In front of the settee is a Hepplewhite-style round mahogany coffee table with a leather inset top. From Wordnik.com. Reference
Elsie threw herself down on the settee by her side. From Wordnik.com. [Elsie Marley, Honey] Reference
He sat down near Dorothy, occupying a small settee. From Wordnik.com. [A Husband by Proxy] Reference
He came forward and took her hand and led her to a settee. From Wordnik.com. [The Blood of the Conquerors] Reference
He sat down in the compartment of a double settee near her. From Wordnik.com. [The Coast of Chance] Reference
Seeing Jim lounging on a settee they invited him to join in. From Wordnik.com. [Colorado Jim] Reference
Carroll drew her down on a settee and held her hands firmly. From Wordnik.com. [An American Suffragette] Reference
O'Connor motioned to a big wooden settee at one end of the room. From Wordnik.com. [A Voyage with Captain Dynamite] Reference
Mizolwat - (suddenly) If it's a duke you want I'm at your settee. From Wordnik.com. [The Sea at Sea (or Why is There a Question Instead of Not a Question)] Reference
On the settee and bed in the camp were a number of balsam pillows. From Wordnik.com. [New York at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis 1904 Report of the New York State Commission] Reference
Met as an expected guest he was given everything and sat upon the settee. From Wordnik.com. [A Mess] Reference
He let himself down from the window, to a settee, and thence to the floor. From Wordnik.com. [Frontier Boys in Frisco] Reference
She writhed amid the red cushions of the settee till he commanded sternly. From Wordnik.com. [Sacrifice] Reference
"No, it is simple enough," said Netty, curling herself up on a low settee. From Wordnik.com. [The Scarlet Feather] Reference
To get to the sideboard she will have had to pick her way around the settee. From Wordnik.com. [Michael Frayn: The day my life changed] Reference
Did I dream it, Nora, or did I see you lay your work bag on the hall settee?. From Wordnik.com. [Grace Harlowe's Golden Summer] Reference
Judith cuddled close to Bruce on the settee while Elinor went for her wraps. From Wordnik.com. [Miss Pat at School] Reference
Why, where I come from they wouldn't have you even for a stone settee in a park. From Wordnik.com. [The Aztec Treasure-House] Reference
A handsome, foreign-looking woman came up to her and sat down on the same settee. From Wordnik.com. [The Slave of Silence] Reference
Here Harrison fell down, full length on the settee, muttering and shaking his fist at. From Wordnik.com. [Watch Yourself Go By] Reference
It was a room containing several leather chairs, a leather settee across one end, and. From Wordnik.com. [Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue in the Sunny South] Reference
Their hands met on the settee and they both moved instinctively a little closer together. From Wordnik.com. [The Blood of the Conquerors] Reference
At an angle to the fireplace was a broad-seated, high-backed oaken settee, covered with cushions. From Wordnik.com. [Ambrotox and Limping Dick] Reference
We had a room with a carpet, a settee, and two little tables, and set up our own beds and chairs. From Wordnik.com. [Southern Arabia] Reference
I committed the lady to their care, and fell exhausted on a settee in front of the huge fireplace. From Wordnik.com. [The Lady of the Ice A Novel] Reference
The palms leaped back into place behind them as she collapsed upon the red cushions of the settee. From Wordnik.com. [Sacrifice] Reference
The setting is Freud's study in London, recreated with the doctor's famed settee and beloved antiquities. From Wordnik.com. [Fern Siegel: Stage Door: Freud's Last Session] Reference
The high backs of the chairs were elaborately carved, the seats being of the same green velvet as the settee. From Wordnik.com. [Ideala] Reference
And as the servant disappears up the hall, he takes a seat, uninvited, upon a large settee, in carved walnut. From Wordnik.com. [An Outcast or, Virtue and Faith] Reference
A Japanese screen was drawn across the door, and beside it was a hard narrow settee covered with dark green velvet. From Wordnik.com. [Ideala] Reference
He was about to decide in favor of a pale blue satin settee, when a rustle behind him made him turn and behold Miss. From Wordnik.com. [The Spinner's Book of Fiction] Reference
He had no sooner dropped upon the wooden settee than there were a couple of eager boys hanging over either shoulder. From Wordnik.com. [The Airplane Boys among the Clouds or, Young Aviators in a Wreck] Reference
The office-furniture consists of a good desk or secretary, a very clumsy and disastrous settee, and a remarkable chair. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864] Reference
Father met us in St. Paul and we children at once got on the calico covered settee of the Bass House, too sleepy to eat. From Wordnik.com. [Old Rail Fence Corners The A. B. C's. of Minnesota History] Reference
"Ha!" he jerked out, as he got himself out of his tight, light overcoat and picked up his case again from the hall settee. From Wordnik.com. [Swept Out to Sea Clint Webb Among the Whalers] Reference
Hastily signing and returning the book, Grace dismissed the man, and sank to the oak settee in the hall, her heart thumping wildly. From Wordnik.com. [Grace Harlowe's Golden Summer] Reference
Seated beside her on a willow settee, which they had occupied together since repairing to the veranda after dinner, Grace alone noticed. From Wordnik.com. [Grace Harlowe's Golden Summer] Reference
"Try the settee," said Holmes, relapsing into his arm-chair and putting his finger-tips together, as was his custom when in judicial moods. From Wordnik.com. [Short Stories of Various Types] Reference
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