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settle
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Definition:A tall, wide wooden bench. It was designed to protect from drafts and was popularly placed in front of the fireplace.
image: By Pearson Scott Foresman, CC0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=3178020
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He might well skulk behind the settle, on beholding such a bright, graceful damsel enter the house, instead of a rough-headed counterpart of himself, as he expected.
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'I will drink my rum-and-water,' said Mr. Slurk, 'by the kitchen fire.' So, gathering up his hat and newspaper, he stalked solemnly behind the landlord to that humble apartment, and throwing himself on a settle by the fireside, resumed his countenance of scorn, and began to read and drink in silent dignity.
Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
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I sat quietly on a settle in the corner, sipping sour ale and enjoying the respite from horseback.
Diana Gabaldon. Outlander (1991)
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So, I nodded, and then he nodded again, and made room on the settle beside him that I might sit down there.
Charles Dickens. Great Expectations (1861)
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with some plaster images in resplendent colors on the mantel-shelf, above a very dimly-smoking grate; a long hard-wood settle extended its uneasy length by the chimney, and here Haley sat him down to meditate on the instability of human hopes and happiness in general.
Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin
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A curved settle of unplaned oak stretched along one side, and in a remote corner was a small bed and bedstead, the owner and frequent occupier of which was the maltster.
Thomas Hardy. Far from the Madding Crowd (1874)
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