In the ordinary Heilmann's comber, the upper blade has a groove in its nipping edge, and the cushion plate is covered with cloth and leather, the fibers being held by the grip between the leather of the cushion plate and the edges of the groove in the upper blade, or knife, as it is called.

The term will cover building houses, making kettles, laying out streets, planning rooms, dressing hair, as well as making patterns for cushion covers and cathedral windows....

The question whether Barbara Uttmann, of Annaberg, Saxony, was the inventor of the art of making hand cushion lace, or only introduced it into Annaberg, in the Saxon mountains, has not yet been solved, notwithstanding the fact that the most rigid examinations have been made.

I never saw one so well marked beforeNorman ornaments on pointed arches, pilasters detached with cushion capitals, and various signs: and it is clearly an instance of that state of the style when people had been forced by the difficulties and inelegancies of the round arch in groining to adopt pointed arches for groining but had not learnt to use them for windows.......

Have we no hunters with us?" "Let me try," begged a little man we called "Cushion-foot."

"If yer strikes him right dere wid der cushion meat on der lower edge of yer hand an' snaps yer hand erway like dis, it's dead sure ter break der bone.

He kneels at morn, and noon, and eve He hath a cushion plump: 520 It is the moss that wholly hides The rotted old oak-stump.

Working-class people rest upon bare boards; middle-class individuals develop the cushion scheme to a moderate pitch; the upper species push it towards consummation-like ease, and therefore are the owners of good cushions.

"The pins on the cushion spell 'Patricia,' don't they?" "So they do!" cried Patsy, greatly delighted.

I could feel her weight growing heavier on my cushion springs.

Because she left the cushion untidy, and as for the little bear's chair, why, she sat that right out.

Now, Sonny, you keep your temper, and watch me play cushion carroms with our friend there.

I commend Cosmo de Medici and Castruccius Castrucanus, than whom Italy never knew a worthier captain, another Alexander, if [3520]Machiavel do not deceive us in his life: "when a friend of his reprehended him for dancing beside his dignity," (belike at some cushion dance) he told him again, qui sapit interdiu, vix unquam noctii desipit, he that is wise in the day may dote a little in the night.

What a shapeless pin-cushion fit my gown seems beside the admirable French sit of hers!