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"Yes, she was," Nancy replied, lifting the tattered cushion from its place and brushing it; "and I with her. What is the use of scrubbing and carpeting, when there are only twenty pew-cushions and six hassocks in the whole church, and most of them ragged? How can I ever mend this?" "I should n't trouble myself to darn other people's cushions!" This unchristian sentiment came in Mrs.
He saw rolls of tapestries, collections of brass camels and donkeys, and glassed-in cases of jewelry. Crowding the floor space were huge vases of brass or pottery, camel saddles, metal trays on low stands, and huge leather hassocks. The clerks eyed him with interest, then all eyes focused on the package under his arm.
Would that some of our human friends were as unflagging in their affections as the faithful Roger! Her reign as morganatic queen was remarkable for several scientific inventions of great utility notably the "pushfast," a machine designed exclusively for the fixing of leather buttons in church hassocks; also Dr.
Every Sunday he went to church at Barkingside with Mamma, kneeling close to her in the big pew and praying in a great, ghostly voice, "Good Lord, deliver us!" When the psalms and hymns began he rose over the pew-ledge, yards and yards of him, as if he stood on many hassocks, and he lifted up his beard and sang.
This liturgical outburst seemed wondrously to heal Joanna it seemed to link her up again with the centre of her religion Brodnyx church, with the big pews, and the hassocks, and the Lion and the Unicorn over the north door she felt readmitted into the congregation of the faithful, and her heart was full of thankfulness and loyalty.
We used to sit in quite comfortable seats every Sunday, with cushions and hassocks, and the aisles were paved with flagstones simple worn flagstones, and none of the caustic tiles which look so much more handsome; though I am always afraid I am going to slip, and glad to be off them, they are so hard and shiny. Church matters were very behindhand then.
Between them, on three hassocks, sit three little boys; while the fourth, and youngest, a miniature little Sir Norman, leans against his mother's shoulder, and looks thoughtfully in her sweet, calm face.
I used to wonder at their folly, when I was stumbling over the rough hassocks, and sinking knee-deep in the black mire, raking the sharp sickle-edged grass which we used to feed out to the young cattle in midwinter when the bitter cold gave them appetite for even such fodder.
Would the Japanese heiress be married in a kimono with flowers and fans fixed in an elaborate coiffure? Thus the ladies were wondering as they craned their necks to catch a glimpse of the bride's procession up the aisle; but, though some even stood on hassocks and pew seats, few were able to distinguish for certain. She was so very tiny.
He got his hat and his coat and went into the rain. He crossed the Green and let himself into the Cathedral by the Saint Margaret Chapel door, as he had so often done before. The Cathedral was very dark, and he stumbled about, knocking against pillars and hassocks. He was strange here. It was as though he didn't know the place.
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