My fauteuil was a plank, and the orchestra surpassed the worst tortures of the Inquisition. From Wordnik.com. [A Chair on the Boulevard] Reference
Beatrice sits on a fauteuil in the attitude of listening. From Wordnik.com. [Standard Selections A Collection and Adaptation of Superior Productions From Best Authors For Use in Class Room and on the Platform] Reference
Every day he came in and seated himself in the fauteuil reserved for him. From Wordnik.com. [The Women of the French Salons] Reference
My legs trembling, I subsided into a fauteuil near the end of the passage. From Wordnik.com. [Dragonfly in Amber]
He pointed indicating a pale fauteuil with wooden arms carved like tree limbs. From Wordnik.com. [where to land, where to land] Reference
She was half buried in a fauteuil in the chimney-corner, looking a little pale and fatigued. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Maximilian assisted his wife to place her in a fauteuil, after which he seized the bell cord. From Wordnik.com. [Monte-Cristo's Daughter] Reference
The concept was to create a fauteuil which surprises with lightness and convince with comfort. From Wordnik.com. [The Wogg 47 Armchair by Frédéric Dedelley] Reference
Through the bevelled plate-glass window I saw him limp to a fauteuil and place his cloak on it. From Wordnik.com. [Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine]
Then turning, she seated herself upon a fauteuil, and, motioning the detective to a chair opposite, said. From Wordnik.com. [The Diamond Coterie] Reference
She sat like a jointless thing on the fauteuil in the large hall, and all at once saw him in front of her. From Wordnik.com. [The Coast of Chance] Reference
I dropped into a fauteuil near a centre-table, on which there was a fantastical silver-wrought card-basket. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 102, April, 1866] Reference
The sight of the presence-chamber, and of the canopy to shade the fauteuil which aped a throne, made me smile. From Wordnik.com. [Letters written during a short residence in Sweden, Norway and Denmark] Reference
There are a few of these words (PL: plaze, FR: plage; PL: meble FR: meubl; PL: fotel FR: fauteuil ... among others.). From Wordnik.com. [abat-jour - French Word-A-Day] Reference
As he uttered these words Zuleika moved slightly in the fauteuil, then opened her eyes and gazed about her in bewilderment. From Wordnik.com. [Monte-Cristo's Daughter] Reference
Suddenly Zuleika removed her hands from her tear-bathed visage, straightened herself up in the fauteuil and, fixing her glance on. From Wordnik.com. [Monte-Cristo's Daughter] Reference
He made a chary movement of his hand towards a chair and at the same time sank into a fragile fauteuil, which creaked with his weight. From Wordnik.com. [Juggernaut] Reference
She turned on her fauteuil and closed her beautiful eyes, as if to keep back the tears which rolled under the fringe of the long lashes. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Mr. Baldwin loved to put a single leather fauteuil in otherwise contemporary rooms, nowhere more effectively than his own studio apartment. From Wordnik.com. [A Real American Hero] Reference
Lebeau flung himself, with a wearied air, into the fauteuil. From Wordnik.com. [The Parisians — Complete] Reference
In his panegyric of Littré, whose fauteuil he took, he said. From Wordnik.com. [CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]] Reference
Buried in a fauteuil, with her arms resting upon a table, sat. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Chopin] Reference
The dame, according to her idle custom, was dozing in a fauteuil. From Wordnik.com. [An Eagle Flight A Filipino Novel Adapted from Noli Me Tangere] Reference
Juiced, un petit clin d'oeil pour cet excellent fauteuil « Space Invader. From Wordnik.com. [TrendsNow] Reference
Blot made a sign to him, without speaking, to take his seat upon a large fauteuil. From Wordnik.com. [Olla Podrida] Reference
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