A high-backed sofa.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

I do not like high-backed chairs in a dining-room.    From Wordnik.com.  [The House in Good Taste] Reference

The chairs were high-backed of solid oak with cushions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Furnishing the Home of Good Taste A Brief Sketch of the Period Styles in Interior Decoration with Suggestions as to Their Employment in the Homes of Today] Reference

She was sitting in a high-backed blue chair with her back to me.    From Wordnik.com.  [Magic X] Reference

And seem like old men grouped around in high-backed chairs of space.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stories in Verse] Reference

Ugolini had sat down in the high-backed chair behind his work table.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Saracen: Land of the Infidel] Reference

One high-backed old-fashioned chair stood on each side of the hearth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ideala] Reference

Celia sat in one corner of the high-backed settle alone this afternoon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mr. Pat's Little Girl A Story of the Arden Foresters] Reference

Across from them an aged Hillman sat in a rough-hewed, high-backed chair.    From Wordnik.com.  [Terry A Tale of the Hill People] Reference

Two rows of high-backed pews faced each other on either side of the throne.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Saracen: Land of the Infidel] Reference

Thechairwas hard, high-backed, and uncomfortable, which made it even better.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Chair of Rejection] Reference

Over against these towered a high-backed settle, something like that on which.    From Wordnik.com.  [Among the Pines or, South in Secession Time] Reference

On one side of the chimney was a high-backed settle, and above it a book shelf.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mr. Pat's Little Girl A Story of the Arden Foresters] Reference

Milly threw off her white shawl and seated herself on the old, high-backed sofa.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Invader A Novel] Reference

She seated herself in a judicial attitude on one of the high-backed hall chairs.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of the Big Front Door] Reference

With this idea paramount, she sat down in a high-backed porch rocker and waited.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jane Allen: Right Guard] Reference

It was a somewhat high-backed sitz bath, which had seen some service in the family.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Island House A Tale for the Young Folks] Reference

Frenchman, drawing one of the high-backed wooden chairs to the table beside his own.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Little Maid of Old Philadelphia] Reference

He sits in an upright and determined manner upon an uneasy-looking high-backed chair.    From Wordnik.com.  [The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851] Reference

    I sit down in a high-backed leather chair you'd expect to see in such a study.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Spaceman and the Venusian Vampire Vixens] Reference

And he waved to the high-backed haffit chair Miss Mary had so sparely filled an hour ago.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure] Reference

He had an official, high-backed chair on the sidewalk and asked me to use it till he returned.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Fantasy of Mediterranean Travel] Reference

The high-backed chair compassed her figure so fully that she seemed to shrink to a child's size.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure] 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

Miss Arthur advanced a step and stood beside the high-backed chair, one hand still resting upon the door.    From Wordnik.com.  [Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter] Reference

Madame Giche sank into her high-backed chair -- like a snowflake was her face for whiteness -- and fainted.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Heiress of Wyvern Court] Reference

The centre of the churches is always vacant, and round this space there is always a row of high-backed seats.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Incomparable 29th and the "River Clyde"] Reference

Could Elinor have but glimpsed the high-backed tin tub in which Arethusa had bathed all of her life at the Farm!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Heart of Arethusa] Reference

Beds afford a good place for a romp or play, but high-backed chairs should be placed at the side to prevent a fall.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mother and Her Child] Reference

The Fozzy-gog sat in Dame Fossie's high-backed chair in the chimney corner, the other china dogs grouped around him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Soap-Bubble Stories For Children] Reference

Charles Davis where he sat in the rather plain, high-backed wooden chair that was the Throne, on its meter-high marble dais.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fearful Symmetry A Terran Empire novel] Reference

There were two large high-backed easy-chairs, and I prepared to take possession of the one recently vacated by Jackson's wife.    From Wordnik.com.  [The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852] Reference

With these two escorts, both the same height, the contessa tottered to a high-backed, cushioned seat on the right side of the altar.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Saracen: Land of the Infidel] Reference

Cardinal Ugolini returned to the high-backed chair at his worktable, which was strewn with leather-bound books and parchment scrolls.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Saracen: Land of the Infidel] Reference

Flemish carpets, large chandeliers, and high-backed chairs: everything in keeping with what the youth had already seen in the castle.    From Wordnik.com.  [International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 6, August 5, 1850] Reference

Elizabeth, sitting on the high-backed form, with all the other empty forms in front of her, nibbled her pencil in melancholy loneliness.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Australian Lassie] Reference

The best furnishing is a very narrow console (table) with a stiff, high-backed chair on either side of it, and on the wall, over console.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Art of Interior Decoration] Reference