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I quickened our step; I wanted to get there before the question between us opened up much further; I reflected hungrily that, for more than an hour, he would have to be silent; and I thought with envy of the comparative dusk of the pew and of the almost spiritual help of the hassock on which I might bend my knees.

Charlie obediently sat himself upon a hassock at her feet; the other sinners drew near to catch the words of wisdom about to fall from her lips, and Rose, softened by this gratifying humility, addressed them in her most maternal tone.

She found him sitting in a heap on the hassock, and crying bitterly.

At the Litany George had trouble with an unstable hassock, and drew the slip of carpet under the pewseat.

The boys made the long trip south to Hassocks, near Brighton, while the Shropshire girls side played closer to home in Stourbridge in the annual competition.

In July Jeanette Dyson's black Labrador Oscar had to be given treatment after exhibiting strange behaviour after walking on Hassocks Lane beside Honley Woods.

After her husband died from a heart attack at the age of 70, Mrs Fox moved to Tunbridge Wells, before going into a local care home and then being transferred to the Salvation Army's residential care home, Villa Adastra, in Hassocks, West Sussex, in 2013.

Dilys Armistice Fox had hundreds of cards after staff at Salvation Army care home Villa Adastra, in Hassocks, West Sussex, were concerned the event would go unmarked because she only has two elderly relatives.

In 1963 she married actor Tony Steedman and in 1999 the couple bought a pretty three-bedroom barn conversion in the Sussex countryside near Hassocks.

Now, down the years, your perambulating pensioner has eased his knees into many hairy hassocks.

Hassocks to Eastbourne The rolling hills known as the Downs form Britain's newest National Park, and this 32-mile route gives a taste of both its inland and coastal scenery.