arm-chairs

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I say just let the politicians and military experts do their jobs instead of the nut-jobs in arm-chairs in front of the boob-tube who think they know best.

Biden: Too soon to say if more troops needed in Afghanistan 2009
In the corners, three or four arm-chairs, drawn close together in a circle, had the appearance of continuing a conversation.

Les Miserables 2008
In front, on the left, a larger table, with arm-chairs around it.

Little Eyolf 2008
But the two arm-chairs were arranged at the other end of the room near the door.

Les Miserables 2008
In front, on the left, a larger table, with arm-chairs around it.

Little Eyolf 2008
Two arm-chairs were placed at the two corners of the fireplace.

Les Miserables 2008
He went for the arm-chairs and restored them to their ordinary place near the hearth.

Les Miserables 2008
Two large arm-chairs figured on the right and left of the bride, the first for M. Gillenormand, the other for Jean Valjean.

Les Miserables 2008
He occupied an ancient and vast apartment on the first floor, between street and gardens, furnished to the very ceilings with great Gobelins and Beauvais tapestries representing pastoral scenes; the subjects of the ceilings and the panels were repeated in miniature on the arm-chairs.

Les Miserables 2008
My train has parlor cars in which people sit in soft arm-chairs and look out of big plate-glass windows.

From the WSJ Opinion Archives James Taranto 2007