There was nothing but the stove where the charcoal was still smoking and a half-emptied palliasse on which the mother had fallen, suckling her last-born, a babe but three months old.
Ambrogio was the elder by some fifteen years; and now, though scarcely sixty, he was already a ruin, consumed by fever, his legs so wasted that he spent his days on his palliasse without ever going out.
He threw himself down on the narrow palliasse and, tired nature asserting herself, at last fell into a heavy, dreamless torpor, like the sleep of a drunkard, deep but without the beneficent aid of rest.
These superacute feelings seemed to be tearing at his very heartstrings, until he felt that he could no longer lie on the miserable palliasse which in these squalid lodgings did duty for a bed.
Mole had once more turned over on his palliasse and, apparently, had gone to sleep.
The pillow, bolster, and palliasse are stuffed with straw.
Having so said, the Père Longuemare knelt down on the floor, and after repeating his prayers, stretched himself on his palliasse and fell peacefully asleep.
As far as possible he observed the discipline of his House and every night at the canonical hours would rise from his palliasse to kneel on the bare boards and recite the offices.
He gave the mattress to his guest and kept the palliasse for himself; but the monk in his humility demanded the latter with so much urgency that his wish had to be complied with; otherwise he would have slept on the boards.
But there the resemblance ended, for the palliasse was of brown sacking, and a pair of dull-red blankets were tumbled in a heap upon its foot.
He looked at his blankets spread over the straw palliasse that disguised the loose bed-boards underneath, and this drew his attention to the mattress itself.
That night he slept on a palliasse of straw, with a pillow consisting of a thin bolster propped on his outer clothes.
With all his might he flung the blazing palliasse from his scorched hands.
He had flung up a barrier of straw palliassebefore him.
Instead of sleeping we spent the night in shooting from palliassetopalliasse anecdotes, repartees, jokes, and pleasantries.
Upon a palliasse in one of the cabins on the eastern slope a young man lay dying of pneumonia, that fell disease which the medical science of the day could only fight by sage shakings of the head and a judicious use of the cupping-glass.
Rest you here," Madeleine whispered, pointing to a palliasse partly covered by a bear-skin.
You shall sleep soundly I promise, for I have filled that palliasse with the sweet-scented grass which grows in yonder valley.
I agreed to her proposal, and she took me to a small closet where I found a strawpalliasse on four pieces of wood.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "palliasse" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
