If our young friend had been a girl instead of a boy the cushion would have been white.
A Screen and Storm-Door Cushion [Illustration] A good cushion that will prevent a spring door from slamming can be made out of material cut from an old rubber boot or, better still, from an old hollow rubber ball.
The thread spools are placed on pegs set in the upper tray, and the cushion in the center is provided for the pins and needles.
One cushion is fastened near the top, one near the bottom, and one in the center, in the rabbet of the door frame.
Seizing the cushion that his eldest son was placing at his back, he hurled it over his head.
Sir Hokus, pouncing on the Doubtful Dromedary, and in a minute each of the party had a cushion and was as snug as possible.
An old champaigne basket, fitted up with a cushion on the lid, and a valance fastened to it to cover the sides, can be used for the same purpose.
It is made by covering half a brick with cloth, putting a cushionon the top, and covering it tastefully.
A low square box, set on casters, with a cushion on the top, and a drawer on one side to put shoes in, is a great convenience in dressing the feet.
Fancy what life was in the days of stiff wooden seats, when you had to carry a cushion about with you.
The lady's only possessions seemed to be three books, a travelling cushion and a somewhat too gorgeous paper cutter; and these few objects were perfectly new.
Her head had fallen back against a cushion and her eyes were half closed.
No, he only looks up at the King as he now stands at the foot of the throne, beside that magnificent cushion studded with emeralds and pearls.
Four years had passed over these chambers without leaving any further trace of their presence than dust and cobwebs, and faded stripes on cushion and curtain.
Babiole, who was still on the cushion at my feet, leaning against the arm of my chair as she used to do in the Highlands, was looking interested and deeply surprised.
A closely allied group to the cushion irises are those known as Regelia, of which Korolkowi, Leichtlini and vaga are the best known.
All these cushion irises are somewhat fastidious growers, and to be successful with them they must be planted rather shallow in very gritty well-drained soil.
What are known as Oncocyclus, or cushion irises, constitute a magnificent group of plants remarkable for their large, showy and beautifully marked flowers.
As I spent hours this way, the habit became injurious to my digestive organs, so a flat cushion was made for me.
In fact, one of their own men revealed the secret, confessing that it was nothing more nor less than a piece of steel with a cushion around it.
Then the boy turned shyly, and slipping back to his cushion on the step, nestled himself against the chair-arm with a sigh that was almost pathetic in its happiness.
It was opened, and curled round the white-satin cushion within was, oh, such a magnificent serpentine bracelet, with such a blazing ruby head and diamond tail!
There, of course, were the clothes in the wardrobe, the cushion on which she prayed, the chair at the toilet: the glass that was no more to reflect her dear sad face.
Then he showed her how to place herself in the little seat in the centre, with a cushion at her back.
Lawyer Ed whacked a sofa cushion impatiently with his cane.
Miss Kezia said, her eyes on Denis, who at the sound of her voice dropped the cushion and sat up with a ludicrous face of dismay.
Denis sank on to the lounge, stuffed the cushion into his mouth, and wildly waved his legs in the air.
She turned her eyes to him--he had buried his head in the cushion and was shaking with laughter!
The Treasury-bench itself looks no better than a first form in one of our public schools: No sattin covering decks the' unsightly boards, No velvet cushion holds the youthful Lords.
No sattin covering decks the' unsightly boards; No velvet cushion holds the youthful lords: And claim illustrious Tails such small regard?
She has not moved more than to place her left hand on a cushion and lean her head rather wearily against it, looking steadfastly up the Pass.
LAURA gets a cushion in each hand off seat; crosses down to left of armchair, throws one cushionon ground, then the other on top of it, and kneels beside his chair.
But I guess she's laying pretty close to the cushion herself, poor woman.
Do but thus, Get thee a cushion underneath thy cloaths, And leave the rest to me.
The cushion filled with sawdust or sand, is now called into requisition.
The violin, now as before, is placed front downwards on the cushion or pad, some repairers would hold it on their knees, but only in the absence of either means.
The cushion or sandbag must be brought into use, the violin put face downwards, the fingerboard resting in a hollow.
The fiddle is then laid face downwards on a cushion or soft pad and held in position with the extended palm of the hand.
The arcade consists of low massive circular piers, with cushion capitals and plain chamfered abaci, which support semi-circular arches of one order also chamfered.
At the height of the springing of the arch the shafts are surmounted by plain cushion capitals.
On the inner side it exhibits work of Carileph's time, with an early arch, cushion capitals, and shafts.
The arches of the arcade rest on shafts and cushion capitals, and are carved with chevron ornament.
His shield, engraved with a representation of the gods of the tribe struggling with two lions, served as a cushion for his head.
The king and the smith went again to the river with a cushion three feet in thickness, which was thrown into the water and driven against the blade as before.
The sword divided the cushion as easily as the water, and without even checking its progress as it floated with the current, and King Nidung declared its fellow could not be found on earth.
By way of testing its edge, he took a cushion stuffed with wool a foot in thickness, threw it into the river, and let it float with the current against the edge of the sword, which cut it fairly in two.
On a cushion a little removed sat Pug, with the air of a maiden lady, who looked on these familiarities as animal weaknesses, which she made as little show as possible of observing.
