The house was now all in darkness, but the moonlight streaming in above the protecting mattresses gave sufficient light for all purposes.
Mattresses are the thing for that--almost bullet-proof.
I also had the benefit of the mattresses Piatte and Titi were allowed as prisoners, and I soon got accustomed to the Salle de Police without suffering severely from it.
There is no doubt, however, that it is a cruel and barbarous punishment, especially in the cavalry, as neither blankets nor strawmattresses are allowed to the troopers.
Now they saw that she was a real princess, for through the twenty mattresses and the twenty eider-down beds she had felt the pea.
On a litter of mattresses and trusses of straw in the kitchen, which had been converted into an ambulance, there were five men gravely wounded, two of whom were municipal guardsmen.
They dwelt, not in rooms warmed only during rigorous cold, but in cells where no fire was ever lighted; they slept, not on mattresses two inches thick, but on straw.
Our host brought us some bedding, consisting of a couple of old mattresses and quilts.
We remained in his care for nearly a week, and every day seemed to increase the interest which these mattresses took in us.
Several sick men were put on board the steamboat, and were laid on mattresses on deck.
On our return we found that due preparation had been made in the apartment by the addition of three mattresses on the floor.
And do you imagine that they would have put two mattresses on your bed?
The cell was cushioned from the floor to the ceiling, and on the floor were mattresses on which Coupeau danced and howled in his ragged blouse.
Some were open, and from them hung checked mattresses and sheets to air.
Some time ago a direful rumour had spread about: "They have requisitioned a great number of mattresses in Vivaise.
He forgot to add that a few hours before the disaster the Hussars had burnt their dirty, lousy mattresses in the neighbourhood of the said barn, where, besides, soldiers had been seen smoking many a time with perfect serenity.
The problem of providing mattresses was a difficult one to solve.
In fact, for some time we were not able to provide, except in a few cases, bedsteads and mattresses of any kind.
Cabinska, with a cigarette in her mouth, directed the packing and continually scolded the children, who were tumbling in great glee over the mattresses and the straw strewn about the packages.
Immense trunks and baskets stood in the middle of the rooms, a large pile of various stage paraphernalia together with mattresses and bedding lay on the floor the entire outfit of a nomadic life.
Everything was now made ready for the proposed attack, and all along the starboard side of the Vittorio mattresses were hung in order to break the force of the shock when the two vessels should come together.
The underneath part of the net rested on the floor; on this the mattresses were placed, so that once you were inside the net you were in what seemed like a good-sized room.
The invitation being accepted, he concealed assassins in one of the cupboards without shelves, so common in the East, which contain by day the mattresses spread by night on the floor for the slaves to sleep upon.
The salesman in fairness to his customer should refrain from making any claims for these mattresses other than that they will be comfortable for a limited period of time.
Tuft-less mattresses are those in which the upholstery is held in place by stitching or quilting the layers or by placing it in compartments or between muslin.
Kapok mattresses are soft, are moisture and vermin proof, and are light and easy to handle.
In addition, the bedding department generally includes studio couches and sofa beds into which mattresses and springs have been built.
You have shown her several mattresses and springs and, after eliminating those to which she voiced objections or paid little attention, you are now ready to concentrate on the one or two models in which she expressed interest.
Eighty percent of solid mattresses are filled with cotton.
Box springs usually are sold with covers which match certain mattresses in the same price range.
The bedding salesman should familiarize himself thoroughly with the distinctive features of the mattresses in his store and be able to show the customer, through the use of cut-out samples, just what purposes they accomplish.
In the better grade mattresses the cotton fiber is of good length, permitting easy felting.
Demonstrate the increased resiliency of springs designed for cotton mattresses and why inner-spring models need a fuller base.
Between the blown cotton and the felted cotton mattressesin price range is found a combination mattress consisting of top and bottom layers of felted cotton, with a center of loose cotton.
Because most mattresseslook alike, you must build up her confidence in you and your recommendations by telling her and showing her facts.
In the course of the combat it often happened that the two mattresses would slide apart.
We had joked, as people will, about our danger, and I had suggested mattresses round the wheel-house, never thinking that he would try it.
Mattresses was made of wheat straw but de pillows on de bed was cotton.
Us had good wheat straw mattresses to sleep on; cotton quilts, spreads, and cotton pillows.
The efficacy of the jetty system is illustrated in the lines of mattresses which showed accumulations of sand deposits ranging from the surface of the river to nearly sixteen feet in height.
Four thousand feet of mattresses have been begun, and in placing them work will be vigorously prosecuted until operations are suspended by floating ice.
Instead of taking the bedding in their house, it was decided that new mattresses should be made up from the barley, of which there was quite a quantity on hand.
The yaks were enclosed in a railing made of small trees, so as to protect them, and the two mattresses within the covered body made comfortable beds for all.
They have their mattresses brought up on deck by their cabin steward, and he chalks their number on the deck at their feet; you can thus sleep in a strong wet draught under the officers' deck.
The distance was in reality over two miles, but Jurgis made two trips that night, each time with a huge pile of mattresses and bedding on his head, with bundles of clothing and bags and things tied up inside.
All sorts of pleas for a reconsideration were made, but the packers were obdurate; and all the while they were reducing wages, and heading off shipments of cattle, and rushing in wagonloads of mattresses and cots.
The mattresses would be spread upon the floor in rows--and there would be nothing else in the place except a stove.
We had been washed from our little platform, which ordinarily lifted us above the lapping of the sea during the prevalence of the storm--and we regained it now, glad to repose even on the sea-soaked mattresses bereft of awning.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mattresses" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
