place the basket-weavers, in that the cork-makers.
Hughes_Tom_Brown_at_Oxford_4140.14However, 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.
Trollope_Orley_Farm_73270.09"Oh, in their chambers, yes; or on the bench, and perhaps also behind counters; but they very seldom do so in a drawing-room.
Porter_Thaddeus_of_Warsaw_23280.09Laying his drawings on the counter, he requested the person who stood there to look at them.
Hardy_A_Pair_of_Blue_Eyes_3730.09Well, I suppose such a wild place is a novelty, and so tempted you out of bed?'
Yonge_Heir_of_Redclyffe_99380.06'Do you know how she is?
Streckfuss_Castle_Hohenwald_Clean_16920.06Let me tell you more.
Reade_A_Terrible_Temptation_72550.06That's catechism.
Hugo_Les_Miserables_182930.06What was he to do?

Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol3_15240.25Although 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.
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_64430.24He 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_64560.24He 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.
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol2_41620.15And, 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.
Yonge_The_Daisy_Chain_42380.14"What first put it in my head was the first evening, while I was undoing the portmanteau; my father leaned on the mantel-shelf, and sighed and muttered, 'Poor Ernescliffe!
Harland_Alone_12250.12They were sitting thus one forenoon, when an assistant teacher drew near, and inquired if there were a vacant seat in their vicinity.
Clemens_and_Warner_The_Gilded_Age_8510.09He retired under the table with an apologetic yelp, which did not affect the iceberg.
Werner_No_Surrender_Clean_36100.08He throws down the gauntlet to him in the face of the whole country--the book is one long accusation from beginning to end."

Bronte_Jane_Eyre_30520.16You 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_2510.11Abbot, 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.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_34230.09It was verging on dusk, and the clock had already given warning of the hour to dress for dinner, when little Adele, who knelt by me in the drawing-room window-seat, suddenly exclaimed - "Voile, Monsieur Rochester, qui revient!"
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_71950.07"It is not your place.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_37710.07"A stranger!
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_10970.07Yet such, I grieve to say, is the case."

Wister_Marlitt_OMS_29890.06The old lady was seated at a table with her son, taking her cofl'ee.

Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_10960.13He took his seat in a creaking old arm-chair opposite his visitor, who at a sign from the invalid sat down beside her bed.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_12190.12I always take my hat when a lady seats herself at the piano."
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_46910.10Her haughty arrogance all vanished, the baroness sat huddled together in one corner of it.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_19430.09Thank Heaven, the lady who arose upon our entrance from the windowed recess where she was sitting was not nearly so tall as my two conductors.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_25830.07the lady said.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_7890.07My seat moved and the curtain rustled. "
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_29950.06"The grand piano will be here to-morrow, and will be placed for the present in your room."

Collins_Armadale_20820.22Midwinter rose from the window-seat, and came back to the table with the letter from Wildbad in his hand.
Fleming_Norines_Revenge_56890.22But Lady Thetford chose to go to her own room; and her son gave her his arm thither, and left her lying back amongst her cushions in front of the fire.
Braddon_Lady_Audleys_Secret_3930.22He seated himself opposite to his friend, but did not attempt to address him.
Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_68590.21Then, 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.
Clemens_and_Warner_The_Gilded_Age_34670.21"I did not intend to take the seat," said the lady rising, "I only sat down a moment till the conductor should come and give me a seat."
Whitney_The_Other_Girls_28820.20"I have had a great mind to come to thee," were the first words Rachel said, as her visitor seated herself in the low chair, twin to her own, which she kept for friends.
Trollope_The_Way_We_Live_Now_31660.20In this case Mr Hepworth faced the giver of the feast, the bishop and the priest were opposite to each other, and the ladies graced the four corners.
Macdonald_St._George_and_St._Michael_15730.20When the company rose, lady Margaret once more led her to her own room, where, working at her embroidery frame, she chatted with her pleasantly for some time.
Porter_Thaddeus_of_Warsaw_31470.18Thaddeus rose from his seat.
Porter_Scottish_Chiefs_65660.18She rose from her chair, and presenting Edwin with a packet for Wallace, told Helen she might retire to her own room.
Cooper_The_Pioneers_65450.18Until his parent was placed comfortably in bed, with Natty seated at his side, Effingham did not quit him.
Alexander_Ralph_Wiltons_Weird_1460.18"So must every one," returned Wilton, rising to fill his cigar-case from a box that stood upon the sideboard.
Trollope_The_Way_We_Live_Now_151240.17When Mr Brown was seated, nobody at once rose.
Porter_Scottish_Chiefs_64070.17At these words Wallace rose from his seat.
Porter_Scottish_Chiefs_36680.17Wallace rose from his chair, which had been placed near her.
Trollope_Can_You_Forgive_Her_69020.17Vavasor, when he had finished his letter, went back to his seat over the fire, and there he sat with it close at his hand for nearly an hour.
Reade_It_is_Never_Too_Late_to_Mend_13350.17The same evening, about seven o'clock, as he sat reading by the fire, an unexpected visitor was announced--Mr. Merton.
Fleming_Norines_Revenge_57370.17Lady Thetford's son rose abruptly, and stood leaning against the mantel, looking steadfastly into the fire.
Collins_Armadale_23680.17Descending to the cabin, Midwinter discovered his friend busily occupied in attempting to set the place to rights.
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol4_34760.17The comte rose from his seat, saying: "I do not desire to have my name dishonoured."
Evans_Macaria_35730.17She rose quickly, and put out her disengaged hand.
Collins_The_New_Magdalen_26200.17He had paused exactly opposite to the chair in which Grace was seated.
Bronte_Shirley_61800.17There were some ladies and several gentlemen standing about yet unaccommodated with seats.
Braddon_Lady_Audleys_Secret_46900.17My lady rose from the low ottoman on which she had been seated.
Collins_Armadale_139800.16Lastly (in case she should feel lonely), the ladies' cabin is most obligingly placed at the disposal of Midwinter's wife.
Kingsley_Westward_Ho_28490.16Frank's rapid and fantastic oratory, utterly unexpected as it was, had as yet left their wits no time to set their tempers on fire; but when, weak from his wounds, he paused for breath, there was a haughty murmur from more than one young gentleman, who took his speech as an impertinent interference with each man's right to make a fool of himself; and Mr. Coffin, who had sat quietly bolt upright, and looking at the opposite wall, now rose as quietly, and with a face which tried to look utterly unconcerned, was walking out of the room: another minute, and Lady Bath's prophecy about the feast of the Lapithae might have come true.
Porter_Scottish_Chiefs_89690.16Wallace drew a stool, while his friend seated himself on the bed.
Evans_Inez_38700.16She was sitting alone when he entered, and quickly rising, placed a seat for him.
DeMille_The_Cryptogram_8560.16She rose from her chair, where she had taken her seat, and looked fixedly at him for some time without one word.
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_11580.15Villefort immediately rose from table and quitted the room upon the plea of urgent business; he soon, however, returned, his whole face beaming with delight.
Lever_Charles_OMalley_vol1_20990.15"'You appear warm, old gentleman,' said Casey, putting up the letter and rising from the table.
Collins_No_Name_158820.15With those words, she rose quietly from the sofa, and walked to the open window.
Collins_Armadale_120700.15Place a chair for Mr. Bashwood, with a footstool close by, in case he wants it.
Trollope_The_Way_We_Live_Now_77190.14He seated himself to his work like a man, but immediately saw Lady Carbury's letter on the table before him.
Macdonald_St._George_and_St._Michael_47840.14Immediately below the dais, chairs were placed by the walls for the ladies and officers of the household.
Howells_A_Forgone_Conclusion_15480.14"Sit down with me here," said Florida in her blunt, child-like way, and sank upon the stone seat beside the walk.
Heimburg_Gertrudes_Marriage_Clean_19780.14The three ladies went back to the garden to the table where the gentlemen were comfortably chatting over their cigars.
Collins_The_New_Magdalen_12710.14With those words Lady Janet led the way to a sofa, and placed her companion by her side.
Cummins_The_Lamplighter_25720.14Mr. 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."
Trollope_Orley_Farm_121890.14Lady Mason was seated in a large old-fashioned arm-chair, in which she now passed nearly all her time.
Reade_A_Terrible_Temptation_2870.14The lady herself, in a delightful peignoir, sat nestled cozily in a sort of ottoman with arms.
DeMille_The_Cryptogram_9960.14On Zillah's retiring she generally took her place at the piano without a word, and Gualtier began his instructions.
Alexander_Ralph_Wiltons_Weird_5150.14So spoke Wilton, handing a card and a note to his friend as they drew near the fire after dinner.
Ingelow_Fated_to_be_Free_61330.14He meant, "I cannot rise from my seat."
Evans_Infelice_210.14"Pray be seated.
Holmes_Darkness_and_Daylight_24140.13But 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_4020.13Observing that the small seat next to the door was partially filled with the luggage of the parties who sat in front of it, she rose and called to the dog, saying to the conductor as she did so: "I will take that half of a seat yonder, where I shall be in nobody's way."
Trollope_Can_You_Forgive_Her_88760.13So he went up-stairs and washed his hands before dinner in the room without a fire-place, flattering himself that he would yet be even with his friend Cheesacre.
Reade_The_Cloister_and_the_Hearth_85630.13There was a young woman in the room seated pensively by the stove; but she rose and courteously made way for the visitor.
Reade_Foul_Play_2240.13They then chatted about things of no importance whatever, and the old gentleman was just lighting his candle to go to bed, when a visitor was ushered into the room.

Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_53170.09His glance rested upon the old-fashioned chandelier de- pending from the ceiling.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_11210.06"Have we none?

Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_157490.22Meanwhile he advanced through the assemblage of guests under a battery of curious glances towards Madame de Morcerf, who, standing before a mantle-piece ornamented with flowers, had seen his entrance in a looking-glass placed opposite the door, and was prepared to receive him.
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_158300.19Meanwhile he advanced through the assemblage of guests under a battery of curious glances towards Madame de Morcerf, who, standing before a mantle-piece ornamented with flowers, had seen his entrance in a looking-glass placed opposite the door, and was prepared to receive him.
Auerbach_On_the_Heights_64690.17Nearest her window, and in a position which showed its profile, stood the Venus de Milo.
Roe_Jest_to_Earnest_2200.15But the glow from the hearth, uncertain enough for their innocent deeds of darkness, had now to fade before the chandelier, and Mrs. Marchmont, somewhat surprised at the rumpled plumage of the young ladies, and the fact that Mr. De Forrest's neck-tie was awry, suggested that they retire and prepare for supper, whereat they retreated in literal disorder.
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_231910.15Just then, Madame de Villefort, in the act of slipping on her dressing-gown, threw aside the drapery and for a moment stood motionless, as though interrogating the occupants of the room, while she endeavored to call up some rebellious tears.
Hawthorne_Twice_Told_Tales_20270.13The lord De Vere went back to his ancestral hall, where he contented himself with a wax-lighted chandelier, and filled in due course of time another coffin in the ancestral vault.
Roe_Jest_to_Earnest_34580.12De Forrest, finding that Lottie would persist in going to her room, went to his also, and took a long, comfortable nap.
Alcott_Little_Women_63630.12Our rooms are on the Rue de Rivoli, and sitting on the balcony, we look up and down the long, brilliant street.
Schubin_Erlach_Court_Clean_21910.11A pretty _appartement_ in the Rue de l'Arcade pleases Stella particularly, perhaps because the drawing-room is furnished with buhl cabinets.
Roe_Jest_to_Earnest_45840.11"Well, I did," said De Forrest to Lottie, aside; "and what's more, I believe it's true," and he placed her reluctant hand upon his arm, and drew her to the supper-room.
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_184340.11D'Avrigny and Villefort laid him on a couch.
Dumas_The_Three_Musketeers_109420.10The breakfast at M. de Treville's was as gay and cheerful as possible.
Collins_Woman_in_White_133530.10I prefer to record simply that I carried my point.
Eggleston_End_of_the_World_36940.09She got up in bed, and told Samuel to go to the county-seat and see if the deeds had ever been recorded.
Lever_Tom_Burke_of_Ours_vol1_22450.08There, put the candle there, hand your mistress a chair; give me my robe-de'chambre.
Trollope_Orley_Farm_11390.06"Quite certain.
Trollope_Orley_Farm_107300.06He had meant that she should tell him all.
Schubin_Erlach_Court_Clean_35380.06"N--no."
Reade_Put_Yourself_in_His_Place_5440.06But what can I do?"
Hardy_Far_From_the_Madding_Crowd_42270.06"Which pair?"
Hardy_A_Pair_of_Blue_Eyes_64800.06'Well--I could hardly say inventorially like that.
Eggleston_End_of_the_World_18260.06Take her away!"
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_223570.06"What do you say?"
Collins_The_Moonstone_101260.06Don't go yet!

Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_36580.13She 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_36750.09The 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."

Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_77290.24Two 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_77640.24Two men, seated on the movable plank on which the victim is laid, were eating their breakfasts, while waiting for the criminal.

Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_19460.18I 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_Baliff_1490.06" Exactly!

Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_146580.35Lucien 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_147270.35Lucien 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.
Porter_Thaddeus_of_Warsaw_36300.14She jumped about the room, assumed infantine airs, played with Euphemia's lap-dag, fondled it, seated herself on the floor and swept the carpet with her fine flaxen tresses; but she performed the routine of captivation in vain.
Broughton_Nancy_49920.12As I speak, I retire to a distant chair, as nearly as possible out of the fire-light, and affect to be occupied with Vick, who has jumped up on my lap, and--with all a dog's delicate care not to hurt you _really_ --is pretending severely to bite every one of my fingers.
Hawthorne_The_House_of_the_Seven_Gables_1620.09Had we the secret of that mirror, we would gladly sit down before it, and transfer its revelations to our page.
Reade_Foul_Play_17760.08He then took his feet off the chair and laid them on the ground, and put the empty bottle under the animal's neck.
Reade_Put_Yourself_in_His_Place_62840.06"Then please let me know what he says."

Cooper_The_Prairie_43800.15The 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.
Fleming_A_Terrible_Secret_38590.13In 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.
Bronte_Villette_33250.13I knew--I was obliged to know--the green chintz of that little chair; the little snug chair itself, the carved, shining-black, foliated frame of that glass; the smooth, milky-green of the china vessels on the stand; the very stand too, with its top of grey marble, splintered at one corner;--all these I was compelled to recognise and to hail, as last night I had, perforce, recognised and hailed the rosewood, the drapery, the porcelain, of the drawing-room.
Ingelow_Fated_to_be_Free_65170.10Mr. Craik wanted Valentine to restore the old church, by which he meant to pull it almost to pieces, to raise the roof, to clear away the quaint old oaken galleries, to push out a long chancel, and to put in some painted windows, literally such, pictures of glass, things done at Munich.
Reade_The_Cloister_and_the_Hearth_72470.10Gerard said nothing, but pointed the circular satire by pantomime.
Hardy_Far_From_the_Madding_Crowd_58410.09She was such a limber maid that 'a could stand no hardship, even when I knowed her, and 'a went like a candle-snoff, so 'tis said.

Braddon_Lady_Audleys_Secret_59300.26She 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.
Sheppard_Charles_Auchester_vol2_33930.15Three large country scented bed-rooms, with beds big enough for three chevaliers in each, and two drawing-rooms, were all that we cared for besides.
Trollope_Can_You_Forgive_Her_1290.14He was on the committee of his club, and he took care that the furniture there should be in all respects comfortable.
Braddon_Lady_Audleys_Secret_9500.12Jewelry, ivory-backed hair-brushes, and exquisite china were scattered here and there about the apartment.
Alcott_Little_Women_20550.12With a few interruptions, they had kept this up for a year, and met every Saturday evening in the big garret, on which occasions the ceremonies were as follows: Three chairs were arranged in a row before a table on which was a lamp, also four white badges, with a big `P.C.'
Harris_Rutledge_32320.12I opened the door for the little _malheureuse_, told her not to mind about the paint-brushes, but if she'd be a quiet child, she might sit down here and look at the big "Pilgrim's Progress;" so I installed her in Grace's vacated seat, by the window, and she dried her tears, and looked the book through twice; then, kneeling in the chair, gazed out into the street, so quietly that I almost forgot her existence.
Harland_At_Last_17160.09pointing to the coat and other garments she had ranged upon chairs to dry in front of the fire.
Collins_Man_and_Wife_51280.09On the tables distributed over the floor were the books which humanity in general reads--and does not respect.
Harland_Alone_15730.08She had not a care in the world, as she reclined in the carriage, beside Carry, the revolving wheels bearing her towards the country.
Warner_Wide_Wide_World_28920.06"I might just as well not have had it."
Reade_A_Terrible_Temptation_21240.06"Oh, thank you!"
Porter_Thaddeus_of_Warsaw_10150.06"Oh, my country!
Ouida_Under_Two_Flags_97640.06"What is it you will do?"
Lever_Tom_Burke_of_Ours_vol1_24440.06Oh, I have it!
Cooper_The_Deerslayer_3200.06"It has the country to itself.

Yonge_Heir_of_Redclyffe_62120.20It 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.
Evans_Infelice_34720.19After a sleepless night, Cuthbert Laurance sat in dressing gown and slippers before the table, on which was arranged his breakfast.
Warner_Wide_Wide_World_63770.18She hurried to finish her dressing, and wrapping her double-gown over all, went down to the kitchen.
Collins_The_Law_and_the_Lady_3630.18In the fear of disturbing him I rose, and put on my dressing-gown and slippers.
Whitney_Real_Folks_16600.17Agatha Ledwith "filled him in" a pair of slippers that very first Christmas; he sat there in the corner with his old leather ones on, when they came, and left them, for the most part, to their own mutual entertainment, until the tea was ready.
Warner_Wide_Wide_World_153050.17At 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.
Reade_It_is_Never_Too_Late_to_Mend_111360.16She returned in about ten minutes with a dressing-gown over her arm and a pair of curling-irons in her hand.
Heimburg_Gertrudes_Marriage_Clean_36520.16Her drenched clothing had been taken off the night before and her own dressing-gown put on; there was still a large part of her wardrobe in Niendorf; she even found, her dainty slippers standing before the sofa, which she was accustomed to put on when she got up.
Harris_Rutledge_37510.14"If you will stop crying," I said, taking her up in my arms, and wrapping her dressing-gown about her.
Collins_The_Moonstone_117330.14He sat, in his dressing-gown and slippers, for nearly an hour, thinking over his position.
Stowe_Uncle_Toms_Cabin_44500.13said St. Clare, the next day, as he sat in his library, in dressing-gown and slippers.
Reade_Foul_Play_48200.13He wrapped her in all her rugs, and, thinking of nothing but her safety, lifted her in his strong arms to take her to his own place, which was safe from wind at least.
Trollope_Orley_Farm_30620.12Men 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.
Lever_Charles_OMalley_vol1_12880.12"'Your dressing-gown!'
Lever_Charles_OMalley_vol1_12790.12'If I could only get as far as my dressing-gown.'
Wood_East_Lynne_138080.11Barbara had taken off her own warm night-gown then, and put it upon William in place of his cold one--had struck a light and was busily dressing herself.
Trollope_Orley_Farm_96840.11When 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.
Holmes_Ethelyns_Mistake_18230.11She had made them so herself, sweeping and dusting, and even leaving Richard's dressing-gown and slippers by the chair where he usually sat the evenings he was at home.
Cummins_The_Lamplighter_70450.11At 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.
Trollope_Orley_Farm_54420.11Come, my dear, he's got his dressing-gown on, and you may just come to the door and ask him how he does."
Reade_Love_Me_Little_Love_Me_Long_52980.10In this mind the pair went devious to their dressing-rooms.
Hillern_Only_a_Girl_100000.10I was just out of bed, and would gladly have run to you in my dressing-gown!
Fleming_A_Terrible_Secret_52800.10Luckily, standing behind Trix's chair, Trix did not see it.
DeMille_Cord_and_Creese_90220.10He rose at once, and slipping on his dressing-gown, opened it.
Collins_The_Moonstone_56190.10I observed a dressing-gown thrown across a chair.
Holmes_Lena_Rivers_20470.10Anna 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.
Alcott_Little_Women_76790.10But by-and-by, when the teething worry was over and the idols went to sleep at proper hours, leaving Mamma time to rest, she began to miss John, and find her workbasket dull company, when he was not sitting opposite in his old dressing gown, comfortably scorching his slippers on the fender.
Harland_Jessamine_36890.09As she sat up in bed, she espied upon a lounge near by, a gentleman's dressing-gown.
Fleming_A_Terrible_Secret_65950.09"But you mustn't sit here all day," broke in Trix again; "it's high time you were up in your dressing-room.
Roe_Opening_a_Chestnut_Burr_4440.09Then incasing himself in his ample dressing-gown he placed his slippered feet on the fender before a cheery fire, lighted a choice Havana, and proceeded to be miserable after the fashion that indulged misery often affects.
Fleming_A_Terrible_Secret_51970.08She put the lights away on the toilet-table in the dressing-room, wrapped something around her and sat down by the window to think it out.
Trollope_Can_You_Forgive_Her_73410.08"Grandpapa," she said to him the morning after she had received her cousin's second letter.--The old man was in the habit of breakfasting alone in a closet of his own, which was called his dressing-room, but in which he kept no appurtenances for dressing, but in lieu of them a large collection of old spuds and sticks and horse's-bits.
Warner_Wide_Wide_World_21320.06And away she went.
Trollope_Orley_Farm_83100.06Come here, just behind.
Schubin_Erlach_Court_Clean_35450.06"What shall I say to him?
Mulock_John_Halifax_Gentleman_37990.06what is there to be told?
Harris_Rutledge_25810.06You shall come if you wish to.
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