hassock

How To Use hassock In A Sentence

• For what she had in mind, she wished she'd had a simple footstool or hassock, but the pillows from the couch would have to do.
• The side chapels were deserted, save for an elderly aristo woman who knelt on an embroidered hassock, chanting her rosary as she strung the beads along the string.
• They were all sprawled, posed, lounging on low benches and some hummocky hassocky things which seemed to have grown up out of the floor. Arcana Magi - c.1: Oryn Zentharis, Seeker of the Truth
• Put your feet up on a footstool or hassock, or lie on your side.
• As a matter of interest, the chairs, a prayer book and a hassock for each seat in the original plan were bought and paid for by a 50 pence (10/-) subscription from the worshipers of the time, prior to the consecration.
• Along the walls on the ground is a series of round stones, some of them capped with a straw collar or hassock, on which the boys sit; others have bosses, and many of them hobs -- a light but compact kind of boggy substance found in the mountains. The Hedge School; The Midnight Mass; The Donagh Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three
• The relatively modern pews and colourful hassocks seem merely transient and do nothing to conceal the vibrant essence of this ancient environment.
• Put your feet up on a footstool or hassock, or lie on your side.
• He heard Mrs Hassock's voice from below - she was obviously responding to the telephone operator.
• Many years ago when visiting St. Mary's church in Cambridge, England, I saw a large hassock with the words embroidered on it: ‘Think - Thank.’