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Inside the crowded inner circle, ringed by huts, Anei Kur saw two comely Nubian maidens, his brides. Priests led him through the chanting throng to one of four royal huts before which stood the sacred stool, Kwom. On the stool stood the image of Nyakang. While the proud Shilluks watched intently, Anei Kur seized the stool by one leg. The priests removed the image and Anei Kur was ret. He retired to a royal hut with his two wives. His people gorged themselves on oxmeat and heady merissa, brewed from millet...
Could Be. In London, Stanley Gals worthy, twice before convicted of peeping, was found unconscious beside an over turned stool under a bedroom window. He spent three days in a hospital, then e plained to a police magistrate: "I never took my nerve medicine that day. I must have got excited...
...tiny figure emerged in the morning. Dressed in black, his spindly legs sheathed in Chinese silk stockings, and carrying a green umbrella, Lamb walked placidly to work. He "looked no one in the face for more than a moment, yet contrived to see everything." Perched on his high office stool, he mailed, at the East India Company's expense, the numerous letters written by his youthful friends William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge...
...your hide is enfettered to a schoolroom stool...
...prisoner suspected of informing on these heroes the camp had a secret court, judge and jury. "Willful treason" was punishable by death-the stool pigeon surreptitiously dropped through a hole in the ice of the Oder River. Willful disclosure of minor information was punished by six rounds in the ring with the camp's boxing champion. Disclosure through stupidity marked the offender as "utterly dangerous"; he was completely ostracized...