2396 examples of pillowing in sentences

Pillowing the head supposed to be tormented with pain, Chloe went about to remedy the evil by drowning it in lavender-water.

And so reclining, the younger and purer pillowing the head of her soiled sister upon her virgin breast, they fell asleep.

She prayed then, with her head beside his on the pillow, and through that prayer and the strange stillness of her lover she received a subtle shock.

"Augusta is prettily laid out, but the place is of little interest; and for the hotel where we stayed, I can only give this advice to its inmates: 'Don't examine a black spot upon your pillow-case; go to sleep at once, and keep asleep if you can.'

Again the dragon burst out of the thick darkness, and again Rakush was at the pillow of his master, who rose up at the alarm: but anxiously trying to penetrate the dreary gloom, he saw nothingall was a blank; and annoyed at this apparently vexatious conduct of his horse, he spoke sharply: "Why thus again disturb my rest, When sleep had softly soothed my breast?

One watch had passed, and still sweet slumber shed Its magic power around the hero's head When forth Tahmíneh camea damsel held An amber taper, which the gloom dispelled, And near his pillow stood; in beauty bright, The monarch's daughter struck his wondering sight.

Such hail the end of their existence as a port of refuge; and speak of the grave as of some soft arms, in which they may slumber as on a pillow.

I never laid my head on my pillow, I suppose, from the fourth to the seventh or eighth year of my lifeso far as memory serves in things so long agowithout an assurance, which realized its own prophecy, of seeing some frightful spectre.

I durst not, even in the day-light, once enter the chamber where I slept, without my face turned to the window, aversely from the bed where my witch-ridden pillow was.

It will take the savour from his palate, and the rest from his pillow, for days and nights.

The little creature, having somehow confounded his passage among the intricacies of those lordly chimneys, by some unknown aperture had alighted upon this magnificent chamber; and, tired with his tedious explorations, was unable to resist the delicious invitement to repose, which he there saw exhibited; so, creeping between the sheets very quietly, laid his black head upon the pillow, and slept like a young Howard.

When I slept the haversack was my pillow.

"Come on!" Mary lay back on the pillow, senseless.

Every night it lay under his pillow; he had known its contents from childhood, and every day he read a portion; and often as he lay on his couch, he recalled to mind those holy words of comfort, "If I should take the wings of the morning, and remain in the uttermost parts of the sea, even there should Thy hand lead me, and Thy right hand should hold me.

He lay down on his pillow and was soon dreaming about the uniform of Fabius Cunctator.

she asked, pillowing the tousled yellow head on her arm.

And so reclining, the younger and purer pillowing the head of her soiled sister upon her virgin breast, they fell asleep.

Satisfied with a fairly brief inspection I returned to the bed, and arranging the pillow so as to fit the small of my back, picked up the Daily Mail.

Left alone, I lay back on the pillow in a frame of mind which I believe novelists describe as "chaotic."

There is a dearer, warmer bed, Where one all day may lie, Earth's bosom pillowing the head, And let the world go by.

Then the three saddles were placed in a row; each hunter wrapped himself in his blanket, and pillowing his head on his saddle, stretched his feet towards the fire and went to sleep, with his loaded rifle by his side and his hunting-knife handy in his belt.

So one day in mid-July she waved a farewell to Jack Junior, crowing in his nurse's lap on the bank, paddled out past the first point to the north, and pillowing her head on a cushioned thwart, gave herself up to dreamy contemplation on the sky.

"Poor Hagar, you are ill," she said, and advancing nearer she wound her arms around the trembling form, and, pillowing the snowy head upon her bosom, continued soothingly: "I did not mean to stay away long.

He lies down to sleep at noon of a Summer's day, pillowing his head on a bundle of clothing.

She was lying stretched out like a child, her crossed arms pillowing her head, her eyes looking up into the great unknown, when she gave it voice.

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