Foot Cushion

It is full of positive thought, and strikes out right and left like a school-boy who must needs relieve his superabundant spirits by pinching his sister's ear, thrusting his fists in his brother's face, kicking aside the foot-cushion, and making a plunge at the cat, while he is performing the simple operation of walking across the room. ❋ Various (N/A)

I might perch you up on a foot-cushion to give you a little more altitude. ❋ Unknown (1907)

Vicky sat enthroned on a white divan, her feet crossed on a gold-embroidered white satin foot-cushion. ❋ Carolyn Wells (1902)

No one was there, not even the presence of a fire, but chair and foot-cushion stood as they had been left two months before; the ashes had not been removed, and the flowers in the vase had faded and dropped with no renewal. ❋ Susan Warner (1852)

But Hazel caught the sound of steps, and started away from her foot-cushion time enough to meet Dr. Arthur midway in the room. ❋ Susan Warner (1852)

She had taken her foot-cushion again, and sat with varying colour and averted eyes, and now and then a "yes" of full intelligence. ❋ Susan Warner (1852)

She brought a foot-cushion to the front of the fire, there where she was in the dining-room; and rested her head upon her hands and thought. ❋ Susan Warner (1852)

Hazel turned away and sat down on her foot-cushion, and buried her face in her hands. ❋ Susan Warner (1852)

Uncle Fountain's factotum got down from the dicky, packed Lucy's imperial on the roof, and slung a box below the dicky; stowed her maid away aft, arranged the foot-cushion and a shawl or two inside, and, half obsequiously, half bumptiously, awaited the descent of his fair charge. ❋ Charles Reade (1849)