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Example sentences for "paillasse"

Lexicographically close words:
paieng; paieth; pail; pailful; pailfuls; paille; pails; paiment; pain; pained
  1. Paillasse has jumped over the désobligeant, cleared it, hood and all, and bows to the noble company.

  2. A poor fellow, who died some time after I entered, begged of me to lie upon a paillasse beside him, as I was upon the bare stones; he divided it with me.

  3. In this perilous situation I was carried along most violently, when the animals started on one side of the road, which gave the car a considerable jerk and landed me and the paillasse upon the only soft piece of ground for a distance round.

  4. I had by accident got a paillasse under me filled with straw, which made me more comfortable.

  5. To pounce upon it and hide it under the paillasse was the work of seconds.

  6. Next, I folded the paillasse and propped it against the wall at the foot of the bed.

  7. The light of their electric torches revealed a cell, with a sort of bed along one side, consisting of a straw paillasse on some raised boards and two blankets rolled up at the foot of it.

  8. There was some bread and cheese and a large mug of ale waiting for him in the wheel-house and a clean straw paillasse in a corner.

  9. A tallow candle placed upon a chair threw its feeble light upon the squalid abode, the white-washed walls, the primitive bedstead in the corner made up of deal planks and covered with a paillasse and a thin blanket.

  10. When the children had gone, they brought you in here, mon enfant, and laid you on the paillasse where Felicite used to sleep.

  11. When the four chairs appeared fairly steady, and in comparatively little danger of toppling, he dragged the paillasse forward and propped it up against the chairs.

  12. He was neither tired nor cramped; he served the Republic in comfort and ease, and had slept soundly on his paillasse in the little garret allotted to him in the Town Hall.

  13. Here, among old hampers and potsherds, in dust and cobwebs, there was a bed, if we may apply the term to a paillasse so rotten as to show the straw, and a blanket so torn as to show the mattress.


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