Meaning of foot-stool | Babel Free

Definitions

Noun. [B2]

Examples

“A number⟳ of such Nabals there are now-adays, that tyrannize over, and trample upon their wives, as if they were not their fellows, but their foot-stools, […]”

“[…] its greatest elegancies and ornaments were a faded foot-stool of Julia’s work⟳, too ill done for the drawing-room, three transparencies, made in a rage for transparencies, for the three lower panes of one window, where Tintern Abbey held its station between a cave in Italy, and a moonlight lake in Cumberland; […]”

“But, anyhow, the memory of him sitting there in the arm-chair with his feet on the foot-stool, holding my hand, smoking the cigarette I had lighted for him and talking brilliantly, would remain⟳ with me through life as an exquisite sorrow by means of which, in the end⟳, I’d mount⟳ to perfect happiness before the throne of God.”

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