bow-backed

He realizes, as James puts it, that something greater than politics explains the world: "The figures on the chessboard were still the passions and jealousies and superstitions and stupidities of man, and thus positioned with regard to each other, at any given moment, could be of interest only to the grim invisible fates who played the game—who sat, through the ages, bow-backed over the table."

To the Barricades! Revolutionaries in Novels Joseph Epstein 2011

I sat there in that bow-backed chair, surrounded by boxes and instruments, looking crazy until Francis touched my hand.

THE EXORSISTAH CLAUDIA MAIR BURNEY 2008

I sat there in that bow-backed chair, surrounded by boxes and instruments, looking crazy until Francis touched my hand.

THE EXORSISTAH CLAUDIA MAIR BURNEY 2008

Pointing to the table along the side wall, he moved past her and settled into one of the bow-backed Windsor chairs.

SEASONS OF GOLD STEF ANN HOLM 1992

The path twisted, and before them was a scene lit red with flames: a gently bow-backed stone bridge across the creek bristled with the enemy's advance.

War for the Oaks Bull, Emma, 1954- 1987

I was shown straight into his study, and there I found him, a huge, bow-backed man with a smoky skin and a straggling gray beard, seated behind his littered desk.

Freedom When? Crane, Fred A. 1976

_Teniente_, as he gazed reflectively into the street, where a dozen naked children, squatting in the sand, disputed the freedom of the highway with a score of lean dogs and bow-backed pigs of voracious appetites.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 30, April, 1860 Various

I was shown straight into his study, and there I found him, a huge, bow-backed man with a smoky skin and a straggling gray beard, seated behind his littered desk.

The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1927

I was shown straight into his study, and there I found him, a huge, bow-backed man with a smoky skin and a straggling gray beard, seated behind his littered desk.

The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1927

I was shown straight into his study, and there I found him, a huge, bow-backed man with a smoky skin and a straggling gray beard, seated behind his littered desk.

The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1927