steamer-chair

Your face was as calm and peaceful as though you were reclining in a steamer-chair.

Chapter 15 2010

Between squalls the Flibberty-Gibbet ran in to anchorage, and her skipper, Pete Oleson (brother to the Oleson of the Jessie), ancient, grizzled, wild-eyed, emaciated by fever, dragged his weary frame up the veranda steps and collapsed in a steamer-chair.

Chapter 10 2010

"I'm burying four a day," Sheldon answered, as he bent over from the steamer-chair and inserted the thermometer under his partner's tongue.

Chapter 3 2010

Sheldon tottered to his feet at last, and half-fell into the steamer-chair.

Chapter 3 2010

He knew he was unable to rise up and go down the path to meet the newcomers, so he lay back in the steamer-chair, and watched for ages while they cared for the boat.

Chapter 4 2010

When Sheldon came up on the veranda, he found Joan collapsed on the steamer-chair and in tears.

Chapter 7 2010

She was too occupied in glimpsing the vision of the one lone white man as she had first seen him, helpless from fever, a collapsed wraith in a steamer-chair, who, up to the last heart-beat, by some strange alchemy of race, was pledged to mastery.

Chapter 7 2010

Captain Auckland played the billiards first, and it was not until he was comfortably seated in a steamer-chair, his second whisky securely in his hand, that he let off his bomb.

Chapter 16 2010

Springing from the steamer-chair in which he had been lounging while waiting for breakfast, he clapped his hands for the house-boys; and, while listening to her, he was buckling on his cartridge-belt and running the mechanism of his automatic pistol.

Chapter 22 2010

Sheldon lay in the steamer-chair and watched the Jessie's whale - boat pull in for the beach.

Chapter 3 2010