Usage examples for hassock
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Cui Ai at once came to centre of wide half circle, and after making little bow, take seat on low hassock, Miss Sterling whisper to Dr. Ewing, " She look like fire- witch with the great flames framing her black head, and those long braids sweeping out over the floor." – Seven Maids of Far Cathay by Bing Ding, Ed.
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Betty had mounted on the hassock to have a full view of the singer long ago, and was now trying in vain to restrain the pent- up feelings of her sensitive little soul. – Odd by Amy Le Feuvre
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The hassock slipped, and I fell into the next pew. – Poor Relations by Compton Mackenzie