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Example sentences for "pallet"

Lexicographically close words:
pall; pallace; palladium; pallbearers; palled; pallets; pallial; palliasse; palliate; palliated
  1. By and by I heard the king and the duke come up; so I rolled off my pallet and laid with my chin at the top of my ladder, and waited to see if anything was going to happen.

  2. The escape-wheel is mounted on the shaft of the last cog of the driving train, the pallet on a spindle from which depends a split arm embracing the rod and the pendulum.

  3. As soon as the pallet opens, wind rushes into the groove above through the aperture in the leather bottom, and thence to any one of the pipes of which the slider has been drawn out.

  4. The lever is knocked downwards, and the tooth, which had been arrested by the locking-face a of pallet P, now presses on the impulse face b, forcing the left end of the lever up.

  5. The chamber was about twelve feet square, and furnished with a small tripod stand, a stool, and a pallet bed.

  6. There was a pallet and a stool, and the slaves placed some eatables thereon.

  7. The broad, burly form of the man lying face downwards, half upon the pile of bedding and half upon the floor; the woman crouching beside the naked pallet bed, with her head bowed down upon her knees.

  8. Plautia's suspicions were keenly excited, and she rose from her pallet and placed her ear to the crevice of the door.

  9. Cestus departed to his pallet bed upstairs, but Masthlion remained sitting before the fire for a long time in deep reflection.

  10. When the sun flashed upon the white walls of the palace next morning, Masthlion was still upon his pallet bed, much in the same posture as when Zeno had left him.

  11. Without another word he went to the pallet and sat down, and buried his face in his hands in mute despair.

  12. To attend to and heal his bodily ailments occupied me entirely at first, and finally, finding him ill cared for, I made him a little pallet on my sofa and kept him with me by night and day.

  13. Various articles of household furniture were carefully disposed around, and a large pallet of Bear and Deer skins, seemed to be the resting-place of the whole family.

  14. A door which stood open near Cosette's pallet permitted a view of a rather large, dark room.

  15. The old man on the bed, who seemed under the influence of wine, descended from the pallet and came reeling up, with a stone-breaker's hammer in his hand.

  16. She had wounded herself while breaking the window; she went off, near her mother's pallet and wept silently.

  17. A voice spoke suddenly from out of the heap of rags that lay on the pallet in the shadows of the corner.

  18. Otherwise there was no adornment, and no furniture but a chair and a table, both dark with age and use, and a pallet of skins in one shadowy corner with what seemed to be a heap of rags upon it.

  19. From the corridor a single doorway opened--and Otar slept before it, curled on a pallet like a dog.

  20. There they lay; but it was the boy who lay on the pallet of straw, his head pillowed by the arm of the knight, who sat on a wooden settle at his side.

  21. Each must go his own way, the poor man to his pallet of straw; the rich man to his bed of down.

  22. I am grieved to see you thus,' Mary said, as she went up to the low pallet where Humphrey lay.

  23. One of the Brothers obeyed the dying man's request, and from a pallet at the farther end of the room he brought the boy, whose cheeks were aflame with fever, as he lay helpless in the Brother's arms.

  24. Yes,' Mary said, as the boy was laid on the pallet at his father's feet, and his mother clasped him close to her side.

  25. Suddenly a cry broke from within; and Richard, turning at the voice, beheld the blind man sitting up on his pallet with arms outstretched.

  26. For the first time for many a month, Richard de Montfort lay down to sleep in a pallet bed, instead of a couch of heather; but his heart was ill at ease.

  27. The pallets are concentric with the axis a, and thus while a tooth is against the pallet the wheel is stationary.

  28. The teeth of the escapement-wheel A come alternately against the outer surface of the pallet K and the inner surface of the pallet H.

  29. His pallet on the floor outlined a tiny form.

  30. She had no way to reach his pallet but to roll across the floor.

  31. He staggered a step forward and collapsed on a pallet of rags as somebody carefully leaned the sheet back into place again.

  32. There was somebody to shove him easily back into the pallet of rags when he tried to stumble forth in a hunt for booze.

  33. Paul ascended the stairs to his hard pallet for the last time.

  34. It would not do for them to carry him to his pallet in the attic, for they felt sure that this would lead to some more plain speaking on the part of Dr.

  35. And as he slept thus the hermit sat beside the pallet whereon Sir Launcelot lay.

  36. Then when he was thus eased of his armor, he flung himself down in his jerkin and hose upon the hermit's pallet and therewith in a moment had fallen into a slumber so deep that it was like the sleep of death.

  37. So he lifted the Lady Elaine down from her horse and he took her by the hand and led her into the hut of the hermit and there she beheld Sir Launcelot where he lay upon a pallet and lo!

  38. Yet by the dim light of this small window they beheld the wounded man where he lay upon a hard pallet of straw.

  39. So the Lady Elaine went silently forward to where Sir Launcelot lay and she kneeled down beside the pallet and the tears ran down her face like to sparks of fire.

  40. Then he scraped his pallet and washed his brushes, and seated himself upon the sofa opposite the easel.

  41. The room was lofty and circular, and the walls of enormous thickness, as shown by the deep embrasures of the windows; in one of which, the outlet having been built up, the pallet was placed.

  42. The grave monk walketh no more in the cloisters, nor seeketh his pallet in the dormitory.

  43. The stone was removed, and a new pallet placed in the cell.

  44. Two years after your immurement in the cell, the food having been for some time untouched, the wall was opened, and upon the pallet was found a decayed carcase in mouldering, monkish vestments.

  45. Another prisoner, moved with compassion, drew his own pallet into her cell, that she might not be compelled to throw herself for repose upon the cold, wet stones.

  46. In one corner there was a pallet of straw.

  47. He saw now as he hurried by that there was a spare and elegant old man, in magistrate's robes, reclining with singular grace on a pallet of rugs before the lifted side of the tent.

  48. There was room enough for a pallet of straw within, and a reed matting hung before the opening.

  49. After a long time, when the sounds from the pallet assured Agrippa that the soldier could not be easily aroused, he arose and came over to the side of the young Essene.

  50. He sighed and turned again on his pallet and trusted in the God who does not forget prayers.

  51. The old aristocrat still lounged gracefully, as no thirsty man does, on his pallet of rugs, but the girl had drawn farther away and her eyes were veiled.

  52. Beyond her was Betty, bending her sweet, pale face over the mother, caught up from her pallet and carried to the house in the arms of the under overseer.

  53. When he goes the rounds at supper time he will be surprised to find my pallet empty.

  54. Groping his way past the slumbering forms of the three other occupants of his cabin, Landless threw himself down upon his pallet with a heavy sigh.

  55. He crossed to the pallet and stood beside it, looking down on the shell that lay upon it with a stern and quiet grief.

  56. Landless groped his way to the pallet and stooped down.

  57. In certain places the plaits rise and project from the rest of the outline, and form a kind of rays; the pallet appears prettily figured.

  58. Swammerdam seems to consider this pallet as the characteristic part of the male.

  59. He sat on the pallet prepared for him, his head buried in his hands.

  60. The penitent laid Carlos gently on his pallet (he still possessed a measure of physical strength, and the worn frame was easy to lift); then he knocked loudly on the door for help, as he had been instructed to do in any case of need.


  61. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pallet" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    bed; bedding; bolster; cot; cradle; crib; cushion; head; litter; mat; pad; pallet; pillow; rug; spring