At a late hour I sought my seaweed couch in my hut, and fell asleep.
I ate my supper of turtle steaks and eggs with great satisfaction, and by the light of my fire sought my humble couch and slumber.
These thoughts brought me well into the evening, and, commending myself to the divine care, I lay down upon my sea-weed couch and dropped to sleep.
Redbeard, as Lancey called him, mentally, reclined on a couch and smoked a chibouk.
Here he was shown into a small but comfortable apartment, very Eastern in its character, with a mother-of-pearl table in one corner bearing some slight refreshment, and a low couch at the further end.
Against this slope, beneath the three windows, a broad, cushioned bench was built, to serve as couch or seat.
Sometimes, when they were preparing for sleep, at night, in the cabin at the stern, he would relax on the couch there.
I stole softly from my couch and drew near the window, the light of the moon enabling me to distinguish the garden, which it overlooked.
She could not walk abroad without the support of servants, nor cross the marble floor from one silken couch to another, so heavily was gold interwoven in the tissue of her dresses.
After these subsided, the serving Brother changed the couch and a broth made from lean beef and sundry herbs was given.
He had sunk on his knees by the couch on which she rested, and his eyes flashed fire into hers for a brief moment; but he conquered himself, and veiled them under their heavy lashes.
The formerly bare walls were now covered with rich, thick hangings; and the simple couch and scanty table of other days had been exchanged for whatever was most luxurious and complete in the household furniture of the age.
The stench of the sulphur lake will breathe Sabian odours for them over a couch of mud!
His couch was placed nearer the window than that of any other occupant of the chamber.
She is saved,' pursued the physician, leisurely quitting the side of the couch and smiling on Vetranio; 'be careful of her for days and days to come.
Producing some furs from a corner of the tent, he made a sort of rudecouch by the side of the fire, heaped fresh fuel on the flames, and then gently counselled her to recruit her wasted energies by repose.
Lost to his ambition, broken in spirit, helpless in body, separated from his daughter by his own act, he lay on his untended couch in a death-like lethargy.
He gave up the idea of sleeping in the cave, but made for himself, just outside and across the entrance, a couch of cloaks taken from the wreck.
The mariner snored as peacefully on his canvas couch in the corner of the hut as though he were on a feather bed at home.
Then, tired out with his long labours, he gladly threw himself upon a couch in one of the towers, and slept soundly until the dawn.
He sat on the edge of the couch and looked at her.
The couch which he finally passed adequate would have caused Lora Delane Porter's hair to stand erect, but it satisfied Steve.
Put him to bed," said Mrs. Porter, as Kirk laid his burden on a couch in the studio.
Bailey, meanwhile, as Kirk's hundred and eighty pounds of bone and muscle detached themselves from the couch and loomed up massively before him, was conscious of a weakening of his determination to inflict bodily chastisement.
No more dreams, seen hazily through the smoke of a cigar, as he lay on the couch and stared at the ceiling, of what he would do to-morrow.
When he arrived here at the head of his command during the Civil War, he chose this rude couch in preference to the best bed in the house, that he might fare no better than his men, who were bivouacking in the yard and outhouses.
Claude rose to his full stature and walked to the head of the couch where he stood, handsome and commanding.
His alcoholic exertions had been so ardent, however, that he sank on the couch with a loud snort of satisfaction.
After helping herself to an undiluted drink, she pranced back to the studio couch and flung herself upon it, face downwards, with the abandon of a Russian ballet dancer.
Micky glanced at none of them, till suddenly a girl who had been sitting on a couch listening rather listlessly to the conversation of a youth beside her, rose to her feet when she saw Micky, the hot colour flying to her cheeks.
Lady Annabel rose from her seat and walked to the window; apparently her eye watched only the passing gondolas, but indeed she saw them not; she saw only her child stretched perhaps on the couch of death.
Many a fine lady now sits in a doge's chair, and many a dandy listens to his doom from a couch that has already witnessed the less inexorable decrees of the Council of Ten.
Captain Cadurcis climbed to its top, and then descending, reclined himself upon an inferior portion of it, which formed a natural couch with the wave on each side.
In the meantime the subject of these observations slowly withdrew to the further end of the saloon, apart from every one, and threw himself upon a couch with a somewhat discontented air.
So Soelver carried his wonderful burden to his couch and inhaled her youthful fragrance and lifted his mouth to hers and all his blood at once leaped forth.
The bright light of the full moon shone on high with its trembling beams directly over the couch of the maiden.
She must go back to her maiden's couch until the flower of the day had burst forth from its leafy covering.
And upon the cover of her couch lay her two gleaming arms and the fingers of the right hand trembled as if they grasped another invisible hand.
The lady threw herself on a couch as she came in, while her attendant, who was a young and very handsome woman, kept herself modestly in the background, so much so as hardly to be distinguished.
The telephone clicked as Phil hung up, and with a little gasp, Patty hung up her receiver and threw herself on a couch to think it over.
The place was looking lovely, and Patty herself made a pretty picture, as she lounged in a big couch hammock on the wide veranda.
And so his light was not enough to wake the sleeper, still cuddled among the couch pillows.
He was posed in his favorite attitude, half-sitting, half-reclining among the cushions on a low couch of red fox skins.
She nodded toward the couch where her husband puffed on his pipe as he plied Kilbuck with questions about the Island of Kon Klayu.
Her face went sober, however, the moment her eyes sought the couch where her husband sat still engrossed with the White Chief.
On the high seat of the double canoe in which the chief sailed was set up a canopied couch covered with feather capes, and right above the couch the taboo signs of a chief, and below the sacred symbols sat Aiwohikupua.
Thus we couch in a fascinating manner the words and deeds of a certain daughter of Hawaii, beautiful and greatly beloved, that by this means there may abide in the Hawaiian people the love of their ancestors and their country.
The jealous Poliahu disturbs the new nuptials by plaguing their couch first with freezing cold, then with burning heat, until she has driven away her rival.
A special chief's language was thus evolved, in which the speaker might couch his secret resolves and commands unsuspected by those who stood within earshot.
The figure of the woman on the couch seemed to move.
The vagary had passed--but on the couch the two immovable figures remained.
He lifted the unstirring body and posed it in a relaxed attitude of ease upon the broad couch that stood at one side of the hearth.
Hour by hour and minute by minute the faces of two unmoving figures seated on a low and heavily cushioned couchgrew less clear and merged into the growing darkness.
In an instant Farquaharson was at his side and bending over the unconscious form and a few minutes later, still insensible, the figure had been laid on a couch and the roadster was racing for a physician.
Fire away," directed the man, throwing himself at full length on to the couch near his wife's chair.
As earth, two handfuls yielding, shall thy last couch supply, What need to build thy palace, aspiring to the sky?
In the meantime Minerva bethought her of another matter, and sent Penelope off into a sweet slumber; so she lay down on her couch and her limbs became heavy with sleep.
I will therefore go upstairs and recline upon that couch which I have never ceased to flood with my tears from the day Ulysses set out for the city with a hateful name.
Now when the child of morning rosy-fingered Dawn appeared, Nestor left his couch and took his seat on the benches of white and polished marble that stood in front of his house.
And now, you maids, wash his feet for him, and make him a bed on a couch with rugs and blankets, that he may be warm and quiet till morning.
Opposite them sat Penelope, reclining on a couch by one of the bearing-posts of the cloister, and spinning.
