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  • Beyond the loggia were several arcades filled with books, Bibles, and bibelots, until you came to an enormous paneled room dominated by a large carved desk and a pink-fabric highbacked chair from which DeMille ruled his business empire.

    Empire of Dreams Scott Eyman 2010

  • Unbuttoning her jacket, she sat down in the highbacked leather office chair.

    Alienated DAVID O. RUSSELL 2009

  • The seats were highbacked and cushioned, not metal buckets like city buses, but this bus was a rattler, with no TV or toilet.

    Cancun To Oaxaca - The Bus Ride Of 27 Pedicures 2007

  • The seats were highbacked and cushioned, not metal buckets like city buses, but this bus was a rattler, with no TV or toilet.

    Cancun To Oaxaca - The Bus Ride Of 27 Pedicures 2007

  • Unbuttoning her jacket, she sat down in the highbacked leather office chair.

    Alienated DAVID O. RUSSELL 2009

  • Every one rose in the same way, and the senators entered in their uniforms and sat down on highbacked chairs and leant on the table, trying to appear natural, just in the same way as the judges in the Court of Law.

    Resurrection 2003

  • He went to his tuxedo jacket, which was draped over a highbacked chair, and returned with a jewelry box from Bulgari.

    1st to Die Patterson, James, 1947- 2001

  • By now, they'd moved their talks to her private office in the mansion, where McCoy and Rousseau sat in a pair of highbacked chairs.

    The Better Man Weinstein, Howard 1994

  • He opened the door quietly, came out, and sat in the highbacked stool closest to the hammock chair.

    Timegod's World Modesitt, L. E. 1992

  • In it was a cedar chest that held all her treasures and luck, a four-poster bed with two pillows and a flower-patterned comforter, a Laskin classical guitar in its case by the window with a Martin D-35 steel-string guitar balanced on top, a highbacked oak chair with a cushioned seat,

    Moonheart De Lint, Charles, 1951- 1990

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