Monna Brigida was asleep at this moment, in a straight-backed arm-chair, a couple of yards off.
Straight-backed, stiff-legged, thick-necked, square-headed—and that ridiculously baleful eye!
"'Tisn't so easy switching with a straight-backed tender," said his little friend of the round-house, bustling by at a trot.
It was winter, and Farmer Perryman and I were seated in straight-backed arm-chairs on either side of his kitchen fire.
Stalwart, straight-backed Americans, warmly clothed and well fed, stand out like solid shapes among shadows.
