straw-bottomed

An oblong table stands in the middle of the room, the tablecloth is worn by the friction of gold, but the straw-bottomed chairs about it indicate an odd indifference to luxury in the men who will lose their lives here in the quest of the fortune that is to put luxury within their reach.

The Magic Skin 2007

The huge attic was icy-cold, and the furniture consisted of a couple of rickety straw-bottomed chairs, or rather frames of chairs.

A Woman of Thirty 2007

“Does the smell of the pipe annoy you?” he said, placing the dilapidated straw-bottomed chair for his lawyer.

Le Colonel Chabert 2007

“Does the smell of the pipe annoy you?” he said, placing the dilapidated straw-bottomed chair for his lawyer.

Le Colonel Chabert 2007

He filled out spaces with dim symbols of scenes; he caught the gleam of white statues at the base of which, with his letters out, he could tilt back a straw-bottomed chair.

The Ambassadors 2003

Eight straw-bottomed chairs painted brown and yellow surround the long Trotsky dining table, which is covered with a yellow-checked plastic table cloth trimmed with blue and pink flowers.

Trotsky's Ghost 2001

Eight straw-bottomed chairs painted brown and yellow surround the long Trotsky dining table, which is covered with a yellow-checked plastic table cloth trimmed with blue and pink flowers.

Trotsky's Ghost 2001

Two women, one fat and the other slim, sat on straw-bottomed chairs, knitting black wool.

Heart of Darkness 1960

To complete the picture, a ginger cat was purring on a straw-bottomed chair.

Maigret's Little Joke Simenon, Georges, 1903- 1960

He was sitting in a straw-bottomed chair, as we have so often seen him in the Lepre, calm, dignified in his deportment, and somewhat obese.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 22, August, 1859 Various