The lover and her sister never quitted the chamber for sixteen nights, nor took any other repose than throwing themselves alternately upon a little pallet in the same room.

Béranger has touched a thousand hearts by the picture of Pauvre Jacques, who, when the tax-gatherer came in the King's name, was discovered dead on his miserable pallet.

'Why rather sleep, liest thou in smoky cribs, Upon uneasy pallets stretching thee.' &c. 2 Henry IV. act iii.

About this period, one afternoon in the month of March, when I repaired to the hermitage as usual, I found my venerable friend stretched on his humble pallet, breathing very quickly, and seemingly in great pain.

He threw himself on the rude pallet, and we silently withdrew.

The bunk that the Old Man had occupied was stripped of its blankets; the few cheap ornaments and photographs were gone; the rude poverty of the bare boards and scant pallet looked up at them unrelieved by the bright face and gracious youth that had once made them tolerable.

On a silken pallet lying, under hangings stiff with gold, Now is Coeur-de-Lion sighing, weakly sighing, he the bold!

One night, after returning from one of these enterprises, he retired to rest on his solitary pallet.

Even a tenderfoot can make some sort of a comfortable pallet out of evergreen boughsends overlapping and plumes

They saw how he, as in a fever, sprang from his wretched pallet, and took a loose stone out of the wall.

With a cry of madness he flung himself on the harsh pine pallet, groaning his heart out in bitter anguish and maledictions.

" The body was laid once more on the narrow pallet where it had slept for its last few weeks on earth, and the two men stood by its side, discussing what should next be done, how the necessary steps could be taken with least possible publicity, when suddenly they heard the sound of horses' feet and wheels, and looking out they saw Hans Dietman and his wife driving rapidly into the yard.

Passing along until he reached the room which he had once occupied, there he saw his rough pallet on the ground, drawn close to the door, however.