Whosoever sleeps there of a night shall be crowded by walls which rub off into a faint feather-bed of the flavor and consistency of geese used whole, and have for his feverish breakfast in the morning a version of broiled ham as racy of attic-salt as the rasher of BACON'S essays.

If them damned feather-bed sojers wasn't there, we could do the job ourselves.

Her oleaginous and feather-bed-like disposition compelled peace, as oil upon the waves, and shed trouble as a duck sheds water.

The way she whacked the pillers, shook the blankets, and pitched into the beds was a caution; specially one blunderin' old feather-bed that wouldn't do nothin' but sag round in a pigheaded sort of way, that would have made most girls get mad and give up.

"Great Scott!" exclaimed the doctor, "you've got the child in a feather-bed!" Mrs. Sykes beamed complacently.

As it is, you have taken a lot of needless troublethis beautiful feather-bed, for example!

Well, I am contented; women must to the wall, though it be to a feather-bed.

For mine own part, if you shall think it meet, and that it shall accord with the state of gentry to submit myself from the feather-bed in the master's side or the flock-bed in the knight's ward, to the straw-bed in the hole, I shall buckle to my heels, instead of gilt spurs, the armour of patience, and do't. WEN.

He wears the furniture of his house on his back, and a whole feather-bed in his hat, drinks down his plate, and eats his dishes up.

It is hot and stifling, a dirty feather-bed; but once wrapped in it, one cannot move to throw it off, or even wish to do so; there is no need to will, or to think; one is sheltered from cold, from responsibilities.

Fortunately, one of his skies brokeinstead of most of his bones; and a very kind-hearted snow-bank appeared like a feather-bed, and somewhat checked the force of his fall.

Then I saw that the situation was critical, and went to Barport myself, and sent the young man a telegram that would have aroused the heart of a feather-bed and made it be with me in three hours, but it did not rouse him and he did not come; and before that silly Mrs. Bannister got back with the two girls, the mischief was done, and that little Drane had taken advantage of the opportunity I had given her to trap Mr. Ralph.

We slept that night on a feather-bed, and took cold for want of air, beneath a roof.

The principal covering is a bag of down, very properly denominated the upper bed, and between this and the feather-bed below, the traveler is expected to pass a night.

You are in the best bedroom in the house, the one in front of the staircase, the bridal chamber; and I have selected the largest and softest feather-bed in the house.

"But you have not tried one; I don't believe you ever slept on a feather-bed in your life.

The feather-bed had been removed.

But Mrs. Merrill seized a feather-bed and, tearing it open, threw it on the embers; the flame and stifling smoke leaped up the chimney, and in a moment both Indians came down, blinded and half smothered, and were killed by the big resolute woman before they could recover themselves.

After alternations of successes and reverses the Ghentese were victorious; and Count Louis with difficulty escaped by hiding himself at Bruges in the house of a poor woman who took him up into a loft where her children slept, and where he lay flat between the paillasse and the feather-bed.

no, tug in a Feather-bed, With good warm Caudles; hang your bread and water, I'le make you young again, believe

It is the great care of her life that the pieces of beef should be boiled in the order in which they are bought; that the second bag of pease should not be opened till the first be eaten; that every feather-bed should be lain on in its turn; that the carpets should be taken out of the chests once a month and brushed, and the rolls of linen opened now and then before the fire.

She is like a feather-bed in that she cannot be injured by a blow, neither can she give one; but Yolandaah, Karl, she is like a priceless jewel that may be shattered by a blow and may blind one by its radiance.

Porredge is poison, they hate a Kitchin as they hate a Counter, and show 'em but a Feather-bed they swound.

Feather-weight, not feather-bed, I presume.

By four o'clock, Mr. Ferret, who could fortunately sleep as well in a postchaise as in a feather-bed, was, as he had promised himself, on his road to Lancashire once more, where he had the pleasure of serving Major Brandon personally; at the same time tendering in due form the one shilling per mile fixed by the statute as preliminary traveling charges.