It is as a sea troubled by the breath of some unseen spirit,wave upon wave rising, bending, and finally casting itself low in humility and self- sacrifice at the very footstool of the Most High.

" She slipped from my lap to a low footstool at my feet, and resting both her arms on my knees in a graceful way she had, looked up into my face, and began by a sentence which made me start.

It happened to be his dinner-time, and he was seated cross-legged on a stone, with a footstool before him, enjoying a few olives and a morsel of bread.

Thus are they commanded, being indeed some of them as so many footstools for rich men to tread on, blocks for them to get on horseback, or as "walls for them to piss on."

" Mrs. Cartwright stopped with Barbara, who brought a footstool to the hearthrug, and sitting down leaned against her knee.

At this demonstration Mr Brandon appeared suddenly to recover his consciousness and he precipitately made two steps backwards, just missing tumbling over his footstool into the fireplace.

He hath cast down from heaven to earth the beauty of Israel, And he hath not kept in remembrance his footstool in the day of his anger.

The little boy sat on a footstool beside her and looked at his mother with his joyful, bright eyes, and listened to the singing.

" She pirouetted round, and quickly drew with her foot a gilt footstool from under an Empire settee.

She was sitting on a footstool with her head upon her hands, and, poor, tired child!

In the centre of the vault beneath, the Virgin is seated on a rich throne, a footstool under her feet; she wears a crown over her veil.

"Sit down there," she said, pushing a little footstool towards him.

I brought the little student-lamp from my own room and lit it, and put it on the library-table, and brought him some fresh pens, and opened the inkstand for him, even pushed up the chair and put a little footstool by it.

" Dredlinton kicked a footstool out of his way, frowning angrily.