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Examples

  • Emma squeezes in next to Mr. Pritchard on the scratchy-looking couch, while Sarah sits on a delicate cane-backed chair.

    Ten Miles Past Normal Frances O’Roark Dowell 2011

  • Emma squeezes in next to Mr. Pritchard on the scratchy-looking couch, while Sarah sits on a delicate cane-backed chair.

    Ten Miles Past Normal Frances O’Roark Dowell 2011

  • The furniture Sadie had chosen was French country in flavor: lots of whitewashed knotty pine and elegant oval-backed chairs upholstered in a soft blue toile pattern that played well off the red, yellow, and blue stripes on the Louis XV cane-backed Canapé sofa.

    Starlit Lisa Rinna 2010

  • Aunt Lizzie, asleep in the cane-backed chair nearby, had agreed that the girls should stay the night, as they often did.

    Covenant Lewis, Beverly 2002

  • Dark carpet covered the rest of the floor on which stood cream-coloured tables surrounded by pale cane-backed chairs.

    Fugitive Bride Lee, Miranda 1998

  • The room held a trunk, a narrow rope bed, and a cane-backed chair.

    The Black Wing Kirchoff, Mary 1993

  • Spotting the cane-backed chair, she settled her slim form into it with a sigh.

    The Black Wing Kirchoff, Mary 1993

  • Dr. Karlson rolled a high, cane-backed invalid chair into the hallway.

    Surrender A Dream Jill Barnett 1991

  • Dr. Karlson rolled a high, cane-backed invalid chair into the hallway.

    Surrender A Dream Jill Barnett 1991

  • Dr. Karlson rolled a high, cane-backed invalid chair into the hallway.

    Surrender A Dream Jill Barnett 1991

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