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  • "Frankly, now!" she repeated, standing upon the rug and look - ing keenly down at him as he leaned back in a basket-chair.

    Sole Music 2010

  • She sat, I may mention, in the cushioned basket-chair, the only comfortable chair in the room, and we sat on incredibly hard, horsehair things having antimacassars tied to their backs by means of lemon-coloured bows.

    The Wheels of Chance: a bicycling idyll Herbert George 2006

  • One day I went over to her, and saw her sitting in a basket-chair, her head pressed to the sharp edge of the table.

    First Love 2006

  • The Colonel settled himself in the creaking basket-chair.

    The Years 2004

  • She uttered a scream which brought others to the spot, and on entering the place they found the Colonel lying dead beside his basket-chair, which was also upset.

    The Complete Father Brown 2003

  • But just as the room was a summer-house, so the chair was a basket-chair.

    The Complete Father Brown 2003

  • She uttered a scream which brought others to the spot, and on entering the place they found the Colonel lying dead beside his basket-chair, which was also upset.

    The Complete Father Brown 2003

  • But just as the room was a summer-house, so the chair was a basket-chair.

    The Complete Father Brown 2003

  • "Frankly, now!" she repeated, standing upon the rug and look - ing keenly down at him as he leaned back in a basket-chair.

    Tales of Terror and Mystery Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1963

  • His mother, in a speech from a basket-chair, mentioned the glory of God, the Empire, us; and said we wasn't to touch the flowers.

    Cider With Rosie Lee, Laurie 1959

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