divan

• Then the young man led the young girl to a divan, and asked her to tell him the wonderful story of her rescue and her return from the grave I was," related Valentine, "as you know, very ill; but yet I hoped to become convalescent again! —  The Son of Monte-Cristo, Volume I
• And Lord Henry flung himself down on the divan, and opened his cigarette-case The painter had been busy mixing his colours and getting his brushes ready. —  The Picture of Dorian Gray
• When Sanda Pasha entered he was rolling his huge muscular frame on the divan, and almost weeping with laughter at something that had been whispered in his ear by a dervish who sat beside him Sanda introduced Lancey as an Englishman, on hearing which the black Pasha seized and wrung his hands, amid roars of delight, and torrents of remarks in Turkish, while he slapped him heartily on the shoulder. —  In the Track of the Troops
• The caliph soon afterwards made his appearance at the divan, and immediately recognised Yussuf in his partial disguise. —  The Pacha of Many Tales
• He had been seized in the divan, as his popularity was so great that a few minutes' notice would have enabled him not only to escape, but to have put his treasonable plans into execution; but he bore himself with such a haughty air, with his arms folded across his breast, that I thought he might be innocent; and that he had, as he promised me, abandoned all thoughts of rebellion I turned towards the sultan, who fixed his eyes upon me; his brows were knit with anger, and he commenced, "Zara, your brother is accused of treason, which he denies. —  The Pacha of Many Tales

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