196 examples of bolsters in sentences

I must examine this bed, in a word; papers may be hidden in a bed as elsewhere; we know that very well, and" Here it was her ladyship's turn to shriek, for the Captain, with his fist shaking the pillows and bolsters, at last wrenching away one of the pillows, said, "Look! did not I tell you so?

In attempting to bolster up his thesis he has collected biographic material useful to the student of personality.

Then came a noise as of pillows and bolsters flying about, while two little fists continued pummelling the partition as if it were a drum.

Mrs. T. was simply a combination of bolsters which shook with the exertion of speech, while poor Mr. T., a meek, thin, haggard-looking manand no wonderseemed to be ready to put in a word if required, but looked in momentary terror of getting a snub instead.

Occasionally he refers to me as "callow," and we have daily resorts to logic to prove prejudices, and history is searched to bolster the preconceived, but on the following important points we stand together, solid as one man: First.

The pillows were stuffed with valuable furs; fine linen and embroideries filled the bolsters.

Now, the second mate and the bo'sun set the carpenter to work upon the spare topmast, bidding him make for it some trestle-trees and bolsters, upon which to lay the eyes of the rigging; but they did not trouble him to shape it.

The council of war then agreed unanimously that an assault was to be made on the remaining officers when asleep outside the barracks, and that the weapons to be used should be bolsters and pillows.

Blows fell fast and thick; there was a rushing about of half-clad figures swaying bolsters, and each one intent on the same objectnamely, that of overcoming his antagonist for the time being.

"Everything in it that I want to-night,my dressing-box and my wrappers and my air-cushion; they'll be sure not to have any bolsters on the beds, and only one feather in each corner of the pillows!"

It is narrow and short, and made so high at the head, by a number of huge square bolsters and pillows, that you rather sit than lie.

We had a tall bed with a looking glass in the back of it, long bolsters, long pillow cases just like we used to make long infant dresses.

Lewis, or her girl, in making her bed one morning after this, found, under her bolster, a keen BUTCHER KNIFE!

My work was putting fluff into bolsters.

So long as you must put fluff of that pernicious kind into bolsters, just so long will you kill the strength and the beauty of women.

The jack-boots they wear sometimes fit very tight to the legs, in which case poor Sambo has to roll up his pants till they assume the appearance of small bolsters tied round the knee, presenting a most ludicrous caricature.

For example, shoe lasts, hat blocks, bowling pins, base-ball bats, wagon bolsters and wheel hubs are now made of short pieces of material which are fastened together with waterproof glue.

Charles H. Bolsta (A); 18Jul69; R465776. BOLSTER, EVELYN. Come gentle spring.

Evelyn Bolster (A); 26Nov69; R474417.

The brisk and virtuous master bullies them, calls them bolsters and puddings, loafers and ne'er-do-weels.

" In the pale gold light that flooded through the windows of the sixty-bed dormitory, the women turned down the mussed toweling sheets from the bolsters across the reddish gray spreads.

One room would challenge another, and, stripping the covers off their bolsters, would meet in mortal fray.

Presently out from the doors by which our conductors had entered there came tumbling a crowd of men and women, some carrying straw bolsters and wisps of hay, others bearing cooking utensils, and all in various dishabille.

it does not matter how; smother me with bolsters; run your bodkin up to its hilt in me" "Even if I did," interrupt I, laughing, "I should never reach any vital partyou are much too fat!"

Benny and Charley also came to have their hair arranged, and it devolved on Charlotte and me to do it, as their mamma had thrown herself exhausted on one of the beds, and with the bolsters doubled up under her head, was trying to get some rest.

196 examples of  bolsters  in sentences