Jill Hadassah would have bitten Trig right in the okole and taught him another life lesson, Palin said, if the dog had not enjoyed its brief experience as footstool.
In the now-lost mosaics of the Church of the Dormition in Nicaea, a scholar observed another exquisite effect, which he called dark gold, created by cubes from which some of the gold leaf had been chipped off, for example, in the frontal part of Mary's golden footstool (7th or 8th century ce).
The royal footstool was painted with the figures of traditional enemies of Egypt so that the pharaoh might symbolically tread his enemies under his feet.
Quite a change from Stables's day; he lists the contents of his caravan as including a piano stool, "a camp-chair, music-rack, footstool, dressing-case... guitar, a small harmonium, a violin, a navy sword, and a good revolver".
Coffee tables lift to become dining tables, a "smart bed" can store sports equipment, TV units can offer storage and a footstool can open into a bed.
He's also designed several bespoke chairs and an asymmetrical double sofa, footstool and side- table combination.
I for one am only too happy to be their footstool.
The dog lay curled next to him in the living room, as Cahill read a book called "How Buildings Learn," his feet stretched out on the footstool.
Where's the footstool she needs in order to sit properly?
A more substantial jolt occurs when you register an over-all spatial distortion: the forms stretch horizontally, so that the length of Anna's concealed legs, angled and descending to an upholstered footstool, suggests the anatomy of an N.B.A. draft pick.
She perched on a footstool provided so that a bride who isn't Julia Roberts's height can get some idea of what she'll look like when she's in her own gown rather than a sample, and gazed at herself in the wall-size mirrors.
