While Janet wrapped herself up in blankets, Mary spread out an eiderdown robe her father had once brought from the far North, and they were soon fast asleep.
Having wrapped herself in the eiderdown robe, she fell fast asleep.
As he was tucking in the eiderdown at the side Buz put out a cold left hand and held him by the coat sleeve, saying curiously--"Are you in an awful bait?
He went to his bedroom, fetched the eiderdown off his own bed and covered the boy with it.
So Tish repeated it, but when she came to theeiderdown pillow he held up his hand.
You haven't by any chance brought an eiderdown pillow?
If your eiderdown is getting shabby, why not clean it and re-cover it yourself?
The first thing to do is to choose a hot day, as the eiderdown must be dried out-of-doors, and the brighter the day the quicker it will dry, added to which the sunshine fluffs up the down better than any fire does.
To explain: patience will be needed, for an eiderdown takes some time to dry when once wet, and common sense to choose the right day on which to do it.
It seems incredible that an eiderdowncould be so dirty without showing it plainly.
Since you are writing, my dear comrade, have the goodness to note down to ask at my house for my eiderdown coverlet.
Resolutely I pitched out the eiderdown into the dark and dirty air shaft.
I came down hard, very hard, but old Madame's plump eiderdown and pillows certainly helped to break my fall.
I noticed, with a grateful heart, that the eiderdown and pillows covered practically the whole of the flags of the yard.
I dropped square on top of the eiderdown with one knee on a pillow and, though shaken and jarred, I found I had broken no bones.
This covering proved on examination to be a 4-feet square air-tight bag containing eiderdownabout a foot deep.
On being very considerately asked on the following morning how I had slept, and if I would like an extra eiderdown on, I courteously but firmly declined.
An hour later, wrapped in his eight foot square eiderdown robe, he lay on the floor of the narrow cabin prepared for sleep.
But, for the most part, the pilot prefers rolling up in his eight-foot-square eiderdown robe and sleeping on the floor of his cabin.
Branches were piled on the window-seat, and on the top, wrapped in an eiderdown quilt, with a laurel wreath bound round his head, lay David.
His bed showed no signs of having been slept in during the night; but the eiderdown quilt was not to be seen.
It was only about the breakfast hour that the butler found His Highness, wrapped in the eiderdown quilt, under the bed.
They were not aneiderdown quilt, but they would serve.
When at home, he had an eiderdown quilt to sleep on, and the stone of the window-sill was a little trying to a snake of regular habits.
Although it was so bitterly cold, the eiderdown was on the floor, and the counterpane half off the bed, and Molly herself only partly covered.
We had no water to wash the men, barely enough for cooking and for surgical dressings, but there were silk bedspreads and eiderdown quilts and all the treasures of German sitting-rooms.
Down pillows, soft eiderdown quilts for painful broken legs; mattresses for pain-racked bodies.
And they must have spring mattresses covered with red and white striped tick, and bolsters filled with down; and two eiderdown quilts, exactly alike.
He threw himself on the eiderdown and went through a fierce fight with God as represented by God's vicar, his conscience.
A bright fire was burning in the bridal chamber, the curtains were drawn, the bed was laid open, and the room looked like a white nest ofeiderdown when Thora, with a fluttering heart, stepped into it.
Another new departure is the decision to carry eiderdown sleeping-bags inside the reindeer ones.
The sleeping-bags were far too stiff to be rolled up, in fact they were so hard frozen that attempts to bend them actually split the skins; the eiderdown bags inside Wilson's and C.
Garrard, reindeer and eiderdown 18 45 This gives some idea of the ice collected.
Bowers did not use an eiderdown bag throughout, and in some miraculous manner he managed to turn his reindeer bag two or three times during the journey.
On sleeping-bags little new can be said--the eiderdown bag may be a useful addition for a short time on a spring journey, but they soon get iced up.
After a long wait and three successive summons, the physician himself attired in an eiderdown dressing gown and slippers opened the door.
He was nude to the waist, but thence downwards wrapped in aneiderdown shawl.
A fine snow was falling and she shivered as she tied a scarf around her head, threw her long gray eiderdown cape over her shoulders and slipped from the room, without waking her friend, who was weary after the excitements of the day before.
At eight o'clock that evening Molly rolled away luxuriously in a village hack with Mary Stewart, holding her roses tenderly and carefully under her gray eiderdown cape, so as not to crush them.
Could the dear departed see his relict in the morning, with lavender eiderdown environment, he would appreciate his mercies as never before.
It has only one rival--the garment of lavender eiderdown flannel, the button-holes stitched with black yarn, which the elderly widow too often puts on when the tide of her grief has turned.
She had to lie with one arm outstretched, holding the eiderdown over the others, and the cold nipped her shoulders.
Oh, that's lucky, for that eiderdown I'm going to fetch some day.
It was an eiderdown which was little else than a thick cover, the feathers having disappeared, and those they got when killing poultry were too good to be used--the mother wanted them turned into money.
The eiderdown sleeping-bags were a great comfort; they were our only means of keeping thoroughly warm with 34 deg.
Blankets, cap comforters, fur gloves and warm clothing were issued to all of them, and for those who had to sleep at the highest camps, eiderdown sleeping-bags were also taken.
Fong, without answering, set the chair down beside her, taking from its seat a cloak and an eiderdown coverlet.
