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  • A rockingchair by the window where an old woman sat slumped.

    No Country For Old Men McCarthy, Cormac, 1933- 2005

  • Having passionately celebrated her reunion with her offspring, and excused herself in cryptic language for the lateness of her return, Nettie restored the baby to the crib and shyly invited Miss Bart to the rockingchair near the stove.

    The House of Mirth Edith Wharton 1987

  • Having passionately celebrated her reunion with her offspring, and excused herself in cryptic language for the lateness of her return, Nettie restored the baby to the crib and shyly invited Miss Bart to the rockingchair near the stove.

    The House of Mirth Edith Wharton 1987

  • Having passionately celebrated her reunion with her offspring, and excused herself in cryptic language for the lateness of her return, Nettie restored the baby to the crib and shyly invited Miss Bart to the rockingchair near the stove.

    The House of Mirth Edith Wharton 1987

  • Susan drained the potatoes and then put them all back in the empty pot to dry on the side of the range while Lucy was helping Mrs Beaver to dish up the trout, so that in a very few minutes everyone was drawing up their stools (it was all three-legged stools in the Beavers 'house except for Mrs Beaver's own special rockingchair beside the fire) and preparing to enjoy themselves.

    The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe Lewis, C. S. 1950

  • Mrs. Graham directed the lawyer to a reed rockingchair and herself sat down on another reed-rest of the armchair variety.

    Campfire Girls at Twin Lakes The Quest of a Summer Vacation Stella M. Francis

  • Behind a low table, in a rockingchair, sat a large, fullbosomed woman with the same dead hair and weatherbeaten cheeks, the only difference being that the blondness of her hair was mitigated by gray and in her face were the tiny broken red lines which no doubt in time would come to Winifred.

    Greener Than You Think Ward Moore 1940

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