We stopped at a hotel, and I slept in my Mackinaw blanket that I carried with me, on the dining-room floor.
Then he placed himself in one of the arm chairs which the sea had sculptured from the cliffs, wrapped a blanket round him and with his knees crouched under his chin shut his eyes and seemed to fall asleep.
He discarded his serviceable moccasins, his caribou-skin capote with the fur on, his moose-skin trousers, and his picturesqueblanket shirt.
Moreover, snow makes a good white blanket and protects against sudden drops in temperature.
Presently he rolled hisblanket round him and looked up into a sky all stars.
This blanket was my only wrap during the chilly nights, so I must have it.
We then told him what we had done and why, but thought he had hidden enough under his blanket to carry him through the campaign.
I had been the possessor of nine gum-blankets within the past three weeks, and no such article as a gum-blanket was ever manufactured in the South.
By the time a blanket was unrolled, the column was astir again, and so it continued throughout the long, dreary hours of the night.
With the help of an axe I soon had a window-sash out and my blanket in my possession.
Having been on duty all night I was being left unmolested to the last moment, when Joe Shaner came to me, as usual, and very quietly rolled up my blanket with his, to be carried on his off-horse.
Scores of times I have seen him, when the bugle sounded for us to fall in, go and take his little blanket from the low nail where it always hung, and beg one of the boys to put it on for him.
When he grew older and braver he allowed himself to be tossed up in the air in a blanket of walrus hide.
Mother Nature did the rest by protecting all with a warm close blanket of snow.
Ruth, Agnes and the guests took hold of the heavy blanket and held it under the basket as directed by Mr. Howbridge.
Run into the house and get a strong blanket or quilt," advised Mr. Howbridge quickly, but in a quiet, insistent voice which seemed to calm the excitement of every one.
They may all take hold of the edges of the blanket and extend it as firemen do the life net.
We'll take hold and extend the blanket under them, in case they should fall.
But as I pulled my blanket about me and lay down beside the other men the thought of what the night must be on the summit made the hard, damp rock under me seem the softest and warmest of beds.
On the steep north slope of the top he had found a safe spot between two jutting crags, and, wrapping himself in his blanket as the sun went down behind the hill of the sea, had waited for the winnowing of the small mysterious wings.
I replenished the fire, folded my blanket around me, and lay down to sleep.
I got up at once and rolled up my blanket and was soon ready to start.
I lay down, rolled up in my blanket with my feet to the fire and was soon sound asleep, and did not wake up till the captain of the guard gave me a good shake.
But I soon found that a blanket or quilt had been cut off from the canvas, and as the material readily served for repairs, the deadhouse had to be abandoned.
Many of the younger people on Saturday and Sabbath evenings, when their number would be greatest, would be grateful when they were accorded a pillow and blanket for a bed on the floor, or a bench.
The society ranges from an untutored Indian, with a blanket for his dress and paganism for his religion, to men of collegiate education, who are manifesting their christian culture and training by their earnest advocacy of the christian faith.
Still, with hisblanket tightly round him, the ticking might not be heard.
In the result he went straight to the bedside--or rather blanket side--of his prisoner.
He had placed a bright red blanket on the seat beside him, and himself he had adorned with a short hunting-jacket, a small gray felt hat, and top boots, into which the trousers were tucked.
She thanked him and stepped up on the back of the cart to the narrow board where the hay sack was tied, as though she dared not touch the red blanket beside Gudmund.
He caught at theblanket and pulled it from her head.
As she approached and struck his vision, he crept feebly back, gathering his blanket more closely round him, lest it should suffer contamination by touch.
So he would have passed without a word, had not the young man caught a fold of his blanket and brought him to a standstill.
The blanket crawled from his lean shoulders and rustled to the ground.
The old man frowned, and pulled at the falling blanket with a claw-like hand.
The night comes upon us,' he said, as he drew the coarse blanketto his chin.
She picked the blanket from the ground, and arranged it, with soft, womanly attention, round his body.
The old man fixed his keen eyes upon her laughing face, then drew his coarse blanket of a gaudy yellow more conveniently over his shoulders.
Then she arranged the blanketat the foot of a tall pine, wrapped up the child in it, and returned.
Then, within the reed-covered hut by the petroleum swamp, Menotah, her head and shoulders wrapped by a blanket of many folds, was talking with a dark figure half enveloped in a long cloak.
The Ancient was left again to himself He pulled theblanket over his scanty white locks with weak motions, while his thin lips parted in unspoken words.
Then Antoine was at her side, nervously plucking at the blanket that trailed from her shoulder.
Perhaps it was the biting wind, for she drew round her blanket more closely.
The force advanced without tents, and with only a blanket and waterproof sheet for each man.
Various trappings, such as blankets and mats, were brought on board, the king having two mattresses and two blankets supplied by the military, and the men and women one blanket and mattress each.
He swaggered and strided in, and raised such a commotion with his great green blanket when he shook it, that Wassamo was nearly taken off his feet; and it was only by main force that he was able to cling by his wife.
Defn: A blanketor shawl worn as an outer garment by the Spanish Americans, as in Mexico.
Defn: A kind of coarse blanketor garment used by the North American Indians.
A grayish, coarse doubleblanket worn by countrywomen, in the west of England, over the shoulders, like a cloak or shawl.
Defn: A kind of machine blanket or wrapping material used by calico printers.
Defn: A thick blanket formerly in common use in the western part of the United States.
Among the Creeks, 'The corpse is placed in a hole, with a blanket wrapped about it, and the legs bent under it and tied together.
To this is attached a piece of cloth or blanket or skin about a foot wide, which passes between the legs, and is tucked under the girdle both before and behind.
He caught up a horse blanket, spread it on the floor, lifted the box and plant, set them down in the middle of it, and with a quick gathering up of the ends of the blanket converted it into a bag and tied it round with a hitching strap.
Then the blanketfell away, and Mistress Westleigh, rigged out in an amazing mixture of masculine and feminine attire, laughed up at the commander.
Still Mistress Westleigh slumbered peacefully, with the rough blanket about her dainty body and her head pillowed on Kingswell's folded coat.
A strand of her bright, dark hair was across her forehead, and one arm, clear of the blanket and the deerskin on which she lay, rested on the deck.
