He rested his arms on the ladder-back of the chair.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sweet Defiance] Reference

He also made ladder-back chairs, usually with four rails.    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 positioned herself on a ladder-back chair across from me.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Shape of Dread]

An oversized T-shirt was draped over an oak ladder-back chair.    From Wordnik.com.  [Coping Stones] Reference

The ladder-back chairs he designated for his guests were beautiful.    From Wordnik.com.  [Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 4] Reference

He sat down in a ladder-back chair, his eyes roving hungrily over her face.    From Wordnik.com.  [Texas! Lucky]

The porch was his favorite venue, the ladder-back rocker his favorite chair.    From Wordnik.com.  [The End of the Pier]

Nieda had arranged a large table for them, with ladder-back chairs instead of benches.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dragon Reborn]

After only two bids he allowed a ladder-back rocker to go for an outrageously low price.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cat Who Knew Shakespeare]

He pulled an oak ladder-back chair to the settee and straddled it, facing Lauren and Alan.    From Wordnik.com.  [Higher Authority]

The table was set for a meal, ladder-back chairs gathered around, some plates already served.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Great Hunt]

Nigel eased the front feet of the ladder-back chair to the wooden floor and slowly rose to his feet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Only You]

Mr. Campion leaned over a ladder-back chair at the head of the table, awaiting the return of the rest of the party.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cargo of Eagles]

His ladder-back chair stood on a small platform raised above the floor where I and others in his audience gathered.    From Wordnik.com.  [Turmoil and Triumph] Reference

Gretchen's dress, cornflower blue, draped over the ladder-back of an oak chair, catches in a predawn shade of snow-shadow.    From Wordnik.com.  [Excerpt: The Fruit of Stone by Mark Spragg] Reference

As storyteller Tim Ereneta performs, the small stage is adorned with only a grinning skull on the seat of a ladder-back chair.    From Wordnik.com.  [Capital Fringe Festival reviews] Reference

Sighing, Min took Logain's arm and led him to the table, sat him down on a rough bench and took a shaky ladder-back chair herself.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fires of Heaven]

In the tiny bay window, three tall ladder-back chairs in black oak loomed above a small dining table, as if threatening it with a beating.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Place of Execution]

Nynaeve took a ladder-back chair next to Elayne, and the seamstress set cups in front of them, flitting to one of the cupboards for pewter spoons.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fires of Heaven]

As storyteller Tim Ereneta performs "Chart Toppers of 1349," the small stage is adorned only with a grinning skull on the seat of a ladder-back chair.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Chart Toppers of 1349': Reaching for the stars at Capital Fringe Festival] Reference

Two ladder-back chairs faced the desk, and a framed picture of Jordan surrounded by a dozen young women, presumably nannies, hung on the wall behind her.    From Wordnik.com.  [The 6th Target]

I took her hand and led her back through Merritt's room to the landing at the top of the stairs, where a pair of ladder-back chairs flanked an elaborately painted hunt table.    From Wordnik.com.  [Critical Conditions]

Seizing a chair, he ripped off a thick chair leg that ran up to make one side of the ladder-back, hurled the rest of the chair at the men, and set about him with his long bludgeon.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dragon Reborn]

ladder-back chairs nearly always had straight legs, either plain or with double ogee curve and bead moldings, but there are a few examples of ladder-back and cabriole legs combined, although these are very rare.    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

Priscilla and Hamish stood together, looking at a long dining-table surrounded by ladder-back chairs with petit-point cushions in such vile colours that Hamish suspected Mrs. Peterman had been responsible for them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Death of a Charming Man]

Seating at the island is supplied by two ladder-back chairs with toile print cushions.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

Two cream urns filled with bright silk flowers sit on the black table surrounded by six ladder-back chairs.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

The typical ladder-back rocker is now joined by sophisticated Italian leather pieces that are sturdy and transitional.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

Fiber splint seats look great on ladder-back chairs; this technique weaves rush fibers or fiber splints for an artistic effect.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lubbock Avalanche-Journal:Today's Headlines] Reference

Sometimes when you walked into her dining room you would see big sheets of dough hanging over white cup towel covered ladder-back chairs.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Facts: News] Reference

— next to a white basin full of unused water, the stand-mirror sat askew, as if he had stumbled into it and simply left it tilted back sharply, and his wrinkled coat lay tossed across a ladder-back chair.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Crown of Swords]

Artful sect: It's a safe guess that more people know about Shaker design - the beautiful oval boxes, ladder-back chairs and unadorned geometric tables they created - than the communities and philosophy that produced them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fore, right!] Reference

She sat so straight in the ladder-back chair that you could draw the proverbial ballerina’s line from her earlobe to her hipbone.    From Wordnik.com.  [One-ClickBuy:SeptemberHarlequinBlaze]

I took her hand and led her back through Merritt’s room to the landing at the top of the stairs, where a pair of ladder-back chairs flanked an elaborately painted hunt table.    From Wordnik.com.  [Critical Conditions]