What is "straight-backed"

Usage examples of "straight-backed".

Gould was a retired bank manager, with a permanently soured expression and straight-backed, anal fussiness that rankled Andi before they were even introduced.

The study is not large for an officer who commands an outpost as large as Inividra, for the room is less than fifteen cubits by ten, and contains but a table desk, a single scroll case, the wooden armchair behind the desk, and four armless straight-backed wooden chairs that face the desk.

One priest stood straight-backed, his green skin marred by more tattoos and designs than any of the other priests.

Still eyeing me speculatively, the Governor nodded toward a straight-backed chair and a smaller desk at the side of the room.

I pictured her sitting on a straight-backed chair in a police station in Topeka, her chopped auburn hair standing at attention, her violet eyes looking down her impossibly straight nose at the Authority who was trying to question her.

His weathered face was buckled with concern as he led Yuki to a pair of small straight-backed chairs.

The study is not large for an officer who commands an outpost as large as Isahl, for the room is less than fifteen cubits by ten, and contains but a table-desk, a single scroll case, the wooden armchair from which Brevyl rises, and four armless straight-backed wooden chairs that face the desk.

Parker Higgens liked to keep his world neat and tidy, it was one of his formulas for success, which was why he was particularly shocked to come into work one morning and find a young blonde-haired girl lounging in the deep cushioning of his straight-backed chair behind his desk.

It took place in the formal sitting room, with Father Steed, a wise, battle-worn, fat old man sprawled in an easy chair, representing the world’s oldest Christian religion, and Ruth Brinton, a prim, bonneted woman in gray, perched on the forward edge of a straight-backed chair her husband had built, representing the newest.

With a nod, he closes the door and turns to take in the main room of Ryalth's quarters-the low ebony table, the straight-backed black oak armchair that is Ryalth's favorite, the settee opposite it, and on the other side of the room, the green ceramic brick privacy screen that protects the main door from the inside.

Trussed to a straight-backed chair, Hawkins wore someone else's boxer shorts and black nylon socks.

A man sitting in a straight-backed cane chair dipped into a wooden bowl and brought a handful of fluffy popcorn to his mouth, his gaze never straying from the black book resting in his lap.

Kim was able to avoid the console tables, the straight-backed chairs, and the settees.

Forty-eight that year, she was still a good-looking woman, with gray-streaked raven black hair, large cornflower blue eyes, and the straight-backed posture of one quite at home with ruler-ship.

I passed a corpse wearing the dusty blue uniform of a custodian or maintenance man precariously perched on a straight-backed wooden chair halfway along the footbridge and I had to skirt around the covered boxes it seemed to be watching over.