And Elisha Boone sank far back in the cushion.

How often, Hermia, have we two, sitting on one cushion, both singing one song, with our needles working the same flower, both on the same sampler wrought; growing up together in fashion of a double cherry, scarcely seeming parted?

It was snow, and that black, ragged hole would look strange in the midst of the swelling, spotless cushion of white.

"My fingers be as full of thorns as an old pin-cushion is of pins.

Apollonie frankly admitted that she had only moved the things away to keep them from being ruined and had naturally counted on putting every object back again as soon as he came back, for she remembered where every pin-cushion and tiny picture belonged.

"My mother was sitting in this arm-chair when I last spoke to her," he said at last, "and this red pin cushion was lying on the table before her.

where they live, is the essential thing; and Eve Effingham has lived so long in France, that she speaks nothing but broken English; and Miss Debby told me last week, that in drawing up a subscription paper for a new cushion to the reading-desk of her people, she actually spelt 'charity' 'carrotty.'

I found her sitting in an armchair, her feet resting upon a cushion, surrounded by some half-dozen callers.

Max could easily picture the ex-sea captain seated in that capacious fireside chair with the tufted cushion, and perhaps smoking his long-stemmed pipe with the air of a man who believed he had found what he had long sought, peace and comfort combined, only to have a summons come that he dared not disobey.

Now its back was of stout canvas, and its seat of cords, upon which a cushion rested.

But there was not a sound; the rubber cushion had obviated that.

The child Monona was seated upon a book and a cushion, so that her little triangle of nose rose adultly above her plate.

Miss Milligan was tall and full of figure with an elegant waist and a bust so like a pin-cushion that it fulfilled the duties of that article admirably.

She had told her things which would move a heart of stone, regardless of the fact that Miss Milligan's heart was made of the softest of soft materials and beat warmly under her spiky pin cushion.

Miss Milligan's pins had overflowed from her pin-cushion into her mouth and Esther, who appeared tired, gazed steadily out of the window.

He was a little pale shrimp of a man, very quick and nervous, and he was so delighted now at his own success that he could not sit still, but ran about the room chattering and laughing, while I sat on a cushion in the corner, as I had learned to do in the East.

We don't suppose any of them are so precise as the old gentleman who once, when a stranger entered his pew, doubled up the cushion, sat upon it in a two-fold state, and intimated that ordinary beards were good enough for interlopers; but after all there is much of the "number one" principle in the devotion of these goodly followers of the saints, and they have been so long at the game that a cure is impossible.

They propped it on a cushion, and made her as comfortable as circumstances would allow.

Piers stretched a kindly arm behind the cushion that supported Jeanie's head.

I was lying back in a low chair with a cushion under my head.

Cushion trims in cross stitch on canvas, by Sonja Danfelt.

SPOOL COTTON COMPANY, NEW YORK Cushion trims in cross stitch on canvas.

More than once she thought that the man's hand, which rested on the seat beside him, a fat white hand, hateful, dubious, was moving, moving slowly and stealthily along the cushion towards her; and she waited shuddering, a scream on her lips.

Leaping 140 years, an odd tale is thus lovingly recorded of another sub-librarian, the Rev. A. Hackman, who died in 1874: 'During all the time of his service in the library (thirty-six years) he had used as a cushion in his plain wooden armchair a certain vellum-bound folio, which by its indented side, worn down by continual pressure, bore testimony to the use to which it had been put.

' He had no more than enough, but he got in after telling the man to drive as quickly as possible. 'Sit here,' she said, patting the cushion at her side.