| 单词 | featherbed |
| 例句 | Bran preferred the hard stone of the window seat to the comforts of his featherbed and blankets. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “I’m sure Jamison would rush out here with a box of chocolates and a featherbed if he knew there was a starveling half-cracked student living under his University. They’d crock her and you know it.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Her knees ached, and she would have given much for a featherbed and a pillow just then. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Bran was so heavily padded he looked as though he had belted on a featherbed, and Prince Tominen, who was plump to begin with, seemed positively round. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Lemos agreed and got two large trunks packed and on the wagon, plus a mattress and a featherbed. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z When die fire was out, they carried off the singed featherbed, burned away the worst of the smoke, and brought up a,tub. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z We sat down and the grass felt heavenly, like a featherbed compared with the wagon floor. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z He was still ahorse, dreaming of a long hot soak, a roast fowl, and a featherbed, when the king's steward told him that Grand Maester Pycelle had convened an urgent meeting of the small council. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z It would feel good to sleep on a featherbed again, with a warm fire in the hearth; when she was rested the world would seem less bleak. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Bran was so heavily padded he looked as though he had belted on a featherbed, and Prince Tominen, who was plump to begin with, seemed positively round. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Under him was the yielding softness of a featherbed, and the pillow beneath his head was goose down. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Charles’s grandfather, Erasmus Darwin, had made fun of Unitarianism, saying it was a “featherbed to catch a falling Christian.” Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z She lay nude atop the featherbed, the soft curves of her young body limned in the faint glow from the hearth. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z He was sleeping when Catelyn entered, his hair and beard as white as his featherbed, his once portly frame turned small and frail by the death that grew within him. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z A solid pension, good connections, membership of the right clubs, a contented, featherbedded old age. Restless – and its roots in the Cambridge spy ring 2012-12-21T22:55:09Z For instance, the girl who claims to be royal and passes the test because of the pea under layers of featherbeds in “The Princess and the Pea.” This Week in Fiction: Yiyun Li on Fairy Tales 2017-05-01T04:00:00Z For guests on extended travels, book space at your local vet — or on a featherbed at an overpriced doggie spa on which your friends will probably be all too happy to splurge. 2010-01-30T01:36:00Z Although the pitch seems like a featherbed now, there is a suggestion of low bounce and turn. 'England land early punches against cagey Australia' 2023-06-16T04:00:00Z "He said riding that particular machine was like being on a featherbed as it was so smooth, and the name just stuck." The man who revolutionised motorbikes 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z The lights flickered on and weightlessness returned, cradling me like a featherbed. Breaking and entering : Nature : Nature Research 2017-10-17T04:00:00Z Instead he argued in a 1989 piece, “The Weaknesses Amid Japan’s Economic Strengths,” that Japan’s anachronistic economic structure—such as a heavily featherbedded distribution system—would hurt the Japanese. Charles Wolf Jr. 2016-10-28T04:00:00Z “The program has also become a kind of featherbed for parents who might have, in the past, considered redshirting their children.” Essential California: With so many politicians in Philly, who is California's governor these days? 2016-07-26T04:00:00Z Given the Lords pitch was a featherbed and should be ignored, Smith has been bloody hopeless here! Ashes 2015: England v Australia, fourth Test, day two – as it happened 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z The pitch for that match was a slow featherbed which contributed to a bore draw. Lord's proves a treacherous place for New Zealand's batsmen 2013-05-19T16:00:59Z Commuters have been "featherbedded" but other passengers have been hit hard, Doe argues. Have train fares gone up or down since British Rail? 2013-01-22T12:44:34Z They do not want any more gentle featherbeds like this at Headingley or Lord's. England escapologists needed after South African declaration of intent 2012-07-22T18:57:32Z Later when he lay between two German featherbeds and Onufri brought him his book and a candle he asked him to take a seat by his bedside. The White Terror and The Red A novel of revolutionary Russia 2012-03-18T02:00:21.430Z Given the Lords pitch was a featherbed and should be ignored, Smith has been bloody hopeless here! Ashes 2015: England v Australia, fourth Test, day two – as it happened 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z It is what my father called Unitarianism, "a featherbed to catch a falling Christian." Charles Darwin: His Life in an Autobiographical Chapter, and in a Selected Series of His Published Letters 2012-01-22T03:00:19.733Z It is very unlucky to turn a featherbed on a Sunday; my housemaid says she would not turn my bed on a Sunday on any account. Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 93, August 9, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. 2011-12-20T03:00:34.177Z Before covering herself, the featherbed must be shaken so that its foot end becomes quite flat, but she never omits to press this down and redistribute the thickness. A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis 2011-12-06T03:00:21.763Z The destruction of pillows and featherbeds is therefore the most typical scene of anti-Semitic riots in Russia. The White Terror and The Red A novel of revolutionary Russia 2012-03-18T02:00:21.430Z At first the most terrific row; the bed-clothes and featherbeds flew about them; then they grew calmer after each attack, and at last they began to talk. In God's Way A Novel 2011-10-13T02:00:38.570Z The inhabitants wishing to leave with the troops got ready wagons, in which they put their wives and children, with featherbeds. With Fire and Sword An Historical Novel of Poland and Russia. 2011-08-12T02:00:19.797Z And this being done, he placed a featherbed upon a table, so that it half filled the window, when, resting his piece upon it, he stood ready, his example being followed by the others. Midnight Webs 2011-07-29T02:00:30.077Z If a pillow represented a woman, then the shaking of the featherbed till all the feathers were lumped at one end, rounding it into a prominence, must have its meaning also. A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis 2011-12-06T03:00:21.763Z The couple's action-packed lifestyle comes thanks to their erstwhile employer, telecom company Pacific Bell, which featherbedded them into early retirement. Amortality: Young or Old, Why It's No Longer Necessary to Act Your Age 2011-06-11T17:33:50Z Tomorrow he would wake in his featherbed, dreaming he was back in England, laughing at the absurdity of it all. Caribbee 2011-06-05T02:00:16.273Z Mrs. Landlady! who do they expect, think you, to see, but an overgrown, fat, featherbed of a woman coming waddling along with her thumbs sticking on each side of her apron, o' this fashion? The Parent's Assistant Stories for Children 2011-05-18T02:00:12.733Z After such a galvanic shock, I could have found, if that had been my need, a featherbed on the Arc de l'�toile. Home Fires in France 2011-03-22T02:00:24.093Z Bit worried, the pitch looks a featherbed without Mitchy bowling on it. Ashes: The third Test 2010-12-17T10:19:16Z It was that shortage of variety that led Notts to gamble on a result pitch here, when a draw on a featherbed would have better-suited their title challenge. Gale call the shots as Notts crumble 2010-09-07T19:35:00Z In England, the pitches make it a more even contest between bat and ball, not like the featherbeds in the UAE. Pakistan find a corner of Birmingham to be very much like home 2010-07-07T11:52:00Z On crossing the bridge turn sharply to the left and go down Featherbed Lane, which is anything but a featherbed road. Harper's Round Table, May 7, 1895 Good heavens!" quickly, "Maud isn't the person to remove a weight; she's a regular old featherbed herself, when there's nothing to stir her up. Leonore Stubbs "Aunt Jane" insisted on giving me a featherbed to put on the rough slats of my bunk, and some pieced quilts; I used my camp blankets for sheets. A Mountain Boyhood She plucked an arras aside to show a room which surprised him by being hung with tapestries, lit with candles, and furnished with a fine broad featherbed. The Valor of Cappen Varra Now, my good Scots lords," he cried, and I trow a look of amusement played round his lips even at that solemn hour, "now is the time for those featherbeds of thine. Tales From Scottish Ballads Behind her comes a couple of station porters, one cartin’ an old-time black valise, and the other with his arms wrapped around a full sized featherbed in a blue and white tick. Odd Numbers Being Further Chronicles of Shorty McCabe The featherbed left his own bedstead, the watch came out of his pocket, and the walls of the hall-kitchen gaped and yawned in the places where the pictures had been. The Manxman A Novel - 1895 I landed in a snowdrift featherbed which, while it broke my fall, almost buried me alive. A Mountain Boyhood Return to his bedroom, throw off the clothes, beat the featherbed, see that the fustian and sheets are clean. Early English Meals and Manners The safest part of a room, is its centre; and where there is a featherbed in the apartment, that will be found the most secure resting-place. A Treatise on Domestic Economy For the Use of Young Ladies at Home and at School “Now my featherbed,” says Aunt Elvira, and she has the porter jam it in alongside of me, which makes more or less of a full house. Odd Numbers Being Further Chronicles of Shorty McCabe If they did serve trefah on the ship, she and the four children would have to starve, unless she carried provisions from home.—Oh, she must take all the featherbeds! The Promised Land Aggie hates woods and gnats, has no eye for Nature, and for almost half a century has pampered her body in a featherbed poultice, with the windows closed, until the first of June each year. More Tish When the traveller was escorted to his bedroom, he found it very cold in winter, though the featherbeds kept him warm enough. The Age of the Reformation A bit of straw matting, laid over a featherbed, and covered with the under sheet, makes a very cool bed for an infant. A Treatise on Domestic Economy For the Use of Young Ladies at Home and at School I never knew before what an uninteresting thing a featherbed is when you are obliged to hold it in your arms. Melbourne House We had featherbeds heaped halfway to the ceiling; we had clothes presses dusky with velvet and silk and fine woollen. The Promised Land Though the featherbeds were gone, it would be delicious to lie on the floor, uncrowded, and sheltered from the night. Across the Fruited Plain A few days, therefore, before that specified for the sale, she took her featherbed car, and had an interview with the executors of the late proprietor. Phil Purcel, The Pig-Driver; The Geography Of An Irish Oath; The Lianhan Shee Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three Polly says she supposed the trip would just be one long picnic, while the four children thought it fine fun to "sit on mother's featherbed and go riding," as they said. Stories of California Nora, shall you like to be one of the little princes in the Tower? with that featherbed coming over us? Melbourne House, Volume 2 The great keys of the store were put away out of sight; the money bag was hidden in the featherbeds. The Promised Land First, the driver shook his head at featherbeds, dishes, trunk. Across the Fruited Plain Do you remember saving the chicken feathers and goose feathers always for your featherbeds? Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Florida Narratives He was now going to a home provided by benevolent persons as a kind of featherbed to catch the falling workhouse boy. Essays in Rebellion "But I don't want the featherbed on top of me!" said Nora. Melbourne House, Volume 2 I liked to sit with the women at the long bare table picking feathers for new featherbeds. The Promised Land The snow did not fall this time, it simply spilled out of heaven, like thousands of featherbeds being emptied. My Antonia Do you remember saving the chicken feathers and goose feathers always for your featherbeds? Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Florida Narratives I covered myself with a great depth of featherbed, and looked at the stars, and the shadowy upper world, and went to sleep. Twilight in Italy I never knew before what an uninteresting thing a featherbed is—when you are obliged to hold it in your arms. Melbourne House, Volume 2 It fairly reeked of oil and some other stuff, too; there were two featherbeds on the beds. Knock, Knock, Knock and Other Stories When the neighbours were there building the new house, they saw her do this, and the story got abroad that the Shimerdas kept their food in their featherbeds. My Antonia An old farmer of Sangamon County still talks of a featherbed weighing fifty-four pounds with which his wife made him swim six rivers under penalty of desertion. Abraham Lincoln: a History — Volume 01 God becomes man becomes fish becomes barnacle goose becomes featherbed mountain. Ulysses Old Dominick was spread out like a featherbed over all hers and most of Spangles', and there Spangles was just a-contending with him over one of her little black babies. The Road to Providence Mrs. Landlady! who do they expect, think you, to see, but an overgrown, fat, featherbed of a woman, coming waddling along with her thumbs sticking on each side of her apron, o' this fashion? The Parent's Assistant The knight slept as a soldier would, to whom a featherbed is a rarity, and who wakes not till he hears the blast of the reveille. Burlesques By the side of the path, on the dusty dry grass, all sorts of household goods lay in a heap: featherbeds, a samovar, icons, and trunks. War and Peace Such as, but scant them of their chines of beef And take away their downy featherbeds, And presently they are as resty stiff, As twere a many over ridden jades. King Edward III Buckled-round with such bolsters and huge featherbeds of Promotion, let him now fall as soft as he can! The French Revolution |
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