rocking-chairs

Occasionally, when we stop to change, some two or three half - drunken loafers will come loitering out with their hands in their pockets, or will be seen kicking their heels in rocking-chairs, or lounging on the window-sill, or sitting on a rail within the colonnade: they have not often anything to say though, either to us or to each other, but sit there idly staring at the coach and horses.

American Notes for General Circulation 2007

Also they were very rich, had rocking-chairs, and put their feet at unusual altitudes, and they chewed tobacco, gum, and other substances, with untiring industry.

The War in the Air Herbert George 2006

Stretched upon sofas or cradled in rocking-chairs, they will enjoy in silence the marvellous adventures which the flexible tube will conduct to ears dilated with interest.

The End of Books 2006

We giggled about being Mr and Mrs, teased each other about being boring old marrieds and pictured ourselves together in our rocking-chairs.

John Lennon, Cynthia 2005

She sat down in one of the rocking-chairs, while Hurstwood waited for the boy, who soon knocked.

Sister Carrie 2004

That young woman invariably put one of the rocking-chairs in the corner, and Carrie as regularly moved it out.

Sister Carrie 2004

A savorless people, gulping tasteless food, and sitting afterward, coatless and thoughtless, in rocking-chairs prickly with inane decorations, listening to mechanical music, saying mechanical things about the excellence of Ford automobiles, and viewing themselves as the greatest race in the world.

Main Street 2004

Here was clustered the rocking-chairs, and sofas, and work-tables, and very often the cradle of the family.

Harry Heathcote of Gangoil 2004

For there are no rocking-chairs in Triana, as there were none in our backwoods, and the little maids tilted to and fro on the fore legs and hind legs of their chairs and lulled their charges to sleep with seismic joltings.

Familiar Spanish Travels 2004

A large, soft, green, plush-covered couch occupied one corner, and several rocking-chairs were set about.

Sister Carrie 2004