Word: stools
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...represent the highest point our faculty has got in the evolution from the primitive seats of our "arboreal ancestors." They are, for the most part, cheap wooden chairs, constructed with an entire disregard of the curves and angles of the human frame, and placed behind a sort of toad-stool formed of an iron upright and a small square of black walnut. This toad-stool desk gives no opportunity for comfort in writing, as it is not large enough to support the elbow and note-book at the same time, and an ordinarily bad chirography is thrown into a chaotic...
...dressing-rooms are very convenient, and since a mirror has been hung in the hall, the girls seem to appreciate them; they do away with the bother of going to the rooms to prepare for exercise, making the operation much quicker and easier. Each room is furnished with a stool, hooks, and a locker for the suits...
...repetition of prayers, and so. like the pilgrims of old, they set out on a pilgrimage. Now those who were fortunate enough to behold these Three Important Persons saw a strange sight. First came the Chair Man (so called because he carried on his back a camp stool) wheeling and circling in graceful curves along the roadside upon a bicycle of wonderful make. Behind him came the second of this triumvirate, carefully measuring the above named circles, and reckoning the longitudinal distance between the size of one and the diameter of another. And this person rode upon a horse...
...rega'd to this matter," he rejoined, "I think it can be best understood by means of a simile. Take for instance a three-legged stool, such as you often see in the kentry. If you raise...
...article on Amberst College, in Potter's Monthly, gives about as much idea of Amberst as a milking-stool does of a cream...