She was sitting on a hassock at his feet, and she looked up at him with strange, dumb eyes.
She did not know when the music stopped, she did not know when Gerald came back to the hassock at her feet.
Sitting on a hassock at the Doctor's side, she tried to follow the detailed explanation that he gave during each deal.
Freddie took his customary place on the hassock at her feet.
It was late in the afternoon; he sat on his hassockand watched Aunt Amanda sewing.
And he pushed Freddie gently down upon his accustomed hassockat Aunt Amanda's feet.
I like the idea of saying to men who use a different hassock from me, that till they change their hassock they shall never be Colonels, Aldermen, or Parliament-men.
Polly sighed a bit sorrowfully and dropped on a hassock at Miss Sterling's feet.
Polly dropped to the hassock at Miss Sterling's knee.
They would sit at the table with their books, while I had a hassock in front of them, with my little Bible open on it.
I could have hugged him at once, he did smell so good, but I never moved from the hassock where my mistress placed me.
So repentant, saddened, humbled, on her hassock she sat down, And this little Quaker sinner ripped the tuck out of her gown!
He pulled a large hassock to him and sat facing her.
Then, with a sudden, lithe movement, he rose and kicked the hassockto one side.
Sitting on a hassock at her father’s feet she read from a recent number of the Gartenlaube the description of an ascent of Mont Blanc.
She stole up quietly and knelt on thehassock beside his chair.
She would not enter the room, though she was just dying to know what they were saying--as Kendal sat in the arm-chair before the glowing coals, while Dorothy knelt on the hassock at his feet.
Sorrowfully Dorothy rose from the hassock and slowly quitted the room.
They then form a ring, and commence dancing round a hassock which is placed, end upwards, in the middle of the room.
Suddenly one party endeavours to pull the other party forward, so as to force one of their number to kick the hassockand upset it.
The player who has been unfortunate enough to touch the hassock has then to leave the circle.
And Sir Harry placed a hassock on one of the belfry steps, and taking his seat, watched for a while in silence.
He shall see whether he will be allowed to trail the fair name of the school for propriety and correctness of deportment in the dust of a pew-floor, and spurn my reputation as a preceptor like a church hassock beneath his feet!
Dressed in slacks once more, she slouched over to his chair and drew a hassock up beside it.
There is but a segment," she said, sitting back upon the hassock again.
She pushed the great chair of Indian wickerwork into place before the window-bay, and when I was at rest she drew up a low hassock and sat at my feet.
In no uncertain sense I was a man without a country; and this fair maiden on thehassock at my feet was all the world to me.
He remembered her, a tall, awkward girl, with a volume of Dickens slipping from her lap as she sat on a hassock by the fire, teasing her father, scolding and reproaching him.
She pulled a faded tapestryhassock towards her with her foot, the fire being too hot to allow her to make use of the bear's head, and reached for a paper fan with which to keep the heat from her face.
Gwendolyn stood up straight on the hassockto look at him.
A hassock did duty for a runabout that had no top to shut out the sun-light, no windows to bar the fragrant air.
I sha'n't go one step until I have had my say out," cried Eve, planting herself firmly down on a hassock in the middle of the floor.
I wear my fur coat most of the time and sometimes my hat, and settle down on a hassock in front of whatever fire there is, to read.
This last week, I spent most of the time I was in the house sitting on a little hassockwith my back to the radiator.
He tossed the manky onto the hassock and delved into the carton again.
She jumped up, strode to the hassock and picked up the manky with two fingers.
Les kicked the hassock into the hall closet, tossed the manky in after it and shut the door firmly.
Sally began to walk, then rose and again floated, this time toward the hassockon which the manky lay.
Apparently the murderer had stood on the hassock and leaned over the head of the bed to commit the murder.
I imagine that the woman came in quietly, lit the gas, put the box and the hassock at the bedhead, stood on them, and cut her victim's throat.
It was made with a single-edged knife, drawn from left to right; the assailant stood on a hassock placed on a box at the head of the bed and leaned over to strike the blow.
I infer from the presence of the box andhassock that the murderer is a short person.
A box had been placed on the floor at the head of the bed and a hassock stood on it.
That accounts for that box with the hassock on it at the head of the bed.
Your heart was beating in time to the music, as you sat on the hassock by the piano, watching the bird and the sun.
You just sat there on the hassockwhile Aunt Jane played.
You ran into the parlor and sat on a hassock by Aunt Jane, watching her as she played.
