Meanings of round-backed in английском

Ay, lass, but not with a round-backed drift like that at the bottom.

They came upon two schools of round-backed river monsters.

Mr. Lord sat in his round-backed chair, smoking a pipe, on his knees an evening paper.

I asked him to take a seat, and seated myself in my round-backed writing chair beside my desk.

A small, round-backed man, with a shag of black hair upon his face, was sitting by the window.

Our driver was a slender, lathe-like, round-backed, rough-bearded, thin-visaged, middle-aged Yankee, who became very communicative during our drive.

Finally he returned to the round-backed chair which stood against the desk, and faced his patient across the room.

On the water which overflows from a stretch particularly cross-seamed and gullied, some lumps are floating, some round-backed reefs.

I always liked McArdle, the crabbed, old, round-backed, red-headed news editor, and I rather hoped that he liked me.

Mr. Nathan Garrideb proved to be a very tall, loosejointed, round-backed person, gaunt and bald, some sixty-odd years of age.

One black gap in the long line of grey, round-backed airships marked the position from which the Vaterland had come.

Helen took a hand-glass from the table and leaned forward in the low, round-backed chair-faithfulcopy of a fine classic model.

In a round-backed chair at a distance from the table sat an old man with a wooden leg, a fiddle on his knee.

Lastly, in a round-backed chair, cross-legged, twirling his thumbs, twinkling with comfortable repletion, sat Prosper's friend of the road, Brother Bonaccord of Lucca.

Against the wall were arranged sturdy round-backed wooden chairs, each of which could have received the landlady's person without a quiver of a spindle.

By the hearth, in a round-backed wooden chair, sat a grizzle-headed man, whose hard features proclaimed his relation to Eve, otherwise seeming so improbable.