| 单词 | mattress |
| 例句 | It was lodged between a mattress and the bottom of a bunk in one of the small cabins. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z When I come back, the word “Stiff” is spray-painted across my mattress in red. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z There must have been a storm in the night; snow piles in small drifts on the mattresses, having blown in through the cracks and crevices in the walls and roof. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z “I keep dreaming about my research and waking up Jennifer because I’m punching the mattress.” Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z I wake up on top of a mattress resting on the floor of the garage across the alley from Mai's mom's nail salon. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z William slipped the belt that had been hidden in his mattress into the loops of his underwear. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z Prosper felt for the flashlight that he always kept next to his mattress and switched it on. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z But her mother only lay with her back to the room on the mattress in the corner. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z One night, as we sat outside on the mattresses, it began to rain. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z It was a good night; between tips and sales, I have about twenty bucks in ones and change denting my mattress. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z He was curled up like a foetus in an empty room on an old mattress that the last people to leave the Barracks had left behind in the flat. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z Pri sighs long and deep, and she plops down on my mattress. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z Her mattress had been shredded as if a lion had attacked it. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z He lay with the buttons of his spine along the edge of the mattress, folded his hands behind his head. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z At night they take the papers to bed with them and hide them under their mattresses or have Rashid Uncle put them outside. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z When I couldn’t stand it any more, I fumbled around the side of the mattress where I stored that Gatorade bottle Joey brought me when I was sick. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z She plopped down on the mattress and unpacked her messenger bag. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z The bedclothes had been pulled off his four-poster and the drawer had been pulled out of his bedside cabinet, the contents strewn over the mattress. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z Bud Gleason said, “Whoever wants to can sleep on the couch here, or in a guest room, and we could even put an extra mattress in Katie’s, in my daughter’s, room.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z My mother and father slept on a single mattress, our only piece of furniture, which took up a third of our space. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z There were rusty cots holding the mouse-chewed remains of mattresses lined up against one long wall. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z “Plenty to make a mattress,” said Tucker Mouse. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z With my arms stretched wide to feel my way through the hallway, careful not to run into the logs, I stumbled back to my mattress refuge. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z A pallet is a rustic bed, usually a makeshift mattress of straw or some other humble material. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Then he dragged out a mattress and laid it over the hatch and from inside he pulled it up over the plywood and carefully lowered the door so that the mattress covered it completely. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z But the feather mattress was deliciously soft, and her weary nerves gradually relaxed. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z I spread Amit's gifts across the bed and sit on the edge of the mattress with my head in my hands. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Now, tossing and turning on this damp, sour-smelling mattress, I try to focus on my perfect day, but these memories lead to other, darker thoughts. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z This baby’s mattress would be an old feather pillow. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z On the mattress lay a man with his legs gone to the hip and the stumps of them blackened and burnt. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z Old women on thin straw mattresses that line the walls, which they must sleep on, because I don’t see anything else that could be used. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z Toby was still up against the wall, fighting the impulse to jump off the mattress and sprint out the door. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z I put on the entertainment center’s visor and gloves, then stretched out on my mattress. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Oma whimpers as they empty drawers, lift mattresses, peeling wallpaper for secret hideaways. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z If the mattress stains were anything to go by, a previous user had not so much suffered from incontinence as rejoiced in it. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z “I found it under my mattress,” he whispered.“With a few books, too. Who would have thought someone had hidden them there?” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z She grabbed the brass candlestick beside her bed, ready to leap off the mattress, but lowered it as Philippa’s humming filtered through the doors to her bedroom. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Long fingers of sun inched across her mattress. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z Toby, exhausted, nodded and then lowered himself back on the air mattress. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z He seemed taller lying down, occupying the length of the mattress, and I remembered what he had said about simply reaching out to pluck icheku from the tree, in his youth. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z Using the mattress as a stretcher, Grandpa and an uncle had lifted Granny from her bed and had rushed her to the safety of a neighbor’s house. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z But even though the luxurious, full-length bed feels better than any mattress I’ve ever been on, I just end up tossing and turning. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z I pull back the quilt, examining the sheet below, doing the same for the mattress and pillow. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z Two of the boxes we carry to Tatarska ourselves, and I leave Helena with them while I go back to load the dishes and the bed frame and the mattress. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z After his crackers, he lies on his mattress, stone quiet, and looks at the sky. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Her bed was a rag-stuffed mattress on a shelf of cold stone, and she was always stiff and tight when she awakened. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z For their clothing, they use “the closet”—a wire spring standing upright, from a mattress stripped of its ticking. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Candice bounced on the mattress, the smile wide on her face. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z The creaking of the old mattress was drowned out by the TV. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z She sits on the edge of the mattress, applies some blue cream from a tube to her calves and the bottoms of her feet. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z The Captain had found a cot mattress, and he and my father gently rolled the old woman over and lifted her to the mattress. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z In the room he shared with the little ones, he dug under his mattress and pulled out his pad and pencils. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z He shakes his head, but then he just sits down on the new mattress that’s squeezed against the wall. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z The mattress had slipped slightly when he hid the paper under it, and he had to lean against his bed to hide it from Mortola, but luckily she had no eyes for him. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Fatima shows me a mattress in the last container. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z It had white walls, a white chair, a white, glass-enclosed cabinet, and a tall metal table with a white sheet over the mattress. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z The mattress pads in the cabins had been slung into the floor and bedding and clothing were piled against the wall. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z Christina rests her head on the edge of Uriah’s mattress, her slender body collapsing sideways. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z When the wine was finished the mute put a mattress on the floor beside the bed. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z He wanted to be in the mobile home on his hard mattress and feel the gentle weight of the tattered blanket press against his body. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z But many of their favorite pictures and photographs were still hanging on that movie theater wall, above the empty mattresses, along with their homely scrawls; and scribbles. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z Anyone who had anything of value decided to keep it under the mattress or send it overseas. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I get in her bed—the mattress is firm and real. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z It had only one room with two mattresses on the floor next to a TV. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z At first she thought she was being selfish, taking the sleeping mat from Polly, but Polly actually seemed to prefer that lumpy, smelly mattress. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z I was Zu and Zu was in a small bed, staring up at the underbelly of a brown mattress. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z They shagged a mattress through the fire door and settled down. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Maman and Auntie both fussed over me, boiling water to bathe me, chang-ing bandages, spending coins fished from a hole in the mattress for a chicken to make soup. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Her bedchamber was small, but there was a Myrish carpet on the floor and a mattress stuffed with feathers in place of straw. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z She had tucked it under the mattress of her bed for safekeeping. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z I pull back the covers, tucked tightly around the mattress, and slip between the sheets. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z He went into the bedroom and felt under the mattress until he retrieved all his paper and the paints that Leslie had given him at Christmastime. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z As Thomas was settling into the soft mattress for the night, he was interrupted. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z He whipped off his covers, slid out his own bag and was pulling open the window over his bed before I could even get the screwdriver out from between my mattresses. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z They discovered that boxes of greeting cards made pretty good places to rest if you arranged them like mattresses. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z The mattress was so soft that she sank down a few inches, and it was wide enough for three people to sleep without noticing each other. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z “He almost did, but God saved him. He rolled off the mattress, landed outside the tent, and cried so much that he hurt his navel.” Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z “I have to go,” Axel says, tucking the seam of the quilt under the mattress. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Ida had found a couple of air mattresses so that they wouldn't be too crowded on the two beds that Riccio had already pushed together. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z Nattie and I have to share a bedroom, two mattresses on the wood floor. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Then, to his bemusement, she stepped into the empty rectangle in the center, where the mattress belonged, and flopped down on her back. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z To call this a mattress, he thought, would be like calling a cracker a piece of bread. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z She ran to the mattress and threw herself onto it and huddled into her mother. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z Then he took the papers to his room, hiding them under the top bunk mattress. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z She has the tags for a metal frame bunk bed with mattresses that appears to at one time have belonged to a military enthusiast. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z There were no mattresses, no pillows, no blankets. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z What if he grew up to be a junkie, and when I caught him with a bent spoon under his thin dirty mattress, he'd scream that he learned how to do drugs from watching me? Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z In the center they created a bed by piling together several mattresses, which they covered with pieces of moth- eaten velvet. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z When my mom sat down on the bed beside me, the mattress shifted, but I didn’t. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z Someone as interested as she herself in the flow of her imagined hair, the thickness of the mattress of flowers, die voile sleeves that closed below her elbows in gold-threaded cuffs. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z We lay on mattresses with mosquito nets draped overhead. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z The phone shakes and buzzes on the edge of my mattress for an eternity. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z At last, we set the mattress and the children on the dusty pine boards of the front room. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z There's a little bit of money under my mattress, and you can have it. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z My younger brothers and sister did not understand what it all meant, but they jumped up and down on the stained mattress like grasshoppers. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z Fenoglio wrote and wrote, but the number of pages he had hidden under the mattress was no greater. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Celaena reentered the bedroom, yawning, and stood on the edge of the mattress to tuck the makeshift weapon into one of the folds of the partial canopy over the bed. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Helena grumbles, grabbing the broom while I put the extra food in the cupboards, out of sight, and stuff my armband into the hole in the mattress, looking for anything else a policeman shouldn’t see. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z It rained for only about an hour, but even after it had stopped, we continued sitting outside all night on the wet sponges that were once our mattresses. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z I can almost feel her presence as morning creeps in through the window and reaches me on the air mattress. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z Papa rushed over and knelt on the mattress next to Torito, who started to moan. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z She is sprawled over the mattress, her hair covering her eyes. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z An emotional heaviness pinned his limbs down into the hard mattress, immobilizing him. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z I sat up on my mattress and waited while my father pulled on his overcoat. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z As he pulled off the soiled sheets he dislodged the panties I had put under the mattress. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z There was furniture overturned, the mattress was ripped open, bureau drawers upside-down on the floor, their contents strewn and mounded. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z I knew he had a pistol because I'd poked around the cabin and found it under his mattress. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z My mother being laid upon her mattress, I bowed and made to retire from the chamber. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z I lifted Hassan’s mattress and planted my new watch and a handful of Afghani bills under it. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z His bed was a mattress on the floor, the American flag draped over it for a coverlet, which even as a non-native, I thought most disrespectful. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z “Since you missed out on beating the mattress, why don’t you mop while I take a breather?” Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z He patted the mattress beside him, and I sat down, sighing as I did. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z They went first to the furnace room in the basement, where the pajama-clad Mr. Clutter had been found sprawled atop the cardboard mattress box. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z When the cart was ready, we dragged the mattress down the narrow staircase and laid it in the cart. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Suddenly, he flipped the mattress off the bed, uncovering the bars that held the mattress in place. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z Immediately inside the door is the tom mattress, stained and moldering, on which McCandless expired. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z There was no furniture except for a wooden platform with a corn husk mattress on top. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Every muscle in my body aches, so even this stupidly hard bunk mattress feels welcome. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z She spent some nights in Obinze’s boys’ quarters, lounging on his mattress on the floor, listening to music. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z I walk to Claire’s bed, throw back the bottom corner of the spread, and slide my hand beneath the mattress. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z Billy and poor old Edgar Derby and Lazzaro had been in the hospital when the British passed out blankets and mattresses, so they had none. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z In the city, we three youngest girls slept on mattresses in the same bed. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Moody set the mattress in place and gave it an experimental bounce. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z He had to balance a chair on the mattress and then stand on the chair to reach it. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z He sat down on the mattress beside me and handed me a glass. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z The mattresses and pillows have plastic on them. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z Under cover of darkness, a wagon driver approached the Yard, hauling a load of mattresses for delivery to Swift & Company. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z He strode past me and sat on my bed, then patted the mattress next to him. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z There was nothing else in this room but a mattress on the floor, covered with a Mexican blanket. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z My dad is tall and so is my mom and Robin’s mattress is tiny. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Instinctively, she tried to shove her secret snack cake wrappers under the imaginary mattress, only to feel a caterpillar crawling across her hand, startling her awake. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z Restless, she rose from the bed, but when the springs beneath the old mattress creaked, she heard a small clear voice. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z Colonists grilled the birds, stewed them with salt pork, and baked them into pies; they plucked their feathers to stuff mattresses, pickled them in barrels as a winter treat, and fed them to livestock. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Sighing, I stretched out on the mattress I had left to air out on the platform and stared at the night sky, exposed in bits and pieces through the fluttering clotheslines. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z I bury my face in the thin mattress I slept on. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z I walked over to the bed and sat on the edge and flopped back into the mattress. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z Violet did not feel her shoulder touch the mattress. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z I stare hard at the bunk mattress above me like it’s about to reveal life’s secrets. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z “No,” she had said, groaning from her mattress. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z They eased him into the back of a horse-drawn ambulance and onto a pile of mattresses removed from a train car and put there to absorb the jolts. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z But the bed, built by Tony Bucci, is not exactly a bed; it’s just wood hammered together in the shape of a bed, with a plank where the box spring and mattress would be. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z He didn’t stop when the mattress fell off. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z The work was difficult, and it gave Ophie watery eyes and a runny nose every time she beat the dust out of an old mattress or shook the cobwebs off an ancient set of drapes. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z They threw open the bedding, overturned the mattress, scoured the tiny room. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z And she could remember weeping into her mattress—great gushes of tears. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z I lay down beside her on the bare mattress, and she was asleep in seconds. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z In the next shop, empty of goods, there were signs of recent habitation by the shirtmen: blankets and mattresses laid upon the floor, clothing deposited in a corner, and recent ashes on the grate. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z He pushed aside an array of mesquite branches to reveal the furniture: remnants of a filthy old mattress, two metal stools, and an ancient, rusty pot-bellied stove. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z I had just finished folding the blankets to make my mattress when I detected a commotion among the meerkats. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z In the corner, five pallets—with thin mattresses and undyed blankets on each—stood in a tall stack. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z She stood up and pulled him off the mattress. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z “It’s all so vague. You know, I thought that was my dream. I remember us wearing the lampshades, and jumping up and down on the mattresses.” Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z The next day just before noon, he stirs from his dirty mattress. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Peralta moved the plastic stool out of the way and dropped his mattress to the floor. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z That night I sat on my mattress, staring at what was left of my bedroom. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z He called for help, and he drew his legs and arms stiffly to his sides and arched his back away from the mattress. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Mace found a heap of sacks and with Nettles help stuffed them to make up three mattresses. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z You curled up on our mattress with your wooden doll, Marapachi. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z Then I tiptoed back to the other room, curled up on the mattress on the floor, and pretended to be asleep. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z We unloaded the Carcachita, placed some cardboard on the dirt floor, and laid our wide mattress on it. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z The forester now led him to his hut and made a couch for him, with tips of fir piled for a mattress under a wild goat skin, shaggy and thick, his own bed covering. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z In one room, pots and pans were scattered next to a straw-stuffed mattress. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z There were a few moments of silence, and then I heard her walk back to her bed and the sound of her mattress taking her weight. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Strong men lifted Garfield and the mattress from the wagon onto the rail car, which had been retrofitted to accommodate him. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Two cardboard boxes of stuff are stacked by the kitchen, two mattresses lie on the ground by the window, and an ancient TV and old, mustard-yellow couch take up the rest of the space. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z “Mama, you and the little ones sleep on the mattress. Roberto, Panchito, and I will sleep outside under the trees,” Papa said. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z I sort of fell quickly onto the mattress and whipped my legs around until they were on the bed. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z I stash my hidden straws inside and roll up my mattress, spreading a blanket over the top. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z “The time will never be right,” she said out loud, then heaved the mattress and box spring off the bed. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z Farmer stood beside a bed, his arm resting on the mattress of an upper berth. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Dad put his elbows on the mattress of the top bunk. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z Though the mattress did little to smooth out the lumps on the ground, it was better than sleeping inside that oven of a house. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z Ben grabbed a pile of clothes and stuffed them under the mattress of his bed, smoothing the mattress with his hand to ensure that no lumps were visible. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The mattress was thin and clean, and it smelled of sage and cinnamon mixed with Doc’s peach tobacco. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z Laika, busted and guilty, rolled away from the mattress of her newfound, dead friend. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z I smack it down on the mattress, smooth the bedspread out. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Donna comes over to me and sits on the mattress. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z She was on her knees, struggling to shove the mattress into the flames as thick grey smoke eddied around her and filled the room, when the door burst open and she heard her maid gasp. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z I grasp the edge of our mattress, dump Richard onto the ground, then pull the mattress on top of both of us. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z In the huts there were the usual bunks, one above the other in pairs, with mattresses or wire netting. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z I shared my mattress with Mom and Deborah, the youngest of my six sisters and brothers. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z But when Miss Celia doesn’t move from that mattress, I know it’s time to pull out the big guns. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Trip glanced toward the bedroom, where through the open door he could see Pearl’s bed, stripped of its sheets and blankets, reduced now to a bare mattress and frame. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z We sat on a wispy mattress set along the wall, across the window overlooking the noisy street below. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z “Fine! Dropped my hairbrush. I’ll walk over with you guys. Gimme a second,” I yell while grabbing the phone and tucking it between my mattress and the wall. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z When he saw that Riccio was slumped on his mattress crying, he walked over and, awkwardly, stroked his spiky head. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z Fool, he thought to himself afterward, as they lay in the center of the sagging mattress amidst the rumpled sheets. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Clay, for example, slept on a soft, clean feather mattress, with perfumed sheets and silken curtains around the four-poster bed. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z Abuelo slept in a narrow metal cot with a thin mattress wrapped in white sheets. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z He tiptoed into the room and lifted the top mattress of his bed and pulled forth the gun and slipped it inside of his shirt. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z “Did Fuchsia find that mattress just for us?” The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z She selected the most thrilling story from her pile of books while the others lit the candles that stood in empty bottles and jars among the mattresses. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z It was Robin who got out the clothes they would need, and blankets, mattresses, and other things. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z The mattress springs protest as I slide out of bed, but Helena doesn’t stir. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z I wake to squeaking mattresses and shuffling feet. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z Dad pulled on his trousers and dragged the mattress off the bed and out to the street. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z He hid his old leather belt in the mattress. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z Here a pillar of bees and this a mattress of luxury. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z To see if he would swing his legs over the side of the mattress and stand up and wander to the bathroom and shave his face, the smell of soap wafting out to the hallway. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z Parked automobiles catch fire, as do curtains and lampshades and sofas and mattresses and most of the twenty thousand volumes in the public library. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z The next morning, I wake up on a partly deflated air mattress, too excited to go back to sleep. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z When they leaped onto the mattress, a brilliant light flared behind them, accompanied by a crisp stutter like firecrackers. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z I bent stiffly to pick up my mattress, took it back inside, and got myself organized for the day at Wolf Creek. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z I took out my coin box from underneath the mattress and removed the top. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z Kalinda sits on the edge of her mattress and tells me her father hasn’t built her bed frame yet, though it’s next on his list. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Their room was a pitiful mess of clothes, wet towels, orange peel, torn-up pieces of a comic arranged around a sheet of paper, upended chairs partly covered by blankets and the mattresses at a slew. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z They went off to the Invalid’s Room, where Kuda was methodically shredding his mattress. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z A mattress and bed frame are leaning against the wall. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z “Yeah,” she laughed strongly, “but Wednesday we turn the mattresses. It smells a lot better here on Thursday.” Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z She tried with all her will, but her arm would not obey her, and the knife fell from her grip to embed itself tip down in the mattress, just beside Sarai’s hip. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Holding Granny’s right hand, he rested his bowed head wearily against the edge of the feather mattress. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z I leave him alone to his business, throw the phone on my mattress. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z He lunged toward the bed then, pressing his fists into the mattress, bringing his face so close I could see the tiny holes where his whiskers grew. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z A third car held twenty soldiers to lift the president and his mattress in Elberon, and the fourth was for baggage. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z “Shut up,” said Mr. Milgrom as he helped his wife up from the mattress. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z After we had our asopao with plantain dumplings, we curled against one another on the mattresses and slept, lulled by the crackling radio inside and the steady gusts of the hurricane outside. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z We both heave the mattress off of us. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z “I don’t want lots of things I want,” Yossarian replied, and then beat his fist down against the mattress in an outburst of rage and frustration. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z A man on a bicycle stopped and wanted to know why Dad was beating that mattress. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z I lie in the back on the mattress with Dad and Audrey. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z A double mattress was tied to the roof. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z Under his feet, the earth rippled as if Half-Blood Hill had become a giant water mattress. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z His only furniture was a box spring, a mattress, a chair, and two crates for a table. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z He went back to Bri and Julie’s bedroom, gave it a quick appraisal, decided enough was enough, then went to his bedroom, and pulled the documents out from under the mattress. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z Fenoglio hastily took the precious paper and put it under his mattress. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z The bed was small, little more than a cot, and if you were to touch it you would find the mattress almost nonexistent. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Between my straw mattress and the bed planks, I had actually found an old scrap of newspaper, yellow and transparent, half-stuck to the canvas. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z I stuffed my eargear and indent jumpsuit under the mattress and put the anklet in the pocket of my new uniform. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Papá noticed an opening at the foot of the tent near the mattress. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z When he crawled onto his mattress, Aaron was in the bunk next to him. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z The others laid the unconscious body across the mattress. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z He reached through a hole in his mattress, into the hay. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z She went into the bedroom, turned back her mattress and took from under it a notebook in which she had kept a desultory diary during her thirteenth year, and a square manila envelope. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z He hauls some green mattresses piled outside into a small room used for studies and catechisms, where the migrants sleep. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z The floors of the dining halls, the ballroom, and the music room were lined with thin mattress pads for refugees. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Two nights later, Nathan lay on his stiff mattress, not wanting to miss his parents as much as he did. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z There was another flash of light, and Ron fell in a heap onto his mattress. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z The second night I dragged my mattress outside, I was done in from lack of sleep, the heat, and pulling weeds all day. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z I’d taken to sleeping on my mattress out in front of the cabin in the last week. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z Frank sat on the edge of the mattress, as if preparing for a quick escape. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z After my parents left, Roberto and I sat on the mattress and told ghost stories until we got sleepy. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z I feel sweaty and clammy under the mattress. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z We had no tents or mattresses, and no food. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z But it was too strange to lie on a mattress, to have silk caress her skin and a pillow cradle her cheek. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Even this very short journey had turned Ron whiter still, and once they had settled him on the mattress he closed his eyes again and did not speak for a while. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z Even if they could, the mattress would get wet, and it wouldn’t be good for Bri to be lying on a wet mattress in below-freezing weather for the three hours or more it might take. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z He lifted his mattress with one arm, propped it on his head, and began rummaging through piles of paper hidden beneath it. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z She followed him and her Mama up the stairs and watched him poke the mattress on the bed and roll up the shades to see if they worked. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Then we are in the tree house and Charlie is showing me his secret floorboard under the mattress. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z Lying on a mattress gave him a weird feeling of slowly rising on a scoop of mashed potatoes. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Vacated lockers were scrubbed, mattresses fumigated, brass coat hooks, doorknobs and keyholes were buffed. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Men filed into the room, leaving their shoes at the entrance, and sat cross-legged on the mattresses. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Perhaps Mamá would permit her to help lift the big mattress and tuck the white sheet under it or polish the mirror in the glittering bathroom. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z “I know I got some information on Henrietta in here somewhere,” he mumbled from under the mattress. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z If Aunt Letty had fallen on bare boards or even on the carpet, I suppose all her bones would have been broken: but by great good luck she had fallen on the mattress. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z Finally, when I’m so tired I’m about to give up, I think to check the most obvious place of all—under her mattress, and there it is. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Almost right away I could feel my body sink just that much further into the mattress and a smile slap itself across my face, thick as cold paint. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z Dad shifted on the bed, both his hands pushing down on the mattress. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Back at our space, I open one of the packs to find a thin mattress, bedding, two sets of gray clothing, a toothbrush, a comb, and a flashlight. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z I washed the wound and dressed it, and then I hid the shirt with the bullet hole in it inside my mattress. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z That evening I return to my room and slide my hand beneath my mattress to make sure the gun is still there. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z A rusty spring bed without a mattress lay at one side, but they didn’t keep anything else in the room. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z And perhaps the corporals weren’t such complete dolts—Mace with his straw mattresses, Nettle with his gift for the brothers. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z It has a striped mattress with a thin, nearly see-through cotton sheet thrown over it; an Army-green cotton blanket is folded under the single pillow at the head. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z He leans over a card table; the edge of their bed, two twin mattresses pushed together under a red and purple batik spread, serves as his chair. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Another mattress spring pops, and I feel Helena coming up behind me. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z There was a small table, a couple of rickety chairs, and a queen-sized mattress on the floor. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z My gaze wanders to the corner of the suite, searching for the mattresses lying on the floor, Keira’s figure huddled under a blanket on the couch. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z For mattresses, we laid cardboard over the ropes. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z The three of us get back into our own bed, huddling under the overcoats and trying not to roll into the hole in the mattress. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Their feet, however, did reach our end of the mattress, and sometimes I would wake up facing Mama’s and Papa’s toes. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z And when I was in my room I shut the door and I took out the envelope from underneath my mattress. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z With a leap, he slams the blade into the mattress as I roll out of the way and onto my feet. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z I spend the rest of the night on my mattress obsessively making knots, holding them up for Buttercup’s inspection. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z She wishes we had a drop of hair oil in the house but water and spit will keep my hair from sticking up like black straw in a mattress. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z She brought up a mattress and slept in my room that night, and neither one of us worried about the silence, because there wasn’t that much of it. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z They were followed by an Englishman dragging his mattress and carrying a dartboard. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z The mattress was firm and comfortable and I lay without moving, hardly breathing, happy in feeling the pain lessen. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z He moved slowly, struggling with the weight of mattresses and furniture. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z Spacetime is usually explained by asking you to imagine something flat but pliant–a mattress, say, or a sheet of stretched rubber–on which is resting a heavy round object, such as an iron ball. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Nevertheless, Albert and I erect on top our four-poster bed complete with blue silk canopy, mattress, and two lace coverlets. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z We're as far apart as two people could be on a mattress this size. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z When they had beds, they usually slept two or more on a twin mattress, lying head to foot, forced to crawl across a sea of sleeping bodies to reach their beds. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z He can see getting a mattress and sleeping on the floor in the studio, but he isn’t going to live the way he had in the Borinage. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z George stepped over and threw his blankets down on the burlap sack of straw that was a mattress. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z The little boy was buried under a mound of blankets—if the bare mattresses around it were any indication, the other boys had gladly donated theirs to his pile. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z Victor forgot about the mattresses and crept toward the folding seats. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z I am on my own, in a dirty room, sprawled on a dirty mattress with a blanket that looks like it was stolen from a child. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z Across the narrow aisle between two beds is Christina, her face pressed to the mattress with her pillow over her head. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z His eyes lidded with hopefulness, he rolled towards her, his body making a sucking sound as it unglued itself from the bare mattress. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z I want to cry, just think- ing about the extra hours of sleep, the clean mattress, warm showers, indoor toilets, electric lights. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Still, it hurt to fold the linen and set it aside, and hurt even more to drag the mattress from the frame so that I could dismantle it. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Nok folded up her map and stuck it under her mattress, Leaving her staff behind, she stepped out of the room and slid her bedroom door shut behind her. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z A small fire was burning in the middle of the straw mattress where we’d left the matches and the magnifying glass. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z He stopped at the garage for a pneumatic mattress that had amused his guests during the summer, and the chauffeur helped him pump it up. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z He found out that the president rested on two mattresses, and the bottom one contained steel wire springs. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z She taught her to tuck the sheet neatly under the mattress. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z I imagine books jammed between the dresser and the wall, books under his mattress. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z He reached under the mattress and pulled out a little black bowl-shaped piece of cloth. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z I folded the letter and hid it under my mattress in case Father found it and got cross. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z I flop on my mattress and it lets out a loud squeak. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z But then Nels dropped the manila folder on the mattress, dropped it and stood directly over him. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z He yelled and shook his fists and with his very threats forced her across the cluttered room until she collided with one of the steel bed frames and fell back onto a mattress. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z In the evenings we prayed for him in front of a faded picture of the Virgen de Guadalupe, which was tied with string to the canvas wall above the mattress. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z At least I know what to expect—hard mattresses, rough sheets, strict matrons. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z At the foot of Harry’s mattress he saw two large, disheveled shapes emerging from tangles of blankets. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z Aunty Ifeoma asked, leaning the clean mattress against the metal railings to dry. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z After awhile, the others dragged mattresses and blankets into the room and made a nest around me, and we packed together for warmth against the encroaching chill. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z He could feel the presence of the other person beneath him in the darkness, under the mattress. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z But the only sound was Jimmy closing the bedroom door and falling on his old mattress. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z They camped that night in a muddy field, sleeping on air mattresses resting on a thick bed of hay, which the tent crew had sprinkled on the oozing mud under the tents. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z Eliza helped each woman walk to the necessary and back while I aired out their mattresses. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The men were becoming very attached to their dogs, making straw mattresses for the dogloos, saving special treats for their favorites, and even crawling into the dogloos on occasion to share the dogs’ warmth. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z It was not the ceaseless motion of the sea that disturbed me, nor the wind; you get used to those the way you get used to lumps in a mattress. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Exhausted, I sank against the mattress and promised myself another minute to fully wake up. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z We slept on mattresses stuffed with the soft seed-heads of dandelions. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z He lies on a mattress and talks to the trees. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Every now and then, Bertha looked dreamily over at Gus like he was a movie star and not some scraggly haired man who worked in a mattress factory over in Cooperville. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z Chantal’s clock says it’s three thirty in the morning, and Bad Leg’s voice eases through the locked windows and thick curtains to hover above my air mattress. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z The mattress felt as solid as the frame. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z That evening, after supper, we all sat on the side of the mattress and listened to Mama tell us the story about the birth of Jesus and the Three Wise men who brought Him gifts. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z A new inmate arrived on W from the psych unit with one arm and no mattress—I’d have to make a few calls to straighten that one out. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I wrote down the conversation I’d just had with my dad, and then I closed the book and put it back under my mattress. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z I had purchased an air mattress, which I gave to Mother. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z As soon as they lowered Toby down, he startled awake—nearly jumping off the mattress. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z After two days of my lying on my mattress with no attempt to eat, drink, or even take a morphling tablet, the door to my room opens. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z It’s not like you can blame a mattress when people don’t tie it down tight enough. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z I let my body sink deep into the thin mattress, against the springs. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z He turned to a program he enjoyed, and lay on an air mattress on his stomach, watching the show. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z He had slept in the living room, he told me, on a mattress that Obiora unrolled from behind the bedroom door and covered with a wrapper. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z When we found him, we demanded dry mattresses. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z She helps Terry make the beds, stretching the clean white sheets over mattresses that have never been used. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z The couch, a relic that Kenyon had rescued and mended and that Nancy had slip-covered and piled with mottoed pillows, was a blood- splashed ruin; like the mattress box, it would have to be burned. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z He crosses and kneels on the edge of the mattress, offering Alex a mug. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Anya rolled over and reached under her mattress, where she had stashed the dragon scale. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z Below them the sides of her breasts swelled out, flattened against the mattress. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Werner gets into a trundle bed that Frederick’s mother has apologized for three separate times, although its mattress is more comfortable than any he has slept on in his life. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z He was sitting bleary-eyed on the mattress, his elbows on his knees. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z He bounded down, and I rummaged through the duffel for a few moist shirts to use as a mattress. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z As the children tried to spin the tops on the lumpy mattress, Joseph joined us on the porch. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Unable to carry a heavy chest, he put it on a mattress and dragged it up the stairs. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z Then she had settled down with him on her mattress, her arm wrapped around him, and she had read from his favorite book, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z The mattress creaked and popped as I kicked back the covers, left Helena sleeping, and ran out of the bedroom and through the empty apartment to Mr. and Mrs. Diamant’s old room. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z A group of men entered, carrying him on a mattress. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z The following morning, when we returned from breakfast, the mattresses were still outside. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z Occasionally she would rise from the mattress, pounding the wall with her bare fists. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z She picked me up out of bed one morning, then almost let me fall back on the mattress. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z The trade name of the mattress was on a little card at the foot of the bed. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z “Fine! Dropped my hairbrush. I’ll walk over with you guys. Gimme a second,” I yell while grabbing the phone and tucking it between my mattress and the wall. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z Mom’s bedroom is empty except for the mattress and the box spring under it, and the metal frame under that. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z I lie upon my mattress in the night and listen to the idiot slap of water against the hull. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z I struggled to hoist myself from the mattress. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z I took an envelope from underneath the mattress. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Vonetta couldn’t take another excited minute of Fern jumping on the upper mattress. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z At night, in their bedroom, she’d seen her sleeping brother press against his rope mattress as though angry with it. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z They had clothes folded in piles along the wall and a mattress wedged into the corner. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z And I end up lying on a soggy mattress. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z I could see a mattress on the floor and brown skin, but I couldn't make out what part of her body it was. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z Each night, I lay awake, waiting until I heard her retire to her mattress to sleep before I allowed myself slumber. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z So he received a mattress put on the floor next to a bunk. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Without Theresa and Ralph knowing, she spent large parts of her afternoons listening to the radio, or reading the magazines she kept under her mattress. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z He lay down on the mattress, and looked up as if waiting. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z 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 And he’s lived there ever since, with two deep freezes packed with food to last him one hundred years, and enough cigars to last ten thousand days, and a good bed with a soft mattress. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z He sat down on his twin bed, the only piece of furniture in his room besides a Goodwill dresser, and the lumpy mattress groaned under his weight. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z He sat down eagerly on the bed, patted the mattress. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z There was barely enough space for four people, much less the jumble of mattresses, boxes, and clothing filling the cramped room. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Remember that trip to Jacmel last year when we stayed at a friend’s house and you insisted that we share a mattress made for a crib? American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z Dad takes the wheel, Richard moves to the passenger seat, and Mother lies next to me and Audrey on the mattress. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z I lay on my mattress as the list of things I was going to miss kept getting longer. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z As soon as I entered the cabin, he strained to straighten up from the mattress that lay on the floor and exclaimed, “Mi’jo, are you all right?” The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z A little girl, her left leg amputated below the knee, sat on a ratty mattress and watched, smiling and clapping along with the other children. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Jaja laid her on a mattress on the living room floor. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z Emma is a mattress who got thrown off the truck when her parents split up. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z Her house sat eighty feet from the sidewalk and was backed by four huge pine trees, from which she got the needles she stuck into her mattress. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z The mattress shifts, and Henry moves up to the pillows, nuzzling his face into the hollow of Alex’s throat. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z “I’m always on the bottom,” Arthur says, fitting new sheets onto the mattress. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z Papa and Roberto then brought in the mattress and placed it on the far corner of the garage. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z The softness of the mattress smothered her, and she shifted again, lying on her back, despite the pain it gave her. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z The gray sky curdled and the clouds resolved themselves into little lumps, like substandard mattress stuffing. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Comic books and magazines are strewn next to the bed, which doesn't have sheets or a mattress pad. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z Once I traveled about in an old bakery wagon, double-doored rattler with a mattress on its floor. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z And in the center of the floor, on a bare mattress where I had once slept, was a brown-haired girl curled up into a ball. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z Robin made room for me on her mattress. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Then I shove the gun beneath it and let the mattress bury it. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z They crowded onto two beds and a slim mattress jammed each night into the aisle between the beds. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z It would be a stretch to say that I enjoyed coaxing mattresses up five flights of stairs, but it was nice to work as part of a team. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z Besides, as the mattress took on moisture, it would get heavier and harder to pull. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z When I last visited my parents, I had trouble falling asleep, too big for the hills and valleys scooped in the mattress by child-bodies. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The mattress trembled, drove a dog out from under the bed. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z He struggled to kick the mattress again, but Miranda pressed against him. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z The bed’s stripped to the mattress, the closet gapes open, showing the emptiness inside, but I’d know this room anywhere. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z During that final year in Atlanta, Chris had lived off campus in a monkish room furnished with little more than a thin mattress on the floor, milk crates, and a table. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I can put a mattress on the floor and you can stay here until you find a place. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z For two years we lived in a garage with the gardening tools, old furniture, a tiny black and white TV, and a lone mattress in the center. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z The floor is first covered with mattresses which we haul in from the houses. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z My mother reads my diary, tracks it down under the mattress, or to the lining of my winter coat. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Come on, we’ll put this mattress back and see if there’s any sleep in this night. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z He pulled the brim of his hat down over his eyes and settled back against a rolled-up mattress. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z In the meantime, I keep the paper under my mattress, in case I really need it one day, although I’m not sure how I’ll know when that day comes. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z A pickup truck full of mattresses and people speeds by. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z Laying on the mattress, he listened for the movement of water. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z A man lay on a thin mattress and faced the wall in a fetal position. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z He went to the mattress and lay down with Mrs. Milgrom. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z My dad touched the mattress with his cane. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z We had nothing, no furniture, no mosquito nets, just thin mattresses placed flat on the ground. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z The front rooms were filled with piles of blankets and bedding, a few stacked mattresses, and a number of unidentifiable gray plastic tubs. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z On the straw mattresses, men lay in various positions, but of the faces I could see, each of them wore a moronic kind of grin. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z The bed, on the side of the room, was made of cement, with a rubber mattress atop it. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z Earlier that morning, when I was certain no one was looking, I did something I had done twenty-six years earlier: I planted a fistful of crumpled money under a mattress. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z I don’t take the mattress off to move my bed, just push and pull, a little this way and that. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z On our bed, we bounced with glee as our mattress squeaked, prompting Keav to yell at us. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z She shifted on her mattress, and the pallet beneath her creaked. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z He and Tony were asleep on a mattress tucked into the corner. I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z I strain and hold back a grunt on the final one and discharge myself to the mattress. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z Jesse shoved the pad and pencils , under his mattress and lay down flat, his heart thumping against the quilt. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z Around the table, he arranged mattresses and cushions, so as many as twenty people could sit and slip their legs under. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Then I pull a mattress in front of it for my sister and me to share. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z There were four deep mattresses, each piled with white blankets, laid on the floor along one side. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z I reached under the mattress and pulled out my mother’s picture, the gloves, and the wooden picture of black Mary, and tucked them down in the bag, too. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The mattress was part way off the bed, as if he had been engaged in the night in some scuffle with intruders. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Nathan sat down on the stiff mattress that was tucked against the wall underneath the room’s window. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z I cut off some boughs for a mattress, then I leaned some dead limbs against the boulder and covered them with hemlock limbs. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Instead of going up to the attic to sleep, he crossed into the kitchen and got an old mattress. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “Well it’s just that wouldn’t it be great if mattresses had spaces for your arm, so that when you rolled onto your side, you could fit just right?” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Shifting to lie on her side to ease the pain in her dressed and bound back, she ran her hand down the mattress, and blinked at the freeness of movement. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Underfoot is a mattress of needles deposited for over two thousand years. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z I hide the medical card deep under my mattress, with the SS man and the picture Max drew for me, and the attic goes quiet. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z We pass a dying barn with a shattered roof, and a stained mattress shoved up against the speed-limit sign. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z I set it on the mattress and untied the twine that held it together. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z She climbed back into the bed and burrowed into the pillow-top mattress. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Six Englishmen staggered through a hospital with a pool table on which several mattresses were piled. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z So I was still awake around midnight, staring at the bunk bed mattress above me, when I realized there was a strange light in the room. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z Eliza sat next to their bed, laid her head on the mattress, and fell asleep instantly. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Wedged among mattresses, bed frames, chests, tables, and stacks of cardboard boxes, a big golden dog panted and lurched around, excited by the smells of the woods. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z I slept on a straw mattress upon the floor, and I was often awakened by his pained tumblings. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z Ropes sprang from the sides of the bed, lashing around Annabeth, holding her to the mattress. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z The floor beneath the mattress was a pool of water. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Without another word, she turns away from me and heads for her mattress. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Afterward, he comes back into his own body in increments—his knees, still dug into the mattress and shaking; his stomach, slick and sticky; his hands, twisted up in Henry’s hair, stroking it gently. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Within minutes, he had climbed the station's staircase to the second floor, where Garfield lay on a mattress in the corner of the room. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z And once he was spread on the mattress, he didn’t move; Daddy said he slept like a stone and a log rolled together. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z The bed, a brand-new mattress and box spring on wheels, is never made. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z More than once when I was little, I heard voices coming from beneath my bed, claws reaching up around the mattress to get me. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z There’s a white sheet, which I spread on the mattress and tuck around the edges, and a moth-eaten quilt. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z Carmen sat on the edge of the lumpy mattress to button up her brand-new boots. I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z Burning mattresses and dressers were scooped up by the furious gale and hurled hundreds of feet. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z I toss about on my mattress, even though my body is still sore from the fight. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z My body sinks into the mattress, and my eyelids droop shut. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z I rolled into a ball in the middle of the mattress, cold sweat nipping my back. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z A few weeks earlier, Brian and I had dragged an old mattress up there because we were thinking of camping out. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z One guy jumped out of a high window on a mattress to escape the flames. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z We must have been under the mattress for half an hour, huddled in silence. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z He lay face up on his thin mattress and listened to the ugly sounds of snoring around him. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z The whole trip stunk—no showers, no soft mattress, smelly campfire, no TV. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z “I found this under the mattress in Buddy’s crib. I don’t know how it got there,” she said, shaking her head. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z Chantal steps over my body on the air mattress to get to the door and I’m pulled out of sleep completely. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z Once the shadows have shapes and I can see my surroundings, I slide out from the covers and off the mattress. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z As for the rest: a cot, wooden, a rust-colored wool blanket fitted neatly over a thin and bumpy mattress. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z She beat her fist on the thin mattress in time to the I-hate-hims. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z I crawl across my mattress and heave a sigh. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z “Aww, she likes him,” Donna says, coming over to my mattress and plopping down next to me. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z I eased Perilee off the mattress and slipped several layers of newspapers under the sheets. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z Woody brought in another army bunk and tick mattress, up next to Mama’s. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z I could trace the shape of it through the cloth of the mattress. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z I started off in a mattress warehouse, dragging mattresses down metal ramps at the back of the store and loading them onto delivery trucks. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z With the help of friends I rearranged my small apartment to accommodate a grown-up baby, and warily crept each morning from a mattress to my coffee maker and hotplate on the kitchen floor. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z He could climb ropes only if there was a mountain of mattresses underneath. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z It was not mattress deep like Rosaleen’s but thin and angular. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z No one was in the living room, so I went straight to bed, after hiding my red-and-yellow- stained drawers under the mattress. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z There is nothing inside them to absorb sound except the inmates’ thin mattresses and their bodies. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Lying on the mattress next to Mom was one of those huge family-sized Hershey chocolate bars, the shiny silver wrapper pulled back and torn away. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z He poured water on the wet spot, and it did look like my mattress on many mornings. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z “We don’t have enough beds, and not enough mattresses for the beds we do have. Worse, we don’t have enough blankets.” The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z It’s still in his hand, draped across part of the mattress like a body part on a mannequin. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z Brian explained how we could make a catapult, like the medieval ones we’d read about, by piling rocks on the mattress and rigging it with ropes looped over tree branches. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z There wasn’t much to the narrow room: a clothes cupboard, some shelves, and a bed of tidy, tightly packed feather mattresses covered with hand-embroidered quilts. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z One corner was curtained off for Hazel, where she kept her mattress and storage chest. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z The mattress was thin, and I thought about how bullets can so easily penetrate mattresses. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z I found an unoccupied bunk on the upper level, shook as many fleas and lice as possible from the soiled mattress, and spread out my sleeping bag. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z In my parents’ bedroom there’s a pile of crumpled sheets on the floor, and the blankets are folded up on a chair; on the mattress there’s a huge oval splotch of blood. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z I was told later that I’d been unconscious, hidden under the mattress, for several minutes. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z No medics show up, though, and as I’m too far gone to care, I crawl up onto the mattress, expecting to bleed to death. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z She wondered whose bed it was and lifted up the blanket and saw only mattress ticking. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z He didn’t want her to see how they only had one bedroom, how the boys had to share a twin mattress in the corner. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z He reaches out to pat the bed and then shifts over to sit on the edge of the mattress. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z “Charles Neal,” Mother said, not even raising her head from the mattress, “I am not spending my final days in a hospital, nor will I turn my own house into one.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z On one of the mattresses, Billy’s father was snoring unevenly. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z On the sidewalk, a discarded refrigerator with its face ripped off, and on the curb an old mattress with wire intestines hanging out of its belly. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z It felt like walking on a mattress filled with Jell-O. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z I push it in front of the door and sit on the edge of the bed, gripping the mattress. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z In the dirty gray light, Barry saw jagged hunks of wood, shattered glass, a twisted bicycle, a refrigerator, a stuffed penguin, a mattress covered with a pink blanket. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z There’s a bump and his entire body lifts from the mattress. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z Once inside, I run to my bedroom, get on my hands and knees, and reach under the mattress for the gun. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z Mom shook Deborah and me from the mattress where we slept. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z Jack and Jakob slept on the floor on a mattress filled with straw. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z There were some old sofas to sit on, and mattresses on the floor. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z He pressed his hands to his head and paced next to the bed, then turned to Bitter and smacked his palms against the mattress. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z Ma makes us scrub every corner of the flat and turn the mattresses before putting on fresh sheets. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Across the curtain, Baby was asleep on the mattress. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z After I got ready for bed, I lay on my mattress and thought things over. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z There were matches and there was a magnifying glass and there was a mattress and then, clearly, a series of unfortunate events. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Among us scratches and lumbers Vishnoo, the shipboard tortoise kept so that he might dispose of the roaches that hang on the beams and scuttle into the straw of our mattresses. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z There were mattresses and bedding arranged on the floor in front of the hearth. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z It was about the size of the mattress he slept on at home. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z I ease up from the mattress, clenching my jaw from the soreness in my back and arms. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z In the night he was wakened by the muted patter of rain on the mattress over the door above them. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z I stand up shakily and collapse onto my bed, curling up into a tiny ball on the bare vinyl mattress, tears streaming down my face as I lie there, alone. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z “I’m not leaving you. I’m getting a mattress,” she said, and dropped her toothbrush and the Red Rose snuff into her pocket. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z She found it under her mattress and used it to slice through the rest of the envelope. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z The weapon’s components, a piece of wood and a length of hard wire, were originally part of a toilet brush he’d confiscated, dismantled and hidden under his mattress. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z He reaches beneath his mattress, takes out the Heinrich Mann book, and shows him. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z The run-down house, the overheated room, the stacked mattress, and the hoarded toilet paper—all remind him how far he would have to go to achieve a success like John Zannikos’s. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z I began tearing away frantically at the mattress cloth above my head with my teeth. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z My fingers stretch out, seeking Prim's warmth but finding only the rough canvas cover of the mattress. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z She arranged mattresses and cushions along the walls of the living room, placed bowls of candy and roasted almonds on the table. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z “Their arrows will go right through a mattress, you fool.” Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z Desdemona lay smiling, as though tickled by her first week’s pay hidden under the mattress. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z She made a little pillow with stuffing from an old mattress and cloth from a white flour sack. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z Grandma’s high bed had escaped the water but still smelled damp, so we put the mattress on the porch roof to sun. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Very carefully, I lowered myself over the edge of the bed and wormed my way underneath the mattress. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z Celia sighed dramatically and dropped her head to the mattress, pressing her cheek against the sheet as her curls cascaded adorably all around. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z Someone tripped over a mattress and went down, and then I heard a scuffle break out in the dark. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z I was slow and aimless, unafraid as I pulled Ben’s book from under my burning mattress. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z I screamed out, recalling I had left it in my shirt on the mattress. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z I sit on a mattress in one of the hallways. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z I sink down in the new mattress, wishing for an indentation like the one left behind by Maman in our bed at home, and drift into disappointed dreams. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z Cora woke in a white room, a soft mattress cupping her body. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z His dirty little paw reached in a hole in the mattress where he hid his marbles. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z He leaned back against the third wall, snuggled under his poncho, and smiled proudly at us as we huddled together on the mattress. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z Mitt would dash past us to the king-sized mattress in the center of the open space and tumble on the neatly sheeted bed. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Our bed was a thin mattress stuffed with old corn husks in front of the potato bin. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z There they unloaded the truck and made a pyramid of Nancy’s pillows, the bedclothes, the mattresses, the playroom couch; Stoecklein sprinkled it with kerosene and struck a match. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z There's the tattered mattress Eden's on, and next to it is the scratched-up chest of drawers that I used to doodle on. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z Along one of the walls sat three young boys, cross-legged, on a mattress covered with a blanket with shredded borders. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z I could make a small hole, in the mattress, slide it carefully in. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z All day, all night, she lay on the mattress with her back to us. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z The canopy bed had a feather mattress and drapes of blood-red velvet. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z He was lying on his bed, back to the wall, his thick, long legs splayed on the mattress. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z There is a queen-size mattress and a single cot pushed together at one end of the garage. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z He hauled the mattress outside again to the backyard. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z I curl back up on the bloodstained mattress, not cold but feeling so naked with just the paper to cover my tender flesh. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z He sees a box spring and mattress without a frame. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z But there’s not a single mattress factory in San Antonio, so what was the point of that? Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Every time we returned from breakfast, the mattresses we had brought outside the previous night were back on our beds. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z A bulky police officer comes into my room, steps quickly to the bed, and puts his hand palm down onto the mattress. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z She’d said it wasn’t anything personal and after I had proved myself for two or three months I could get a proper cloth sheet, but until then she had to protect her mattress. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z I touch the one labeled Max, and when I hear Ilse’s voice outside the door, I hurry to my bedroom, and tuck it safe underneath the mattress. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z At night, after we had exhausted fighting, we would bring our mattresses outside in the yard and sit on them quietly until morning arrived and it was time for breakfast. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z Their mattresses and pillows were soft as down, and the blankets were of white wool. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z I push up onto my fists and reach through the pile of stuff on the floor between my mattress and the wall. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z Once they were on the mattress, Toby turned around and started for the front door. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z As he smoothed out the lumps in the straw mattress, I sat on my own bed. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Henry’s hands are huge on his back, his jaw sharp and rough with a long day’s stubble, his shoulders broad enough to eclipse Alex when he rolls them over and pins Alex to the mattress. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Prisoners there were allowed only three “gills” of water—three quarters of a pint—per day; they were not allowed any exercise, bathing, mattress, or change of clothes. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He pounded a great paw into the mattress. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “Yeah. The mattresses here do nothing for me.” Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z Inmates slept on straw mattresses atop iron bed frames attached to the wall. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Perhaps it was no more than a literally heated imagination, but the ground suddenly seemed distinctly spongy and resilient, as if I were walking across a mattress. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z She set the fan on the foot of the mattress. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z But when I turned, there was only the sheet thrown back, the mattress still depressed from where he had last lain. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z Dad removed the seats, except the two in front, and in their place he put a queen mattress; then he heaved himself onto it and didn’t move for the rest of the drive. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z The top berth had no mattress and he used it to display the vocational and educational certificates he’d earned at Chad, the squares of colored paper arranged in orderly lines. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z The springs of her mattress creak; she would know that sound anywhere. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Did he think about all that before powering the thing down and shoving it beneath his mattress? Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z Pri sits up on the air mattress now and pounds her fist into her palm with each word she speaks. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z I put about twenty of the best chunking stones I had into the sack then lifted the end of my mattress and pulled Mr. Taylor’s sullied knife from underneath. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z I tell her about Mrs. Grote lying in bed all day and Mr. Grote in the woods and the snow dust on my face in the morning and the stained mattresses. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z Ropes lashed around Crusty and flattened him against the mattress. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z He sat down on the rough mattress near the trouser cuffs, and when dark spots formed on the doth he saw that he was crying. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z He rests his knee on the mattress and leans over me, slipping the ice pack under my head. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z He drops down next to me on the bed, jostling the mattress. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z What she didn’t know was that Papa would whisper to Mary Toy to start hollering, and then commence swatting the mattress instead of her. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z She settles back down on my air mattress and I sit on Chantal’s bed. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z By Thursday night, only mattresses and a few clothes and toiletries remain in the echoey house. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z And when I tumbled onto the silk coverings, I laughed to discover a soft mattress that was ten times the thickness of my bed in Ningpo. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z He slept on the abandoned mattress despite its dank smell. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z Her arms are wrapped around her head and her wool blanket is twisted around her midsection and her pillow is jammed into the crack between mattress and wall—even in sleep, a tableau of friction. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z I lay on the floor next to the mattress and shivered under a blanket. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z She crossed the floor in two steps—avoiding yesterday’s untouched dinner in the process—and sat down on the mattress. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z She and the other girls stayed in a rundown house with shabby equipment and patched straw mattresses. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z He hurried after them, past rows of men sleeping on mattresses along the wall. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Our mattresses had to be wrapped in plastic and stacked in the living room for the movers in the morning. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z I could just see him, grunting “Ooh-ooh-ooh” while scratching his armpits, then bouncing and shrieking across the mattress trying to grab a breast. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z He stores the toothbrush on his portion of the upright mattress coil. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Bandits haul mattresses up into nearby trees, eat lunch, and wait for their prey. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z My head lands on the pillow, and I slam my fists against the mattress. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Those of us who have no weapons discuss the merits of protective techniques, like hiding under a mattress. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z My final possession is one of my dad’s old paintings, the only one I have left, propped carefully beside the mattress. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z It’s beating against the mattress, amplified, resounding not only in the bed but in my body. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z Her mom was curled up on the far side of the mattress, her breaths deep and even, and Maya watched her for a minute before reaching down and pulling the blanket up over her shoulders. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z “For refugees. Once we remove the furniture, we’ll line this ballroom with mattresses.” Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z As scared as I am of hiding that burner phone between my mattress and the wall, I’m so thankful that it made this moment in the pantry of the Mess possible. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z Enrique shares one of five soiled, soggy mattresses with three other migrants. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z The mats and mattresses arranged in the classrooms crawled with vicious bedbugs. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z We sat in silence for a few moments, then Father rested his head back against Stick’s mattress. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z Out of these deep surrounding shades rose high, and glared white, the piled-up mattresses and pillows of the bed, spread with a snowy Marseilles counterpane. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z In a cell on the ground floor, the light shifts dark shapes into a small stool, a scrawny table, and a bed made of wooden boards with no mattress or blanket. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z I looked over Mama’s shoulder at Kiyo, on top of his fat mattress, buried under jeans and overcoats and sweaters. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z The green notebook I had gotten so used to seeing her carry around was on top of the mattress. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z Furious with frustration, she pummeled the lumpy straw mattress with her fists until she was out of breath. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z I fell onto the mattress and pulled the quilt over my head. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z She was so small on the bed, so light, she barely dented the mattress. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z At the sound of Basta's voice he hastily hid them under his mattress, kicking the crumpled pieces of paper under the bed with his foot. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z To the top of the buggy were lashed a mattress, a nightstand, and other items. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z Then I head over to the two mattresses lying against the wall. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z My mattress back in our tiny studio had been salvaged for free off the sidewalk, a ratty old spring pad that squeaked like hell every time I moved on it. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z I ate watery broth and week-old bread once a night and passed out on a wooden pallet with no mattresses or pillows or blankets. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z By the time Edwin visited next, Cole had built a table, a chair, and a bed frame for an old foam mattress that was part of his supplies. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z He was in a better cell until last month, with books and a mattress all to himself, because our lawyers knew the right people to bribe. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z I set the magnifying glass and the matches on the mattress and we left. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z My parents loved me, and every night when I crawled into my nice metal bed with the comfortable mattress on it, the world seemed like a good place. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z But the unzipped backpack, leaning against the leg of a desk chair—and the sheets, balled in the middle of the mattress—made me feel like he was alive. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z What I don’t love: pink sofas, green chairs, plastic cover on a table, stained mattresses, old clothes, unmatched dishes. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z I had been dressed in a sheath, striped gray and white, like mattress ticking, with a wide, shiny red belt, and they had propped me up in an armchair. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z By comparison, Abuela’s room was opulent, with its double bed, thick mattress, four bedposts from which to tie the mosquito netting, pillows, and a small crocheted rug. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z As soon as he saw her safely hit the yellow inflated mattress and the firefighters reach for her, Rashid had run out of the room to find Tad and the others. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z “Stand up and haul the mattress,” said Abel. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z There wasn’t even a couch, just a folding chair and an air mattress in the living room. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z He filled the kettle and the pot with water, stood the mattress against the wall, pounded it with a shoe, told me to keep pouring water on the ground to drown the fleas dropping there. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z She wasn’t pleased when she found that the young women she’d assigned as sentries had made a cozy bunker for themselves in a pile of mattresses! A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Then I removed two Band-Aids from under my mattress and slapped them over the holes in my earlobe. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z With little ripples that were hardly the shadows of waves, the laden mattress moved irregularly down the pool. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z In one section of the city, a gang piled mattresses, barrels, and boxes on the trolley car tracks and set them afire. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z "This is ridiculous," I said, clutching one end of my mattress. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z I took off my shirt, placed it on the mattress, and then went back outside. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z She did not let go of his arm until Dr. Nwala stumbled back into the rain, until they climbed silently onto their mattress on the floor. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z He pulled a mattress from under the bed and explained to me that I would sleep on the floor, as he and his roommate shared the bed. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z One ride drops you 108 stories on a cable at near free fall without so much as a mattress to keep you company on your way down. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z The two of us struggled to drag in the queen mattress and dropped it in the middle of the floor. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z Just as I slipped back toward sleep, the men brought back the mattress. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Just a single steel-frame bed with a worn mattress, a ragged blanket, and a wooden chair in the corner. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z I offer to take a bunk, but they make me keep to the floor mattress since I flail around so much when I’m sleeping. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Lelia immediately dragged a mattress and a floor lamp in there and went to work on the rest of the house. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z I thought of the blood, I think, dirtying the mattress. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z “Everything is fine.” i am asleep on a pile of blankets, having been nudged off the mattresses by a fitful child, when I feel a hand on my face. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z So I shift the mattress to the right and find the floorboard that Charlie wants me to find. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z It turned out to be an inmate’s bedding and mattress on fire. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z When I awoke, my head felt heavy enough to sink through the mattress. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z She bled to death all through that woman’s bed sheets on into the mattress, and I can tell you that woman didn’t like it one bit. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z I grab the corner of a sheet and yank it away from the mattress. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z I crawled between the mattress and the padded bedstead and let the mattress fall across me like a tombstone. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z Whoever got there first would get the lumpy day bed to herself, and the other two would share a double bed with an absolutely fantastic mattress. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z Old sentences lurk beneath the mattress, in the rusted coils beneath her back. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z The lumps in the mattress seemed to get harder, and mypillow all of a sudden felt like a concrete slab. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z Mama wrapped Rorra, my newborn sister, in a baby blanket, laid her gently in a crate next to the mattress, and kissed her goodnight. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z The gun is under my mattress, where I left it last night. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z He just lay still in the dark on a mattress that stank of sad old socks. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z There was a cot with a shuck mattress, an apple box holding a tin lantern, and a backless rocking-chair in the little room of the bunkhouse. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z First, he pressed his hands into the springy softness of the mattress. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z His first bed was a mattress on the floor, with an old sleeping bag on top of it. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z It’s too easy to look at Henry’s boots digging into the stirrups for leverage and conjure up a memory of bare calves underneath, bare feet planted just as firmly on the mattress. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z “You know there’s a price,” said he, reaching under his mattress and pulling forth another volume. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Someone had set up their own little camp, using bright blue pool rafts as mattresses. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z I begin to fold back the spread from the corner of the mattress, but a thought stops me. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z He was transferred onto a specially designed thick mattress nestled atop a box full of cushions. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z In the living room, she took in the aftermath of the previous night’s Eid visits: the overturned cups, the half-chewed pumpkin seeds stashed between mattresses, the plates crusted with the outline of last night’s meal. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z Mama smelled like the hay the mattresses were stuffed with. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z Then I sit on the mattress and wait. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z There was nothing in the room, just a frayed rug, a few dishes, a pair of mattresses, and a lantern. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z I felt like I was on a mattress. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Skeleton frames of steel beds, most with no mattress, filled the rooms. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z The men’s section of the mosque was a large square room, covered with Afghan rugs and thin mattresses placed in parallel lines. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z The first blocks are dotted with family stores: a nail salon, a discount-discount store, a diner, mattress store, karate school, furniture rental. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z I grabbed my home-spun costume from beneath my mattress and thrust it at her. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Last night I barely slept on the cold porch of the school, and before that I was on a soiled mattress in a fetid room with three other children. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z There is a wet patch on the mattress under my face. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z Then I heard Grandma India padding across the room and felt the weight of her body shift the plane of the mattress as she sat down. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Suddenly Aurora is out of my lap, clearing off random clothes from the mattress. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z When I reached my tiny plastic coffin, I crawled inside and collapsed on the mattress, facedown, in the same exact position as the night before. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z My hands tremble as I struggle to tuck the decades’ worth of filtration straws under the mattress in my beehive cell. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z I lay rigid on the mattress, remembering what it used to be like, before all of this. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z He even pulled all the ticking out the mattress from their bed and added it to the pile of confusion he was building in the center of the room. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z Prosper dragged the second air mattress to the window so he could see Ida's garden and the canal behind it. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z An air mattress lies on the floor next to her neatly made bed, which is covered with a purple blanket and too many pillows. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z And before we went to bed I had a great time jumping up and down on the mattress. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z Under the window, and occupying nearly a quarter of the room, was an enormous bed with the mattress still on it. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z We’d brought up our mugs of tea, and we were sitting in my room, side by side on the mattress, our heads slightly stooped because of the rafters. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z A fiery piece of tent had fallen from above and burned through the mattress, scorching my skin. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z As Garvey blew out the lantern, Cole pulled the blanket over himself and lay back on the foam mattress. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z Cole cut boughs off the spruce trees and fashioned a mattress beside the fire. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z Both our feet hung off the edge of the mattress and touched the cool concrete floor, and we prayed that a little mouse or a big spider would not eat our toes. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z I get out of bed and lift the mattress with one hand, propping it up on my knee. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z A mattress so thin he could feel the springs in his back, like lying on a bed of fists. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z I was in that kind of sleep that just feels so paralyzingly restful and deep, like my body had become the mattress. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Each man took one end of the dead woman’s mattress and lifted, then carried the body away. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Alex bounces when his back hits the mattress, and Henry stands over him for several breaths, staring. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z The family unloaded the car in a daze and followed the caseworker through a doorway into a stark ground-floor apartment with mattresses on the floor. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z And is it really normal that Mami and Papi have us all sleep on mattresses on their bedroom floor with the door locked? Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z I didn’t know that the last time I’d see Maribel would be just a week later, when I’d find her sitting on the curb outside our building next to a full-size mattress. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z I take the photograph and shove it under my mattress. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z Richie brought home a mattress and put it in the basement, and now Ben had to sleep down there with the dog and Richie's free weights. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z Once I’d finally swatted it close enough to grip, I pulled the raggedy box from under the bed frame and set it on the mattress. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z I just closed my eyes and sank into the mattress. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z Not-Charlie picks it up just as his friend looks at the mattress and the clear plastic cover marked with my footprints. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Against the same wall as the office, but in the opposite corner of the barn, Margo has set up a kind of bed—four forklift pallets beneath an orange air mattress. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z Riccio's mattress was covered with old comic books and his sleeping bag was stuffed with so many stuffed animals that there was hardly any space left for him. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z He’d replaced his lumpy twin bed with a new full-size mattress, added curtains to the windows, and bought a new dresser. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z The moment my feet touched the floor, I checked under my mattress where I’d tucked my mother’s things—just a temporary hiding place till I could bury them back in the orchard. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z My father’s eyes filled with tears as he and I lifted Lynn’s mattress and bedspring out of the room. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z However, it was when he ripped the bottom sheet off that Cabot found what looked like a diary of some sort stuffed under the mattress. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z He placed it at the end of the wide mattress so he faced the wall on which hung a small, faded picture of la Virgen de Guadalupe. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z Walking backwards and dragging the bottle behind me, I managed to reach the edge of the mattress. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z But the kitchen linoleum was scrubbed and the stove and fridge were clean, the carpet was spotless, Mia’s mattress bed was made with crisp striped sheets. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z There were a pillow and a mattress on the plank bed, and a stool to sit on. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z I keep the journal under the mattress, where no one will go looking for it. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z There's a set of chairs, a wardrobe, and a mattress covered in plastic. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z He dragged one of the kids’ mattresses out and squeezed it through the tent’s door. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z The business of the mattress box was one of the things that most tantalized Dewey. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z I got to business, arranging some thatch that had fallen from a ruined hut and laying clothes over it to make a sort of mattress. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z We had mattresses and suitcases tied to the top of the vehicle, and the attackers tore them down and stole them. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z I get up and slip my hand under the mattress for my journal. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z You see, the dark corridors I ran through felt like a lumpy mattress, the kind I detest. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z My parents had an advantage over the five of us because our legs did not reach the other end of the mattress. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z I reached swiftly between the mattress and box spring to grab the knotted old sock that contained my secret cash hoard. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z I hear his weight fall on the mattress. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z Across the small room, the twins’ mattress was on the floor, a mess of blankets and dirty stuffed animals. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z They had never had guests before, and they went to work like darling elves, sweeping, mopping, cooking, baking—making mattresses of straw and burlap bags, setting tables, putting party favors at each place. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z She chewed the blankets, tore the mattresses, sprayed the feathers out of the pillows. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z I sit on the edge of my bed, slump back against the mattress. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z I push myself up on my mattress until I can see Bryce and Aurora. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z As I’m pulling the sheets off the mattress I almost trip over a black bag shoved under the bed: his gym bag. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z The larger pieces—mattresses, box springs, broken pieces of furniture—he left outside, leaning against the storehouse. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z That night Werner climbs into bed and stares up at the underside of Frederick’s mattress. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z To the people he said, “You can have the mattress.” Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z Mr. and Mrs. Bucket and little Charlie Bucket slept in the other room, upon mattresses on the floor. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z Arturo had dropped his head back against the mattress, but I could see that his eyes were open and that he was staring at the ceiling. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z For the thirteen-day journey, they slept on straw mattresses on a deck above the engine room, hanging tight to their bunk beds as the ship pitched and rolled. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z I jumped onto my bed, flopping a lot so that he had to draw back his arm to avoid getting squished by the mattress. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z I pushed it down through the hole in the mattress and climbed out after it. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z We were issued steel army cots, two brown army blankets each, and some mattress covers, which my brothers stuffed with straw. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z The weight forced a side of the mattress down and Mother twisted her bed lamp to beam down on the book. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z We piled the rocks back on the mattress, rerigged the catapult, and waited. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z He started to sniffle, and I figured if I didn’t cheer him up he’d either start bawling or chewing up my mattress. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z The upper cabins are occupied by the privileged and the refugees have gladly taken to the mattress pads. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z A stained mattress topper, feathers spilling from its torn edge. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Her voice is smooth and it reaches me all the way on my mattress. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z I grab the key from under her mattress and unlock the drawer. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z Dr. Seward was resting on the mattress, and, seeing me, he sprang to his feet. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z That evening, after supper, Mama laid Torito on the mattress to change him. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z He has hidden the jewel under the mattress, in his tool case, in his shoe. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z At night Werner stares up at Frederick’s bunk, the thin slats, the miserable stained mattress. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z During these fights, we destroyed most of the furniture and threw the mattresses out in the yard. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z All night I sweated in my bed, the thin mattress offering no buffer for my constant tossing and turning. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z My mattress, old and lumpy, was now a small piece of paradise, right there in my room. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z Sixteen were single beds, but the other nine were very large, so large that Lupita had to keep circling them and lifting the great mattresses to tuck in the sheets and blankets. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z Wouldn’t you notice if a mattress fell off your car? Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z It was dominated by twelve narrow wood bunks stacked in tiers of three, each with a thin bare mattress and a grubby bare pillow lumpily filled with shreds of Styrofoam. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z We sleep on our air mattresses, in our sleeping bags, in the wooden bunks where the loggers used to sleep. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z I wanted to make sure they were not rubbing against each other in the box before placing them underneath the mattress. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z He gently lay them on the mattress and tucked them in so they wouldn’t be jostled. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Tessie and Chapter Eleven were curled on air mattresses on the floor. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z She traced the dips of the mattress with her fingertip, circling the buttons in each dimple. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Searched through all the cells and found a shiv tucked under D’s mattress. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z He flopped down on his mattress, letting its itchy stuffing feathers poke into his back as he glared at the ceiling and tried to figure out how it had all gone wrong so fast. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Next, his mind told him that he was at home in bed and his mother was singing and shaking the mattress, wanting him to get up. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z There was a raw damp mattress on the bunk and a small refrigerator with the door standing open. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z Painfully, his muscles and bones protesting, he lifted himself from the mattress and poised, on one elbow, to thrust himself from the bed. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Dallas reached under his mattress and held out another twenty dollars. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z Papa, who was sitting next to her on the mattress, lifted its corner and pulled out from underneath the white embroidered handkerchief. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z The mattress was littered with wires, nails and the guts of several disassembled bronze machines. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Then Chas punched the mattress from below; I felt the thud of a fist in my kidney. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z They won’t know where they are and they’ll be biting the mattress or each other, which is the best cure of all. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z The adults each had their own foam mattresses, and there was one big one that we’d roll out into the middle, and the kids slept on that. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z “I found an extra mattress down in the basement, but I need help getting it up the stairs.” The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z Then Bryson rolled over, his plush mattress suddenly prickly like a bed of nails against his bruised body. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z There was actually a queue forming up at the bottom of the stairs, and soldiers struggling down with heavy horsehair mattresses. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z The mattress off his bunk, his slippers, and the scrapbook with all the food pictures—he called it his icebox. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z She desperately hoped that the crib with his name on it would not contain a wailing, sleepless little boy who would toss his hippo to the floor and thump his feet rhythmically against the mattress. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z The first nights we sleep on the floor, in our sleeping bags, on top of our air mattresses. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z He had ripped open the feather mattress in search of valuables, littering the floor with mounds of horsehair and goose down. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Shirley threw herself on the mattress and lolled about like a fish tossed back to the sea. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z One evening, before leaving for work, Mamá prepared the milk bottle for Trampita and laid him on a wide mattress that was on the dirt floor. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z I walk down the hall, into the bedroom I used to share with Khalid, and slip my hand under the mattress for the journal. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z She said to Gramps, “Remember that letter from the egg man that you found under the mattress?” Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z And she had thought lifting the mattresses in Señor Elfren’s motel was hard work. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z Pressed white linen over a scarred table, a crisp clean sheet over a stained mattress. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Sighing, I sink down onto the familiarly uncomfortable hospital mattress, and take a deep breath. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z I had my head sandwiched between the mattress and my pillow, something I got used to doing whenever they were going at it, when my mom crashed into my bedroom. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z Inside his shirt he felt the cold metal of the gun resting against his naked skin; he ought to put it back between the mattresses. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Lourdes and Diana, now two years old, share a mattress on the concrete floor. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Tally felt the heat still rising from the bed, the straw mattress and thick quilts fuel for the conflagration. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z When he didn’t work, he and Mami rustled behind the flowered curtain, creaked the springs under their mattress, their voices a murmur that I strained to hear but couldn’t. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z The mattress shot forward, and our arsenal of rocks flew through the air. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z After an agonizing hour of doctors poking and prodding, eight men carried Garfield on the mattress through the train station to the exit. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z He’s sitting on the edge of my mattress, one leg folded underneath. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z It felt dark and safe under there, but the mattress was not heavy enough. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z There was a whole mattress camp on the floor behind the seats. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z Inside Sitti’s arched main room, they sat on flowery gingham mattresses arranged in a circle on the floor. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z His head was the size of a basketball, and his back was like a king-size mattress. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z He lies on the couch in the dark, in his clothes, his body covered by his jacket, preferring that to the stripped mattress in the bedroom. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z The floor of the capsule was covered with a gel-foam mattress pad and pillow. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z No, sir, and believe you me I looked under the mattress, because that is the kind of person he is. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Later, when she was sure that he was asleep, Laila quietly reached beneath the mattress for the knife she had hidden there earlier. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z Next, Lily lifted a corner of the mattress and raked her arm along the box springs, reaching in between all the way up to her armpit. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z Mrs. Milgrom was lying on the mattress as usual, facing the wall. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z Ben and Matthew had flattened the back seats of the station wagon and inserted a double mattress so the children could sleep during the night journey through Georgia. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z I began ransacking the house and while overturning the torn straw mattress I found a pair of old, rusted keys in one of the holes. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Anthropologically speaking, the trailer park would be preferable, but here I have a gleaming white floor and a firm mattress, and the few resident bugs are easily vanquished. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z He lifted the mattress from the upper bunk bed, and pulled out the two envelopes that held keys for apartment 1 IF and apartment 14J. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z Around the church, there were two soccer fields, and in the middle of one field they noticed a heap of burned mattresses. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Pearl tugged her armful of bed slats higher and led Moody into the larger bedroom, which held nothing except a faded but clean twin mattress leaning against one wall. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z She sat with her coat on, holding herself, while her daughters beat flat the straw in the mattresses and lit the oil heater. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z His bed was a mattress on the floor. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z When I get into my room, I curl up on my mattress and shut my eyes tight. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z Nathan took off the bow guard and sprawled across the mattress. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z Kainene got up and walked to the wall, where the mattress leaned, and then came back and sat down. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z The straw- filled mattress was lumpy and smelled of moldy vegetables, but it was better than anything she had felt in a long time. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z The nets hung from the ceiling, and we tucked them in under the mattresses each night. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z The men carry a mattress, still in plastic, up the walkway next door. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z The door was locked, and before we could figure out how to get into the shed the whole thing caught—the mattress, the ladders, the paint, the turpentine, everything. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Hixon: She was their age, and there was a mattress in the apartment. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z I folded the blanket and sheet and set them back on the mattress. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z They lay down on their bare mattresses, tired, miserable and I don't know what else. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z He lay back in the red dust on the old mattress and closed his eyes. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z I folded the letter and put it under my mattress. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Both of my arms were flung out on the mattress, touching nothing. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z He just lay there in the same position day in and day out, and the side of his head that was pressed against the mattress got a little flat. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Of course the sagging mattress analogy can take us only so far because it doesn’t incorporate the effect of time. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Nathan walked inside the hogan and helped Uncle Jet carry a large, heavy mattress outside. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z There were a couple of iron cots with bare springs, one against either wall, the mattress pads rolled up at the foot of them in army fashion. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z There were eight bunks to a room: thin mattresses, topped with regulation white sheets. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z “Never,” I admitted as Frankie folded the coverlet into a makeshift mattress. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z She lifted his mattress and found a few extra shoe boxes under his bed. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z She smiled underneath the bluish starlight that shone through the window above the mattress. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z I fold up the note, stick it in my pocket, replace the foot-long floorboard, and hammer it in with the heel of my hand, then I shift the mattress over again. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z He sits up and presses down on the mattress with his palms. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Indeed, at night when she was too tired or too hot to sleep, she would take the gunnysack out from under her straw mattress and count the money in the darkness. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z Almost hourly, it seemed, a police siren would blare outside the window or someone would start shouting, unloading a stream of outrage and profanity that would startle me awake on the mattress. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Sometimes she would lay her head on the mattress and stretch out her hand just to touch him. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z We were sitting on an old mattress that they used to sleep on the floor, basically a sack stuffed with dried straw. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z I feel the impact as an arrow hits our mattress. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z I saw her thrashing on the mattress, mooing like a cow for mercy. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Walt returns from the stream to find her sitting on the mattress where Chris died, taking in the vehicle’s shabby interior. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z We laid him as comfortably as we could on a mattress of life jackets and kept him warm. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z He and my mom and Robin and Aretha were all squished on her mattress. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z When a mattress was defective, sometimes one of the employees kept it. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z Mom’s queen mattress, box spring, and headboard are resting against the wall beside the front door. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z A bunch of our things were going to be sold at a yard sale on Sunday, except for important stuff like shoes and mattresses and a few dishes. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z We took the sagging mattress off the bed and placed it on the worn yellow linoleum floor so Papá and Mamá could sleep on it. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z Mama turned my mattress today and found my diary and read it. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z She plops down on the edge of her mattress. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z Just a card table, a mattress, and a single armchair in front of the television where he now sits, a tin of butter cookies in his lap. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z They sprinted down the shed rows, gathering pommel pads, horse blankets, and rub rags, and threw them on the truck bed to serve as a makeshift gurney mattress. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Flat on my back, too high to move, I closed my eyes and let the glutinous premonsoon heat cover me like a balm; I felt as though I were melting into the mattress. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z You were meant to scribble them in a diary, hidden under the confines of a mattress. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z As scared as I am of hiding that burner phone between my mattress and the wall, I’m so thankful that it made this moment in the pantry of the Mess possible. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z Olanna placed Baby down on the mattress, covered her with a wrapper, kissed her forehead, and felt the sudden urge to cry at the thought of Ugwu. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z She pulled out a remote that was wedged between the mattress and the frame. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z The wall hangings were green with mildew, the mattress musty-smelling and sagging, the rushes old and brittle. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z I closed the Bible, let it slide off the mattress and thunk on the floor. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z I’m sleeping on an air mattress now and there’s plush beige carpeting underneath. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z I watched the indistinct form of the forty-something Puerto Rican through the screen as he turned in bed and sat up on his mattress. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The grandmotherly nurse looked up from a novel, astonished, as Edward swung me into the room and placed me gently on the crackly paper that covered the brown vinyl mattress on the one cot. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z They’ll always talk about how the stained mattress at the side of the road saved that chick’s life. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z One hand hung over the edge of the mattress, a pale frail fleshless thing, but warm when she touched it. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z As I rested the mattress against the wall, I noticed a small cardboard box nestled in the ledge between the frame’s headboard and side. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z I clutch the mattress and rock forward and back, forward and back. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z Months later, Ruth hid money beneath the mattresses, in Mason jars, in the ice box, in the backyard. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z Soldiers ran under the bomb and tossed down a thick pile of cotton mattresses—low-tech protection in case of a potentially disastrous fall. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z I curl up with Prim on the mattress, double layering the blankets because the cavern emits a dank chill. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z The mattress wasn’t as hard as he’d imagined, and he lay back, still wrapped in the blanket from the cupboard. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z Papa came into my room; my mattress sank in when he sat and smoothed my cheeks and asked if I wanted anything else. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z They retreat to their three rooms, to their three separate beds, to their thick mattresses and pillows and fitted sheets. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z I’ve got the gun under the mattress and the card in my drawer. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z I wasn’t sure if I could catch something just by sleeping on used mattresses, and I wasn’t ready to find out. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Janina’s mother lay on a mattress in a corner of the room. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z Dad hung his head, perched on the edge of his cot, knuckles flat against the mattress like a resting gorilla so that his shoulders sat high by his ears. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z For bedding, he spread out a thick mattress of dust-free rice straw. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The bone-grinding fatigue and numbing hunger of the past weeks evaporated as we carried Grandfather’s mattress down from the bedchamber and set it in the middle of the yard. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I knew others must have felt the same, for charpoys and mattresses began to appear on the sidewalks. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z Mom said to hide beneath a mattress, and so we covered ourselves with the bed, staying close together, tense and still, down low to the ground. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z She shakes out the fitted sheet and we put it on together, tuck in the sides because the mattress is so thin. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z A bunk bed of unfinished wood with vinyl mattresses was pushed against the room’s back window. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z A small mattress and a thick white comforter lay in the corner of the room. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z In the bedroom, she settled Lexie onto the mattress again and spread the comforter over her and patted her back gently, as if she were a child. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Nearly all of the garbage was buried beneath old yellow foam pads that used to serve as the innards for the inmates’ mattresses. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z Station employees brought a coarse mattress from a nearby sleeping car. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z “Ah . . . just like a mattress. I can feel myself dozing off already.” Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The twins and Nell were resting on the mattress under the cherry tree when he strode across the yard and took all three in his arms. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z For one thing, he had arrived with little furniture—a mattress, an old bed, and an unusually large trunk. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Kalinda pushes it open, and I see that her mattress is on the floor, but she has the most beautiful dressing table, and her nightstand looks like it’s made from gold. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z I was to fold the mattress and put it back under the bed every morning. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z I grip the sides of the mattress to steady myself. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z He bid her he facedown on the mattress while he spread a salve across the angry red welts that covered the backs of her legs. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z I lie on my mattress, with the orange and turquoise blanket pulled under my chin, unable to sleep. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I land on the mattress, the plastic crinkling beneath me. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z He ran to Riccio’s mattress and pulled open the sleeping bag. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z In the bedroom, three old mattresses without sheets are laid across the floor, a carpet of bony springs. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z I wanted to look at the envelope but I didn’t want to make Father angry, so I hid the envelope underneath my mattress. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z He took another step forward and his shoe hit a mattress. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z Papa then threw the mattress on top of the car roof and tied it with ropes to the front and rear bumpers. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z We struggled to get the mattress out of the cart at the coffeehouse. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I sat on the mattress and pulled out my note pad from my shirt pocket. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z |
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