seatless

Updated: June 23, 2025

At the bottom of this descent was a dilapidated house, where Mother Fetu lived in an attic lighted by a round window, and furnished with a wretched bed, a rickety table, and a seatless chair. "Oh! my good lady, my good lady!" she moaned out, directly she saw Helene enter. The old woman was in bed.

Émile Zola - A Love Episode

Pull the straw off that chair!" His daughter did not understand. He seized the chair, and with one kick he rendered it seatless. His leg passed through it. As he withdrew his leg, he asked his daughter: "Is it cold?" "Very cold. It is snowing." The father turned towards the younger girl who sat on the bed near the window, and shouted to her in a thundering voice:

Victor Hugo - Les Misérables