camp-stools

We are great in obsolete seals, and in faded pin-cushions, and in rickety camp-stools, and in exploded cutlery, and in miniature vessels, and in stunted little telescopes, and in objects made of shells that pretend not to be shells.

Reprinted Pieces 2007

It contained a couch, two camp-stools, a loaded Martini -

Heart of Darkness 1960

Why, I have seen the old fogies up at Lord Tummer's water fish from chairs and camp-stools.

Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler William Senior

The moment they get within earshot of the tuba horns they anchor themselves to benches or camp-stools and watch the leader swish the air with his baton.

The Adventures of Uncle Jeremiah and Family at the Great Fair Their Observations and Triumphs

Numbers of small tables should be brought with the camp-stools, and placed at convenient intervals, where the guests can deposit their plates.

Manners and Social Usages Mrs. John M. E. W. Sherwood

We were firm, outwardly, and refused to meet him halfway, but secretly we spent hours and hours in the old house, sitting patiently on folding camp-stools, and planning the remaking of the house as happily as children playing make-believe.

The House in Good Taste Elsie de Wolfe

All present respectfully saluted them, to which they bowed courteously, and then took their seats upon camp-stools set for them by a servant.

The Old Bell of Independence; Or, Philadelphia in 1776 Henry C. Watson

I carried in my hand one of the small camp-stools which stood around the room, and whenever I found a book that particularly interested me, I would sit down and look it over.

A Strange Discovery Charles Romyn Dake

Then the loyal nephew of the Secesh governor and the testamentary guardian of the orphan mules brought our horses up from picket; then the artists with their camp-stools and color-boxes, the sages with their goggles, nets, botany-boxes, and bug-holders, the gentlemen of elegant leisure with their naked eyes and a fish-rod or a gun, all rode away whither they listed, firing back Parthian shots of injunction about the dumpling in the grouse-fricassee.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 80, June, 1864 Various

In front of the cabin was a little piece of deck-room where Charley and I had our camp-stools, and which gave us an excellent place from which to observe everything going on ahead.

St. Nicholas, Vol. 5, No. 4, February 1878 Various