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1  May profane the great chair, or the porridge of plums.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVII
2  The unfortunate Rebecca was conducted to the black chair placed near the pile.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XLIII
3  To each of these chairs was added a footstool, curiously carved and inlaid with ivory, which mark of distinction was peculiar to them.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER III
4  A short boar-spear, with a broad and bright steel head, also reclined against the back of his chair, which served him, when he walked abroad, for the purposes of a staff or of a weapon, as chance might require.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER III
5  Over the lower range of table, the roof, as we have noticed, had no covering; the rough plastered walls were left bare, and the rude earthen floor was uncarpeted; the board was uncovered by a cloth, and rude massive benches supplied the place of chairs.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER III
6  One grisly old wolf-dog alone, with the liberty of an indulged favourite, had planted himself close by the chair of state, and occasionally ventured to solicit notice by putting his large hairy head upon his master's knee, or pushing his nose into his hand.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER III
7  The herald went to the chair in which Rebecca was seated, and Bois-Guilbert suddenly turning his horse's head toward that end of the lists, in spite of hints on either side from Malvoisin and Mont-Fitchet, was by the side of Rebecca's chair as soon as the herald.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XLIII
8  Here sat Wamba, with a small table before him, his heels tucked up against the bar of the chair, his cheeks sucked up so as to make his jaws resemble a pair of nut-crackers, and his eyes half-shut, yet watching with alertness every opportunity to exercise his licensed foolery.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IV
9  In an apartment, small indeed, but richly furnished with decorations of an Oriental taste, Rebecca was seated on a heap of embroidered cushions, which, piled along a low platform that surrounded the chamber, served, like the estrada of the Spaniards, instead of chairs and stools.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER X
10  To his great surprise he found himself in a room magnificently furnished, but having cushions instead of chairs to rest upon, and in other respects partaking so much of Oriental costume, that he began to doubt whether he had not, during his sleep, been transported back again to the land of Palestine.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
11  Massive chairs and settles of carved oak were placed upon the dais, and over these seats and the more elevated table was fastened a canopy of cloth, which served in some degree to protect the dignitaries who occupied that distinguished station from the weather, and especially from the rain, which in some places found its way through the ill-constructed roof.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER III