Secretly, when he wasn't looking, she wiped her left eye on the patchwork counterpane.
Sometimes, when she heard his step in the room beneath her, she would very nearly cry, and the dog Tiger, lying on the patchwork quilt, would lick her outstretched arm.
The Ross DSC radio still worked, and the patchwork sail hadn't ripped--yet.
The helicopter's main panel and screens glowed to life, a patchwork of green and red lights and LEDs.
My heart sank; patchwork was the thing my mother had tried to have me do, and I hated it.
We'll begin at the beginning then; I'll prepare some patchwork for you.
The colour of the Roman ramparts is everywhere fine, and their rugged patchwork has been subdued by time and weather into a mellow harmony that the brush only asks to catch up.
The interior is rich in grimly mystical mosaics of the twelfth century and the patchwork of precious fragments in the pavement not inferior to that of St. Mark's.
And doubtless there is an analogy between the two, but rather suggesting patchwork or cut work than legitimate embroidery.
One of the drawers stood open, and inside could be seen a red and white patchwork quilt, and a grayish thing that looked like flannel and smelled to heaven of camphor.
The Angel of Death held this piece of patchwork in one of his hands, and with the other gave the tailor several strokes with a piece of iron.
I am tired with your talk about the dream,” says the tailor; “there was nothing like this in the whole piece of patchwork I saw in my dream.
The seat was made of strips of rawhide woven in and out so that it looked like patchwork squares.
She got into bed and looked at Deirdre across the patchwork quilt, conscious of having performed her whole duty for the day.
Yet the years have woven more than a mere patchwork of romance round these islands.
Then patchwork or towels appeared, and Amy sewed with outward meekness and inward rebellion till dusk, when she was allowed to amuse herself as she liked till teatime.
To Hannah I give the bandbox she wanted and all the patchwork I leave hoping she 'will remember me, when it you see'.
Mary, here is the patchwork I promised you, already basted.
So deep were teacher and pupils in Bruce and patchwork that none of them heard the sound of wheels, or the sudden cessation of it outside the door, till Mrs. Lankton exclaimed with tragic unction: "It is Colonel Ferrers!
Only by treating the problem as an organic whole, by avoiding patchwork remedies and by building for a distant future, can we hope to remove one of the chief danger-centres in Europe.
Masons were makingpatchwork on the front of the tower, and were sawing a slab of stone and piling up bricks to strengthen the side-wall, or possibly to enlarge the ancient edifice by an additional aisle.
Rising on his elbow, he threw down the gaudy patchwork quilt of red, yellow, blue, and mottled squares, which draped the bunk in its corner against the rough log walls.
The sunlight streamed in the window, showing the red stains of rust on the cracked kitchen stove, and casting an oblong figure of brightness on the faded patchwork quilt which covered the low bed in the corner.
I am making two kinds of patchwork at the same time; and this that I see is to remind me of the other kind that I don't see.
Then the sight of the pretty patchwork recalled the memory of the cradle it was meant to cover, and reminded her that it was empty now.
Also, and this was the really important thing, upon that bed was a patchwork comforter.
There was the bed, the patchwork comforter, the chair and the pictures on the walls, but when she approached that bed there came no disturbing groans.
Her fingers ran over the patchwork quilt on her bed; and although she could not see it, she loathed it, because she knew it was a painful mess of colours.
People made real sensible patchwork then, or worked a cover in worsted, with perhaps a pretty bunch of flowers.
I am making a patchwork quilt, and he told me these two waistcoats were worn and I could have them to cut up for patches.
