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  • s  having a high back
    a high-backed sofa

  • Scanning the bench, an inquisitive eye moving to the right, comes to rest upon a large man in the last high-backed chair.
  • Next day, in full-bottomed wig, black breeches, silver-buttoned jacket, black silk hose and silver-buckled slippers, Shakes took his place in the high-backed, canopied Speaker's .
  • Accompanying him from Switzerland was his dapper, diplomatic secretary Sylwin Strakacz, his valet and a curious, high-backed, fringed, 50-pound piano stool which is as .
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  • Can Diamond Dallas Page Save Wrestling's Walking Dead?
    Diamond Dallas Page needs to make some phone calls. He's sitting in a high-backed chair at the head of a gigantic, cherry-wood table in the dining room of his home in Smyrna, Ga. He calls this his Sons of Anarchy room, because the table reminds him of the one the bikers in the television show sit around when they discuss business in their clubhouse. His laptop and phone sit in front of him, and ...
    July 24, 2013 - Deadspin
Quotes

  • Nicholas Kulish in Los Angeles Times
    For weeks, Jimmy had worried only about himself with an "egotism worth noting in a textbook somewhere," writes Kulish. "Now, he threw up, puked his guts out under the tires of a high-backed Humvee, more scared than he'd ever been. Fear for...

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