She retreated to the landing-place till he had opened the shutters, and then saw an apartment the most forlorn she had ever beheld, containing no other furniture than a ragged stuff bed, two worn-out rush-bottomed chairs, an old wooden box, and a bit of broken glass which was fastened to the wall by two bent nails. ❋ Unknown (2008)
All their worldly goods are a bag, a large chest and an old chair: one, old, high - backed, rush-bottomed chair: a solitary settler in itself. ❋ Unknown (2007)
The very furniture, the red paper with yellow patterns in the drawing-room, the numerous rush-bottomed chairs in the dining-room, the faded wool-work cushions, embroidered with figures of girls and dogs, on the sofa, the branching lamps, and the gloomy-looking portraits on the walls — everything inspired an involuntary melancholy, about everything there clung a sense of chill and flatness. ❋ Unknown (2006)
What he saw, in the topmost room where he had lain, was a figure on a rush-bottomed chair, sitting away from the light, twisting her hands. ❋ Maguire, Gregory (2005)
A small wooden bedstead, a long deal table, and four or five rush-bottomed chairs, constituted the whole furniture of the apartment. ❋ Unknown (2004)
The rest of the furniture consisted of two articles, a perfectly plain deal table and a wooden rush-bottomed chair. ❋ Unknown (2003)
In the society of Konrad and Henrik's youth, [F] ifty million people found their security in the feeling that their Emperor was in bed every night before midnight and up again before five, sitting by candlelight at his desk in an American rush-bottomed chair, while everyone else who had pledged their loyalty to him was obeying the customs and the laws. ❋ Unknown (2001)
The corregidor himself waited upon us, and a great rush-bottomed arm-chair was ostentatiously bolstered into our room by our landlady, for the accommodation of that important personage. ❋ Unknown (2002)
Strong tea and high-backed, rush-bottomed chairs were provided for the newcomers, though Verin and Faile got embroidered cushions. ❋ Jordan, Robert, 1948- (1992)
A red rush-bottomed chair and a table stood at one end, -- two little pieces of furniture around which cluster the pleasantest memories of my life, -- Lillie's chair and ❋ Various (N/A)
On the contrary, the young ladies seated themselves demurely in their rush-bottomed chairs, and knit their own woolen stockings; nor ever opened their lips, excepting to say yah, Mynheer, or yah, Vroww, ❋ Emilie Kip Baker (N/A)
Then, sitting almost at my feet in a squat rush-bottomed chair, with quaint bow legs and ❋ George W. Gough (N/A)
So she had stood the day the awful news of his fiery death had come, while Father sat in his rush-bottomed chair and groaned. ❋ Grace Livingston Hill Lutz (N/A)
The same cheery fire in the chimney-place, the spotless floor, the tidy rush-bottomed chairs, and a whole nest of little white-heads and twinkling eyes, just on the border of ❋ Frederic S. Cozzens (N/A)
A rush-bottomed chair, a deal table, dishes of common yellow earthenware, bone-handled knives and forks, and two or three silver spoons, were all that remained of her former grandeur, and the dinner was on a par with the furniture. ❋ George Paston (N/A)
But they are entirely empty, except for a few rush-bottomed chairs, and leave a very queer impression, to say the least. ❋ Various (N/A)
Here were four rooms with one window each, all tinted yellow, to match the social room, and all completely empty, except that in one there stood three rush-bottomed chairs, with seats broken through. ❋ Various (N/A)
Stools and low seats were also used, the seat being only from 8 to 14 inches high, and of wood, or interlaced with thongs; these, however, may be considered equivalent to our rush-bottomed chairs, and probably belonged to persons of humbler means. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
Anna had taken off her sunbonnet and was sitting on one of the low rush-bottomed chairs near a window. ❋ Alice Turner Curtis (N/A)
