| 单词 | feather bed |
| 例句 | “It does sound too nice for words, I must say. A feather bed and none of those few- mets for ever so long. How long did you say it would take us to get there?” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z After weeks of sleeping on the ground, the feather bed beneath her back was like clouds. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z In the bedroom to the rear there is a sumptuous feather bed for Katherine and a relatively clean cot has been brought in for me. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z Did she wake up in a feather bed, toast and coffee served on a silver service? Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z He carried Inigo inside, placed him upstairs on Falkbridge’s feather bed, then hurried away to the entrance of the Thieves Quarter, dragging the wagon behind him. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z It’s so enticing, like I’ve been working in the sun and have come home to sink into a feather bed, knowing nothing will disturb me. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z “And what a lovely gentleman he must be, to have a feather bed! “I suppose I should have to share it with somebody?” he added doubtfully. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Phil lies down on the water like it’s a feather bed. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z The cloud looked so solid, I’d have sworn I could jump on it like a feather bed, and yet the plane cut through it as easily as a hot knife in butter. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The feather bed began to heave on the floor. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z They’d had to take rooms in an inn so Maester Kedry could tuck him into a feather bed and feed him broths and potions until some pink returned to his cheeks. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z But the prospect of Johannesburg was so exciting to me that I felt like I slept on a beautiful feather bed that night. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Afterwards, poor foreigners seeped in and the quiet old brownstone houses were hacked up into flats, feather beds were pushed out on the window sills to air and the Tree of Heaven flourished. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Taryn and I hear things, even if no one means for us to—stories of humans sleeping on stone floors and eating refuse, believing themselves to be resting on feather beds and supping on delicacies. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z “It’s the young boy with the feather bed, isn’t it, I say, what?” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z “Is empty. And for you, young man, I make up a bed on sofa. You will be more comfortable than in feather bed. I swear.” American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z That night, snuggled deep in the soft folds of a feather bed, I lay thinking. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z She took the hint and fled, leaving him alone in the darkness, sinking deeper into his feather bed. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Darkness swallowed the feather bed and its two occupants, and filled every comer of the chamber. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Half in her lap and half on the floor was an enormous feather bed. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Then I retired to my rooms where I slept like a dead man, lost in the vastness of my new feather bed. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z After four nights of awful sleep in the rover, my bunk felt like the softest, most profoundly beautiful feather bed ever made. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Who knows if I will ever lie in a feather bed again? All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z You would have to be stone deaf to sleep through it even in a feather bed. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z She noticed the feather beds bellying out of windows, clothes of Oriental-bright colors drying on the fire escapes and the half-naked children playing in the gutters. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z He slept badly even on soft feather beds. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The Knight Bus rolled through the darkness, scattering bushes and wastebaskets, telephone booths and trees, and Harry lay, restless and miserable, on his feather bed. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z When he woke again, he was back in his bedchamber, drowning in the goose-down feather bed once more while a blond girl shook his shoulder. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Kaede found the stone floor as comfortable as a feather bed after days of sleeping on lumpy ground, and she fell asleep so quickly she barely had time to enjoy the flatness beneath her back. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Not go home and lay those tortured bones in a feather bed? I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z He woke naked on a goose-down feather bed so soft it felt as if he had been swallowed by a cloud. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z My body was like a feather bed, warm, boneless, deeply comforting, in which I lay cocooned. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Each song tosses another blanket atop a feather bed, another log on a fire, a series of stories to send the imagination drifting as winter closes in. Album review: Kate Bush, '50 Words for Snow' 2011-11-18T17:35:00Z If your guest room mattress is the oldest in the house, Sonfield says, consider getting a bed topper to make it more comfortable, possibly a memory foam or feather bed model. Company’s coming: Is your house hospitality-ready? “Wallflower” was produced and arranged by the megahit maker David Foster, whose lush but static string arrangements, written by William Ross, couch each song on a soft feather bed. Releases From Bob Dylan and Diana Krall 2015-02-02T05:00:00Z In his 20s, he spent five years as a gagman for the great radio comic Fred Allen, a period he sums up as “a long dream in a feather bed.” At 100, Herman Wouk re-emerges with a memoir, ‘Sailor and Fiddler’ 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z They are off riding trains, sitting in departure lounges or securely back in their own feather beds. Cannes film festival diary: day eight 2013-05-22T14:44:16Z Suddenly there were mattress toppers made of feathers and down, known as "European feather beds." T Magazine: Deep Sleep 2012-10-10T22:00:49Z Guided tours take visitors through the antiques-filled parlor, the dining room and the master bedroom, comfortably appointed with a canopied feather bed and a commode masquerading as an easy chair. A Tour Through American History in a Cos Cob Saltbox 2017-01-07T05:00:00Z Everything else was lost, but I still have a couple of feather beds and the photo albums. Taken in haste, kept forever 2013-11-17T01:09:15Z Sodo is home to freight companies, wholesale distributors, scrap-metal yards and factories that make everything from airplane parts and industrial immersion heaters to feather beds and bottles. Industrial Sodo splits on arena, neighborhood's future 2012-08-01T05:03:44Z The moulting season having come, the "chicken lot" looks as if several feather beds had been emptied there. A Breeze from the Woods, 2nd Ed. 2012-04-23T02:00:29.820Z As soon as the Indians began firing into the house my mother covered us children over with a feather bed in the corner of one of the rooms farthest from the side attacked. Blazing The Way True Stories, Songs and Sketches of Puget Sound 2012-04-03T02:00:30.677Z There was a feather bed on the floor; and on this, exhausted as I was by the agitation of my mind, I threw myself down and fell asleep. The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War after the Conquest of Canada 2012-03-26T02:00:34.423Z Blankets, dear girls! and a mattress, and a feather bed, and two pillows. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 1. No 1, June 1850 2012-03-21T02:00:31.390Z But the steps were narrow and steep, and Hofman stood like a feather bed in the way, and presently he desisted. My Lady Rotha A Romance 2012-02-27T03:00:10.983Z The mariner snored as peacefully on his canvas couch in the corner of the hut as though he were on a feather bed at home. With Drake on the Spanish Main 2012-02-20T03:00:17.357Z We got under a feather bed and waited, expecting every minute that the Indians would come. Blazing The Way True Stories, Songs and Sketches of Puget Sound 2012-04-03T02:00:30.677Z It’s not a bit like a feather bed. Black-Eyed Susan 2012-02-13T03:00:16.587Z I have slept for a fortnight at a time on reindeer skins, and prefer them to any feather bed. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol III, No 13, 1851 2012-02-10T03:00:15.463Z One could scarcely imagine any condition to be worse; and yet I had just seen him lying drunk on a feather bed, cursing at his comparatively young mistress in the most filthy language. What Shall We Do? 2012-01-29T03:00:11.167Z “Miss Mingle is a dear, but she won’t like leaky feather beds dropped on her.” Dorothy Dale in the City 2012-01-13T03:00:12.213Z I can see very well we are in for a battle—feather beds torn in pieces—carpets rent asunder—you and Bessie tugging at opposite ends of Mrs. Drake's sofa. A Drake by George! 2012-01-09T03:00:22.163Z “But how many feathers are there in a feather bed?” Black-Eyed Susan 2012-02-13T03:00:16.587Z The young folks slept soundly, and warmly, as well, and were really sorry to crawl out of the feather beds at seven o’clock the next morning when they were called to get ready for breakfast. The Corner House Girls Snowbound 2011-12-30T03:00:22.827Z They had also cut open feather beds and the feathers were blown over the prairie. A Trip to California in 1853 Recollections of a Gold Seeking Trip by Ox Train across the Plains and Mountains by an Old Illinois Pioneer 2011-12-21T03:00:30.213Z “Girls, do be quiet!” begged Dorothy, “and tell us what happened to that feather bed.” Dorothy Dale in the City 2012-01-13T03:00:12.213Z When they will spread currant cakes and feather beds before us, it will be time for us to sit down and fret. Where There is Nothing Being Volume I of Plays for an Irish Theatre 2011-12-21T03:00:25.100Z “Because there are just as many stones in this lane as there are feathers in a feather bed,” Grandfather would answer gravely. Black-Eyed Susan 2012-02-13T03:00:16.587Z Roaring fires, hot supper, feather beds, and plenty of woolen blankets awaited the crowd from Milton at this backwoods hostelry. The Corner House Girls Snowbound 2011-12-30T03:00:22.827Z They had no use for Flanders tapestry, for state beds or arm-chairs; but they kept, among other things, two feather beds, all the linen and pottery, and three very beautiful pictures. Henrietta Maria 2011-12-15T03:00:14.290Z “I shall ever after this have a respect for the proverbial feather bed.” Dorothy Dale in the City 2012-01-13T03:00:12.213Z No feather bed is upon the iron supports, and the sleeper is compelled to repose upon hard—probably too hard—mattresses. Oscar Wilde 2011-12-10T03:00:14.120Z Instantly beside them on the forest floor they saw three soft white feather beds. Mighty Mikko A Book of Finnish Fairy Tales and Folk Tales 2011-11-25T03:00:15.030Z She had put Aussolas on a house agent's books, "out of spite," Flurry said sourly; "I suppose she thinks I'd pop the silver, or sell the feather beds." In Mr. Knox's Country 2011-11-21T03:00:16.010Z But no German with a wife and six girls and a feather bed shall beat this outfit. The Pike's Peak Rush Terry in the New Gold Fields 2011-11-11T03:00:26.697Z The two newcomers were now in a heap on the floor, or rather were in a heap on a feather bed they had dragged into the room with them. Dorothy Dale in the City 2012-01-13T03:00:12.213Z Mrs. Crane's own room opened off the little parlor, and visitors could see the high feather bed always as smooth and rounded on top as one of Mrs. Crane's big loaves of light bread. Dandelion Cottage 2011-10-29T02:00:16.960Z I shall send great heaviness on them and a longing for sleep, then let them come upon a row of soft inviting feather beds. Mighty Mikko A Book of Finnish Fairy Tales and Folk Tales 2011-11-25T03:00:15.030Z Miss Eleanor read one day of a little girl who, on seeing the snowflakes, asked her mother if the angels were shaking their feather beds. Daisy the autobiography of a cat 2011-10-25T02:00:24.887Z “No. It was like falling into a feather bed, only it’s cold.” Ned Wilding's Disappearance or, The Darewell Chums in the City 2011-10-11T02:01:05.260Z Having been shown to my apartment by the landlord or one of his assistants, I quietly entered and secured the door, betraying no surprise upon seeing the inevitable "feather bed." Ocean to Ocean on Horseback Being the Story of a Tour in the Saddle from the Atlantic to the Pacific; with Especial Reference to the Early History and Devel 2011-10-06T02:00:32.743Z Your tongue's as soft as a feather bed. A Man of Honor 2011-10-02T02:00:16.927Z Saturday is always fixed on as the day of marriage, and Friday is allotted to bring home the furniture of the woman, consisting generally of an oak chest, a feather bed, clothes, &c. Curiosities of Great Britain: England and Wales Delineated Vol.1-11 Historical, Entertaining & Commercial; Alphabetically Arranged. 11 Volume set. 2011-09-26T02:00:29.140Z Later the feathers of wild pigeons, ducks, and geese were made into feather beds. Stories of Old Kentucky 2011-09-23T02:00:21.413Z She was content to sleep in a big feather bed, to be covered by a clean patchwork quilt, to eat on a deal table off blue crockery, with a well-scoured pewter spoon. The Old-Fashioned Fairy Book 2011-09-09T02:01:11.180Z The cover consists of a feather bed and a blanket. Music-Study in Germany from the Home Correspondence of Amy Fay 2011-09-07T02:00:17.597Z They actually carried this idea into execution, and sent the miller’s cart off with the feather bed. Greene Ferne Farm 2011-08-14T02:00:22.210Z It makes me feel proud, and I imagine that I am Prometheus, while the vulture—that is you—has to lie in a feather bed in Sandberg Street and swallow mercury. The Red Room 2011-08-13T02:00:26.943Z A feather bed might be all right, but she felt more than a little shy of venturing into it. Carolyn of the Corners 2011-08-10T02:00:14.997Z Mary probably valued the feather bed left her by her father far more than she did the legacy of land. The Stronghold A Story of Historic Northern Neck of Virginia and Its People 2011-07-17T02:00:38.770Z That sounds rather formidable, but the feather bed is a light, warm covering, and looks about two inches thick. Music-Study in Germany from the Home Correspondence of Amy Fay 2011-09-07T02:00:17.597Z Harriet pulled the many colored counterpanes about her and snuggled down into the thick feather bed. Peggy Owen Patriot A Story for Girls 2011-07-17T02:00:32.837Z She wouldn't have people sick with a fever covered up in good, thick feather beds, or give them a single glass of good liquor. Only a Girl: or, A Physician for the Soul. 2011-07-13T02:00:14.230Z On Monday after she got home, I called on her; she was at work; she was cleaning up the feather beds; they needed cleaning badly. Marital Power Exemplified in Mrs. Packard's Trial, and Self-Defence from the Charge of Insanity 2011-07-04T02:00:24.763Z She had never even seen the land, but every night she could sink into the warmth and softness of the feather bed. The Stronghold A Story of Historic Northern Neck of Virginia and Its People 2011-07-17T02:00:38.770Z It was raining heavily by this time, so that I could light no fire, but, tired and worn out as I was, I slept as well as if I had lain on a feather bed. Missing Friends Being the Adventures of a Danish Emigrant in Queensland (1871-1880) 2011-06-15T02:00:22.810Z I searched everywhere, upsetting furniture, and even ripping open the feather beds, but few papers were found, and they of slight importance. Donald McElroy, Scotch Irishman 2011-06-04T02:00:12.520Z Rooms were cooled off, feather beds sent up garret, and thick curtains abolished. Spinning-Wheel Stories 2011-05-28T02:00:23.707Z I called to see her in a few days after she returned from Jacksonville; she was in the yard, cleaning feather beds. Marital Power Exemplified in Mrs. Packard's Trial, and Self-Defence from the Charge of Insanity 2011-07-04T02:00:24.763Z There was the feather bed, and her mother had left her a bedstead to go with it, a quilt and a pair of blankets. The Stronghold A Story of Historic Northern Neck of Virginia and Its People 2011-07-17T02:00:38.770Z And so up he climbed on his tiptoes to the spare room where the little fairy lay asleep in a big feather bed. Little Jack Rabbit and Uncle John Hare 2011-05-09T02:00:05.633Z I seed de sargeant when he run his bayonet clean th'ew Miss Mary's bestest feather bed an' rip it slam open! Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves: Volume I, Alabama Narratives 2011-05-04T02:00:16.830Z I'm like a fellow jist out of a feather bed and no mistake. The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers, Series 1 2011-04-21T02:00:47.647Z He died early, leaving his family comfortable feather beds and goodly pewter plates and candlesticks. The Pocahontas-John Smith Story 2011-04-15T02:00:20.537Z "And the snow is falling as if a feather bed had been cut in two." Erlach Court 2011-03-12T03:00:24.407Z He suffered terribly from the cold despite the fact that he snuggled down between two feather beds in the big parlor, which was no doubt the best room in a most uncomfortable house. Lewis Carroll in Wonderland and at Home The Story of His Life 2011-03-01T03:00:47.317Z De white folks had cotton beds and feather beds and wool beds. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves: Volume XVI, Texas Narratives, Part 4 2011-02-25T03:01:11.447Z Not a thing did they take out ob de house ceptin' feather bed for a wounded Yankee. Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves: Volume X, Missouri Narratives 2011-02-25T03:01:01.877Z "Like the Dutchman sleeping on straw with his feather bed on top of him." In the Van; or, The Builders 2011-02-09T03:00:42.387Z Renzo, meanwhile, gazing with uneasy curiosity around the cabin, beheld in the corner of it a sick person lying on a feather bed, wrapped up in a sheet, and covered with a cloak. The Betrothed From the Italian of Alessandro Manzoni 2011-02-05T03:00:14.863Z I think that my bedroom carpet was threadbare and that the bed was a feather bed; at all events one slept sublimely there under the roof, under the London stars. Far Off Things 2011-02-04T03:00:19.967Z We lived in a log cabin made of pine logs and our beds was made outta pine timber with co'n shucks tacked on de bed, and our kivers was feather beds. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves: Volume XVI, Texas Narratives, Part 4 2011-02-25T03:01:11.447Z Have both a feather bed and a mattress upon the bedstead, that she may place whichever she prefers uppermost. The Ladies' Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness A Complete Hand Book for the Use of the Lady in Polite Society 2011-02-01T03:00:13.500Z A feather bed was made for the children to sleep on. Boys' and Girls' Biography of Abraham Lincoln 2011-01-21T03:00:11.447Z This served to graduate our approach to houses and feather beds. Canoeing in the wilderness 2011-01-19T03:00:23.683Z Loide placed those feather beds to his own credit—as an act of mercy. '?19,000' 2011-01-14T03:00:45.303Z I still sleep on a grass mattress, 'cause I can't rest on cotton and feather beds. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves: Volume XVI, Texas Narratives, Part 4 2011-02-25T03:01:11.447Z The feather bed and bolsters swelled up all round Mr. Foker, so that you could hardly see his little sallow face and red silk night-cap. A History of Pendennis, Volume 1 His fortunes and misfortunes, his friends and his greatest enemy 2011-01-13T03:01:13.027Z This formed the lower strata of the bed, and above it were laid innumerable feather beds, piled one above the other, so high that often steps were necessary assistants in getting into bed. Colonial Homes and Their Furnishings 2011-01-11T03:00:35.147Z From the two feather beds that were ripped open, mother succeeded in gathering up enough feathers to make two pillows and these I now have in my home. Collection of Nebraska Pioneer Reminiscences 2011-01-05T03:00:58.503Z In that upper room at The Elms, where he had left a feather bed, Loide lay smoking and thinking. '?19,000' 2011-01-14T03:00:45.303Z De white folks have bought beds haul by ox teams from Austin and feather beds. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves: Volume XVI, Texas Narratives, Part 4 2011-02-25T03:01:11.447Z With a laugh, Penny leaped into the very center of the feather bed, missing her chum’s anatomy by inches. Hoofbeats on the Turnpike 2010-12-20T17:11:45.463Z The Indians took the feather beds of the people, and, ripping them open, flung the feathers broadcast. Last Words The water, however, began gradually first to wet her feather bed, then her mattress, and Rosette began to feel uncomfortable, and turned from side to side, and then Fretillon woke up. Tales of Passed Times With a cry of pain Gerald released his hold, and fell to the feather bed below. '?19,000' 2011-01-14T03:00:45.303Z "I have my own feather bed here," said Franzl, "do you think you could put it on the sledge?" Joseph in the Snow, and The Clockmaker In Three Volumes. Vol. III. The sledge was brought to the door, feather beds were placed in it, and the parents drove with their son to the Forest Mill. Joseph in the Snow, and The Clockmaker In Three Volumes. Vol. I. This was the first decent sleep we had had since our escape, and we could not have put in our time to better advantage had our resting places been feather beds. The Bright Side of Prison Life Experience, In Prison and Out, of an Involuntary Soujouner in Rebellion Plucking Live Geese for their Feathers In the days of feather beds and home-made pillows the practice of plucking live geese for their feathers was very common. Ducks and Geese Everything was cleared save three feather beds which Loide kept back. '?19,000' 2011-01-14T03:00:45.303Z Jenny lay buried in the deep feather bed, watching her shadow on the crooked ceiling, following with drowsy glances the shadowy combing of what, in reflection, seemed an absolute waterfall of hair. Carnival Falling out here would be like tumbling into a feather bed. Harper's Round Table, April 30, 1895 He wore a new summer suit of that fashionable material which seems be-dashed and be-sprinkled with white, as if the wearer had purposely rolled himself in a feather bed. Villa Eden: The Country-House on the Rhine The soft body feathers of ducks are used almost entirely for bedding purposes, that is, are put in pillows and feather beds. Ducks and Geese Rushing up-stairs, he dragged down two of the feather beds, one after the other, and dropped them through the hole. '?19,000' 2011-01-14T03:00:45.303Z What is the difference between a spendthrift and a feather bed? The Handbook of Conundrums This city had emerged from New Amsterdam; the old vrouws, with their feather beds and their multiplicity of petticoats and their scrupulously clean houses and their floors with patterns traced in sand, had passed away. Women of America Woman: In all ages and in all countries Vol. 10 (of 10) With apples by the fire, And nuts for to crack, Besides a little feather bed To rest my little back. The Nursery Rhymes of England “I hope there are feather beds in the garret,” she murmured, drowsily. The Girls of Hillcrest Farm The Secret of the Rocks The bed itself consisted of a hard mattress, and was often made only of straw, although feather beds were used to some extent throughout the century. Women of England Large feather beds were lifted from the ground. The Burning of Chambersburg, Pennsylvania Tomorrow I’ll go to town and buy some clothes and feather beds. Czechoslovak Fairy Tales But it was no easy matter to get warm, even under feather beds. Hungarian Sketches in Peace and War Constable's Miscellany of Foreign Literature, vol. 1 But the feather bed would be pretty warm for summer use,” sighed Lyddy, as she helped her sister lift down one of the beds–priceless treasures of the old-time housewife. The Girls of Hillcrest Farm The Secret of the Rocks Do they not say that feather beds offer an admirable defence against bullets? A House-Party Don Gesualdo and A Rainy June A negro saved his life by dressing himself in woman’s clothes, and carrying on his head a feather bed, thereby hiding his face and hands. The Burning of Chambersburg, Pennsylvania Lenka lay down on the feather bed and instantly fell asleep. Czechoslovak Fairy Tales When fire is discovered in a house it sometimes happens that the tenants, in their excitement, hurl fragile bric-à-brac from the windows and with much effort carry the feather beds down-stairs and out to safety. The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 4 June 1906 Sleeping on feather beds; cooking in a brick oven like our great-great-grandmothers used to do! The Girls of Hillcrest Farm The Secret of the Rocks I feel like the bullet which has been fired into the feather bed. A House-Party Don Gesualdo and A Rainy June Having partaken of a good hearty supper, we were given a room, and, for the first time in many months, I enjoyed the luxury of a good feather bed. In and Out of Rebel Prisons She is lending us feather beds until tomorrow and she is going to send us an old woman to help us out. Czechoslovak Fairy Tales Every evening one of these girls took to Bishop Cautin, who lay softly tucked on a feather bed, a cup of warm and highly spiced wine. The Poniard's Hilt Or Karadeucq and Ronan. A Tale of Bagauders and Vagres So, rather dusty and disheveled, they retired to the floor below, between them managing to carry the feather bed out upon the porch where the sun could shine upon it. The Girls of Hillcrest Farm The Secret of the Rocks Then he had to lay in a bed of clean straw, and upon this was placed a soft feather bed, blankets and pillows. Si Klegg, Book 5 (of 6) The Deacon's Adventures At Chattanooga In Caring For The Boys Why, it's softer and comfortabler than one of mother's feather beds. Si Klegg, Book 2 (of 6) Thru The Stone River Campaign And In Winter Quarters At Murfreesboro In the evening Lukas came back from town driving a cart that was piled high with furniture and clothing and feather beds and food. Czechoslovak Fairy Tales Just now Si Klegg was simply a boy grown big, a little over fat, fond of mother's cooking, mother's nice clean feather beds, mother's mothering, if the truth must be told. Si Klegg, Book 1 (of 6) His Transformation From A Raw Recruit To A Veteran Make no excuses for giving me a feather bed to sleep on. The Girls of Hillcrest Farm The Secret of the Rocks The high-posted bedstead was furnished with a plump feather bed, a bright patchwork quilt, and fat pillows in coarse but well-bleached slips. Crestlands A Centennial Story of Cane Ridge I grabbed the only feather bed we had in our cabin and ripped it open, in desperate haste, feeling just as I did when I was trying to close the door. Scouting with Daniel Boone The next morning when he woke and rubbed his eyes, he found himself lying on a soft feather bed, white as snow, in a splendid room with decorations that were fit for a king. Czechoslovak Fairy Tales The furnishing of this simple establishment consisted of a feather bed, which rested on slabs of slate supported by stones,—whence obtained was never known, but undoubtedly stolen. Mad Shepherds and Other Human Studies But his three good feather beds with pillows, coverlets and bankets were valued at £16. Glimpses of the Past History of the River St. John, A.D. 1604-1784 A feather bed and a pair of fat pillows were Mrs. Rogers' most valuable gift. Crestlands A Centennial Story of Cane Ridge He lay down in a very good feather bed, extinguished his light, and waited in patience. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 4, September, 1850 Lenka went into her bedroom and there, instead of her few rags on the floor, was a fine feather bed and coverlets and a painted chest full of clothes. Czechoslovak Fairy Tales And there went smoke a-rolling up in puffs as big as feather beds, and not a sign of fire to show for it, that I could see. The Red Moccasins A Story Add to this the strong odor of a new feather bed and pillows, and you have a combination of perfumes most appalling to a delicate sense. Household Papers and Stories Out tumbled bride, bridesmaid and servant in the snow, with feather bed, chairs, table utensils, skillet, kettle, coffee boiler, buckets, brooms, provisions on top. Crestlands A Centennial Story of Cane Ridge Fellow at Dry Pond says the women are beating their feather beds for miles around, and the men air scared to death. The Co-Citizens A feather bed, you mean," she said, "and they are a pretty fair weight. Fairy Tales from the German Forests On the north corner of Darling Street and Temple Alley a little old woman, white-haired and shrunken in frame, has guarded all day long a bag of clothes and a feather bed, her only possessions. News Writing The Gathering , Handling and Writing of News Stories The maid crouched down in her bed and drew the feather bed over her ears. Absolution Set it down, here on the feather bed.” The Missourian Then I pulled the feather bed away from Mother and blinked at her in order to see her naked body, which I could do better from the foot than if I had lain near her. Sleep Walking and Moon Walking A Medico-Literary Study Her fair hair fell in waving masses almost to her feet, it was covered with soft feathers, as if she had recently been filling feather beds. Fairy Tales from the German Forests They throw overboard their bags and feather beds. Early English Alliterative Poems in the West-Midland Dialect of the Fourteenth Century But in spite of putting both fingers in her ears, for the thick feather bed was not enough, she still heard her mistress wandering restlessly backwards and forwards. Absolution For this reason Unitarianism was called by Erasmus Darwin, the grandfather of the great Charles Darwin, a feather bed to catch a falling Christian. Flowers of Freethought (Second Series) Culver immediately folded his into a compact bundle, and Smithy followed suit, as he said: "That's right; we don't want any feather beds flying around here in case of a mix-up." Two Thousand Miles Below He had expected to see an old witch hobbling along with a stick and to have feather beds to make! Fairy Tales from the German Forests No feather bed, nor e'en a pillow here! Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 364, February 1846 She conquered the feeling of disgust at having to touch him, drew the feather bed away from his massive body that lay there like a felled log, and put her nimble fingers into his pocket. Absolution On his left hand stood his cozy bedstead, with its warm crimson curtains festooned back, revealing the luxurious swell of the full feather bed and pillows, with their snow-white linen and lamb's-wool blankets, inviting repose. Hidden Hand The gift of a feather bed is rather interesting, too, when you consider that it is the daughter who has raised the geese, plucked them, and made the bed-tick. In Times Like These Berinthia returned to her room, lifted the sheets and blankets, tucked Tom’s suit safely away between the feather bed and the straw mattress beneath it. Daughters of the Revolution and Their Times 1769 - 1776 A Historical Romance Each of us has her share of the down; Barbara will have two large feather beds, eight large pillows of goose down, and two small ones of swans' down. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 2, August, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy He had thrown himself on his bed half-dressed; a sock and a trouser-leg were sticking out from under the feather bed which he had drawn around him. Absolution This couch doesn’t equal a feather bed, but it will answer.” A Waif of the Mountains When the snowflakes fell, the earth-dwellers knew it was Frigga shaking her great feather bed, and when it rained they said it was her washing day. Told by the Northmen: Stories from the Eddas and Sagas In winter the people nearly freeze, or would but for the fact that the men put on heavy woolens, and the women pile on cotton padding until they look almost like walking feather beds. Where Half The World Is Waking Up The Old and the New in Japan, China, the Philippines, and India, Reported With Especial Reference to American Conditions Then feather beds, blankets, quilts, and pillows were seen. Ox-Team Days on the Oregon Trail The man made the sign of the cross as he murmured the words, and then crept further down under the feather bed. Absolution In spite of this, she insisted that she was quite happy, for she had her “good feather bed,”—and what more could she need? John and Betty's History Visit One of their exploits was to rip open a feather bed for the pleasure of seeing the feathers float away in the air. King Philip Makers of History He'd hair enough, shaggy hair curling about his shoulders, to have stuffed a feather bed. The House Under the Sea A Romance So the hen said, And the chickens all sped As fast as they could to their nice feather bed. Pinafore Palace The soft snow had felt like a downy feather bed, and he hadn't hurt himself in the slightest. Absolution Instead of a feather bed, the child should be placed on a hard mattress, or on blankets folded and laid upon the floor. North American Medical and Surgical Journal, Vol. 2, No. 3, July, 1826 The father, bleeding and fainting, called upon one of the little children to roll the feather bed upon the fire. King Philip Makers of History I told her we had not slept on a feather bed for six years, and answered her other questions, giving her a slight description of the trials of a soldier in the time of war. The Autobiography of Sergeant William Lawrence A Hero of the Peninsular and Waterloo Campaigns Tickets of parchment with the family name, numbered, and specifying what bed it belongs to, should be sewed on each feather bed, bolster, pillow, and blanket. The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, Adapted to the Use of Private Families There lay Rosa with the feather bed drawn up to her eyes. Absolution Every native family living on Cumberland River, or its forks or tributaries, had a flock of geese which are kept to supply feathers for their feather beds. Chit-Chat; Nirvana; The Searchlight The green mossy earth under their feet gave way as if they were treading upon a feather bed. The Manor House School Some folks like to rest their heads In the night on feather beds. Max and Maurice a juvenile history in seven tricks To prevent this, they should be folded and laid under feather beds that are in use, and occasionally shaken. The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, Adapted to the Use of Private Families So she crept back into bed and drew the feather bed over her head. Absolution But the half-stifled moan that came from the feather bed was a voice of collapse and chaos, to which speech was impossible. The Roof Tree I'm awfully sorry to have landed you in such a hole," said Ralph, "but who would have thought those innocent-looking clouds would have come down on us like feather beds? The Manor House School Miss Mewlstone is made by nature to be a moral feather bed to break other people’s awkward tumbles. Not Like Other Girls When feather beds become soiled or heavy, they may be made clean and light by being treated in the following manner: Rub them over with a stiff brush, dipped in hot soap-suds. The American Housewife Containing the Most Valuable and Original Receipts in all the Various Branches of Cookery; and Written in a Minute and Methodical Manner In country places you see the mattresses and feather beds hanging out of the windows near the pots of carnations every sunny day. Home Life in Germany But I trow that his lip curled with scorn when he saw that the five and fifty young nobles had provided themselves with five and fifty feather beds to sleep on. Tales From Scottish Ballads Each felt himself the other's debtor as they got into the great feather bed side by side. The Black Buccaneer Miss Mewlstone was as yielding as a feather bed in appearance, and yet it was impossible to move her. Not Like Other Girls I s'pose she thought nobody would ever think of looking behind the great blue chest and under the feather bed, but it takes me! The Wide, Wide World Both the ale and the feather beds were at our service at Reichenhall, and we did not neglect them. A Tramp's Wallet stored by an English goldsmith during his wanderings in Germany and France He ought to be lying in a freezing trench, grasping a rifle instead of skulking in a feather bed wrapped in warm blankets. In Orchard Glen And they were deeply angered when it was reported to them that Berkeley had said that if they had no tobacco, "they had cows and feather beds sufficient to discharge their levies." Bacon's Rebellion, 1676 Like feather bed betwixt a wall And heavy brunt of cannon ball. Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature But who would believe it, that my predominant misery during this night, was a feather bed and a pillow, rendered uneasy because it was soft as down! A Journal of a Young Man of Massachusetts, 2nd ed. Late A Surgeon On Board An American Privateer, Who Was Captured At Sea By The British, In May, Eighteen Hundred And Thirteen, And Was Confined First, At Melville Island, Halifax, Then At Chatham, In England ... And Last, At Dartmoor Prison. Interspersed With Observations, Anecdotes And Remarks, Tending To Illustrate The Moral And Political Characters Of Three Nations. To Which Is Added, A Correct Engraving Of Dartmoor Prison, Representing The Massacre Of American Prisoners, Written By Himself. I found that some of the trees which were standing had feather beds or articles of furniture up in their boughs. The Johnstown Horror!!! or, Valley of Death, being A Complete and Thrilling Account of the Awful Floods and Their Appalling Ruin So Christina sang it with him to the very end and then tucked him into his big feather bed. In Orchard Glen When she got his back against the counter, it was as though a feather bed was upon him. The Struggles of Brown, Jones, and Robinson By One of the Firm In the chamber where the family apparently lived and slept, there were two feather beds, with the usual appurtenances of bolsters, sheets, blankets, valances and curtains, and also a couch bed and a couch. Domestic Life in Virginia in the Seventeenth Century I felt about as uneasy in a feather bed, as Mr. Beasly, or any other fine London gentleman would, at laying on a plank, or the ballast of a transport. A Journal of a Young Man of Massachusetts, 2nd ed. Late A Surgeon On Board An American Privateer, Who Was Captured At Sea By The British, In May, Eighteen Hundred And Thirteen, And Was Confined First, At Melville Island, Halifax, Then At Chatham, In England ... And Last, At Dartmoor Prison. Interspersed With Observations, Anecdotes And Remarks, Tending To Illustrate The Moral And Political Characters Of Three Nations. To Which Is Added, A Correct Engraving Of Dartmoor Prison, Representing The Massacre Of American Prisoners, Written By Himself. Your nice feather bed was too comfortable, I’m afraid. The Wall Between How the family contrived to endure living in relations so constant and intimate with the cooking stove and the feather beds Charley could not understand. The Faith Doctor A Story of New York It might as well have lighted on a feather bed. Humorous Ghost Stories My feather bed I had taken away, and sought to dispense with as many other home comforts as I could, in order to prepare myself for rougher lines of life. A Retrospect But I have made up my mind that living a Christian life isn't walking on a feather bed, whether you live in a palace or a fourth-rate board-house, and teach school. The Chautauqua Girls At Home She washed the dishes and put them away; tripped upstairs and kneaded the billowy feather beds into smoothness; and humming happily, she swept and polished the house until it shone. The Wall Between The two little friends snuggled down in the big feather bed and were soon fast asleep. A Little Maid of Ticonderoga The patient's bed should be narrow, and a mattress is much to be preferred to a feather bed. Health on the Farm A Manual of Rural Sanitation and Hygiene And there had been candles on the table and stuffs upon the wall, and a crock on the fire for mulling the wine, and a sheet upon the feather bed. Privy Seal His Last Venture The visitors to Cuba need not expect the luxury of a feather bed or a mattress. Donahoe's Magazine, Volume 15, No. 2, February 1886 “What a lot of feather beds!” she murmured as she tallied them over. Judith of the Cumberlands While this was taking place, several of the men were ripping open an old feather bed they had brought with them. The Unknown Wrestler "We'll make the beds, Mollie, you and I," she said, tossing the little maid into the middle of the shaken-up feather bed. Fifty-Two Stories For Girls Do you have feather beds, Mrs. Fay?—I mean the kind you climb up to with step-ladders.” Patty's Social Season To have put him quietly between two feather beds would have stopped his heroic speeches, and dulled the sound of his glory very much. The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete When any of them grumbled at little hardships, he used to say: 'We must not look to go to heaven on feather beds.' The Children's Book of London They managed to steal away night after night and sleep in the sweet security of a haystack, a barn, a stable, a porch, or, if fortune favored them, in some farmer's feather bed. Detailed Minutiae of Soldier life in the Army of Northern Virginia, 1861-1865 There was a feather bed on the floor and he stretched himself on it, so worn out by what he had seen and endured that he fell asleep. Heroes of the Middle West The French At last she tucked herself into bed, and rolling over on the nubbly mattress and creaky springs, she almost wished that it had been a feather bed. Patty's Social Season Then she piled twenty mattresses on top of the pea, and on top of these she put twenty feather beds. Children's Literature A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes To fight when they felt like it, sleep in feather beds, and shoot at targets? Black Oxen So she mounted between the wings, and nestled down on a soft feather bed of dazzling golden light, warm and comfortable. Edmund Dulac's Fairy-Book Fairy Tales of the Allied Nations I had always slept on a mattress, or a feather bed, and when I was told that I would have to sleep on the ground, under that little tent, I felt hurt. How Private George W. Peck Put Down The Rebellion or, The Funny Experiences of a Raw Recruit - 1887 The war of the rebellion was a war, not a country schuetzenfest, with a chance to go home every night and sleep in a feather bed, and get a Turkish bath. Peck's Uncle Ike and The Red Headed Boy 1899 For, through the twenty mattresses and the twenty feather beds, she had still felt the pea. Children's Literature A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes Bury your apples; let the cider go; harness up; gather your cattle and sheep; pack up the clock and feather bed, and move to Johnstown with your families. The Reckoning Let me make you acquainted with Mrs. O’Toole, Though she’s had little learning, she’s nobody’s fool, She loves her fine geese, but when they are dead She’ll comfort herself with a new feather bed. Boys and Girls Bookshelf; a Practical Plan of Character Building, Volume I (of 17) Fun and Thought for Little Folk It's then a flannel bed-gown looks good to old bones; let alone woolly slippers and a feather bed! Two on the Trail A Story of the Far Northwest Old mistress had great big high feather beds and big pillows. Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Arkansas Narratives, Part 4 So in Bloemfontein healthy civilians, whether foes or friends, slept on feather beds, while suffering and delirious soldiers were stretched on an earthen floor that was sodden with almost incessant rain. With the Guards' Brigade from Bloemfontein to Koomati Poort and Back I'll tell you confidentially that feather beds are on the way from America for every soldier and there are whole boatloads of bathtubs coming, too. The Stars and Stripes The American Soldiers' Newspaper of World War I, 1918-1919 If Mrs. Dallett turned her head she could look into the bedroom, where her plump feather bed was covered with its dark blue homespun winter quilt. The Queen's Twin and Other Stories In one early inventory of an extensively furnished house there are mentioned “four feather beds, bolsters, two stools, looking-glass tipt with silver, two Turkey carpets, one yellow mohair bed counterpane, and two green silk quilts.” Quilts Their Story and How to Make Them As Uncle David was discussing the amount of furniture required for his intended caravansary, he paused to ask if feather beds would be thought a necessity. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No. 6, December 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy From my nest in the feather bed I watched my grandmother disrobe with growing terror. The Life of Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson The step is very easy, not high at all,' he said, 'And you'll find the cushions quite as soft as any feather bed. Chatterbox, 1906 Sticking swords through old wives feather beds is safer work than sticking them through rebels. The Northern Iron Many old quilts were three yards or more square, generous proportions being very essential in the old days of broad four-posters heaped with feather beds. Quilts Their Story and How to Make Them He hadn't felt the touch of a feather bed in years. The Root of Evil No. It's a man who wants to buy second-hand feather beds. Lalage's Lovers Blue Bonnet took off her cap and sweater and laid them lightly on the high feather bed with its wonderful patch-work quilt—the "rising sun" pattern running riot through it. Blue Bonnet in Boston or, Boarding-School Days at Miss North's Their bodies were as big as a feather bed when it is rolled up, and they were pretty much the same color. Little Mr. Thimblefinger and His Queer Country It was my lot to sleep in a feather bed under a mountain of patchwork quilts with never a care for Jack Frost sitting on the window ledge outside. The New York and Albany Post Road From Kings Bridge to "The Ferry at Crawlier, over against Albany," Being an Account of a Jaunt on Foot Made at Sundry Convenient Times between May and November, Nineteen Hundred and Five They spent the night at the same old road-house and slept on feather beds. The Root of Evil I pointed out at the same time that the advertiser, considering the unexpectedly wide publicity which had been given to his desire for second-hand feather beds, had got off ridiculously cheap. Lalage's Lovers The watermen seemed able to put up with both, and stretched themselves out under any shelter, and slept as soundly on the bare planks as if they were on a feather bed. Under the Rebel's Reign Mr. Merrill, with much presence of mind, directed his son, while his wife guarded the opening of the door with her ax, to empty the contents of a feather bed upon the fire. Daniel Boone The Pioneer of Kentucky She had a nice feather bed and two pairs of pillows and five quilts, beside two wool blankets. A Little Girl in Old Boston The police had closed the windows with feather beds and mattresses, and these the Fenian bullets could not penetrate. Reminiscences of a South African Pioneer Next to the editorial article came a page devoted on one side entirely to the advertisement of the gentleman who wanted second-hand feather beds. Lalage's Lovers This is a treat; the sand’s like a feather bed; but we shan’t often have such a luxurious place. Through Forest and Stream The Quest of the Quetzal Looking for a feather bed to die in. Laramie Holds the Range "I felt this morning that I needn't go on sewing up those feather beds." Red Rose and Tiger Lily or, In a Wider World The best room may have had a carved oak chest, brought from England, a tent or field bedstead, with green baize, or white dimity curtains, and generous feather bed. The New England Magazine Volume 1, No. 3, March, 1886 Bay State Monthly Volume 4, No. 3, March, 1886 How nice it was to jump into a feather bed, and sink deep and be lost in it, and to cover myself with a quilt filled with feathers or eider down! The Land of the Long Night The bedrooms were seldom warmed, and had it not been for the deep feather beds and heavy bed-curtains, would have been unendurable. Home Life in Colonial Days Beds and feather beds seem to have been status symbols of a sort often willed to the wife or included as a dowry. The Fair Play Settlers of the West Branch Valley, 1769-1784 A Study of Frontier Ethnography But I shall take the opportunity of sewing up the feather beds in their brown-holland cases. Red Rose and Tiger Lily or, In a Wider World And gently swathed each baby flower, As snug as in a feather bed— Until in field, and wood, and bower, Their fragrance might be safely shed. Chatterbox Stories of Natural History A little further on we came to the post station—and how glad I was to spend the night there—to get into a feather bed. The Land of the Long Night The next morning, Mr. Lithgow was carried on a feather bed to Theobalds, in Hertfordshire, where at that time was the king and royal family. Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs In this hole in a sleeping-bag, protected by the light drift which blew in, one rested as comfortably as in a more conventional type of feather bed. A Labrador Doctor The Autobiography of Wilfred Thomason Grenfell They carry it as a man might a feather bed; it enables them to fall soft. The Frozen Pirate Our whole outfit comprised a feather bed and a lunch basket in which were a knife, fork and two small china dishes. Old Rail Fence Corners The A. B. C's. of Minnesota History A few weeks later, however, he came back through Columbus, still toting his feather bed, returning to grandma in Macon. Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 2 Through unbroken roads, nights at farm-houses, old feather beds, ice in the wash-basin, liver and bacon for breakfast, and off again! The Lure of the Mask One peculiarity about her is an enormous flat back, soft and almost as wide as a moderate-sized feather bed. The Idler Magazine, Volume III, April 1893 An Illustrated Monthly Then I put the buckhorn extinguisher over the candle and dove into the feather bed as gleefully as a child on Christmas Eve. The Black Wolf Pack We put the sacks in the bottom of the wagon, then our feather beds on top of them. Old Rail Fence Corners The A. B. C's. of Minnesota History Doesn't it look soft and white?—like a feather bed with lovely clean sheets. The Long Roll Also, in the same chamber, was made a couch with feather beds, and hanged with a tent, knit089 like a net, and there was a cupboard. Christmas: Its Origin and Associations Together with Its Historical Events and Festive Celebrations During Nineteen Centuries Some are purple, some are red, And all are soft as a feather bed. The Peter Patter Book of Nursery Rhymes All nature, indeed, animate and inanimate, favoured the idea of repose when the explorers lay down to sleep on a mossy couch that was quite as soft as a feather bed, and much more springy. The Giant of the North Pokings Round the Pole These were our beds and with feather beds and boughs, made a fine sleeping place. Old Rail Fence Corners The A. B. C's. of Minnesota History “I often wonder how them white-faced fellows in the settlements manage to keep body and soul together—a-sittin’, as they do, all day in the house, and a-lyin’ all night in a feather bed. The Young Fur Traders The place was near Sintaluta, District of Assiniboia, North-West Territories, and homesteading there in the days before the Rebellion was no feather bed for those who tackled it. Deep Furrows Over this is the feather bed, usually encased in colored print, sometimes of bright colors. In and Around Berlin The first night I slept in a feather bed after my camp life I caught the worst cold I ever had. Dick Onslow Among the Redskins Later we had the most wonderful feather beds made from their feathers. Old Rail Fence Corners The A. B. C's. of Minnesota History Just as if he were in a feather bed and with a soft pillow under his cheek. Sappers and Miners The Flood beneath the Sea Next thing is to get a roof over our heads ready for the heavy rains, and then we’ve got to save all the feathers of the birds we catch or shoot for feather beds. Rob Harlow's Adventures A Story of the Grand Chaco In an inner chamber were two beds; one a feather bed, the other a pine-branch one, with clean blankets, snow-white sheets, a night-cap of the best, water, &c. Canada and the Canadians, Vol. 2 "Were they disappointed at not having a feather bed?" Just Patty My bedstead, a posted one, was corded with bed cords, had one good straw bed and a fluffy feather bed on top of that, with patch work quilts. Old Rail Fence Corners The A. B. C's. of Minnesota History Any one over forty years of age will remember how very popular feather beds used to be. The Bird Study Book Some time before his death Banneker gave to one of his sisters the feather bed on which he usually slept, and this she preserved as her only keepsake of him. The Journal of Negro History, Volume 3, 1918 Out here in the void I lay weightless, as though upon an infinitely soft feather bed. Wandl the Invader "Well, we thought there was going to be trouble," protested the local power, roused from his feather bed. Short Stories of Various Types The ferns are just as soft as a feather bed down here, but the thorns up above are dreadful. Betty Wales Senior I always keep a butcher-knife near me but it was between the mattress and the feather bed and I couldn't get to it. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Oklahoma Narratives "Well, I shall turn in, now, and try to dream that I am on a feather bed, and have had supper of all sorts of dainties." Through Three Campaigns A Story of Chitral, Tirah and Ashanti To change anything in the Na-a-vy is like punching a feather bed. Integration of the Armed Forces, 1940-1965 She rushed into the house and brought out a feather bed and a few quilts. Sermons on Biblical Characters He had the habit of soaring up into the sunset and sitting around in a large pink cloud like a kid bouncing on a feather bed. Gigolo Al. had a nice "coverlit" over his bed, and turned into a nice feather bed and rested in peace. Watch Yourself Go By I'd be proud, sir, to know your upholsterer—he should make me a feather bed gratis of the same pretty materials. John Bull The Englishman's Fireside: A Comedy, in Five Acts My case seemed rather like theirs, although I lay in a comfortable feather bed. Chatterbox, 1905. Now, I submit to you that there was absolutely no harm in saving a feather bed. Sermons on Biblical Characters "By jingo, boys, here's goose feathers enough to make two feather beds and pillows to boot." A Busy Year at the Old Squire's Sleeping on feather beds increases the local congestion, and thus favors the exciting influences of any of the above-named causes. Plain Facts for Old and Young When the neighbors were there building the new house they saw her do this, and the story got abroad that the Shimerdas kept their food in their feather beds. My Ántonia And yet this man will mock the believers in the Bible as "smothering their minds under a respectable feather bed of tradition," because they hesitate to shut their eyes, and swallow his contradictions. Fables of Infidelity and Facts of Faith Being an Examination of the Evidences of Infidelity It would be a great savin’; every man his own clothes, and every man his own feather bed. The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, February 1844 Volume 23, Number 2 Dougal is just talking about hopping into a big hot bath and a feather bed, but if we had never done without them we should not value them quite as we do now. Letters from France To fight against it was like struggling against being smothered by a gigantic feather bed. The Way of Ambition One time when the Yankees come in a rush my brother and me hide in the feather bed. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 3 The feather beds, much used in Europe, are undesirable, as they are unsanitary and are too warm for nearly all seasons of the year. Vitality Supreme This individual worked wonders for a consideration, but Fate overtook him and he was smothered under a feather bed for having too much wizard in his cosmos. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 12 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Scientists We have a room each, a feather bed with clean sheets and a nice little sitting room. Letters from France A day or two after the funeral one sometimes sees, particularly in country homes, feather beds, mattresses, etc., etc., put out to air. Current Superstitions Collected from the Oral Tradition of English Speaking Folk She picked geese till her fingers would bleed to make feather beds for old master I reckon. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 3 Tommy lay down on the floor, but the only space I could find was on a bench beside a dead German; but I slept just as soundly as I would have in a feather bed. Into the Jaws of Death His father lay on the feather bed, his eyes closed. Benefits Forgot A Story of Lincoln and Mother Love It is not the feather bed or the warm biscuits that he thinks of, but that dainty little penwiper, with his initials worked in it, and those embroidered slippers, that she gave him. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 6, December 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy When de Yankees come, they went through de big house, tore up everything, ripped open de feather beds and cotton mattresses, searchin' for money and jewels. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves South Carolina Narratives, Part 1 The men are splendid, and as happy as schoolboys, and we've got plenty of straw at the bottom of the trench, which is better than any feather bed. The New York Times Current History: the European War, February, 1915 What would I have given for one of my cousin's smiles, for one of the ancient domestic's omelettes, and for my own feather bed! A Journey to the Centre of the Earth Its blinds were drawn and the room dark, but a flag staff was ready and a Union standard concealed in one of her feather beds. The Victim A romance of the Real Jefferson Davis Two feather beds, a trunk, pots, pans, dishes and the Beechams were piled into the space left by some twenty-five other people. Across the Fruited Plain After the evening meal, we plan the next day's business, and then, wearied, we seek our feather beds and sleep too soundly even to dream. Nick Baba's Last Drink and Other Sketches Presently the clock struck ten and we turned in, the Free Trader sharing a big feather bed with me. The Drama of the Forests Romance and Adventure "This slept as good as any feather bed" says Mr. Wright. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 4 "Dear, there are six feather beds under you." Old Kaskaskia And my feather beds that I had to let go at fifty cents apiece. Across the Fruited Plain "Even men folks have got the sperit of worms and will turn at last," she remarked in her cheerful voice, which sounded as if it issued from the feather bed she vaguely resembled. The Miller Of Old Church There are still a lot of stockings and feather beds and teapots in Brookville. An Alabaster Box Wrapping my plaid round me, I laid myself down, confident that I should sleep better than in the softest feather bed. Round About the Carpathians Angélique sat down with Peggy on the floor, a little way from the pile of feather beds. Old Kaskaskia Soon he had Henry Leeds in his feather bed, with all the wedding quilts and blankets of poor young Laura piled over him. Jerome, A Poor Man A Novel Madelon put the house in order, setting the kitchen and pantry to rights, going through the icy chambers and making the high feather beds. Madelon A Novel Bunny wasn't hurt—the hay on which he had fallen was just like a feather bed. Bunny Brown and his Sister Sue Giving a Show They saw at once that she must be a real princess when she had felt the pea through twenty mattresses and twenty feather beds. Stories from Hans Andersen Come, quick, and help me get out the best feather bed, and the counterpane that mother knit! The Jamesons He imagined that he was tumbling around a feather bed and that a Blue Dog was chasing him with a yellow feather duster. The Story of a Nodding Donkey Old Nurse Heine was getting the spare room ready by beating up the great feather bed, and laying down on the floor the few strips of carpet they possessed. Round-about Rambles in Lands of Fact and Fancy Why, Bob, it was like coming down on a big feather bed. The Bobbsey Twins Or, Merry Days Indoors and Out Most remarkable of all were the feather beds. Abe Lincoln Gets His Chance Right down on the squidgy-squdgy ball toppled the sweet chap, and it was like falling on a feather bed. The Story of a Candy Rabbit "I can't sing through my ears," wailed the Nodding Donkey, and then of a sudden he seemed to roll over and the dog and the feather bed came down on top of him. The Story of a Nodding Donkey After supper the wagon was partly unloaded, the feather bed laid upon the planks under the wagon roof and spread with blankets. A Man for the Ages A Story of the Builders of Democracy "They let them have real guns, too!" and as the transport passed piled high with officers' kits, there was a shout of "There go their feather beds!" "Over There" with the Australians I reckon I have enough feather beds and blankets to go around. Abe Lincoln Gets His Chance The fields were deeply buried in snow, and looked like great white feather beds, shaken up unequally against the hedges. A Great Emergency and Other Tales And we never knew where she came from, and never brought a penny nor a blanket nor a stitch of clothes with her, and our own mother brought seventy pounds and two feather beds. The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 6, June, 1891 I will give you gold and silver and feather beds. Skookum Chuck Fables Bits of History, Through the Microscope Put a pig in a parlor; feed him on the best the marflet affords, give him a feather bed in which to sleep, keep him there till he's grown and he'll be a hog. Wit, Humor, Reason, Rhetoric, Prose, Poetry and Story Woven into Eight Popular Lectures It has, I think, been mentioned that in the corner of the dressing-room in which the Misses Purcell had taken refuge there was on the floor the remains of a feather bed. All on the Irish Shore Irish Sketches Upon a trellis supported by lion's claws a feather bed was laid. Mike Fletcher A Novel It is hard to cut up a feather bed into sandwiches with the finest Damascus blade, but the end will be attained somehow. The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume II The clouds looked like millions of feather beds. Letters to Helen Impressions of an Artist on the Western Front Those who had no money traded what they could spare, such as dishes and feather beds for corn. A Young Folks' History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Nora tore open a door near the fireplace, and revealed a tiny room containing a table, a broken chair, and a heap of feathers near an old feather bed on the floor. All on the Irish Shore Irish Sketches Here there was a feather bed, and, what was better still, food and drink. From Aldershot to Pretoria A Story of Christian Work among Our Troops in South Africa Life isn't a feather bed—You belong to the world. The Gay Cockade These fellows that go up in balloons which they fit up like first-floor rooms, and take everything with them except a feather bed, don't know anything about it. Tales from Many Sources Vol. V One day, when the blue merino frock was flitting about near the red one, the wearers of both being engaged in shaking up a feather bed, Red suddenly stopped her occupation in some excitement. What Necessity Knows Captain Maxwell11 tells us it was formerly the custom among the Irish peasantry of Connaught, when one manifested unmistakable evidences of hydrophobia, to procure the death of the unfortunate by smothering between two feather beds. Scientific American Supplement, No. 421, January 26, 1884 "After that you kin sleep in a feather bed—as soft as your own white hands." Dorothy Dale's Camping Days Egad, it's very well for most of your sporting acquaintances that you're free from hydrophobia; if you were not, I'd have died pleasantly between two feather beds, leaving my child an orphan long before this. Willy Reilly The Works of William Carleton, Volume One It touched me at the time that the little ones rested on a feather bed pulled from the mother bird's own breast. Wilderness Ways And then, with a solemn warning not to hang our clothes on the flames, and to “keep them feather beds offen the embers,” he left us to a comfortable night’s rest. The Scientific American Boy Or, The Camp at Willow Clump Island I stuffed a lot with one of mother's feather beds. Married Life The True Romance Such a long, lovely sleep, on that fluffy feather bed! Dorothy Dale's Camping Days And all the little birds had laid their heads Under their wings—sleeping in feather beds. The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood There the young man enjoyed his first repose on a French lit built up of sundry layers of feather beds. In the Days of Poor Richard Uncle Ephraim had completed the work commenced by the two feather beds, and at the breakfast, spread next morning in the coziest of breakfast-rooms, he announced his intention of returning to New York that day. Family Pride Or, Purified by Suffering It received him like an immense feather bed. Stories of American Life and Adventure Those two wrinkled old faces peering into the blossom that lay on that feather bed! Dorothy Dale's Camping Days There sat the Knight, leaning on his lance; and Sancho, doubled over the pommel, snored as loud as if he had been in a four-post feather bed. Young Folks Treasury, Volume 3 (of 12) Classic Tales and Old-Fashioned Stories Did you ever see a feather bed with a string tied around the middle, or a bale of hay with the middle hoop busted? Love Letters of a Rookie to Julie In the Priest's Chamber One bedstedyll, one feather bed, two forms, one press. The Reign of Henry the Eighth, Volume 1 (of 3) The beds were posters, built up with feather beds in the cold weather; spread now with thick linen sheets. Children of the Market Place That night I thought it all out in my little room, with the flies buzzing around me and the four big posts standing guard over a feather bed, into which I sank and disappeared. The City and the World and Other Stories A feather bed had every man, Warm slippers and hot-water can, Brown windsor from the captain's store, A valet, too, to every four. Bab Ballads and Savoy Songs So they had a splendid frolic tumbling on feather beds, beating bits of carpet, opening closets, and racing from garret to cellar like a pair of distracted kittens. St. Nicholas, Vol. 5, No. 4, February 1878 In the Servant's Chamber One painted hanging, a bedstedyll, one feather bed, a press, and a shelf. The Reign of Henry the Eighth, Volume 1 (of 3) Then the monkey gave Uncle Wiggily ten pennies, and he went to sleep in a feather bed, while the old gentleman rabbit went down to the drug store to get an ice cream soda. Uncle Wiggily's Adventures A white man was tossing into the flames different household articles—a feather bed, a bedstead, two rickety chairs. The Quest of the Silver Fleece A Novel And now, ye effeminate feather bed loungers, where do you suppose we were to sleep? Lecture on the Aborigines of Newfoundland Delivered Before the Mechanics' Institute, at St. John's, Newfoundland, on Monday, 17th January, 1859 I stretched downward from one of Madame Ursule's thick feather beds, and picked up what brought me to my feet. Lazarre Ditto, ditto, ditto, ditto, ditto, ditto and between two feather beds all day 0 Zero. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, August 14, 1841 "If you pass a hog a feather bed, it's a sure thing he'll work out the best way to muss it quick." The Man in the Twilight He was attended by his cook, and had brought with him a sackful of provisions and his feather bed, which came toiling up the hill in a cart. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 28, July, 1873 Lucky we had a sort of feather bed under us. Through the Air to the North Pole or The Wonderful Cruise of the Electric Monarch Then it was no uncommon practice to deliberately bleed the unhappy patient to death, or, worse still, to smother him between mattresses or feather beds. Stories of the Border Marches He was warmed and fed enormously and rolled into a feather bed. Judith of the Godless Valley "Ye munnet think to win through the world on a feather bed, lad," he added. The Shadow of a Crime A Cumbrian Romance I lay down between flannel sheets on the old feather bed. The Light in the Clearing When he did swing it back such a cloud of snow entered that it seemed as if some one had emptied a feather bed in the cabin. Through the Air to the North Pole or The Wonderful Cruise of the Electric Monarch There is a story about this Mother Hulda and her feather bed that is told to the little ones there. Dew Drops, Vol. 37, No. 10, March 8, 1914 A little later the feather bed had taken her into its arms and she almost instantly fell asleep. Cap'n Abe, Storekeeper Pushing forward, we soon saw the little inn shining forth a mile farther up the valley—a small white chalet, with the pink-checked feather beds hanging to air in the upper gallery. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 29, August, 1873 They used cotton baggin' and straw and some of the servants had a feather bed. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 2 She was huge and soft as a feather bed. Youth and the Bright Medusa They were covered with a down feather bed. Bertha Our Little German Cousin In the solitary window stood a big wooden bedstead with an immense feather bed on it. The Cook's Wedding and Other Stories I'm going to keep my two churns and my feather bed too. The Covered Wagon She had feather beds and wheat straw mattresses, clean whoopee! Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 2 To try to get related facts out of his optimism was like trying to find framework in a feather bed. Youth and the Bright Medusa She passed in, the door closed softly behind her, and she saw her lover lying in a large, chintz-covered arm-chair, full of cushions, deep like a feather bed. Evelyn Innes On the rumpled feather bed lay a creased and crumpled quilt. The Cook's Wedding and Other Stories If I'd kept myself straight I should have gone off a few years later in a feather bed as the Dean of St. Patrick's may be. The Firm of Girdlestone My grandma got her feather bed and died on it. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 2 The British soldiers removed its aged owner from the feather bed upon which he was lying, emptied its contents into the street, aid then set the house on fire! Sketches of Western North Carolina, Historical and Biographical Seeing them, we cannot but think of their deep feather beds, the savoury omelettes made of new-laid eggs served at mid-day, and followed by juicy beefsteaks cooked in the best butter. Evelyn Innes There he saw a long, human body, lying motionless on a big feather bed. The Cook's Wedding and Other Stories I was beating the feather bed in the back bedroom. The Price of Love The stranger, pitying Mr. Livingstone's chagrin, kindly explained to her that there was a baggage car on purpose for trunks and the like, and that her feather bed was undoubtedly safe. 'Lena Rivers They was real nice about it; but I showed 'em how I couldn't give 'em live-geese feather beds an' only charge 'em a dollar apiece a week for their lodgin's. Nan Sherwood's Winter Holidays Rescuing the Runaways D'ri, meanwhile, bound up the feather beds and carried them on his head, leaving the dog and me to tend the sheep. D'Ri and I When he died they found twenty thousand roubles in his feather bed. The Cook's Wedding and Other Stories Do we imagine we show our higher civilization by discerning with the little princess the pea under twenty-four feather beds? The Cost of Shelter Every slave family could rest his tired body upon a feather bed for it was allowed him after the members of the master's family were supplied. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Florida Narratives They wus used to real milk, and real butter, and strictly fresh eggs, and feather beds. Nan Sherwood's Winter Holidays Rescuing the Runaways We had an ox-team and -cart that carried our provision, the sacred feather beds of my mother, and some few other things. D'Ri and I In 1495 the famous Oklahoma statute is anticipated by a law regulating abuses in the stuffing of feather beds. Popular Law-making The huge feather bed was a tangible comfort interposed betwixt herself and calamity. The Chase of Saint-Castin and Other Stories of the French in the New World Patience remembers saving the feathers from all the fowl to make feather beds. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Florida Narratives And a bureau, and a boot-blacking jigger, and a feather bed, and curtains, and truck in his room. Red Saunders His Adventures West & East The cart had a low cover of canvas, and my mother and grandmother sat on the feather beds, and rode with small comfort even where the roads were level. D'Ri and I I hastened to the inn and wakened Max, to whose well-covered bones a board was as soft as a feather bed. Yolanda: Maid of Burgundy He ran to the big house and jumped on a feather bed, and prayed loudly for help. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Kentucky Narratives Moss mattresses also were used under the feather beds and slaves did not need to have as thick a feather bed on that account. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Florida Narratives O, I know very well that slaves sleep on feather beds, while their master's children sleep on straw; that they eat white bread, and their master's children eat brown. Isaac T. Hopper I took the three older children and set them on the feather bed that was bound to the back of the cow. D'Ri and I Some of us had feather beds, others good mattrasses laid upon mats, which they found very comfortable. Narrative of a Voyage to Senegal in 1816 Undertaken by Order of the French Government, Comprising an Account of the Shipwreck of the Medusa, the Sufferings of the Crew, and the Various Occurrences on Board the Raft, in the Desert of Zaara, at St. Louis, and at the Camp of Daccard. to Which Are Subjoined Observations Respecting the Agriculture of the Western Coast of Africa, from Cape Blanco to the Mouth of the Gambia. If he saw any kind of a white man comin' down the road he run in the house and hid between the feather bed and the mattress. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 6 Colored folks slept on cotton beds and white folks—some of em at least—picked geese and made feather beds and down pillows. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 5 You ever seen a feather bed tied up with a rope? Laughing Bill Hyde and Other Stories Father met me with a feather bed in his arms. D'Ri and I In the others the family sleep; while, in the outer one already mentioned, visiters and travellers are accommodated with a rush mat, a feather bed, and a coverlet spread on the clay floor. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 271, September 1, 1827 When I lef they give me my feather bed, two good coverlets and my clothes. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 6 I don't know what all the slaves had but mother had feather beds. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 1 "A. Of oak and deal, with brass ornaments, with beds of cotton or linen, and hair mattresses or feather beds." Brotherly Love Shewing That as Merely Human It May Not Always Be Depended Upon There were six split-bottomed chairs, a bureau with drawers, a wooden chest, and a feather bed. Four Great Americans: Washington, Franklin, Webster, Lincoln A Book for Young Americans It is all very well in one's study, by his stove, if it is winter, with a good feather bed, and all comforts at hand; but he who would test his theories should come here. Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers Opposite my window was a pile of feather beds. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Written by Herself The white folks had fine goose feather beds. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 1 I used to lay quiet in my good feather bed, fingering the pattern of my best crochet quilt, and looking at the fire-light shining on Lovey and the baby. The Village Watch-Tower The house was furnished in fine style, with the chairs and the bureau and the feather bed. Four Great Americans: Washington, Franklin, Webster, Lincoln A Book for Young Americans A feather bed had every man,Warm slippers and hot-water can,Brown windsor from the captain’s store,A valet, too, to every four. The Bab Ballads He speaks of Doctor Beddoes, who was so uncomfortably fat that a lady of Clifton called him a "walking feather bed." Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine The morning I was to take his breakfast, he had ripped open his feather bed and crawled inside to get warm. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 1 Some recommend a feather bed, but I think an Expert is better. What Is Man? and Other Essays After pulling half the feathers out of Lucinda's bolster, she remembered that she herself was in want of a feather bed. The Great Big Treasury of Beatrix Potter IX They slept on a feather bed with their fur coats over them; in the morning they broke ice in the pitcher—the vast flowered and gilt pitcher. Main Street It's snowing some today and Marilla says the old woman in the sky is shaking her feather beds. Anne of the Island The white folks had feather beds and the slaves had grass beds. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 1 That night, when she clambered into her big German feather bed, she felt completely released from the enslaving desire to get on in the world. The Song of the Lark B is a feather bed upon which the performer falls. The Miracle Mongers, an Exposé Forsooth, I looked for them an hour later; and had they come an hour earlier yet, some heads would now lie on the cold grass which shall lie on a feather bed to-night. A Dream of John Ball; and, a king's lesson Janet loved me for it, just as she detested poor Esther because Esther had said so much shade was unhygienic and had objected to sleeping on a feather bed. Anne of the Island She got lots of money for barrels of feathers she'd saved to improve her feather beds and pillows; she said she would see to that later. Laddie; a true blue story In half an hour Thea was in her big feather bed, drinking hot lentil soup, and almost before the soup was swallowed she was asleep. The Song of the Lark "Why not here, as well as in a feather bed, twenty years hence," he muttered, as he seated himself in the shelter of a boulder. A Study in Scarlet The poor slave, on his hard, pine plank, but scantily covered with his thin blanket, sleeps more soundly than the feverish voluptuary who reclines upon his feather bed and downy pillow. My Bondage and My Freedom There will be a little room upstairs over the porch, where old dreams hang thick, and a big, fat, glorious feather bed which will almost seem the height of luxury after a boardinghouse mattress. Anne of the Island Then remembrance came, and he stretched in lazy enjoyment of the stillness and the soft feather bed upon which he had slept. The Spenders A Tale of the Third Generation She ran back to her feather bed and hid her face in the pillow. The Song of the Lark For a bad debt he took it over along with two feather beds and—" "One after another pictures as big as life, Rosie, like real people moving. Humoresque A Laugh on Life with a Tear Behind It It is for dastard knights, that stretch on feather beds, Despairing in adversity so low to hang their heads. A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 6 The beds were awful, for they could not stand the feather bed, and, that being thrown aside, nothing soft remained beneath. Memoirs of the Life and Correspondence of Henry Reeve, C.B., D.C.L. In Two Volumes. Volume II. One master's-mate had the buttons taken off his coat, for stealing a feather bed, besides being obliged to carry it back again. Ned Myers or, a Life Before the Mast My wife had five hundred dollars which I want left to me, and a feather bed, which you may divide amongst the children. Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 10, June 4, 1870 Many of the peasants crouched behind the feather beds and tables which had been pulled out of the cart. Micah Clarke His Statement as made to his three grandchildren Joseph, Gervas and Reuben During the Hard Winter of 1734 So I blew out the candle and lay under the big feather bed, listening to the running and whispering of the medieval Rhine. Twilight in Italy She looked at the high mound of feather bed, at the small window at the foot, whence came scarcely a whiff of the blessed night air. Quaint Courtships Amylejowna has made us a present of a feather bed, but I am afraid it will be too warm for you. The Knights of the Cross or, Krzyzacy Soft, yielding feather beds, in which the body sinks deeply, are very injurious, on account of the unnatural heat and perspiration they are sure to induce. The Young Woman's Guide This snowbank's a feather bed—nothing the matter with them at all. The Magnificent Ambersons She slept uncommonly well that night in the warm and pleasant feather bed. L'Assommoir Have always a feather bed and mattress, both feather and hair pillows upon the bed, that your guest may have the choice. Frost's Laws and By-Laws of American Society A condensed but thorough treatise on etiquette and its usages in America, containing plain and reliable directions for deportment in every situation in life. Acting under the advice of Gen. Hatton, a year ago, I removed the feather bed with which my predecessor, Deacon Hayford, had bolstered up his administration by stuffing the window, and substituted glass. Remarks Every one saw him run up to the window, catch hold of one corner of the feather bed and try with all his might to pull it out. The Possessed (The Devils) They stood in diagonally opposite corners of the room, and upheld the hugest of feather beds, with gay, home-made worsted coverlets and valances that shamed the hues of the rainbow. The Junior Classics — Volume 8 Animal and Nature Stories The police are fast asleep in their feather beds now.... Plays by Anton Chekhov, Second Series Wonderful little patchwork quilts, a feather bed and tiny pillows made especially for the bed, were objects of interest to everyone who crowded around the booth. Georgina of the Rainbows The feather bed and bolsters swelled up all round Mr. Foker, so that you could hardly see his little sallow face and red silk nightcap. The History of Pendennis Our attention was much more attracted by the costly feather beds, counterpanes, and charming rose blankets, which the house afforded. Picturesque Quebec : a sequel to Quebec past and present I have such a huge room, with a four-post feather bed in it. The Visits of Elizabeth He felt that he might sink into 250 Queen's Gate as into a feather bed. Buried Alive: a Tale of These Days When we first enter a room in which there is a feather bed which has been occupied during the night, we are struck with the offensive smell of the air. The Young Mother Management of Children in Regard to Health The head should be somewhat raised, and a mattress is better than a feather bed. A Practical Physiology The child up to two years old, at least, should sleep upon a feather bed, for the reasons referred to above. The Maternal Management of Children, in Health and Disease |
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