Citations:pedal stool

Music sense

 * 1904, Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office, volume 112, part 2, page 1,878
 * A pedal-stool having an opening in its rear side to clear the piano-pedals and having a stop-piece to coact with the piano-pedals to prevent the stool from coming in contact with the piano.
 * 1998, David Nicholls, The Whole World of Music: A Henry Cowell Symposium, page 22
 * The Harp of Life (1924, L384), for example, represents the cosmic instrument as played by the Dagna, the God of Life in Irish mythology. As Cowell explained, the sound-post of this instrument “extended above the ridge of heaven, while the pedal-stool was beneath hell.”

Malapropism

 * 1993, Rory MacLean, Stalin’s Nose: Across the Face of Europe (Flamingo; ISBN 0006545173, 9780006545170), page 210
 * ‘I looked up to him, you know. I put him on a pedal stool.’
 * 1996, Bill Crider, A Dangerous Thing (Worldwide; ISBN 0373262167, 9780373262168), page 52
 * […] make money when they retire and get put up on a pedal-stool by there fans that’s why Im am in radio and tv so Ill have a trade when I get out of sports except that if Im am in radio and tv I wont reely be out of sports for all intensive purposes but…
 * 2002, Tribune, volume 66, page 45
 * Occasionally, even in hell, one gets a laugh. “It is unwise for auterists to put auteurs on a pedal stool above nonauteurs.” That comes from a final-year dissertation.
 * 2003, Richard Lederer, The Bride of Anguished English: A Bonanza of Bloopers, Blunders, Botches and Boo-Boos, page 129
 * • The author puts women on a pedal stool.
 * 2006, Thomas E. Sliwinski, The House of Thomas, volume 3, page 5
 * Leah, holding high to her own personal beliefs took a path that would soon put her on a pedal stool upon other Christians.
 * 2007 September 19th, Mamet, Hush Ma, page 103
 * “You know it’s against the rules to date the judge Juliet, our rivals will put you on a pedal stool”.
 * 2007 October 8th, Jeff Motley, Soul Centered: The Thoughts, Emotions & Poetry of Jeff Motley, page 46
 * Never asked for much but I cared for you Put you on the highest pedal stool and now I’m stuck looking like a fool I took some time to clear my mind Wishing that I could press rewind You’re such a beautiful woman, but a guy like me is hard to find
 * 2008, Debbie Graham, The Mutts Nuts, page 140
 * Linda had just gained a huge amount of respect from him my meting out the beating she did to Luke, but he was still not one hundred percent certain that she would carry out any further threats and Luke would bounce back and return to her good books and his place on her pedal stool.
 * 2009, Clarence Bowser (AKA Tutu), Four Steps to Making a Perfect Relationship, But There’s Always One Thing Missing, chapter 13: “Turning Darkness into Rage!”
 * I put all my emotions on my shoulders and took the pain and places it at on a pedal stool like it was a gift from God!
 * 2010 March, Barbara A Payne, Happily Single, chapter 7: “Sngle”, page 34
 * LADIES: IN TODAY’S WORLD WE ARE FACE WITH MANY OBSTACLES AND MANY CHALLENGES WITH TODAY’S WOMAN. WE ARE PUT ON A PEDAL STOOL THEN WE ARE KNOCK OFF THE SAME STOOL WE WERE PUT ON.
 * 2010 July 14th, Candice Payne-Dennie, Pretty, Never Saved Me No Pain, page 218
 * He continued. “See, my father was always good to my Mother. He put her on a pedal stool and never brought her down. Their love was to the grave. And, that’s how I want to be. I’m looking for a wife; not a girlfriend.”
 * 2010 October 13th, Deborah Wofford, Pour Me Out A Blessing Ministries, page 308
 * […] I gotta come down from my pedal stool. How can I continue to act a fool? […]