" "Goodness, what a wet blanket!" cried Laura reproachfully.

" It seemed unreasonable, for a frame had been built round his bed, and on it thick gray army blankets were naileda rectangular tent.

Over all they laid a thick blanket of the earth which had been dug out to make a level foundation.

A clean white bed was in one corner of the room, and opposite it was a square pine table covered with a black woolen blanket.

"Brutus, you will put an extra blanket on my bed, for I fancy the night air is biting.

The lumber trust had been making huge profits the while, but the lumber workers were still working ten hours or more and the logger was still packing his dirty blankets from job to job.

They had a little blanket and she and her brother cut it into and put it around their shoulders.

" "I will risk it," I said, and without another word dashed into the tiny bed chamber and tore an old brown blanket from off the narrow truckle bed.

He had only a thin blanket, an' he caught cold.

But how warm and snug his body was, there in the soft, clean night gown between the light, warm blankets!

They borrowed some dry blankets and went to sleep on the floor.

"A spare blanket," said Donnegan, "will be enough.

He will give you clean blankets.

Once they snuggled down in their warm comfortable blankets, they must have become "dead to the world," as Steve aptly termed it.

We kneaded dough on an oilcloth, or gum-blanket as the Yankee prisoners called it, and baked the dough by spreading it on barrel-heads and propping them before the fire.

But with double army blankets nailed over the single window it was blessedly dark, if stuffy, and in crying need of cleaning.

" For the rest, the carefully-selected pack on the sled contained the marmot-skin, woollen blankets, a change of flannels apiece, a couple of sweaters, a Norfolk jacket, and several changes of foot-gear.

The gunners dug pits for themselves, and when they ceased fire for a time crawled to shelter, smoking through little outlets in the damp blankets in which they had wrapped their heads and shoulders.

May the Form of the Fourth Person who clapt invisible wet blankets about the shoulders of Shadrach Meshach and Abednego, be with you in the fiery Trial.

He had gathered a vast blanket about his shoulders and kept drawing it tighter; beneath his eyes, which looked down to the ground, there were violet shadows.

They made beautiful baskets of fine cane splints, and very handsome blankets of turkey feathers; while out of glazed clay they manufactured bowls, pitchers, platters, and other pottery.

When he wishes to make an offering to the Great Spirit, he takes a scarlet blanket, and paints a circle of blue in the centre, (blue is an emblem of peace,) and puts ten bells, or silver brooches to it.

Follow them next to their huts; some with and some without floors:Go at night, view their means of lodging, see them lying on benches, some on the floor or ground, some sitting on stools, dozing away the night:others, of younger age, with a bare blanket wrapped about them; and one or two lying in the ashes.

I secured three splendid blankets, two of green and one of brown.

Untitled drawing depicting cooking on electric blanket.