Edwin's slippered feet rested on a hassock, and in front of the hassock was a red-glowing gas-stove. From Wordnik.com. [Clayhanger] Reference
They then form a ring, and commence dancing round a hassock which is placed, end upward, in the middle of the room. From Wordnik.com. [My Book of Indoor Games] Reference
They then form a ring, and commence dancing round a hassock which is placed, end upwards, in the middle of the room. From Wordnik.com. [Games For All Occasions] Reference
"Well, besides the words calling the hassock an all-purpose something, there are numbers. From Wordnik.com. [The Norby Chronicles]
So Arethusa subsided to the hassock, still quivering. From Wordnik.com. [The Heart of Arethusa] Reference
Polly dropped to the hassock at Miss Sterling's knee. From Wordnik.com. [Polly and the Princess] Reference
"I have an extra hassock in my room; I'll bring that.". From Wordnik.com. [A Missionary Twig] Reference
Austin carefully climbed onto the hassock and sat down. From Wordnik.com. [Blood Lines]
I was sitting on one of those dumpy hassock sort of things. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-02-25] Reference
She, with trembling heart and fingers, on a hassock sat her down. From Wordnik.com. [The Canadian Elocutionist] Reference
Miff whose cough is drier than the hay in any hassock in her charge. From Wordnik.com. [Dombey and Son] Reference
From his hassock in the center of the room he looked uneasily around. From Wordnik.com. [The Creature from Cleveland Depths] Reference
Arethusa plumped herself down on her special hassock right beside Miss. From Wordnik.com. [The Heart of Arethusa] Reference
The best line he had was, "she left me with a hair net and a hassock.". From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 9, 2007] Reference
“I suppose so,” Halet agreed doubtfully, sitting down on a hassock. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Federation Of The Hub]
I., still knelt on his marble hassock, before his prayer-book of stone. From Wordnik.com. [The Virginians] Reference
Dora drew forward a little hassock, and settled herself at his feet with. From Wordnik.com. [The Scarlet Feather] Reference
She sat down gratefully on a hassock that hadn't been there a moment ago. From Wordnik.com. [Renegade's Magic]
She stumbled backward against a hassock and barely caught herself from falling. From Wordnik.com. [Cradle and All]
Jeaness was seated upon a hassock in the parlor where there were several guests. From Wordnik.com. [A Preliminary Study of the Emotion of Love between the Sexes] Reference
Between them she placed a hassock -- it was nearer her rocker than Jude's chair. From Wordnik.com. [Joyce of the North Woods] Reference
TV, rocker, and an oversize easy chair of simulated leather with a matching hassock. From Wordnik.com. [Wednesday the Rabbi Got Wet]
The old lady was sitting, propped up uncomfortably with two thin pillows and a hassock. From Wordnik.com. [The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius] Reference
Mr Pecksniff sat down upon a hassock, and listening more attentively than ever, smiled. From Wordnik.com. [The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit] Reference
The player who has been unfortunate enough to touch the hassock has then to leave the circle. From Wordnik.com. [Games For All Occasions] Reference
"I don't have any idea, that hassock, the cleaning woman says it wasn't there when she left?". From Wordnik.com. [Wednesday the Rabbi Got Wet]
I shifted uncomfortably on the hassock, glancing at my watch and thinking of an excuse to go. From Wordnik.com. [The Tree of Death]
Seating herself upon a low chair, Mrs. Harold drew a hassock to her side, motioning Juno to it. From Wordnik.com. [Peggy Stewart at School] Reference
Lancaster got a cigar from the humidor and collapsed his long gaunt body across chair and hassock. From Wordnik.com. [Security] Reference
He handed me one of the wineglasses, took his to an armchair, and propped his feet up on a hassock. From Wordnik.com. [Till the Butchers Cut Him Down]
"I think, " he said, 'that Fargo's decided that the numbers on the hassock stand for musical notes. From Wordnik.com. [The Norby Chronicles]
For a seat for herself she has a small hassock that you gave me, and behind the blue screen is a world apart. From Wordnik.com. [Letters of a Woman Homesteader] Reference
Abandoning the only four chairs in the room to the others, Mrs. Grey sank down upon a hassock with a sigh of satisfaction, and was lost for. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 24, October, 1859] Reference
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