Demand for psychic comfort may be driving a resurgence of wing chairs, high-backed sofas and high-armed settees, which stood around showrooms like little upholstered isolation booths.

A high-backed sofa in royal blue sat in the center of the room covered, as women mysteriously cover sofas and beds, with pillows.

Leather chairs and high-backed sofas were arranged in groupings across its floor, screened from one another by bamboo in planter boxes.

She was holed up in the library one rainy afternoon, curled on an old high-backed sofa, reading, for the third time, a page in an old volume from the Count's shelves.

She sat down on a high-backed sofa, and Dalton sat beside her.

"No," Briana sat down gingerly on the edge of the flamboyantly curved, high-backed sofa.

"It's very funny," she said, "but it's all our old furniture, with the exception of the high-backed sofas in the front."

"Come," he said, moving toward the high-backed sofa in front of the hearth.

He sat beside her on the high-backed sofa while she sipped her drink, his mind brushing against hers.

A high-backed sofa and a pair of matching chairs were situated before the hearth.