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Conrad Joseph - Almayer's Folly: A Story Of An Eastern River
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... the parental bungalow, where the father grumbled all day at the stupidity of native gardeners, and the mother from the depths of her long easy-chair bewailed the lost glories of Amsterdam, where she had been brought up, and of her position as the daughter of a cigar dealer there. ...
Dickens Charles - The Battle Of Life
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... in the return of his old ward and pupil as if it had been a serious event. So he sat himself down in his easy-chair again, stretched out his slippered feet once more upon the rug, read the letter over and over a great many times, and talked it ...
Meredith George - Poems - Volume 3
[ POETRY]
... herds by their old private thirst, They scorn the brain''s wild search for virtuous light. OUTSIDE THE CROWD To sit on History in an easy chair, Still rivalling the wild hordes by whom ''twas writ! Sure, this beseems a race of laggard wit, Unwarned by those plain letters scrawled on ...
Eliot George - Adam Bede
[ ENGLISH FICTION]
... breakfast-table, and by the side of this breakfast-table was a group which would have made any room enticing. In the crimson damask easy-chair sat Mr. Irwine, with that radiant freshness which he always had when he came from his morning toilet; his finely formed plump white hand ...
Tolstoy Lev Nikolayevich - The Forged Coupon
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... his underlinen, his socks, his boots, his trousers-which were held up by elegant braces--and his waistcoat, he sat down coatless in an easy chair to rest after dressing, lit a cigarette, and began to think where he should go for a walk that morning--to the park or ...
Chekhov Anton - Ward No. 6
[ OTHER LITERATURES]
... with shame and anger, incoherently articulated some useless vow, put on his cap, and went out. Returning two hours later he flopped into an easy-chair, heaved a loud sigh, and said: "My honour is saved. Let us go, my friend; I do not care to remain another hour in ...
Kipling Rudyard - Stalky & Co.
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... that etiquette demanded. `Prefects' meeting?'' A cock of one wise eyebrow. `Not exactly, sir; just talking things over. Won't you take the easy chair?Thanks. Luxurious infants, you are.He dropped into Flint's big half-couch and puffed for a while in silence. `Well, since you're all here, I ...
Dyer Frank Lewis - Commerford Martin Thomas - Edison, His Life And Inventions
[ MISCELLANEOUS WRITINGS]
... lightly it may begin, turns invariably to large questions and deep problems, especially in the fields of discovery and invention; and Edison, in an easy-chair, will sit through the long evenings till one or two in the morning, pulling meditatively at his eyebrows, quoting something he has just read ...
Elizabeth - Elizabeth And Her German Garden
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... to induce us to learn, she played the tune to us on the piano. We remained untouched by its beauties, each buried in an easy-chair toasting our toes at the fire. Amongst those toes were those of the Man of Wrath, who sat peaceably reading a book and smoking. ...
Brontë Charlotte - The Professor
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... market, but that he would certainly be at home in the course of half an hour. "Being left to myself, I took the stuffed easy chair, covered with red morocco, which stood by the fireside, and while my eyes watched the flames dart from the glowing coals, and the cinders ...
Alger Horatio - The Errand Boy
[ FICTION]
... THE CONSPIRACY SUCCEEDS. In a handsome private parlor at the Continental Hotel a man of about forty-five years of age sat in an easy-chair. He was of middle height, rather dark complexion, and a pleasant expression. His right foot was bandaged, and rested on a chair. The morning ...

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