A straight-backed wooden chair. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
A slim straight-backed dancer. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Boyd followed him, walking straight-backed and tall. From Wordnik.com. [Supermind] Reference
He was a tall man, broad-shouldered, straight-backed. From Wordnik.com. [A Fool There Was] Reference
Only Talmanes was straight-backed, wide-eyed and alert. From Wordnik.com. [Lord of Chaos]
She held Wallingford down in the straight-backed chair. From Wordnik.com. [The Fourth Hand]
Milt Forsburg sat opposite her in a straight-backed chair. From Wordnik.com. [Murder Without Icing]
The District Nurse is drinking a cup of tea, very straight-backed. From Wordnik.com. [Michael Frayn: The day my life changed] Reference
She was as he remembered her: unsmiling, straight-backed, composed. From Wordnik.com. [Heartless]
Without thinking she let herself thump down in the straight-backed chair. From Wordnik.com. [Lord of Chaos]
Bronson sat on the edge of a straight-backed chair with Muffin at his knees. From Wordnik.com. [The Tin Soldier] Reference
He recognized the straight-backed chairs around the Frank Lloyd Wright table. From Wordnik.com. [Hardcase]
Someone brought two straight-backed chairs -- one for Mrs. Kennedy, one for me. From Wordnik.com. ['I Heard A Loud, Terrifying Noise'] Reference
I sequestered myself on a straight-backed wooden chair at the littered table. From Wordnik.com. [Gauntlet] Reference
George Hill and his wife were tied hand and foot to two straight-backed chairs. From Wordnik.com. [The Revolt on Venus] Reference
Jake suspected she would have preferred a straight-backed wooden kitchen chair. From Wordnik.com. [The Playboy Boss's Chosen Bride]
I had been half conscious that this stately, straight-backed female seemed familiar. From Wordnik.com. [Two For The Lions]
She looked at her mother, who was sitting straight-backed and unsmiling on her chair. From Wordnik.com. [Unforgiven]
Patrick Wallingford was dressed again and still sitting in the straight-backed chair. From Wordnik.com. [The Fourth Hand]
She pulled a straight-backed chair up to the closed doors, turning its back to the door. From Wordnik.com. [Time and Again]
There was a heavy wooden desk and a straight-backed chair, very similar to the sergeant's. From Wordnik.com. [Renegade's Magic]
Then, removing the pink apron, she hung it over another straight-backed, cherry wood chair. From Wordnik.com. [A Man Alone]
As Michael lifted a straight-backed chair to join the circle, Caro fixed her gaze on George. From Wordnik.com. [The Ideal Bride]
She hung her slicker on one of them and sat down on a straight-backed chair of unfinished pine. From Wordnik.com. [When The Bough Breaks]
Moiraine mounted Aldieb with a cool, straight-backed precision, almost as if there were no hurry. From Wordnik.com. [The Dragon Reborn]
And mind you get the sods flat, old man, -- flat as ever a straight-backed young fellow was laid under. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 25, November, 1859] Reference
There were a number of cushioned straight-backed chairs and a comfortable leather couch under the window. From Wordnik.com. [Card Trick] Reference
A flimsy dresser with a crocheted runner over the scarred top, a heavy armoire, a straight-backed chair. From Wordnik.com. [Better] Reference
Picture him, a man in the forties, straight-backed, rather jolly, and with one of those German naval beards. From Wordnik.com. [The Secrets of the German War Office] Reference
Then he bowed very formally in his best military fashion, straight-backed from the waist, heels stiffly together. From Wordnik.com. [The Palace of Darkened Windows] Reference
Malone looked around for the chair, which was an uncomfortably straight-backed affair, and sat down in it gingerly. From Wordnik.com. [Supermind] Reference
The ancient pulpit was of the same period as the screen, as were also the old-fashioned, straight-backed, oak pews. From Wordnik.com. [From John O'Groats to Land's End] Reference
She sat erect in her straight-backed chair, a tall, dark woman, in a bombazine gown, with white muslin frill and turban. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 78, April, 1864] Reference
One by one the students drop in and take their places, -- high and low, rich and poor, all on the same straight-backed pine benches. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 41, March, 1861] Reference
But Smith, as he sat in the straight-backed chair, felt very glad indeed that he was about to see the somebody for whom he was waiting. From Wordnik.com. [White Ashes] Reference
And then, like forty straight-backed monkeys in an experiment that would never be allowed to go awry, I and the future secretaries type. From Wordnik.com. [Full Stop! Punctuation Police!] Reference
It opened to admit the new comers, disclosing Miss Du Prel, in a gown of pale amber brocade, enthroned upon a straight-backed antique sofa. From Wordnik.com. [The Daughters of Danaus] Reference
At a short distance from him, in an ancient straight-backed rocking-chair, dark with age, and clumsy in its antique carvings, sat his wife. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 50, December, 1861] Reference
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