| 单词 | eiderdown |
| 例句 | Then we furnish ourselves with blankets, and eiderdowns, luxurious soft affairs. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Half the stuffing has come out and it smells like a root cellar full of damp; but still, an eiderdown—a silk eiderdown! Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z Clearly, from her look, there were not many things in the world she disliked more than a couch, a good eiderdown couch, that had been made up for sleeping purposes. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z Her head felt full of eiderdown, and there was a faint pain throbbing behind her eyes. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z I finger the thick toweled robes, read the labels on the amenities, pat the eiderdown quilts, inspect the well-stocked refrigerator, and step into the huge, empty, gleaming bathtub. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The bedroom was furnished mainly with a large double bed covered with an eiderdown comforter for the big Greek and a narrow iron cot for Singer. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Last of all came a folding camp-bedstead with blankets and eiderdown complete, and this she set down between John's cot and Barbara’s. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z To hold the eiderdown on a bed tie a brick at each corner. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z I pulled the eiderdown over my head, sobbing at his feet. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z I pulled the eiderdown up around my neck, an illusion of armor. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z Now, he saw in his flashlight beam, his mother slept under eiderdown quilts that were just beginning to yellow. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Ms. Hall, tall, lithe and bubbling with that outsize Texan charm, swanned about the museum, wearing another Charles James dress, under a glamorous white eiderdown jacket from 1938. Charles James and Me 2014-04-23T23:10:18Z But Christopher Harris' "Skagit Series" — long exposures shot at twilight with a digital Nikon camera through a pinhole lens — evokes a similar sense of landscapes slipping into eiderdown softness. Painter, photographer shroud their Northwest landscapes in mists of memory, mood 2010-06-17T21:27:00Z The director Nancy Meyers doesn’t just make movies, she makes the kind of lifestyle fantasies you sink into like eiderdown. Review: ‘The Intern’ Proves Experience Doesn’t Have to Start at the Top 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z I pick it up and the flakes fall off like strands of eiderdown. The Japanese island where powder snow is almost guaranteed during the month of January 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z They may be luxury commodities now, but civet coffee, eiderdown, sea silk, vicuña, vegetable ivory, guano and edible bird nests all started as local harvests. The 10 books to read in August 2019-07-30T04:00:00Z Soon, in a blizzard of eiderdown, Hill is being attacked in his paddling pool by a murderous refugee from the Dignitas clinic in Switzerland. Harry Hill – review 2013-02-10T12:43:00Z On social media we're confessing to curling up with the cat on the eiderdown, with laptop, phone and notebook to hand. Work from bed: 'I'm not side-tracked by laundry' 2021-01-29T05:00:00Z Alma’s poltergeist not only twiddled necklaces but sprang them from shop counters; it whipped saucers across rooms, upended eiderdowns, spun rings on to fingers. The housewife, the ghost hunter and the poltergeist 2020-09-19T04:00:00Z The classic Goblin Teasmade is probably the best-known of these little gems that cater for our obsession with a nice cup of char before emerging from beneath the eiderdown. Which household items should make a comeback? 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z How many homes have pressed sheets, or towels and robes as soft and white and warm as eiderdown? Hotels, A Love Story: 24 Famous Globetrotters On Their Cherished Escapes 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z It is like walking around in a polyester eiderdown. Can I pass myself off as a member of Team GB? 2012-08-08T16:55:00Z The eiderdown sleeping-bags were a great comfort; they were our only means of keeping thoroughly warm with 34� of frost outside. Mount Everest the Reconnaissance, 1921 2012-04-12T02:00:28.417Z "Nine hundred miles and I've done 'em on eiderdown," he said. The Turnstile 2012-01-29T03:00:09.260Z Cod-liver oil and salted fish are exported with some reindeer-skins, fox-skins and eiderdown; and coal and salt for curing are imported. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 8 "Haller, Albrecht" to "Harmonium" 2012-01-02T03:00:22.443Z In like manner, by contrivance, I could with my breath sustain an ounce of eiderdown in the air, although I am quite powerless to sustain, by like means, the same quantity of solid meat. Ancient Faiths And Modern A Dissertation upon Worships, Legends and Divinities 2011-11-24T03:00:37.917Z Lighten the softness of eiderdown a thousand times, and yet maintain its sense of substance, and you have not conceived of the softness of the gauze that decked her simple, flowing garments. Etidorhpa or the End of Earth. The Strange History of a Mysterious Being and The Account of a Remarkable Journey 2011-10-18T02:00:20.997Z Blankets, cap comforters, fur gloves and warm clothing were issued to all of them, and for those who had to sleep at the highest camps, eiderdown sleeping-bags were also taken. Mount Everest the Reconnaissance, 1921 2012-04-12T02:00:28.417Z He had ridden, he told them, to a distant island, where in a castle of shimmering gold, on a bed of the softest eiderdown, he found a knight stretched in agony. The Fairies and the Christmas Child 2011-09-29T02:00:12.583Z At eight o’clock that evening Molly rolled away luxuriously in a village hack with Mary Stewart, holding her roses tenderly and carefully under her gray eiderdown cape, so as not to crush them. Molly Brown's Freshman Days 2011-07-12T02:00:31.110Z It had brought something dead to life as by miracle, with a touch as soft as eiderdown, sending little thrills knitting in and out all through him. The Old Blood 2011-06-13T02:00:22.897Z "It is like the winter was an eiderdown or a duvet to hide underneath, but in the long summer hours or daylight hours I felt more exposed." Reverse SAD 2011-05-29T02:38:25Z Wonder if he has silk eiderdown quilts for covers. The Outdoor Chums on a Houseboat 2011-04-13T02:00:14.140Z After a long wait and three successive summons, the physician himself attired in an eiderdown dressing gown and slippers opened the door. First Person Paramount 2011-04-07T02:00:19.233Z The first thing she saw, in the lowered light of a lamp, was an old, puckered, wrinkled face just appearing over a barrier of eiderdown and shawls, and deep-set in an easy-chair. At Large 2011-03-27T02:00:14.907Z Of course she had pillow-slips to go with them, and piles of woolen blankets, fluffy, soft and white, and a big puffy eiderdown covered with bright satin as the finishing touch for each well-furnished bed. Home Fires in France 2011-03-22T02:00:24.093Z The bunk was covered with a hair mattress and an eiderdown counterpane. The Ice Pilot 2011-03-09T03:00:48.433Z Where do you suppose the silk-covered eiderdown quilts are stowed away; eh? The Outdoor Chums on a Houseboat 2011-04-13T02:00:14.140Z He was nude to the waist, but thence downwards wrapped in an eiderdown shawl. First Person Paramount 2011-04-07T02:00:19.233Z A wonderful evergreen my Mother continues; still able to face the keen winds & the frost daily in her Bath chair—well swathed, of course in eiderdown & flannels. The Letters of Anne Gilchrist and Walt Whitman 2011-02-26T03:00:49.377Z A sofa heaped with cushions was drawn up by the fire, and on it lay Peggy; a rose-silk eiderdown covered her, and the cushions that supported her were rose-coloured with dainty white muslin covers. The Setons 2011-02-10T03:00:48.400Z No sir, winter is a nice snooze for the passions, our emotions snug under the eiderdown. 'Tis the season 2010-03-19T18:03:00Z With a little sigh his hands dropped nerveless into his lap and he fell back on the shabby eiderdown, his face pale and his breath coming in short, uneven gasps. The Princess Galva A Romance She found an old eiderdown wrapper in the closet and pushed a low chair near the fire, putting the warm grey gown over Jack's rigid shoulders and pushing her softly toward the chair. The Ranch Girls at Rainbow Lodge The Ranch Girls Series Nicolaes Beresteyn had spent several hours in tossing restlessly under the warm eiderdown and between the fine linen sheets embroidered by his sister's deft hands. The Laughing Cavalier The Story of the Ancestor of the Scarlet Pimpernel "Oh, has she, and where?—in the eiderdown of course!" Ditte: Girl Alive! He had made for himself a bed out of an old mattress which he had dragged from some other room, using a torn covering which once had been a beautiful eiderdown quilt. The Campfire Girls on the Field of Honor It has only one rival—the garment of lavender eiderdown flannel, the button-holes stitched with black yarn, which the elderly widow too often puts on when the tide of her grief has turned. Threads of Grey and Gold Surely his bed had had a pink eiderdown! A Diary Without Dates A pretty little silkolene coverlet to lay on the foot of the bed, such as you have, or a small eiderdown puff, is very nice, but blankets are the things to sleep under. A Little Housekeeping Book for a Little Girl Margaret's Saturday Mornings "Granny! mother knows you've hidden the money in the eiderdown," she said suddenly. Ditte: Girl Alive! To look at them was to breathe an involuntary prayer for eiderdown enclosures that would keep the poppet inside warm without disparagement to her glorious finery. When Ghost Meets Ghost Could the dear departed see his relict in the morning, with lavender eiderdown environment, he would appreciate his mercies as never before. Threads of Grey and Gold He liked the barracks although his bunk mattress wasn't as soft as Ma's eiderdown comforts. Sonny And then at the foot of each was plumped, in a puff of beauty, the bright satin eiderdowns that Leslie had insisted upon. Cloudy Jewel "How cold you are, child!" said the old woman, when they were both under the eiderdown. Ditte: Girl Alive! So I guess he is now safely back home, in his little eiderdown bed, getting fed with chicken broth;––home in Ukalla jail, where he belongs. The Spoilers of the Valley For Khalid will not sleep in a bunk, even though it be furnished with eiderdown cushions and tiger skins. The Book of Khalid She pulled the eiderdown about her head so as not to cry out so loudly that she would be heard. The Dust Flower Under the eiderdown was a snowy light counterpane. Hollyhock A Spirit of Mischief There was no money—not as much as a farthing was to be found, in spite of their searching, and the splitting up of the eiderdown—and the house was mortgaged up to the hilt. Ditte: Girl Alive! A sleeping bag made of eiderdown, lined with canton flannel and covered with oiled silk or duck's back can be rolled and carried across the shoulders. Scouting For Girls, Official Handbook of the Girl Scouts The nights had been so cold before this that I had to get out my eiderdown, but when we got into the warm water, that had to be discarded. "The Red Watch" With the First Canadian Division in Flanders Its yellow silken quilt, lined with eiderdown, and embroidered with crimson flowers, was like a great waving field of ripe corn with poppies in it. The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 1 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors... This sharp and angry tone slightly startled the kitchen cat, who raised herself slowly, making a great heave as she did so of her own body and of the eiderdown. Hollyhock A Spirit of Mischief Oh, that's lucky, for that eiderdown I'm going to fetch some day. Ditte: Girl Alive! Her dress of airy, azure blue, so becoming to her dark beauty, gave Phil the impression of eiderdown feathers of some rare bird of the tropics. The Clansman An Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan Child's Crocheted Hood Use eiderdown or very heavy Germantown worsted, with a hook large enough to carry the wool without fraying. Handbook of Wool Knitting and Crochet Not only was it as thick and soft as eiderdown, but it shone with wondrous colors that changed as one looked at them, and it was embroidered with gold in strange designs. Tales of Folk and Fairies I haven’t done a single thing but get this coat,” was sobbed from the bed, as a vigorous kick sent the eiderdown cover flying almost in Miss Woodhull’s face. A Dixie School Girl After I had emptied the bowl I slid down under the eiderdown again, where the heat, aided by the wine, nearly suffocated me. Nobody's Boy Sans Famille She allowed the old woman to lead her gently to her bedchamber, where within the narrow alcove she lay all that night tossing upon the silken mattress that was stuffed with eiderdown. "Unto Caesar" She had made Margaret lie down, administered sal volatile, covered her with an eiderdown quilt, and seen her maid bathing the girl's forehead with eau de Cologne and water before she came back again. A True Friend A Novel To the fine angular stern of the Minnie Williams the Higgins place would be like nothing so much as a pillow stuffed with eiderdown. The Best Short Stories of 1919 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story Six chairs of cherry wood and a round table with an oilcloth showing the kings of France, a bedspread with eiderdown of pink muslin. Sac-Au-Dos 1907 While I laid still under the eiderdown trying to get warm, Vitalis, to the servant's astonishment, turned little Pretty-Heart round and round before the fire as though he were going to roast him. Nobody's Boy Sans Famille He went to his bedroom, fetched the eiderdown off his own bed and covered the boy with it. The Ffolliots of Redmarley On her husband’s bed was a huge eiderdown, and under that only a sheet—no blankets at all! Good Old Anna Mrs. Motherwell brought chickens, Mrs. Slater fresh eggs, Mrs. Green a new eiderdown quilt; Aunt Kate Shenstone came over to sit up at nights. The Second Chance Barbara, as the eldest, has two pillows and an eiderdown coverlet; the rest of us have only one pillow and a woollen counterpane. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 1, July, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy The eiderdown is easily collected, as the birds are quite tame. Love's Meinie Three Lectures on Greek and English Birds "Now," said Mary again, and switched off the light; "you can have the eiderdown if you're cold." The Ffolliots of Redmarley Turkey red curtains draped the window, a low basket-chair was covered in the same material, a red silk eiderdown covered the little bed. The Independence of Claire And she closed her eyes and drew the eiderdown quilt close about her shoulders. Grace Harlowe's Plebe Year at High School The Merry Doings of the Oakdale Freshmen Girls So Tish repeated it, but when she came to the eiderdown pillow he held up his hand. More Tish She felt hot, and threw back her eiderdown. A Popular Schoolgirl A Young Domestic.—We should recommend the eiderdown quilt being sent to a cleaner's, as it will only lead to disappointment if you wash it at home. The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. VIII, No. 357, October 30, 1886 They found her wrapped in the folds of a blue eiderdown bathrobe, Arline's Christmas present to her. Grace Harlowe's First Year at Overton College Stuffing them well with snowflakes fine, And soft as eiderdown. King Winter The singer was sitting up in a chair by the fire, wrapped about in her own silk dressing-gown, which had been brought ashore from the wreck, and in an eiderdown quilt. The Harbor Master Saving the Coverlet.—It is discouraging to the mother to find the eiderdown coverlets becoming soiled where the children rub their hands over them. Mother's Remedies Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers of the United States and Canada Half under the lace coverlet over the eiderdown a letter written on familiar looking pale grey notepaper was sticking out, and he couldn't help seeing the words:—"My own darling angel." What Timmy Did Two fine soft blankets came first, then an eiderdown comfort, and then—something wrapped in a square of time-yellowed linen, and smelling faintly of lavender. The Quilt that Jack Built; How He Won the Bicycle Folded across the foot of the bed should lie the extra covering for cold nights, either an eiderdown or less costly quilt, daintily covered with cheesecloth, silkolene, etc. The Complete Home As I was now beneath two blankets and an eiderdown quilt, and my nose was cold, I was duly grateful. The Killer She had paled slightly and she leaned over and drew an eiderdown quilt across her knees. The Voice of the People She took it out of the pretty fancy bag, which lay on her pale blue silk eiderdown, and read it through again with a mixture of amusement and irritation. What Timmy Did I heard his father whisper a most convincing description of eiderdowns and real wool blankets when he kissed him. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-02-04 She did more; she cast her skirt and blouse aside with the corsets, and when Mrs. Amber returned she found her lying rest fully under the eiderdown, untrammelled, in thin petticoat and camisole. Married Life The True Romance The soft easy chaff bed gave her more of rest and satisfaction than if it had been eiderdown. The Underworld The Story of Robert Sinclair, Miner Her lips trembled and her knees were shaking beneath the eiderdown quilt. The Voice of the People She wore a dressing gown of pale blue eiderdown, and Grace thought she had never seen her old enemy look better. Grace Harlowe's Sophomore Year at High School The Record of the Girl Chums in Work and Athletics The red splash of the eiderdown, just visible in the light from the adjoining window, seemed to be a horrible distance below me. The Man with the Clubfoot She now indicated a broad bunk, with a beautifully white counterpane and such an eiderdown quilt as she might optimistically have dreamed about. Nocturne There is something fat and sinister and German about that eiderdown. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, April 18, 1917 Slowly lifting one foot, he put in on the ground as softly as if it were held in a slipper of eiderdown. The Cave in the Mountain A Sequel to In the Pecos Country / by Lieut. R. H. Jayne "Maybe they're in Heaven," said Sweetclover, and just then the parasol went skimming through a beautiful white cloud, and the sun was dancing on it, making it look like pink eiderdown. Kernel Cob And Little Miss Sweetclover I came down hard, very hard, but old Madame's plump eiderdown and pillows certainly helped to break my fall. The Man with the Clubfoot The bodice lay like a trifling fragment on the blue-green eiderdown of her bed, a pair of satin shoes glistened in front of the fire, and two chairs bore the discarded finery of the day. Leonora For example, many children in the Kindergarten make mittens out of eiderdown flannel in the Fall, when their own mothers are knitting their mittens, and make little hoods either for themselves or for their dolls. Study of Child Life She found a light eiderdown that had been thrown aside, and covered the prone figure, gently chafing the cold hands and feet. Helena Branches were piled on the window-seat, and on the top, wrapped in an eiderdown quilt, with a laurel wreath bound round his head, lay David. Penny Plain I dropped square on top of the eiderdown with one knee on a pillow and, though shaken and jarred, I found I had broken no bones. The Man with the Clubfoot In a deep armchair in front of a fire sat an old woman, tucked up in an eiderdown of blue and white satin. The Moon Rock She had an eiderdown quilt wrapped around her over her dressing-gown. Two Little Knights of Kentucky Lucy slipped her own slight form under the wide eiderdown. Helena Jock yelled, as he grabbed the burning twigs, but it was "Imperial Caesar, dead and turned to clay," who really put out the fire by rolling on it wrapped in an eiderdown quilt. Penny Plain I noticed, with a grateful heart, that the eiderdown and pillows covered practically the whole of the flags of the yard. The Man with the Clubfoot On sleeping-bags little new can be said—the eiderdown bag may be a useful addition for a short time on a spring journey, but they soon get iced up. Scott's Last Expedition Volume I Why," he said, "as soon as I'm done tucking you up properly in this eiderdown quilt, I'm going out to your icebox and try to find the makings of an egg-nog. Mary Wollaston The sun, I repeat, was sinking slowly in the west, and the children slept warmly and happily on - for wings are cosier than eiderdown quilts to sleep under. Five Children and It There was a large wooden bedstead on which was a billowing red eiderdown, and there was a large wardrobe, a round table, a very small washstand, and two stuffed chairs covered with red rep. Moon and Sixpence The bed wore a coloured rug, bare and thin, an eiderdown, damp and musty. The Happy Foreigner Bowers did not use an eiderdown bag throughout, and in some miraculous manner he managed to turn his reindeer bag two or three times during the journey. Scott's Last Expedition Volume I Through the trees she could see the lawn, lighted up as if by fireworks, and then the two chairs—empty—the eiderdown lying crumpled on the grass. Treasure and Trouble Therewith A Tale of California Papa's body made an enormous mound under the green eiderdown. Mary Olivier: a Life The bed unmade and piled with uncovered hotel pillows, and a large German eiderdown, on top of folded blankets, it all looked ghastly and sad and cold. Three Weeks Next they collected quilts from the hotel bedrooms to wrap him up in--red silk eiderdown quilts. Look Back on Happiness Another new departure is the decision to carry eiderdown sleeping-bags inside the reindeer ones. Scott's Last Expedition Volume I The old lady, seeing her face, cast aside the eiderdown, and rose in tottering consternation. Treasure and Trouble Therewith A Tale of California Her hands and her body were burning; the heavy eiderdown crushed her; she felt crushed and oppressed by the darkness; but she dared not move. Jean-Christophe, Volume I And they must have spring mattresses covered with red and white striped tick, and bolsters filled with down; and two eiderdown quilts, exactly alike. Married Finally, sinking to sleep in a bed of eiderdown, Popanilla was confirmed in his prejudices against a state of nature. The Voyage of Captain Popanilla Then Marina felt the first stirring of her child; soft, gentle movements, like the touch of eiderdown upon her body. Tales of the Wilderness Youth spread the sward with mattresses of eiderdown, and curtained out the stars with silken tapestry. We Can't Have Everything It seemed as if the occupants of the chassis were riding luxuriously over a road paved with the softest of eiderdown. The Girl Aviators' Sky Cruise Furthermore, each man had an eiderdown sleeping-bag, blankets, and plenty of heavy clothes and sweaters. Inca Land Explorations in the Highlands of Peru We had no water to wash the men, barely enough for cooking and for surgical dressings, but there were silk bedspreads and eiderdown quilts and all the treasures of German sitting-rooms. Sketches of the East Africa Campaign Instead of the plain white walls of her room, she saw the soft gray tints of silk and the sheen of silver, and her hands touched a silken-covered eiderdown quilt. Drusilla with a Million Each man was to go on a different food scale, eiderdown sleeping-bags were to be carried inside the reindeer ones, and a new kind of crampon and a double tent were to be tried. The Voyages of Captain Scott : Retold from the Voyage of the Discovery and Scott's Last Expedition "Since you are writing, my dear comrade, have the goodness to note down to ask at my house for my eiderdown coverlet." Mysteries of Paris, V3 If the regular little crib blankets are thought too expensive, a very good substitute may be made from white eiderdown cloth, which is warm, soft, and not at all costly. Making Good on Private Duty Down pillows, soft eiderdown quilts for painful broken legs; mattresses for pain-racked bodies. Sketches of the East Africa Campaign He found Mrs. Wrandall lying back in a chair, attended by a slender young woman in a pink eiderdown dressing-gown, who gave hesitating directions to him. The Hollow of Her Hand "And hello, Julia!" said Barbara pleasantly, on this occasion, resting her armful of blue brocade and eiderdown upon a chair back. The Story of Julia Page "Do not be uneasy, my general." "1st Alexandrine; 2d the fish, and the hamper of wine; 3d the old 1817 Cognac, the ground coffee, and the eiderdown coverlet." Mysteries of Paris, V3 "Twelve eiderdown beds would be insufficient to shelter one from this wind." The Thrall of Leif the Lucky A Story of Viking Days Then there were other feet on the porch: in came the German girls and Laura Carter, hooded in knitted fragile scarfs, and wrapped in pale blue and pink circular capes edged narrowly with fluffy eiderdown. Martie, the Unconquered Here is Barque's bulging chest-protector, carven from an eiderdown quilt, formerly pink, but now fantastically bleached and mottled by dust and rain. Under Fire: the story of a squad When at home, he had an eiderdown quilt to sleep on, and the stone of the window-sill was a little trying to a snake of regular habits. Indiscretions of Archie Yes; an inhabitant of that peninsula He is an eiderdown hunter, and very clever. A Journey to the Interior of the Earth At the sight of the man who leaned against its flaming red cushions of eiderdown, Alwin forgot his admiration. The Thrall of Leif the Lucky A Story of Viking Days His hand touched her foot through the soft eiderdown. Beyond A number of papers lay strewn about the eiderdown quilt. Okewood of the Secret Service They were not an eiderdown quilt, but they would serve. Indiscretions of Archie On the third the little brute turned the poor cat out of its basket and slept on the eiderdown, after which no more tree for him, real or imitation. Tea-Table Talk When all was ready the three companions wrapped themselves in the ponchos, and stretched themselves on an eiderdown of ALFAFARES, the usual bed of hunters on the Pampas. In Search of the Castaways; or the Children of Captain Grant Around the satin capsule, which contains the eggs, is the eiderdown destined to keep out the cold. The Life of the Spider He could see the black and pink eiderdown on his bed and the black lining of the chintz curtains. Okewood of the Secret Service Still, she looked very pretty, her skin slightly glistening with its night's bath of cold cream, her slim arms lying out on the blue silk eiderdown coverlet. Dangerous Days For suddenly the eiderdown comfort began to slip. When a Man Marries Try to imagine a camp with sixteen rooms, plumbing, eiderdown quilts, a butler, a garage, solid silver plate, and a long-distance telephone. Options See: in the middle of the eiderdown hangs a cylindrical pocket, round at the bottom, cut square at the top and closed with a padded lid. The Life of the Spider But to-day she passed the baker's by, climbed the stairs, went into the little dark room—her room like a cupboard—and sat down on the red eiderdown. The Garden Party and Other Stories The hard-packed clay floor was velvet carpet; the rude seats soft as eiderdown; the platform with its white-oak cross, an altar of marble and gold. The Spirit of the Border We shall find that some of the youngsters have already left the central chamber and scattered over the surrounding eiderdown, while the rest of the laying still consists of a compact mass of orange eggs. The Life of the Spider The signs of pressure from within are manifest: the tatters of the torn fabric are turned outwards; also, a wisp of the russet eiderdown that fills the wallet invariably straggles through the breach. The Life of the Spider Various materials enter into its composition: white silk, red silk, brown silk; moreover, these materials are worked into dissimilar products: stout cloth, soft eiderdown, dainty satinette, porous felt. The Life of the Spider Oh, how sweet it was to see them snap at her again from the red eiderdown!... The Garden Party and Other Stories In the same way, the Epeira puts the eiderdown quilting and the taffeta wrapper round a capsule that contains nothing. The Life of the Spider Under the outer wrapper, which is as stout as our woven stuffs and, moreover, perfectly waterproof, is a russet eiderdown of exquisite delicacy, a silky fluff resembling driven smoke. The Life of the Spider A very small part of the family are expelled with the flow of tawny floss; the vast majority remain in the bag, which is ripped open, but still bulges with eiderdown. The Life of the Spider Inside, there is nothing but the eggs: no mattress, no soft eiderdown, like that of the Epeirae. 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