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  • Letz sit in teh Princess Mu Meadow. . .we can haz littlol tayblols and cafe chaires – but cumfee! wif cushuns!

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  • By this kinde of measures they went about to winne Psyches by little and little, but because they were wearie with travell, they sate them downe in chaires, and after that they had washed their bodies in baines they went into a parlour, where all kinde of meats were ready prepared.

    The Golden Asse Lucius Apuleius

  • Such, as have weake and feeble leggs may ride on horsebacke, or be caryed in coaches, or borne in chaires.

    Spadacrene Anglica The English Spa Fountain Edmund Deane

  • On the Right hand is a Large Antyroome for persons to wait, where are Marble tables in ye Peeres between the windows; white damaske window curtaines and cane chaires.

    Through England on a Side Saddle in the Time of William and Mary 1888

  • Thence into a Dressing-roome hung with Divers Coulld flowered sattin, chaires and stooles the same, ffine fflower'd muslin window curtaines, A fine Little high screen burnt jappan of 4 Leaves, another Chimney screen wth 4 Leaves of the stone work in ffigures – jndian.

    Through England on a Side Saddle in the Time of William and Mary 1888

  • March, 1687, Sewall wrote to London for "White Fustian Drawn enough for curtains, vallen counterpaine for a bed & half a duz chaires with four threeded green worsted to work it."

    Customs and Fashions in Old New England Alice Morse Earle 1881

  • The disposition of the shelves both along the walls and breaking out from the walls must needes prove very convenient and gracefull, and the best way for the students will be to have a litle square table in each celle with 2 chaires.

    Libraries in the Medieval and Renaissance Periods The Rede Lecture Delivered June 13, 1894 John Willis Clark 1871

  • The Portugales departed from Eluas the 15. of Ianuarie, and came to Siuil the 19. of the same moneth, and went to the lodging of the Gouernour, and entred into a court, ouer the which were certaine galleries where hee was, who came downe and receiued them at the staires, whereby they went vp into the galleries: when he was come vp, he commanded chaires to be giuen them to sit on.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation. Vol. XIII. America. Part II. Richard Hakluyt 1584

  • Psyches by little and little, but because they were wearie with travell, they sate them downe in chaires, and after that they had washed their bodies in baines they went into a parlour, where all kinde of meats were ready prepared.

    The Golden Asse 1566

  • (as he sat) with his sword, and therewith the slaughter being begun with one, all the residue of those ancient fatherlie men as they sat in their chaires were slaine and cruellie murthered.

    Chronicles (1 of 6): The Historie of England (3 of 8) Raphael Holinshed

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