The chair skidded across the floor, hit the table, and fell over.

In Michael Taylor's shape-swivelling design the King's Cross house seems to have had a stroke: everything is lopsided, dangling; when a train passes, the tables and chairs skid around one another.

Warren's chair skidded across the floor as he rushed to his feet.

Their chairs skidded behind them, creating a screeching symphony.

Tables overturned, chairs skidded aside, as the men and monsters scrambled to get out of harm's way.

The chair skidded.

The chair skidded on the floor and crashed into a music box, which threw up its lid and sent its silly tinkling Georgian love songs through the shadowy room.

First the chair skidded and then I skidded.

He eased up, his chair skidding slightly behind him.

In the great rooms, chandeliers hung at angles; tables and chairs had skidded across the floors and seemed to squat against the walls like wooden beasts.