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Do you recall that evening when you stooled against the column where the decrees are posted?

From The Eleven Comedies, Volume 2 by Aristophanes

He gazed round the stooled and tabled eaters, tightening the wings of his nose.

From Ulysses by Joyce, James

They stood back and took stock of the neglected growth, tapped an elbow of hedge-oak here, a mossed beech-stub there, swayed a stooled ash back and forth, and looked at each other.

From A Diversity of Creatures by Kipling, Rudyard

Now," said Molly breathlessly, as the last madly protesting bird had been stooled, "let's get into the blind as soon as we can, Mr. Marche.

From Blue-Bird Weather by Gibson, Charles Dana

The wheat had stooled well, and a couple of showers early in May had relieved the drought that threatens before the thunder-storms of June and July set in.

From The Bail Jumper by Stead, Robert J. C.