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"Swivel chair" Quotes from Famous Books

... lightly before Annie and Mrs. Munger, and pushed open the ground-glass door of his office for them. It was like a bank parlour, except for Mrs. Gerrish sitting in her husband's leather-cushioned swivel chair, with her last-born in her lap; she greeted the others ...

— Annie Kilburn - A Novel • W. D. Howells

... Tutt & Tutt wheeled his swivel chair to the window and crossing his congress boots upon the sill gazed contemplatively ...

— By Advice of Counsel • Arthur Train

... swivel chair accommodated them comfortably and Rosemary remained in her brother's lap quietly, her eyes downcast. He watched her silently. At last ...

— Rosemary • Josephine Lawrence

... through one of the doorways, calling out to something that is following him. I lean over to see if he has brought his favourite dog or domestic cat, when a little infant in modernised Dutch costume comes in waddling laughingly after her parent. Another Member turns round on his swivel chair as his page-boy runs up to him, shakes him heartily by the hand, tosses him on his foot and gives him a "ride-a-cock-horse." Oh, you English sticklers for etiquette! What would you say if Mr. Labouchere came in ...

— The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol 2 (of 2) • Harry Furniss

... Jenkins sat tipped back in a swivel chair, his left arm resting on his desk, the right free as though it had been gesturing. Reedy had rather large eyes, a plump, smooth face that was two shades redder than pink and one shade pinker than red. He always looked as though he had just shaved, and a long wisp of very black ...

— The Desert Fiddler • William H. Hamby