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  • It's built like a log cabin and our room (no. 14) looked out across the valley floor directly on to Mt Sefton, the "Footstool" etc.

    TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com 2010

  • Hence the four towers, completed in 1728, and the nickname "Queen Anne's Footstool".

    Baroque architecture in Britain: examples from the era 2011

  •       Claim, as thy Footstool, this vast Globe of Earth?

    A Patch-Work Screen for the Ladies 2008

  • Footstool: Feeding sessions may be the only times you get to sit down.

    Baby Bites Bridget Swinney 2007

  • Footstool: Feeding sessions may be the only times you get to sit down.

    Baby Bites Bridget Swinney 2007

  • "They call Terra God's Footstool; well, I'll give you one guess who uses this thing to prop his cloven hoofs on."

    Uller Uprising Piper, H. Beam 1952

  • PROLOGUE On Satan's Footstool The big armor-tender vibrated, gently and not unpleasantly, as the contragravity field alternated on and off, occasionally varying its normal rate of five hundred to the second when some thermal updraft lifted the vehicle and the automatic radar-altimeter control acted to alter the frequency and lower it again.

    Uller Uprising Piper, H. Beam 1952

  • The player in the room then proceeds to call out, perhaps as follows: -- Table, Hearthrug, Piano, Footstool and Chair, Lamp, Inkstand.

    Games For All Occasions Mary E. Blain

  • Here were many square miles of God's Footstool under her gaze; and there were many, many thousands of other spots like this between her and the Mexican mountains in which her father was held a prisoner.

    Janice Day at Poketown Helen Beecher Long

  • _Footstool_ -- Small ottoman, covered in black and yellow needlework, or velvet same as sofa (brown).

    Better Homes in America Plan Book for Demonstration Week October 9 to 14, 1922 Mrs W.B. Meloney 1941

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