How To Use Chaise In A Sentence

'I was told – I was assured –' said Bellamy, 'that a mad bull was running wild about the country; and I thought it, therefore, advisable to send for a chaise from the nearest inn, that I might return this young lady to her friends.' Camilla: or, A Picture of Youth
When a bourgeois of Boulogne takes the air, he goes in a one-horse chaise, which is here called cabriolet, and hires it for half-a-crown a day. Travels through France and Italy
The ride was long, but, with my saddle-bags and Lucy, a new mare my aunt had raised and given me, and clad in overalls, which we called tongs, I cared little for the mud, and often enough stopped to assist a chaise out of the deep holes, which made the roads dangerous for vehicles. Hugh Wynne, Free Quaker
I hate boys," she exploded, "they're the worry of our lives, Car'line and mine, -- they get into our garden, and steal all our fruit, and they hang on behind our chaise when we ride out, and keep me a-lookin 'round an' slashin 'the whip at 'em the whole livelong time; O my -- _boys! _ Five Little Peppers Abroad
White-faced and heavily rouged, she rests on a chaise-longue in front of a large ornate looking-glass.

Also visit Pere Lachaise, the cemetery -- fascinating!! What to Do in Paris / Que faire a Paris? - French Word-A-Day
She bought herself a new chaise, a light landaulet which would take her around her own garden, as well as other people's. My Darling Heriott: Henrietta Luxborough, Poetic Gardener and Irrepressible Exile
But they can also use a chaise longue. The Sun
But there should have been chaise longues instead of seats; then we could lie back and enjoy the night with a nice glass of malt whisky to hand.
Two hours later we run into each other on the beach: I'm in a restaurant, fully clothed; he is bronzed, lying on a chaise on the sand, in pink bathing trunks.
A very short trial convinced her that a curricle was the prettiest equipage in the world; the chaise and four wheeled off with some grandeur, to be sure, but it was a heavy and troublesome business, and she could not easily forget its having stopped two hours at Petty France. Northanger Abbey
Whether one sorts soiled clothes in a laundry, or reclines on a chaise-longue with thirty-eight small hand-embroidered and belaced pillows and a pink satin covering, or sits in a library and fusses over Adam Smith, no one of the three is in a position to pass judgment on the satisfaction or lack of satisfaction of the other two. Working With the Working Woman
The chaise can be lifted from its frame and placed on the floor as a rocker and comes in canvas, leather and cowhide upholstery options.
Hundreds of ancient artifacts were stolen, including manuscripts, gold crowns, crosses and chaises.
Four new buildings sit along on a pretty, sandy beach with many palm trees, lots of hammocks and chaises, a bar, and a full restaurant.
On the cover, Charlize sprawls on a white chaise lounge in front of a green screen "pool," bedecked in a black and white dress as she stares down the camera. Charlize Theron Falls Victim To Photoshopping On 'Los Angeles Confidential' Cover (PHOTOS)
They are relaxing in chaise lounges on the bottom of the floor, getting suntans through the crystal clear water. Lisa Paul Streitfeld: (R)evolution: Eros(ion) Flow at the Gershwin Hotel
Aimee looked over at the chaise and noticed Adam sitting.
Beside the master bedroom, with its four-poster and chaise longue, is a charming Moroccan-style bathroom with green and terracotta tiles.
This work, depicting a woman in a long robe sitting on a red chaise, could have been done by a star Matisse acolyte.
True, no one's swapping straight-backed seats for velvet chaises so movie patrons can prop themselves in the grape-peeling poses of the ancient Romans.
Mr Busk as usual, got out of the chaise and walked up the hill to save the horse - one of the chickens escaped, the boy alighted to capture it, and, possibly due to the noise of the chicken, the chaise horse bolted
As you can see from the pictures attached below the Calla Chair can be transformed in chaise lounge by suitables joints arranging the arms overall opening as well as different positions in very good comfort. Dragonfly Lounge and Swivel Chair Combination
Trimmed in pink ribbon, the sitting room's yellow sofa echoes the upholstery style of the bedroom's chaise longue.
Among these is a Victorian chaiselongue upholstered in rose red velvet in the main bedroom and a useful pine blanket box.
_ Mr. Marsh asked me to go and call the ostler up, and tell him to get a post chaise and four immediately. The Trial of Charles Random de Berenger, Sir Thomas Cochrane, commonly called Lord Cochrane, the Hon. Andrew Cochrane Johnstone, Richard Gathorne Butt, Ralph Sandom, Alexander M'Rae, John Peter Holloway, and Henry Lyte for A Conspiracy In the Court of
He was held in such high esteem by his peers that he was buried like a prince in the famous Père Lachaise cemetery, "the final resting place of France's glorious dead in all the arts. The Bad Boy of Montparnasse
'I thought you called the chaise yours,' said I. 'That's my way of speaking,' said the man; 'but the chaise is my master's, and a better master does not live. Lavengro; the Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest
Susan found Mimi reclining upon the chaise longue, which had been reupholstered to coordinate with her wedding picture. MISS MELVILLE REGRETS
In the center of the room was a seating arrangement with four chairs, three sofas, one chaise, and five cherry oak coffee tables, all centered around an amazing brick fireplace.
I'm heading back to Cornwall tomorrow, where I shall recline in a bejewelled chaise-longue in one of the many glittering salons and wow the courtiers with tales of the mysterious ways of the natives here in London Village.
She was charmed to find your opinion agreed with her own, and settled that we should go to town to-morrow morning: and a chaise is actually ordered to be here by one o'clock. Evelina: or, The History of a Young Lady's Entrance Into the World
Constructed of a tubular steel frame, machine-fabricated components and an exotic variety of leather finishes, the chaise longue epitomises aesthetic purity.
Made for legs that rarely leave the chaise longue, they cost 200 a pair. Times, Sunday Times
My private closet is a pale sage green, trimmed in alabaster white, with a delicate painted chaise covered in soft green damask with a beautiful tulipwood desk, and my bedroom is done in pinks and creams. Exit the Actress
A man in good health may put up with any thing; but I would advise every valetudinarian who travels this way, to provide his own chaise, mattrass, and bedlinnen, otherwise he will pass his time very uncomfortably. Travels through France and Italy
British designer Tom Dixon's $75,000 untitled extruded plastic chaise longue had wide gaps amid the crude weave. 'Objects' to Use, or Not
I remember seeing a gentleman who had the preceding day travelled two stages in a chaise with what he termed a bearable pain in his bowels; which when I saw him had ceased rather suddenly, and without a passage through him; his pulse was then weak, though not very quick; but as nothing which he swallowed would continue in his stomach many minutes, I concluded that the bowel was mortified; he died on the next day. Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life
As Eve and her friends lingered yet a moment there, watching the picturesque figure splashing barelegged in the shallow water, one of the droll little craft known as Joppa-chaises came up beside them, a fulvous face appeared at its helm, a tawny hand was extended, and they left The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 84, October, 1864
But still, I usually like to lounge about in a chaise longue or something while everyone else is doing cannonballs and jackknives and freakish flips off the diving board.
The French colony had managed, by sharing the expense, to purchase a cabriolet, a hooded one-horse chaise which held two people inside, and had a "dicky" behind for a servant. Juniper Hall: A Rendezvous of Certain Illustrious Personages during the French Revolution, Including Alexandre D'Arblay and Fanny Burney
The reading chaise is all put together and I have had the chance to try it out. The Chaise Verdict « So Many Books
Our little party now separated, and got into two post-chaises, each of which hold three persons, though it must be owned three cannot sit quite so commodiously in these chaises as two: the hire of a post-chaise is a shilling for every English mile. Travels in England in 1782
When Beekman purchased his coach from his agent in London, he was already the proud possessor of a chaise, a chariot, and a phaeton.
Relieved from the intenseness of her agony by this plan, and ever eager to pursue the first idea that arose, she flew to borrow from Mrs. Berlinton her post-chaise for the next morning, and to supplicate that Camilla
And finally, at the request of La Ross himself, those popular hitmakers of the day Roxy Music, where the reanimated corpse of Bryan Ferry will assume a louche posture on a chaise longue and deliver controversial bon mots over the sound of hunting bugles and his posho son picking off the riff-raff with a 12-bore shotgun. Jonathan Ross Made Kelly Osbourne Hysterical?
I entered the large sitting room where two lounge chairs, a chaise, and a leather sofa stood in a circle behind the beautiful black Yamaha baby grand.
About seven in the evening I got into a chaise on shore, and was driven through the nastiest city in the world, though at the same time one of the most populous, to a kind of coffee-house, which is very pleasantly situated on the brow of a hill, about a mile from the city, and hath a very fine prospect of the river Tajo from The Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon
Joshua jumped, he fell over the chaise and hit his head on the table on the way down.
Chance gives me an opportunity of forwarding this by New York; I write whilst my chaise is getting ready. The History of Emily Montague
The chaise appeared to have been dashed against a knotty projecture of the trunk, which was large enough for a person to be conveniently seated on it. NPR Topics: News
His body was conveyed to Paris, and now rests in the cemetery of Père la Chaise.
xiEnglish-speakers did the same thing to the French word longue when, in the early nineteenth century, they heard it as the unrelated word lounge to form the phrase chaise lounge. The English Is Coming!
Claire, with the ease of an accomplished dentist soothing the nerves of a patient, took me by the hand, led me gently upstairs and lulled me into relaxing, outstretched on the chaise longue.
Every inch of ceiling space had been used to suspend drying herbs, and there was a small fireplace in one corner, with several chairs and a chaise scattered around it.
Adrina, draped over the chaise in her morning room, graciously granted him an audience. TREASON KEEP
I am going to Temple's, and the chaise is at the door. The History of Emily Montague
“Help me,” said the poor fellow, as I drew nigh; but before I could reach the horses, they had turned rapidly round, one of the fore-wheels flew from its axle-tree, the chaise was overset, and the postillion flung violently from his seat upon the field. Of phrasebooks, battleship lieutenants and lightning-struck postillions
Tiptoeing out into the hall, she sought her way through a maze of guest rooms until she reached a large sitting room she recognized instantly because of the yellow striped chaises beneath the windows.
My three recommendations (all repeats of what others have said) are the Musee Cluny (the medieval museum), Pere Lachaise Cemetary (Abelard and Heloise's grave is the best), and the Catacombs. What to Do in Paris / Que faire a Paris? - French Word-A-Day
Do you want this chaise longue? Times, Sunday Times
In the evening a Hackney Chaisman drove his horse and chaise into the watering place in Barrack St,
They'll be doing all the heavy lifting while I lie around on a chaise in marabou slippers sipping champagne, occasionally tossing out tipsy asides while trying not to slosh my drink.
‘I'm sorry we're a bit underprepared,’ she fussed, ‘if you were here tomorrow there would be a chaise longue and everything.’
You might also like to look at Pere Lachaise cemetery and see Oscar Wilde's and Jim Morrison's graves. What to Do in Paris / Que faire a Paris? - French Word-A-Day
Mr. Serjeant Buzfuz paused in this place, to see whether the jury smiled at his joke; but as nobody took it but the greengrocer, whose sensitiveness on the subject was very probably occasioned by his having subjected a chaise – cart to the process in question on that identical morning, the learned Serjeant considered it advisable to undergo a slight relapse into the dismals before he concluded. The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club
A pair of old-fashioned twin beds, a vintage dressing table, and a chaise from her grandmother's days are attractive and utilitarian, and they fit perfectly with the house's architecture and era.
But still, I usually like to lounge about in a chaise lounge or something while everyone else is doing cannonballs and jackknives and freakish flips off the diving board.
Other images bask in incongruity, as when a hulking elk lounges in a wicker chaise at what might be a company picnic.
Among these is a Victorian chaiselongue upholstered in rose red velvet in the main bedroom and a useful pine blanket box.
They'll be doing all the heavy lifting while I lie around on a chaise in marabou slippers sipping champagne, occasionally tossing out tipsy asides while trying not to slosh my drink.
Madeline took a seat on the chaise as Mrs. Bernadette continued her sewing.
Now true as all this is, I never think myself impowered to excommunicate thereupon either the post-chaise, or its driver — nor do I take it into my head to swear by the living The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
A woman, reclining on a green chaise longue, wears a rose peignoir, its ostrich collar languorously open.
The innocuous act reminds me of the lipstick kisses on Oscar Wilde's memorial in PÃ¨re Lachaise Cemetery. Ronda Carman: Padlocks Declaring Your Love On The Pont Des Arts In Paris
She's added a chaise to her living room since the last time I fondled her belongings, so I had some alone time with it yesterday.
Items such as armless chairs, chaise lounges, sofas and ottomans are covered in removable, machine-washable covers.? Kashw?re, the Ultimate in Kash-ual Comfort
All of the furniture is white: ivory nubuck, as soft as suede, covers all the slip chairs, princess-style sofas, and chaise lounges. Kickboxing Geishas
The result of the interview must have been very satisfactory, for when Jos had reascended his post-chaise and had driven away to his hotel, Emmy embraced her father tenderly, appealing to him with an air of triumph, and asking the old man whether she did not always say that her brother had a good heart? Vanity Fair
And then, at the end of the room closest to the street, there was a chaise covered in a floral print, with an old framed lithograph of flowers hanging on the wall beside it, and a terrific collection of plants by the window.
Pull up a chaise and let me tell you a little about this newsletter's beginnings ... (photo taken in Nyons.) avant-propos (ahvahn pro poh) noun, masculine French Word-A-Day:
Mail-coaches and chaises were the only vehicles then in requisition, with the exception of the awkward gingles, buggies, and other gear of that nondescript class which were peculiar to the times, and principally confined to the metropolis. The Black Baronet; or, The Chronicles Of Ballytrain The Works of William Carleton, Volume One
Seated next to Ellen Tallman on one of Bob's long, low elegant chaises, they looked like the emperor and empress of some mythical nation of poetry.
SAVE You know you're properly grown up when your drawing room contains a chaise longue. Times, Sunday Times
I got out of my chaise and went to the prisoner, who was sitting on horseback, and called him, I believe, a rascal or a scoundrel, or something of that sort; he made me no reply
` ` Ye maun ken I was at the shirra's the day; for, God help me, I gang about a 'gates like the troubled spirit; and wha suld come whirling there in a post-chaise, but Monkbarns in an unco carfuffle --- now, it's no a little thing that will make his honour take a chaise and post-horse twa days rinnin'. '' The Antiquary
A short, plump man in a heavy smock over a dark jacket, sat in a one horse chaise and raised his hat.
When you're not lounging on a chaise or going for a dip in just your swimsuit, drape a pretty sarong around your hips, island style.
“Ye maun ken I was at the shirra’s the day; for, God help me, I gang about a’ gates like the troubled spirit; and wha suld come whirling there in a post-chaise, but Monkbarns in an unco carfuffle — now, it’s no a little thing that will make his honour take a chaise and post-horse twa days rinnin’.” The Antiquary
Perhaps it was well for his cattle that the axletree gave way and the chaise of course overturned, before they had travelled one-third part of the stage. The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle
Irish patronymic Shea was euphonized into Shays, as a set-off for the debasing of French _chaise_ into _shay_, was more dangerous than that of The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 121, November, 1867
Amongst the furniture is a large chaise longue, with hugely over-sized ram's horn scrolls.
It contained a comfortable chaise and two armchairs covered in chintz, and an escritoire against the wall, just as Amelia had recalled. ON A WICKED DAWN
While Meg sat herself down on a chaise, Celia opened the curtains and let the morning's sun enter and brighten the room.
I heard by a waggoner that there was a person who he saw follow the chaise, he described him, and by that means I found him out
When Lamarck died he was buried in a pauper's grave (his bones were later dug up and scattered in the catacombs under Paris); Cuvier was given a large tomb in Père Lachaise cemetery. A Conversation with Rebecca Stott about The Coral Thief
What are called extraordinaries, or post-chaises, are little wicker carts, uncovered, with moveable benches or forms in them, execrable in every respect. Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Robert Southey
The pompous procession therefore wended its way towards P è re - la - Chaise from the Faubourg Saint - Honor é .
Susan found Mimi reclining upon the chaise longue, which had been reupholstered to coordinate with her wedding picture. MISS MELVILLE REGRETS
When Beekman purchased his coach from his agent in London, he was already the proud possessor of a chaise, a chariot, and a phaeton.
I have lately had the epidemical distemper; I don't mean poverty, but that cold which they call the influenza, and which made its first appearance in London; [52] whether it came to Scotland in the wagon, or travelled with a companion in a post-chaise, is quite uncertain. Boswell's Correspondence with the Honourable Andrew Erskine, and His Journal of a Tour to Corsica
A waggon locked wheels for a moment and ripped a long splinter from the chaise. The War of The Worlds by H. G. Wells: Part 4 | Solar Flare: Science Fiction News
The electroluminescent display lights up, and as a user interacts with the chaise lounge, its digital heart and lungs begin to beat and breathe, as if bringing the chair to life. High-Tech Avant-Garde in Design and Architecture
Spend an afternoon wandering through Pere Lachaise cemetery. What to Do in Paris / Que faire a Paris? - French Word-A-Day
Near the left-hand corner of the grove which surrounded the dingle, and about ten yards from the fire-ball, I perceived a chaise, with a postillion on the box, who was making efforts, apparently useless, to control his horses, which were kicking and plunging in the highest degree of excitement. 16 posts from March 2010
Those who have investigated with perhaps "an excess" -- as Wordsworth would say -- "of scrupulosity" all the details of Pickwickian topography are inclined to believe that the wooden bridge, upon which the chaise hired by the Club to make the journey from Rochester to Dingley Dell came hopelessly to grief, was Aylesford Bridge, transmuted for the nonce from Kentish ragstone into timber. Dickens-Land
_ Only one; I called the coachman, and the waterman opened the coach door, and I opened the chaise door. The Trial of Charles Random de Berenger, Sir Thomas Cochrane, commonly called Lord Cochrane, the Hon. Andrew Cochrane Johnstone, Richard Gathorne Butt, Ralph Sandom, Alexander M'Rae, John Peter Holloway, and Henry Lyte for A Conspiracy In the Court of
Two hours later we run into each other on the beach: I'm in a restaurant, fully clothed; he is bronzed, lying on a chaise on the sand, in pink bathing trunks.
Then, he hauled himself up onto the seat of a chaise, jumped down the other side onto the road, and raced after the child.
He was interred in the burial-ground of Père la Chaise, between the tombs of Molière and La The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 346, December 13, 1828
The most telling 'reunion', however, occurs elsewhere, and it is the beginning of a relationship: that of Salomon Lachaise and Max. William Brodrick discusses The 6th Lamentation
In the cemetery of Pere – Lachaise, in the vicinity of the common grave, far from the elegant quarter of that city of sepulchres, far from all the tombs of fancy which display in the presence of eternity all the hideous fashions of death, in a deserted corner, beside an old wall, beneath a great yew tree over which climbs the wild convolvulus, amid dandelions and mosses, there lies a stone. Les Miserables
Ye maun ken I was at the shirra's the day; for, God help me, I gang about a 'gates like the troubled spirit; and wha suld come whirling there in a post-chaise, but Monkbarns in an unco carfuffle -- now, it's no a little thing that will make his honour take a chaise and post-horse twa days rinnin'. The Antiquary — Volume 01
A feluca is large enough to take in a post-chaise; and there is a tilt over the stern sheets, where the passengers sit, to protect them from the rain: between the seats one person may lie commodiously upon a mattress, which is commonly supplied by the patron. Travels through France and Italy
Several soothsaying chaises, looking into the future ... in Ste. French Word-A-Day:
I can recommend chaise longues or sofa beds, but cannot source a left-hand facing chaise that converts into a sofa bed - the idea being that a chaise is, to some extent, used as a day bed, anyway.
He unfalteringly grabbed my hands and helped me up off the chaise.
Oh! but the gentlemen will have Mr. Bingley's chaise to go to Meryton; and the Hursts have no horses to theirs.
To pass a second night at an inn, seemed, even in the calculations of her own harassed faculties, utterly improper; and thus, driven to extremity, she forced herself to order a chaise for home; though with a repugnance to so compulsatory a meeting, that made her wish to be carried in it a corpse. Camilla
The White Terror knew no bounds. At Pere Lachaise Cemetery, at a dozen other points, thousands of Communards were herded together and shot.
Susan found Mimi reclining upon the chaise longue, which had been reupholstered to coordinate with her wedding picture. MISS MELVILLE REGRETS
Susan found Mimi reclining upon the chaise longue, which had been reupholstered to coordinate with her wedding picture. MISS MELVILLE REGRETS
I arrange myself on the chaise longue and I try to keep still. Times, Sunday Times
She quitted the apartment with a flood of tears, and coming, found the breakfast ready, and soon after a chaise at the gate; Joseph conveyed her portmantua and box to the carriage; Albert stared a little at the latter, but said nothing. The Castle of Wolfenbach
The ubiquitously useful Benjamin Franklin started this by traveling from Boston to Philadelphia in a chaise with a kind of cyclometer of his own invention attached to it that measured the miles as he rode. Angel in the Whirlwind
Mr. Marsh asked me to go and call the ostler up, and to tell him to get a post-chaise and four immediately. The Trial of Charles Random de Berenger, Sir Thomas Cochrane, commonly called Lord Cochrane, the Hon. Andrew Cochrane Johnstone, Richard Gathorne Butt, Ralph Sandom, Alexander M'Rae, John Peter Holloway, and Henry Lyte for A Conspiracy In the Court of
I took a more feminine approach and lay on the chaise beside his chair, crossing my legs at the ankles and placing my hands behind my head.
As a son of Mr Hurrill's of Brandon Hall, Essex (probably Brundon Hall) was returning from Hedingham in a single horse chaise with his two sisters the horse proved unruly
The other furniture was a couple of wing chairs a single-ended Victorian chaise-longue and a fruitwood dressing-table.
Susan found Mimi reclining upon the chaise longue, which had been reupholstered to coordinate with her wedding picture. MISS MELVILLE REGRETS
A chaise longue is accompanied by a cube that can be a footrest, a table or seating extension.
I like the winter carriages immensely; the open carriole is a kind of one-horse chaise, the covered one a chariot, set on a sledge to run on the ice; we have not yet had snow enough to use them, but The History of Emily Montague
The roof is a multileveled outdoor patio with dipping pool, shower with a whimsical stained-glass cupola, dining area (a lovely place for breakfast or dinner by candlelight), a fireplace, chaise longues and a brightly-colored couch corner with a Bedouin tent. Being a Paying Guest of the King
As Salomon Lachaise bitterly observes, Schwermann was exactly what he appeared to be. William Brodrick discusses The 6th Lamentation
For some relaxation and beauty go to the Luxembourg Gardens and the Pere Lachaise cemetary (many famous French authors, artists, composers, musicians are buried there as well as our infamous Jim Morrison.) What to Do in Paris / Que faire a Paris? - French Word-A-Day
Two all-weather-wicker chaises face each other under the main gable. A riverfront retreat, built with the long view
Taking her navy blue suit down from the rail, she spread it across the chaise longue before opening the drawer of the tallboy. FINAL RESORT
I have been in agonies about them all! and I could not prevail – I could not – this gentleman said the risk was so great – he would not suffer me – but he has sent for a chaise, though I told him I had a thousand times rather hazard my life amongst them, and with them, than save it alone! ' Camilla: or, A Picture of Youth
In the pool area there is a red wood deck with matching bed chaises that Carmen actually had redone for Dave's birthday.
If more furniture is needed, consider a cozy upholstered chair and ottoman or chaise, and create a reading nook in one corner.
I'm heading back to Cornwall tomorrow, where I shall recline in a bejewelled chaise-longue in one of the many glittering salons and wow the courtiers with tales of the mysterious ways of the natives here in London Village.
She bought herself a new chaise, a light landaulet which would take her around her own garden, as well as other people's. My Darling Heriott: Henrietta Luxborough, Poetic Gardener and Irrepressible Exile
Once I had a very young copy editor change the term chaise longue, in a text of mine, to the commonly used "chaise lounge. The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
The Fifties leather chaise longue was bought in Brussels. Times, Sunday Times

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