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Example sentences for "chaise"

Lexicographically close words:
chairing; chairman; chairmanship; chairmen; chairs; chaises; chakra; chal; chalaza; chalcedonic
  1. Before the chaise reached the steps, a hand from its window had seized the handle, the door was thrown open, and William Feltram jumped out.

  2. Pere de la Chaise respects you and honours you, and only speaks of you in such terms.

  3. I wrote to Pere de la Chaise myself, and instead of a mere abbey, we asked for a bishopric for him.

  4. Ben was delighted, and proved himself so brisk and handy that the roomy chaise stood at the door in a surprisingly short time, with a smiling little ostler at Duke's head when the Squire came out.

  5. We got into the carriage, and were a mile from the church, when my unlucky or lucky brother stopped the chaise by force--through what means he had obtained knowledge of my little trick, I never have been able to learn.

  6. Matters being thus arranged to the satisfaction of both parties, the post-chaise was ordered, and speedily appeared at the door of Mr. Bindloose's mansion.

  7. I believe the post-chaise is ready by this.

  8. There be two gentlemen in a post-chaise at the door.

  9. After Andy had driven some time, he turned round and spoke to Mr. Furlong, through the pane of glass with which the front window-frame of the chaise was not furnished.

  10. Then the report arrived of the post-chaise being upset in the river.

  11. The horses got home without the post-chaise, and the other post-chaise and pair got home without a postilion, so that Owny Doyle was roused from his bed by the neighing of the horses at the gate of the inn.

  12. But no post-chaise will float," said Furlong, regularly arguing against Dick's mendacious absurdity.

  13. It was a post-chaise not even set straight upon the ground, but tilted over, as if it had fallen out of a balloon.

  14. It was a post-chaise that had been a long time in those decayed circumstances, and against which scarlet beans were trained.

  15. In the wonder of this discovery, I walked round and round the post-chaise many times, and sat down by the post-chaise, waiting for further elucidation.

  16. My mind now began to misgive me that the disappointed coach-maker had sent me on a wild-goose errand, and that there was no post- chaise in those parts.

  17. It was a post-chaise taken off its axletree and wheels, and plumped down on the clayey soil among a ragged growth of vegetables.

  18. For, there I saw, surely, the poorest superannuated post-chaise left on earth.

  19. I suppose there never was yet in this world a young man to whom the future did not appeal more urgently than the present, or who would not rather undertake an adventure without a shilling to his name than in his post-chaise and four.

  20. She came to our convent a week ago in a chaise and pair.

  21. His youngest brother William, distinctly remembered my grandfather's playing with him, and bantering him when a little child, and also the September morning when with his father and mother he rode over in a chaise to Capt.

  22. The chaise door was shut, and they went on, Dora and Mary shocked infinitely, and hardly able to speak of what they had seen.

  23. The chaise was stayed, But yet was not allowed To drive up to the door, lest all Should say that she was proud.

  24. So a chaise was ordered, and they went in state, and had a long, dull evening, chiefly enlivened by the Miss Selbys and Dora playing on the piano.

  25. A post-chaise from Wadebridge conveyed Judith, Miss Trevisa, Uncle Zachie, and Jamie from Polzeath.

  26. The chaise was ordered out, and we set off.

  27. I dismissed the chaise at the upper end of the town, and walked down to Mrs. St. Felix's.

  28. Here we are at last, and now for a chaise to Deal.

  29. After dinner a chaise was ordered, and Lady O'Connor and I returned to Greenwich, arriving there after dark.

  30. They both set out together in a post-chaise for London.

  31. The place was curiously still, for the noise of carts and footsteps could never penetrate into that silent court, and it must have been many years since chaise or horseman clattered across its now mossy pavé.

  32. It certainly jumped through the chaise to get away from us.

  33. As soon as I got it, I got into the chaise and got to Canterbury by three, and about tea-time, I got home.

  34. When I got to Canterbury, I got a chaise for town, but I got wet before I got to Canterbury; and I have got such a cold as I shall not be able to get rid of in a hurry.

  35. Mr. Fontaine had taken me with him in his chaise for a pastoral call at quite the other end of his parish, and as we returned, we were caught in a sudden storm of rain.

  36. A crowd of wailing negroes surrounded the chaise when we stopped, and I would have got out, but Mr. Fontaine held me firmly in my seat.

  37. It was not an unusual sight to see the parson riding home from some great dinner tied fast in his chaise to keep him from falling out, as the result of over-indulgence in the planter's red wine.

  38. That is my finest triumph; it will divert me in my post-chaise as I traverse the Languedoc plains.

  39. Some post-horses were arriving in the courtyard with a dilapidated chaise which had been hired at a neighbouring station.

  40. A post-chaise had come to pick him up at midnight.

  41. But he had not recovered his wonted cheer of mind when the chaise drew up at a pair of time-worn fluted piers, with the gable of an old-fashioned dwelling-house overlooking the road at one side.

  42. To-morrow evening, with a chaise and pair for Aukworth.

  43. It was now dark, and Sir Jekyl loitered under the lamplight of his chaise for a while, in the hope that Mr. Strangways would turn up.

  44. Is Tommy Chapman, the apothecary's son of Westgate, alive yet, and does he remember my wagging my head to him as our chaise whirled by?

  45. There he is at last: with his mouth full of buttered toast, and I bob my head to him a hundred times out of the chaise window.

  46. Law respectfully declined the money, and set out for Brussels in a post-chaise belonging to Madame de Prie, the mistress of the Duke of Bourbon, escorted by six horse-guards.

  47. Under the chaise top was hunched an old man, gaunt but huge of frame, his knees almost to his chin.

  48. The man under the chaise top pricked up his ears and cast a significant look at the plug hat on the platform.

  49. An old chaise top was fastened by strings and wire over a seat in front.

  50. He walked around the outfit with an inquisitive sniffing of his nose and a crinkling of eyebrows, and at last set himself before the man of the chaise top, his knuckles on his hips.

  51. She was driving in a hired chaise to Hilchester railway-station.

  52. Just as she was in the act of doing so the chaise drew up at the front door, a tall soldierly man got out, he came into the porch, and just as he was about to ring the bell, his eyes met those of Florence.

  53. Bo heard the sound of wheels, and looking out saw the pony chaise at the door, Amy gave her mother a fervent good-bye kiss, then all got into the chaise.

  54. The pony chaise was in demand every afternoon, and the children always invited a few of their friends to enjoy a drive with them.

  55. A chaise was confiscated from Reuben Brown, and another from John Beaton.

  56. Their flight commenced in a chaise driven by Jonas Clarke, son of the minister.


  57. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "chaise" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.