The Cobbler The cobbler sits in the middle on a stool or hassock, and the others join hands and dance round him.
Canute stumbled into his shanty carrying a basket of cobs, and after filling the stove, sat down on a stool and crouched his seven foot frame over the fire, staring drearily out of the window at the wide gray sky.
The Angel sat on the music stool (music stoolbecause of his wings).
He drifted slowly towards the window in the recess and sat down on the little octagonal Moorish stool by the side of Mrs Jehoram.
The Angel's incapacity to sit on anything but a music stool appeared to excite some interest among the ladies, but led to no remarks.
When the Duke entered he found the Queen seated at a table, busily engaged in writing; and as he approached her with the customary obeisance, she hastily motioned to him to place himself upon a stool immediately in front of her.
He was standing on a stool surrounded by a dense crowd.
Presently Saul returned with little Ruth hanging on his arm and shyly nestling near him as he took the three-cornered leathern chair in the chimney nook, while she sat on a stool close by.
He has recently devised a tripod arrangement, in which a light metal stool with three slightly-oxidised legs stands on a polished plate of steel.
The decoherence is effected by giving the stool a tilt by means of an electromagnet.
The contact points must be oxidised, but not too heavily, and the stoolmakes a bad electrical contact until a wave falls upon it.
It made mine ache at first," said Halstead with comforting sympathy as he sat down on my stool and took my pail between his knees.
And the rule was that whoever got the "Jonah pie" must either eat it, or crawl under the table for a foot-stool for the others during the rest of the meal!
The old gentleman kindly showed me how to milk and how to hold the pail, then gave me a milking-stool and sat me down to milk "Lily-Whiteface.
But she immediately returned to the kitchen, where she sank upon a lowstool and bowed her face in her hands.
A narrow iron cot, a combination stand, and a low stool constituted the sole furniture.
She put a stoolfor him at a little distance from her own, and after he had seen the day's work he hesitated, and then plunged into a resumption of their discussion about beauty.
It's like this," he said, and dragged a stool beside her and sat down with his elbow four inches from hers and made a sketch.
Ann Veronica decided she would have to go on with Capes another day, and, looking up, discovered him sitting on a stool with his hands in his pockets and his head a little on one side, regarding her with a thoughtful expression.
Just sit down on that stool again and let's talk of this in cold blood.
Then, very awkwardly, he took a stool and placed it at the end of Ann Veronica's table, and sat down.
Priscilla was sitting on a camp stool at the entrance of Lady Isabel's tent.
She rose from her camp stool and pointed eastwards with her finger.
He straddled a stool and took the foot in the cup of his hand.
Beside him on a similar stoolthat brought their heads parallel Miss Ruby smoothed her hand across her customer's instep.
He had heard her voice but not her question, and she did not repeat it, but came and sat down on a low stool at his feet.
Little Mary stood on a stool at the end of the table, and gravely imitated her movements with a little iron of her own.
Opposite, on the other side of the hearth, Peter's own stool stood empty, and on the shelf beside it were the two yellow porringers, out of which he and Louise used always to sup together.
The stranger had gone, but Peter sat down on a stool opposite Jean, and began to enter into conversation with him, with a more settled look in his hollow eyes than had been there since the catastrophe of the week before.
He saw himself, an urchin of five or six years, seated on a stool beside the Dame's great arm-chair.
Their master got up and crossed himself three times, then took the cat from under the stool and put him in the box.
Aksinya Stepanovna, the old nurse, was sitting on the dirtystool facing him, and she, too, was drinking tea.
Perry asked the kid, giving him the spare stool by the ticket-window.
He gestured at a fit, greying man sitting on a stool before a small cocktail bar built into a scavenged Orange Julius stand -- God knew where these people got all their crap from.
P'raps that desk and stool ain't made from Eden lumber.
Miss Pecksniff sat upon a stool because she was all girlishness, and playfulness, and wildness, and kittenish buoyancy.
Miss Pecksniff sat upon a stool because of her simplicity and innocence, which were very great, very great.
There was a ragged stool there, with the horsehair all sticking out of the top like a wig: a very Beast of a stool in itself; on which he had taken up his daily seat, year after year, during the whole period of his service.
They occupied the two chairs, and Mr Fips took the office stool from the stuffing whereof he drew forth a piece of horse-hair of immense length, which he put into his mouth with a great appearance of appetite.
Martin had in the meantime made himself as comfortable as circumstances would permit, by constructing before the fire a temporary sofa of three chairs with Mercy's stool for a pillow, and lying down at full-length upon it.
To put a criminal to death seems to me as foolish as for the child to beat the stool it has stumbled over, and as useless too.
She sat down on a stool before the hearth, and clasping her fingers upon her knee looked thoughtfully into the embers of the fire.
The next morning Jeff came to take leave of him, where Westover had pitched his easel and camp-stool on the slope behind the hotel.
Arangbar pushed Allaudin toward the stool waiting in front of the screen covering the entrance to the zenana.
While he was gone, an opening was prepared in the screen separating the zenana from the courtyard and a low stool was placed just outside.
The screen was specially constructed to allow the hands and feet of the one sitting on the stool to be reached from behind it.
Behind him a second man carried a red velvet cushion, shaped like a long cylinder, and placed it on a stool next to the canopied pavilion, gesturing for Hawksworth to sit.
Suddenly he rubbed his hands, and then stretching them out and leaning backward on the stool he let his fingers fall with their lightest and daintiest touch upon Naomi's old piano.
Naomi said not one word, but she managed to fetch over the office-stool in the haste with which she sprang to the ground.
He sat on a high stool behind his counter and served his customers himself; he kept no clerk.
With that she seated the child on a low stool beside the fire, and went herself to fetch the few simple ornaments which from year to year she had saved for her children's Christmas tree.
