fainting couch造句

• It was an age of repressive morality and the fainting couch.
• Will Bob Dole get the vapors and collapse on a fainting couch?
• Within the embrace of the bookshelf walls stands a Victorian fainting couch.
• But nevertheless that's what it's been called : the fainting couch.
• For the last 30 pages, you'd best have a Victorian fainting couch nearby.
• The thought of returning to the murky depths of the Zaccaro finances sends me to my fainting couch.
• Meanwhile, a fainting couch, once found in a boudoir, might be the living room centerpiece.
• If we hadn't already given away the fainting couch, I might have used it right then!
• An old-fashioned ladies'" fainting couch " has been reupholstered in a western-themed print.
• But now the froufrou era, redolent of red-velvet fainting couches and prim, corseted ladies, captured his fancy.
• With its Arp-like biomorphic shell, its asymmetrical curves, this is the modern equivalent of a Victorian fainting couch.
• Chaise longue : A long chair with a gracefully curved back, often referred to as a " fainting couch ."
• Among the pieces we let go was a low, daybed kind of affair that I've always heard spoken of as the fainting couch.
• But as she walked through her house showing off her estate sale treasures, everything from Hummel figurines to a fainting couch, she grew more and more animated.
• Legend says Goya painted a young wife reclining naked upon a fainting couch and then quickly created a clothed version when her husband showed up at the studio unexpectedly.
• We may be teetering near a recession, but that's no reason not to get your ferret a Santa suit or your fox terrier a fainting couch.
• The news was enough to send Southern belles to their fainting couches : Charleston topped a list of America's best-mannered cities along with _ now get this _ New York.
• Jefferson may be the only one to boast a history museum that features antique obstetrical instruments, arrowheads, an ancient computer, blackface dolls, Victorian fainting couches and a lurid painting of Daniel and the Lions under the same roof.
• Now, utterly exhausted, she was positioned on the fainting couch that graces every principal's dressing room, her black tresses coaxed into a chignon, her arching cheekbones highlighted with soft pink powder, a study in the sort of delicacy that inspired Edgar Degas.
• Two years later, Dowd returned to the expression in its evocation of the past no longer relevant : " In the old days, if a woman wished to escape a difficult encounter, she could plead a case of the vapors and retire to her Victorian fainting couch ."