They came upon two schools of round-backed river monsters. From Wordnik.com. [Genellan- Planetfall]
Lillian was seated in a round-backed chair adjacent to the sofas. From Wordnik.com. [For The Roses]
The round-backed club chair made it appear that both his clavicles had collapsed forward. From Wordnik.com. [Cold Case]
I asked him to take a seat, and seated myself in my round-backed writing chair beside my desk. From Wordnik.com. [The Idler Magazine, Volume III, June 1893 An Illustrated Monthly] Reference
One black gap in the long line of grey, round-backed airships marked the position from which the Vaterland had come. From Wordnik.com. [The War in the Air] Reference
He was best known for his facility on the lute, a round-backed instrument with a history reaching back to Greek mythology. From Wordnik.com. [James Tyler, luntenist and master of early instruments, helped preserve music of ancient era] Reference
Rixa pompously blew out his cheeks and put back his shoulders in a way he had to convince himself he was not getting old and round-backed. From Wordnik.com. [Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure] Reference
Coralie flung herself into the depths of a settee, and bade Camusot seat himself in the gondole, a round-backed chair that stood opposite. From Wordnik.com. [A Distinguished Provincial at Paris] Reference
His innovations in propeller designs helped him to create round-backed Ovation guitars, among the most popular instruments made in the U.S. From Wordnik.com. [Helicopter Designer and Guitar Hero] Reference
The crawfish has a tail, and five fins on it; and the round-backed carid has a tail and four fins; the squilla also has fins at the tail on either side. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Animals] Reference
The great round-backed, solemn Border hills, in summer time kindly sleeping giants, smiling in their sleep, take on another guise when winter smites with pitiless blast, when. From Wordnik.com. [Stories of the Border Marches] Reference
The round-backed Sister, her dangling arm swinging, shuffled along in front of Nicci, pulling her by her hand, leading her through grand rooms, up stairways, and down hallways. From Wordnik.com. [Men Don't Leave Me] Reference
OFF the long headland, threshed about by round-backed breakers. From Wordnik.com. [The Black Rock] Reference
Paramore is seated in a round-backed chair, on castors, pouring out tea. From Wordnik.com. [The Philanderer] Reference
I have also used it at my parents 'house, on their round-backed dining room chairs. From Wordnik.com. [Examiner California Headlines] Reference
But poor Miss Pinnegar after this looked older, and seemed to get a little round-backed. From Wordnik.com. [The Lost Girl] Reference
At his summons a round-backed, middle-sized man, with shaggy hair and clouded mien, appeared. From Wordnik.com. [An Obscure Apostle A Dramatic Story] Reference
A small, round-backed man, with a shag of black hair upon his face, was sitting by the window. From Wordnik.com. [The Rocks of Valpre] Reference
One black gap in the long line of grey, round-backed airships marked the position from which the. From Wordnik.com. [The War in the Air] Reference
Davenant declined the cigar, but seated himself near the desk, in one of the round-backed office chairs. From Wordnik.com. [The Street Called Straight] Reference
In a round-backed chair at a distance from the table sat an old man with a wooden leg, a fiddle on his knee. From Wordnik.com. [Thyrza] Reference
Resolution, which is a low point but indicated at a distance by a lofty round-backed hill that rises above it. From Wordnik.com. [The Journey to the Polar Sea] Reference
She was a little old lady with a confiding smile, and he a bent and round-backed man with a long, forked beard. From Wordnik.com. [Sonnie-Boy's People] Reference
Finally he returned to the round-backed chair which stood against the desk, and faced his patient across the room. From Wordnik.com. [The Independence of Claire] Reference
I always liked McArdle, the crabbed, old, round-backed, red-headed news editor, and I rather hoped that he liked me. From Wordnik.com. [The Lost World] Reference
As far as the eye could reach, the rushy tufted moorland extended, bounded in the distance by lofty, round-backed hills. From Wordnik.com. [A New Illustrated Edition of J. S. Rarey's Art of Taming Horses With the Substance of the Lectures at the Round House, and Additional Chapters on Horsemanship and Hunting, for the Young and Timid] Reference
In a parlor, round-backed vintage folding chairs on loan from a funeral home face period coffins for an adult and a child. From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Home Page] Reference
Miss Windsor was standing alone, in a corner of the room, by a little round-backed sofa, and smiled a greeting at Geoffrey. From Wordnik.com. [The King's Men A Tale of To-morrow] Reference
There were several lots of pigs, of a bad but probably hardy sort -- mostly black, round-backed, long-legged, and long-eared. From Wordnik.com. [The Huguenots in France] Reference
Mr. Nathan Garrideb proved to be a very tall, loosejointed, round-backed person, gaunt and bald, some sixty-odd years of age. From Wordnik.com. [The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes]
On the water which overflows from a stretch particularly cross-seamed and gullied, some lumps are floating, some round-backed reefs. From Wordnik.com. [Under Fire: the story of a squad] Reference
The round-backed man stopped, and all eyes rested with excited curiosity upon the sage, who, without changing his position, answered. From Wordnik.com. [An Obscure Apostle A Dramatic Story] Reference
Down the middle was a long table, with benches beside it, and a round-backed chair at each end; other seats were ranged along the walls. From Wordnik.com. [Thyrza] Reference
A big fire blazed in the low round-backed grate, whose flashes were reflected in the steel fender and the ugly fire-irons that were never used. From Wordnik.com. [What's Mine's Mine — Volume 1] Reference
He was a strange almost a deformed figure, short-statured, round-backed, with a large head, no neck, and a long rod jutting out from between his shoulders. From Wordnik.com. [The Last Galley Impressions and Tales] Reference
He was a strange, almost a deformed figure, short-statured, round-backed, with a large head, no neck, and a long rod jutting out from between his shoulders. From Wordnik.com. [The Last of the Legions and Other Tales of Long Ago] Reference
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