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Examples

  • The tubercular Keats watched that clock during his final days at Wentworth Place, lounging on what he called a “Sopha bed,” and penning letters to his lover Fanny Brawne next door.

    Keats’s House, Restored 2009

  • She affected therefore not to remark his agitation, seated herself tranquilly upon the Sopha, assigned some trifling reason for having quitted her room unexpectedly, and conversed on various subjects with seeming confidence and ease.

    The Monk 2004

  • As She was falling I caught her in my arms, and placed her upon a Sopha.

    The Monk 2004

  • Antonia sat upon a Sopha with her back towards the door, and read attentively.

    The Monk 2004

  • One Evening I was lying upon my Sopha, plunged in reflections very far from agreeable: Theodore amused himself by observing from the window a Battle between two Postillions, who were quarrelling in the Inn-yard.

    The Monk 2004

  • She thought herself equally secure of his principles and her own, and having replaced herself upon the Sopha, She began to prattle to him with her usual ease and vivacity.

    The Monk 2004

  • She desired him to be seated, and immediately resumed her place upon the Sopha.

    The Monk 2004

  • She approached the Sopha on which her trembling Pupil was seated, took her by the hand, and prepared to lead her from the

    The Monk 2004

  • Sopha in a noble apartment; and my wounds being examined, they were declared to be very slight.

    The Monk 2004

  • She received him with less distance than before, and desired him to place himself near her upon the Sopha.

    The Monk 2004

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