We sat for a short time after supper in the parlour next evening, Ian and Jamie talking over the farm's business in the corner, accompanied by a decanter of elderberry wine, while jenny relaxed at last with her swollen ankles propped on a hassock.

Leaning back, his legs were crossed at the ankle, propped on the table, and he was wiggling his toes in their wool socks.

With one ankle propped on his opposite knee, he was giving himself a foot rub.

Vernon was sitting in his armchair by the fire, his injured ankle propped on a telephone book.

She had found him in his office, ankles propped on his desk, deep into the current issue of the Journal of Para-Archaeology.

I got home in time to see the Knicks whip Charlotte, my swollen ankle propped on a coffee table.

He used her office to make his calls, lounging back in her chair, legs long and straight, crossed lazily at the ankles, propped on the corner of her desk.

David was sitting by a low fire, his swollen ankle propped on a hassock.