Open bags littered the floor, the greasy remains of supper soiled the table, the parents' bed seemed devastated by the catastrophe, its coverlets torn off and lying on the floor.
Presently Helen bids her handmaids show with torches the guests to their beds beneath the corridors, where bedsteads have been set with purple blankets and coverlets and thin mantles upon them.
But the coverlets which are laid above he calls "beautiful purple cloths.
Sophron too speaks of coverlets embroidered with figures of birds as of great value.
She was forty-eight and unmarried, and it was her delight to make beautiful, soft little sacques and shoes and coverlets for every actual or prospective baby in all the wide circle of her kindred and friends.
It's impossible not to laugh when you think of Edward drawing one of those coverlets over him!
So, shortly after the girls learned that they had to economise on expenses that year, Polly carried her old coverlets to Mr. Ashby's shop and left them with him to sell.
The bargains were carefully placed between thecoverlets purchased, and then the buyers got in the car.
Polly was not aware that old woven coverlets were considered very desirable by collectors, but she had read the date which showed the spread was more than a hundred years old, so she judged it was worth bidding on at the coming sale.
The visitor sees the flowers and the prettycoverlets and curtains, the polished floors, and the soft green art carpet.
But in our great palaces of pain to-day the eye is constantly cheered, and in the note of colour and comfort the casual visitor forgets the anguish that lies hidden beneath the gay coverlets and behind the pretty curtains.
When I lef they give me my feather bed, two good coverlets and my clothes.
They had big chests full of quilts and coverlets and counterpanes they been packing back.
Two buffalo-robes of the same size with the coverlets were arranged so as to button on them, forming sleeping-sacks for the occasion, but easily detached for the purpose of drying or airing.
There was no lack of bedding after the early struggles, as there were good feather beds with coverlets of all kinds, an abundance of linen sheets, and also flannel sheets were used, but cotton sheets were not plentiful.
This was a great carved four-poster, very costly, with richly embroidered coverlets and hangings of brilliant hues.
Throwing back the coverletsof the bassinette, Alfred stared at the empty bed in silence, then he quickly turned to the two anxious women.
So completely had Jimmy been enveloped in the coverlets and for so long a time that he had acquired a vague feeling of aloftness toward the rest of his fellows, and had lost all knowledge of their goings and comings.
Doubtless he had good reason to think that they would proportion their beds to their houses, and their coverlets to their beds, and the rest of their goods and furniture to these.
For a man must have a less than ordinary share of sense that would furnish such plain and common rooms with silver-footed couches and purple coverlets and gold and silver plate.
Then Arete told her maids to set a bed in the room that was in the gatehouse, and make it with good red rugs, and to spread coverlets on the top of them with woollen cloaks for Ulysses to wear.
On this Helen told the maid servants to set beds in the room that was in the gatehouse, and to make them with good red rugs, and spreadcoverlets on the top of them with woollen cloaks for the guests to wear.
But the best way is to guard oneself against those which are within the coverlets and furs and the stuff of the dresses wherewith one is covered.
There was a couch in one of the corners; in the middle, round a hearth on which a few sticks were smouldering, coverlets and skins were piled.
The other Brownies were fairly certain they could obtain the promised coverlets in time.
It’s barely possible the name may be Ella’s, because she liked to make coverlets and fancy work.
When she had well wrapped herself in the coverlets so as to be hidden, she called the maids to her and bid them tell the king that the queen was sick.
So they came to the house of the poor fool, broke down his thick wall, loosed his three cows, and took also three coverletsfrom his wife's bed.
For her three stolen coverlets he gave her two score English pounds, and two cows as good as her own three.
Then she opened up the chest, and took bed-clothes out of it: they were all very beautiful, and over the bed she spread English coverlets and a silken quilt.
The large tanned ox-hides used by the Arabs as coverlets are perfectly waterproof, and are simply prepared with milk.
Food was set before them, and presently Danae and Perseus slept on soft beds, withcoverlets of scarlet wool.
Therefore the two wakened Nestor and the other chiefs, who came just as they were, wrapped in the fur coverlets of their beds, without any armour.
They all slept at night in one room, but Ino's children had gold crowns in their hair, and beautiful coverlets on their beds.
The coverlets had not been turned back, altho the bed was sunk in the middle, as if someone had tossed restlessly about over it the night before.
She shuddered and drew the coverlets closely about her, as her mind went over it again.
There is a hut hard by, such as we all use, which I have devoted to your service; clean straw and thick coverlets of skins, warriors will hardly ask more.
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