Sentence examples for old armchair from inspiring English sources

"The old armchair theater," he called it.

So I sat on the top floor in a room with nothing but piles of books and an old armchair.

A niche, moreover, that did not yet exist — aspirational, affluent, with upper-crust British cachet, one later described as "old armchair British".

In 1913 Conway directed his first feature-length film, The Old Armchair, and by 1917 he was making as many as eight movies a year.

European wood-joinery furniture was all the rage: cover a plain old armchair with African beaded fabric, and you had a royal throne.

Taking patriarchal pride of place in an old armchair kitted out with a set of DIY wheels, Neilson is the old actor demanding respect where none is deserved.

The cafe's a lovely place run by two sisters, with cats dozing on the old armchairs.

Another window looks into the bar – old armchairs by a fire, two chaps leaning against polished wood, the better to hear the barman.

The best guests were removed to a small red salon by the balcony, a safe distance from the "Arabo-Byzantine clutter" of the apartment: old armchairs and folding chairs, trinkets from India and China, ugly vases, and a small library composed, a friend reported, of "unmentionable novels by unknown and forgotten writers".

Its crime is to have passed an ordinance banning a treasured southern practice: assigning to the porch a decrepit couch or recliner on which to doze in a cooling breeze or watch the world go by.The Wilson city fathers think the battered old armchairs and sofas make the place look a mess, and prefer smart furniture made for the purpose.

He engages with the regulars with a humble friendliness, imbuing the place with a charm that goes beyond its scattered decor of hanging lobster traps and old armchairs.