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Example sentences for "footstools"

Lexicographically close words:
footstalk; footstalks; footstep; footsteps; footstool; footway; footways; footwear; footwork; footy
  1. Footstools should never be wanting, and a good broad window-seat, that could be made to open and hold books &c.

  2. Footstools must be a sine quâ non in each room, and more than one or two should, if possible, be provided.

  3. The vases and clock are Empire, the chairs Directoire, and footstools Louis XV.

  4. Footstools had little feet made like lion's claws or bull's hoofs.

  5. Briareus himself could scarcely have supplied arms to support her unsparing weakness, to hand her parcels and footstools about, to carry her shawls and cushions, and to sort the packets of her correspondence.

  6. Mrs. Palmer, rising from her corner, floats across the room, sweeping over several footstools and small tables on her way.

  7. Each time the cutter went about, the ladies carried their footstools up to windward, when the vessel was for a moment on an even keel.

  8. The three ladies on board the Phantom were seated on footstools under the weather bulwark--although as yet the yachts were travelling on an almost even keel.

  9. She sot down on one of the settees, and I jest pulled one of the footstools close up to her, and there we both sot as sociable as could be till the folks all come back agin.

  10. Now I believe that most footstools are too high and too easily upset.

  11. To-day the discovery of the footstools and Edith's engagement seemed to her to be touching examples of the care of Providence, and she was beamingly conscious of the variety of pleasant objects and topics in the world.

  12. Yes, leave the footstools in the car, Filson, and we will measure the height when I come back.

  13. The bronze throne, illustrated on page 3, appears to have been of sufficient height to require a footstool, and in "Nineveh and its Remains" these footstools are specially alluded to.

  14. In the "Music" Room at Chatsworth are some chairs and footstools used at the time of the Coronation of William IV.

  15. The same idea gave them a place on the soles of sandals, on the footstools of a royal throne, and on the walls of the palace at Medeenet Haboo, in Thebes, where their heads support some of the ornamental details of the building.


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