cane-bottomed

• “She took a cane-bottomed chair on one side of the table.”

  Fictionaut: Voodoo

• “If she sate down on a cane-bottomed chair, her arm rounded itself over the back of the seat, her hand seemed as if it ought to have a sceptre put into it, the folds of her dress fell naturally round her in order, like ladies of honour round a throne, and she looked like an empress.”

  The History of Pendennis

• “There was something in its air calculated to inspire awe in those who first saw Lady Lufton sitting bolt upright in the cane-bottomed arm-chair, which she always occupied when at work at her books and papers; and this she knew when she determined to receive Lucy in that apartment.”

  Framley Parsonage

• “Between them a waggling punkah fanned twenty cane-bottomed chairs and two rows of shiny plates.”

  Falk, by Joseph Conrad

• “The bishop jumped up and seated himself on a cane-bottomed chair.”

  Barchester Towers

• “The furniture consisted of a round table, which kept such imperfect balance on its central support that the lamp entrusted to it looked in a dangerous position, of three small cane-bottomed chairs, a small wash-hand-stand with sundry rude appurtenances, and a chair-bedstead which the tenant opened at the hour of repose and spread with certain primitive trappings at present kept in a cupboard.”

  New Grub Street

• “It was furnished with long, cane-bottomed chairs made in the jail, and at one end there was a book-case containing a rather unappetizing little library, mainly books of essays, of the Emerson-Carlyle-Stevenson type.”

  Burmese Days

• “She sat very still in her tall, cane-bottomed chair, watching carefully.”

  The Fires of Heaven

• “Women continued to mingle about, and the old men on the cane-bottomed chairs passed bottles of clairin peppered with roots and herbs.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Serpent and the Rainbow

• “At the end of the floor in his cane-bottomed chair”

  The Thorn Birds

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