That there might be a coverlet of bolting-cloth lined with the delicatest shade of rose-pink satin, sprinkled plentifully with rose petals fallen from the wreaths above.
Nor did she pause till she flung herself upon the coverlet of her little white bed in a passionate storm of weeping.
Then, with an air of perfect calm and assurance, she passed out of the room to her bedroom, where a grip lay open on the simple white coverlet of her bed.
He paused a moment, whilst I settled down again and drew the coverlet to my chin not without a certain premonition of important things to come.
My amazement and slow understanding were spurred on by a sight of my hands lying on the rude coverlet which had been flung over me.
The silk coverlet and one blanket had disappeared with her.
The man who took her away made a mistake when he carried off the coverlet with her, unless he was deep enough to destroy it before he had taken her far.
With the other hand he snatched up a blanket, and threw it round the struggling form, and then, bundled in coverlet and blanket, he carried the little girl away.
The first thing we've got to do is to offer a reward for that silk coverlet that was taken away with the little girl.
If he didn't do that--if he left that silkcoverlet behind him anywhere, I consider his game as good as up.
Only when his feet were on the turf, and the castle stood up black behind him, did he withdraw the coverlet from the mouth of the half- suffocated child.
So I conclude, my lady, by the coverlet turning up there," replied Mr. Larkspur.
It was neither more nor less than a brief epistle from one of the officials of the police-staff at Murford Haven, informing Mr. Larkspur that an old woman had produced the silken coverlet advertised for, and claimed the offered reward.
No, mother," chimed in Prudence, leaving the dressing-table and seating herself on the patchwork coverlet of the bed.
Its coverlet was a patchwork affair of depressing hue.
But at the end of this time, by the moving of her left hand, and by plucking at the coverlet of the bed and pointing to her mouth, a wish for food being understood, it was given her.
As he closed the door, Mellin slowly drew the coverlet over his head.
The unhappy young man had again drawn the coverlet over his head, but not to sleep: it was more like a forlorn and desperate effort to hide, as if he crept into a hole, seeking darkness to cover the shame and fear that racked his soul.
Snow was falling, softly and lightly spreading a white coverlet under his feet over which he glided inaudibly, feeling his way by the rocky wall.
She lay raised high on her pillows, and on the silken coverletbeside her were three swords, their jewelled scabbards catching here and there the light of the lamp.
When the young priest hesitated, his fingers had crept back to the gold piece, closed on it, and drawn it back beneath the coverlet again.
The sweet sun of early spring was shining hard, and the snow was beginning to pack, to hang like a blanket on the branches, to lie like a soft coverletover all the forest and the fields.
His hands lay suddenly quiet and composed on the coverlet before him, as the door opened, and the girl stood again on the threshold.
His hand on the coverlet clenched, and raised and fell impotently to the coverlet again.
The giant's head was sunk on the coverlet and his lips touched the damp fingers of the hand which lay without the sheet.
Nevertheless, she cast another coverlet over the dead woman's face, and went down the broad stairs of red brick, carrying her burden like a precious thing.
Baby must sleep, and two little feet In the warm coverlethide them away.
Baby’s tiny coverlet Should be lambs’ wool white, Dainty as the pelican, Fluffy, warm and light.
In your wee, red robes, And hid under sweet, scented leaves, O why do you grow, Hid away till the snow Its great white coverlet weaves?
Softly] Or just a sweet white coverlet for me and Sasha.
O Heaven, That this smoothcoverlet should hide so much!
Draws coverletover Glaia's form] Glaia, Thou wert the bud of earth; infinity Shall wear thy blossom and be proud.
The white, placid snow made a coverlet as wide as the vision of the eye, save where spruce and cedar trees gave a touch of warmth and refuge here and there.
Then she had sung a song which had been like a fire in his heart, not alone because of the words of it, but because of the soul in her voice, and it had lain like a coverlet on his heart to keep it warm: "Adieu!
Night was dropping her blue curtain as gently, as silently, as the nurse spreads the coverletover the sleeping babe; but the stupid man professed to misunderstand me.
Against a side wall stood a broad, low bed, over which a faded quilted silk coverlet was spread, and there was a carved wooden canopy fixed to the wall above, from which curtains had formerly hung.
At last they came back to her, and the memory struck her like a stinging lash, so that she cowered on her bed, clutching the coverlet with her hands, and biting her handkerchief to keep herself from shrieking with horror and hatred.
Suddenly she stirred, and as she stretched herself slowly the coverlet fell rustling to the ground.
First she shook out the pillows of the best bed, that nobody ever slept in, and pushed back the curtains so that the embroidered coverlet could be seen.
There was a warming-pan with a bright brass cover, hanging on the wall; and I wish you could have seen the pillows and the coverlet on the best bed!
With a stifled cry he flung himself down in the bunk, and pulled the coverlet over him once again, closing his eyes, and simulating heavy breathing, in the hope of persuading the new-comers that he was in a deep slumber.
With a sigh of relief he was preparing to pull the coverlet over him and lie down once more, when his ear caught the sound of footsteps approaching.
The coverlet dropped from her breast; her hand was suspended with stiff fingers.
She did not speak; her only movement was to drag up the coverlet of the bed and hold it against the base of her throat.
Nothing was very wide-awake as yet; all life stirred as though beneath a film; a dim blue coverlet still lay lightly over the wood; the earth held her breath for the moment of birth.
He gathered them up from off thecoverlet and waited.
That flattened little form under the crumpled coverlet was Phoebe's, was the same body with which she had given him so much delight.
