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  • If politics is about personal attacks then so be it, but for a Country on the brink of recession and fading quickly from being the Leader of Nations to being the foot-stool of nations it is time to choose a President who will make a difference on the issues.

    Major Clinton backer switches to Obama 2008

  • Meantime my mother, 'mid the spoils of Troy, is seated on her throne, and at her foot-stool slaves from

    Electra 2008

  • Frank seated himself in the vacant throne of the Emperor, and extending his half-armed and robust figure on the golden cushions which were destined for Alexius, he indolently began to caress a large wolf-hound which had followed him, and which, feeling itself as much at ease as its master, reposed its grim form on the carpets of silk and gold damask, which tapestried the imperial foot-stool.

    Count Robert of Paris 2008

  • Meantime my mother, 'mid the spoils of Troy, is seated on her throne, and at her foot-stool slaves from

    Electra 2008

  • If your child is going to use a seat adapter, he also needs a foot-stool so he can step up to the adult toilet.

    pottytrain your child in just one day Teri Crane 2006

  • If your child is going to use a seat adapter, he also needs a foot-stool so he can step up to the adult toilet.

    pottytrain your child in just one day Teri Crane 2006

  • Then, find a low foot-stool of some sort to rest your foot on.

    duh dah.. . hop.. hop.. hop.. . impetuousme 2005

  • And then she came over from her seat at the tea-tray and sat down on a foot-stool close at his knee.

    Doctor Thorne 2004

  • An acute observer might have remarked, in the course of the same evening, that after Tartar had resumed his allegiance to Shirley, and was once more couched near her foot-stool, the audacious tutor by one word and gesture fascinated him again.

    Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte 2004

  • Ying Erh, however, did not presume to seat herself; and though Hsi Jen was quick enough in moving a foot-stool for her, Ying Erh did not still venture to sit down.

    Hung Lou Meng 2003

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