"Seats" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the majority of London banks, was on the telephone, a fact which Psmith found a great convenience when securing seats at the theatre. Mike went to the box and took up ...
— Psmith in the City • P. G. Wodehouse
... Our seats, into which we strapped ourselves, were so arranged upon transverse bars that we would be upright whether the craft were ploughing her way downward into the bowels of the earth, or running horizontally along some great seam of coal, or rising ...
— At the Earth's Core • Edgar Rice Burroughs
... Miss Sarah Pugh and Mrs. Plumly, volunteered to accompany this poor slave mother to the court-house and to occupy seats by her side, while she should face her master, and boldly, on oath, contradict all his hard swearing. A better subject for the occasion than Jane, could not have been desired. She entered the court room veiled, and of course was not known by ...
— The Underground Railroad • William Still
... out in the middle, and carry the seats of the suction valves. Each of the latter communicates with a chamber, G G, in which debouches the pipe, H, communicating with the cylinder, A, of the freezer (Figs. 1, 2, ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 358, November 11, 1882 • Various
... has many willowy islands, and here and there a grey venerable town is seated in the opening of the high hills which contract the view, with crumbling towers, and walls that did good service in the times of the old English and French wars. There were fewer seats than might have been expected, though we passed three or four. One near the waterside, of some size, was in the ancient French style, with avenues cut in formal lines, mutilated statues, precise and treeless terraces, and other elaborated monstrosities. These places are not entirely without a pretension ...
— Recollections of Europe • J. Fenimore Cooper
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