There was a wide open hearth, in front of which toasted a marmalade cat and three shabby armchairs.

Sam barely gave Charlie's bric-a-brac a glance as he lowered himself into the shabby horsehair armchair to which his host pointed him.

I was struck by the cheerlessness of it, but she did not seem to notice anything, and made me sit down in a shabby armchair.

Settling himself in one of the big, shabby armchairs, Tug gazed suspiciously at the television screen and waited for a picture to appear.

Exhausted, she slumped into the shabby armchair, but was soon up, re-circling the room.

Jordan Mennell sits in the shabby armchair reading his paper.

James was lying back in his shabby old armchair, smoking a pipe.

I had insisted that Helen sleep in my bed while I sat up in the shabby armchair.

Rob sat down in a shabby green armchair, a relic of grad school days.

A pair of shabby armchairs stood near the old-fashioned black stove against one wall of the room.