“He hung up the phone and pulled a chair from the kitchen over to the couch and sat down.”

“He adds that a carrying chair was formerly called a Gautsche, and refers it to Kutsche and French coucher.”

“A decayed silk curtain of a dingy blue, drawn across a recess, separated the chambre a coucher from the salon.”

“He is on duty but three days of every week, save at the lever and coucher, and may go whither he list on the other four.”

“He hung up the phone and pulled a chair from the kitchen over to the couch and sat down.”

“His approach to his subjects would seem to borrow something from his gentle couchside manner.”