And the busy girls above tied string to the back of a chair and carefully lowered it, and some hassocks followed.
Mansy was very frightened, but eventually she did try, and all working away for the same object, she did at last manage to clamber in on the chair, and pick her way on chairs and hassocks over the water to the stairs.
Now, Edie dear, can you let down a chair and some hassocks for me to stand on?
Alfy soon placed the chair in the room and piled the hassocks on it.
The men who were deployed along the hill lay hidden behind the hassocks of the palmettos, and from our position not one of them was to be seen.
Where the gorge debouched into the uplands its banks were high and naked, with here and there a few scattered palmettos that grew up from hugehassocks of bunch-grass.
They get together as many men as they can, perhaps twenty freshmen, bachelors, and masters, who sit in a circle, with cups and saucers in their hands and hassocks at their knees.
At length he stops; his hearers wake up, and the hassocks begin.
Always the same quiet, prim woman, ready at proper times to do her duty; to arrange hassocks at a christening, or to point out the positions for the actors at a hymeneal sacrifice.
A select few she treated worse than all the rest, shutting them up in the great churchwarden's pew, where they were completely out of sight, Mr Timson monopolising all the hassocksso as to peep over the edge.
Hurstpierpoint may also be easily visited from Hassocks Station (2 miles), from which we may also start on the last stage of our return to Lewes.
She still loved Brodnyx church, even now when hassocks were no longer its chief ecclesiastical ornament.
The blazing hassocks were now only a glowing heap, and still the roof had not caught.
The new red hassocks looked very bright under each chair, and the new black prayer-books shone like polished jet on the book-rests behind them.
On a fine evening in June, 1860, I paid a visit to Mrs. Lyons, on my way to the Hassocks Gate Station, on the London and Brighton line.
I know one thing for certain--that one compartment of a second-class carriage is always left vacant between Brighton and Hassocks Gate, by the 9.
At length the ticket-office opened, and I booked for Hassocks Gate, second class, fare one shilling.
Or he would come in (as on that blessed evening six months ago) and find Flossie dusting books; standing perhaps on two tottering hassocks and a chair, at an altitude perilous to so plump a person.
And Flossie had to be lifted down from the hassocks and punished with hard kisses, and told not to do it again.
A pair of hassocks should be arranged for the bridal pair to kneel upon, and the father should be near to allow the clergyman to see him when he asks for his authority.
By piling seven hassocks on top of one another I got high up enough to read the date and inscription, but before securing the name I had to get quickly down for fear of falling and breaking my neck.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hassocks" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
