Arm-chair

The detective seated himself in the arm-chair, and puffed complacently at his cigar.

I noticed a tall, thin, angular man seated in an arm-chair by the fire.

The Professor closed the door carefully behind us, motioned me into an arm-chair, and pushed a cigar-box under my nose.

I have always held, too, that pistol practice should be distinctly an open-air pastime; and when Holmes, in one of his queer humours, would sit in an arm-chair with his hair-trigger and a hundred Boxer cartridges, and proceed to adorn the opposite wall with a patriotic V. R. done in bullet-pocks, I felt strongly that neither the atmosphere nor the appearance of our room was improved by it.

If the art of the detective began and ended in reasoning from an arm-chair, my brother would be the greatest criminal agent that ever lived.

A great bargain also had been the excellent Axminster carpet which covered the floor; as, again, the arm-chair in which Bunting now sat forward, staring into the dull, small fire.