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Meanings of high stools in English

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Usage of high stools in English
1
There were three rows of desks in it and against them high stools.
Of Human Bondage
2
Empty high stools at the bar at Christmas, one less person travelling to the match.
The Irish Times
3
Clerks hastening to their high stools and their desks.
New york: the novel
4
Harvey and his two assistants sat on the high stools in front of the shelf-like desk.
The Rules of the Game
5
She and Miss Fink had climbed down from their high stools, and were preparing to leave.
Buttered Side Down: Stories
6
A couple of customers were sitting on high stools, nursing lunchtime martinis and glasses of chardonnay.
Heartless
7
Seated on high stools in the Folkestone, our young officers clinked their cocktails, and then whispered together.
Now It Can Be Told
8
Just at present the danger was that she might fall in the slippery space between two high stools.
Winnie Childs, the Shop Girl
9
In it was an enclosed space, behind which sat on high stools two venerable-looking clerks, busily engaged in writing.
Dick Cheveley: His Adventures and Misadventures
10
She had seen the two or three men upon the high stools at the counter taking their coffee and bacon.
Six Feet Four
11
We go into a shanty and sit on high stools among stevedores and boatmen, and eat beans with tin spoons.
Heart of the West
12
Sometimes their feet failed them, and they sank together in a heap; they were then propped up with the monitors' high stools.
Jane Eyre: An Autobiography
13
It is a large office, and there were ten clerks seated on uncomfortable high stools, without backs, poring over books and papers.
Life in London / or, the Pitfalls of a Great City
14
It got to a stage where the authorities had to remove all the high stools and freestanding tables for health and safety reasons.
The Irish Times
15
She could almost feel the warm, strong touch of her father's hands as he would lift her onto one of the high stools.
Embrace the darkness
16
They found themselves presently perched upon two high stools in a deserted corner of the bar to which Pritchard had led the way.
The Tempting of Tavernake
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