What is "chin rest"

Usage examples of "chin rest".

Coming round the dusty little circle again, Beauty saw that the Princess was squirming as her hands were tied behind her back, and the chin rest was being cranked up by an iron bolt so that she couldn't turn her head.

Nothing but the slender post of the chin rest came between me and thousands of pairs of eyes, my chest and belly tightening in rolling spasms.

He folded his arms and let his chin rest on his sternum, leaving Fess the sleepless to watch for anything significant.

He jerked her back to his chest and let his chin rest atop her head.

She felt his chin rest gently on the back of her head and closed her eyes, taking in the cinnamon smell of his cologne and experiencing its fragrance in the pit of her belly.

Primrose and Wulfric, still in wolf form, bounded after her, each claiming one of the nymph's knees for a chin rest when she had seated herself.

Peter, head in the chin rest, closed his eyes and fervently prayed with all his soul that the second reading would mirror the first.

Tired of holding his head up, he lets his chin rest on the collar and speculates on how he can hobble over to the grate, boil a little water and throw in a handful of meal.

Instead, she followed Melanie's example by lowering her hood over her eyes and turning her head to one side, resting it on the chin rest as on a pillow.

Nina let her chin rest on Emma's shoulder, and chattered happily in her ear all the way there.