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  • Every day brings us closer to folding-chair beatdowns on the floor of the U.S. Senate.

    I Think This Is How Rome Collapsed « Gerry Canavan 2010

  • But it's not simply the sadness of Randy's past glory submerged in a soul-crushing job that moves us -- it's because he's actually good at it and, even better, so sly and charming and entertaining to his customers, that you see both the innumerable possibilities for a man who chose bloody smack downs, self-inflected razor cuts and the fearsome folding-chair treatment as his life's work, and exactly why he was so great at it.

    Kim Morgan: Kim Morgan's Top Ten Movies Of 2008 2009

  • I searched for folding-chair prices online and immediately quashed that notion.

    Should We Outsource Our Party? 2007

  • He sat down in the folding-chair, and whistled noiselessly for a time.

    The War in the Air Herbert George 2006

  • Ann Coulter could dress in a slinky outfit and bang your opponents over the back of the head with a folding-chair as they go to pin you in a debate.

    Is Godot your middle name, Bill O��Reilly? 2006

  • I have a folding-chair — for in a Japanese house there is nothing but the floor to sit upon, and not even a solid wall to lean against — an air-pillow for kuruma travelling, an india-rubber bath, sheets, a blanket, and last, and more important than all else, a canvas stretcher on light poles, which can be put together in two minutes; and being 2.5 feet high is supposed to be secure from fleas.

    Unbeaten Tracks in Japan Isabella Lucy 2004

  • He went out to the open vestibule and sat down on a folding-chair, and the station slid away and the backs of unfamiliar buildings moved by.

    The Great Gatsby 2003

  • It doesn't say much for humankind when the mechanical folding-chair robot AMEE (short for "Autonomous Mapping Evaluation and Evasion") turns out to be the most interesting character in the movie.

    The Tedium on Mars 2000

  • The Duc de Bourgogne undressed in another room, in the midst of all the Court, and seated upon a folding-chair.

    Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete Various

  • After the elevation of the mass -- at the King's communion -- a folding-chair was pushed to the foot of the altar, was covered with a piece of stuff, and then with a large cloth, which hung down before and behind.

    Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete Various

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