boot-jack

To put an end to one conference with Low, he had to go to a table, and read a book: when it was the finest spectacle I ever beheld, to see his body bending over the volume, like a boot-jack, and his sentimental eyes glaring obstinately into the pit.

Pictures from Italy 2007

Edwards pressed on me a silver-gilt boot-jack, and I might have had a dressing-case fitted up with a silver warming-pan, and a service of plate.

Vanity Fair 2006

Then showing me into a nice little sanded parlour, she brought me the glass of ale, and presently sent in a lad with a boot-jack to minister to me.

Wild Wales : Its People, Language and Scenery 2004

It was far too low for a grown man, and besides that, one needed, so to speak, the aid of a boot-jack to get out of it.

Hunger 2003

I had a boot-jack and a hair-brush, which I never used!

The Pink Fairy Book 2003

There was once a fine gentleman whose entire worldly possessions consisted of a boot-jack and a hair-brush; but he had the most beautiful shirt-collar in the world, and it is about this that we are going to hear a story.

The Pink Fairy Book 2003

‘So I am, and a very fine one too!’ said the shirt-collar; ‘I possess a boot-jack and a hair-brush!’

The Pink Fairy Book 2003

A glimpse of wet eyelashes, a round cheek redder than usual, and lips parted by quick, breathing, relieved his mind upon that point; so, taking courage, he sat down on the boot-jack, and begged pardon like a man.

An Old-Fashioned Girl 1950

Tom sitting on the boot-jack, with a radiant countenance.

An Old-Fashioned Girl 1950

"Old granny!" hoarsely whispered Bill, "you just stand out of the way once, while I propel this boot-jack!"

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 82, August, 1864 Various