In the meanwhile the mother had got a candle, and I saw the girl with the bedclothes up to her chin, for, like her brother, she was as naked as my hand.
As if to make that pleasant office easier, she raised the bedclothes to support herself, and she thus gave me a sight of beauties which intoxicated my eyes, and I protracted the easy operation without her complaining of my being too slow.
He drank half a glass of the wine at a draught, and dropping the lighted cigarette on the bedclothesseemed not to notice it.
He drew the bedclothes to his chin, feeling with his other hand for his dressing-gown which lay on a chair near by.
The great hulk fell helplessly upon the bed, and she dragged the bedclothes over him with her free hand.
The bedclothes half torn from the bed by his sliding bound were tangled about his feet.
He would not open his mouth in reply to anything that was said to him; he would not eat his potatoes; all he did was to creep off to bed as quickly as possible and hide under the bedclothes and groan.
But bring your money with you; you can buy a bed and bedclothes and dresses for a couple of years with it.
When he clearly understood the idea, he rejected it with so savage a snarl, that he soon found it necessary to retire under the bedclothes to escape the general indignation that followed.
His long, untrimmed hair hung over an unwashed neck, his cheeks were sunken, his hands were clasped over the bedclothes that covered his shins.
The window itself offered no difficulties, for it was above the street and on the first floor, so that a fewbedclothes tied together would suffice to lower a man out of the barracks.
I laid my hand between his shoulders, and the bedclothes shook with the tremor of his limbs.
Her eyes were half closed when he laid her down and drew the bedclothes over her; and a minute or two later, when he looked in from his dressing-room, she was evidently asleep.
She pushed thebedclothes down, dropped first one bare white foot, then the other to the ground and looked doubtfully at a pair of worn felt slippers which were placed beside the bed, before slipping her feet into them.
First came the milking of the cow; then the bedclothes must be rolled up and the stable cleaned out, and there was sweeping and churning to be done.
In the daytime there were large piles of bedclothes tightly rolled up near the cradle.
Sara darted under the bedclotheslike a rabbit into its burrow.
The bedclothes were drawn up to his chin, and they lay perfectly still over the region of his chest.
I tucked her up as neatly as I could, and put her petticoat over her, for thebedclothes were scanty, and her hands felt cold.
A momentary distortion passed across his face, and I saw one of his hands clutch up the bedclothes and squeeze them hard.
They are repeated automatically, until the bedclothes fly up finally near the head, as is described.
We may take it for granted that the kickings up of the bedclothes during which Sanders became weak and faint, lasted ten minutes or more.
He was sitting up, beating the bedclothes with both his hands and arms, which were stretched out.
Cross-examination continued: I did not tell the coroner that Mr. Cook was beating the bedclothes on the Monday night.
The bedclothes were put back and the light extinguished.
It was on the night of Thursday, July 7, that the first incident occurred, when the bedclothes were gently pulled off his bed.
She scarcely dared to stir; but at last she pushed the bedclothes aside, and put her feet on the floor with a rapturous smile.
She felt as if warm, delightfulbedclothes were heaped upon her.
A moment later the perforated door was drawn shut, and then he rolled up the bedclothes into a bundle, and deposited it at the further end of the cavern.
The young man was thoroughly tired, and with a sigh of relief he stretched himself out on the bedclothes he had brought from the house.
The two terrified people used the few minutes the angry, snarling beast took to get out from the tangle of bedclothes to roll as far under the bed as they could.
The man had slipped his feet over the side of the bed to the floor, and his hands clutched the bedclothes from underneath.
Then the bedclothes all creep to the ground in a heap, and you pick 'em all up in a tangle; Next your pillow resigns and politely declines to remain at its usual angle!
And sez I, "Do you take off them bedclothes offen you, and put 'em back agin, and come to bed!
And somehow the idee of his takin' the bedclothes offen me seemed to mad me about as much as his foolishness and vanity did.
And I see him dash up to the old bedstead in the attick, dash off the bedclothes and the feather-bed, and beginnin' oncordin' of it.
The bed in the corner was a thing of broken springs and crippled frame-work, but it had a mattress of straw albeit bedclothes were lacking.
Now you're going to lie quiet till morning," Jake said, tucking in the bedclothes with motherly care.
She threw the bedclothes from her and got up, not because she wanted to be dressed herself, but because she could not stay in bed any longer.
With automatic calculation she leant down and felt the bedclothes with her hand as one feels a thing just dead.
We remained silent for some time, listening to the low, irregular breathing of the creature on the bed, and watching the rustle of the bedclothes as it impotently struggled to free itself from confinement.
This was evidenced by the convulsive manner in which the bedclothes were moved in its efforts to escape.
