"Rocking chair" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... his mother's lap and she moved her rocking chair near the window so that she could see the postman when he came down the street. She was expecting a ...
— Sunny Boy and His Playmates • Ramy Allison White
... the parlor. She was sitting in a rocking chair which "squeaked"—her smartly shod foot resting on a pale blue rose—the pale blue rose being in the carpet. The carpet also squeaked—or the papers underneath it did. On the table beside her was a large and ornate Bible, an equally splendid album, ...
— The Visioning • Susan Glaspell
... The house had been constructed of logs and later improved with a frame addition, unpainted, weather stained, covered with vines. A cozy little porch, with wide eaves and a windbreak of vines, faced the south. A rude homemade rocking chair sat on the porch; a child's wooden toys also attested to a carpenter's skill Pan well remembered. He heard a child singing, then ...
— Valley of Wild Horses • Zane Grey
... rise, dear," said my mother, going forward and affectionately kissing a sick lady who sat in a rocking chair. "You look better than when I saw you before. Do ...
— The Old Castle and Other Stories • Anonymous
... those latitudes. Whether the sun shone or whether it was gloomy, black, and precursive of a thunder-storm, an European had only to sit down in a rocking chair, or swing in a hammock, and he went off into a delicious slumber ...
— Middy and Ensign • G. Manville Fenn
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