Which preposition to use with beds
Those naturally were out of the question, but I took three or four red ones, which of course could not go in the guests' rooms, but were distributed on the beds of the family, their white ones going to the friends.
I made my bed in a nook of the pine-thicket, where the branches were pressed and crinkled overhead like a roof, and bent down around the sides.
What Doctor of Theology takes the last six of these to bed with him to-day?
I once found a complete band of this kind numbering upward of fifty, which, on being alarmed, went bounding away across a jagged lava-bed at admirable speed, led by a majestic old ram, with the lambs safe in the middle of the flock.
When I recovered my senses, it was to find that I had been in bed for nearly two weeks.
Here I camped, making my bed on smooth cobblestones.
By dint of most active exertion, I secured a bed to myself, the narrow dimensions of which precluded the possibility of participation, and plunged into it with all possible haste, as there was not a moment to be lost.
Since supper is over, you'll just have to go to bed without it.
During the gold excitement it was at times a matter of considerable pecuniary importance to force a way through the cañon with pack-trains early in the spring while it was yet heavily blocked with snow; and then the mules with their loads had sometimes to be let down over the steepest drifts and avalanche beds by means of ropes.
My uncle had sent out a quantity of Ayrshire cheeses, mutton hams, pickled salmon, Dunfermline linens, Paisley dimity, Alloa worsted, sweet ale from Tranent, Kilmarnock cowls, and a lot of fine feather-beds from the Clydeside.
Item, That none of the men be in bed, from our Lady-day to Michaelmas, after 6 of the clock in the morning; nor out of his bed after 10 of the clock at night; nor, from Michaemas till our Lady-day, in bed after 7 in the morning, nor out after 9 at night, without reasonable cause, on paine of 2d.
I leaped out of bed under the impression that at least twenty little children had fallen into as many tubs of boiling water.
what, Orkins or no Orkins, he ain't gwine to play hell with my flower-beds like that 'ere.
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?
For shame of Modesty, Sir; you wou'd not have me go to Bed before all this Company.
"You see," counselled Mandy from the bed into which she had rolled with most of her clothes on, "you want to get in with Miss Lydia Sessions and the Uplift ladies, and them thar swell folks.
Yet consumption does not keep people in bed until its final stages.
My wife, wearied with the day's watching, had sunk into slumber on the bed beside me.
Of the former obstacle, however, he quickly disposes,"seeing we do not then spend ourselves in any labour, we shall not, it may be, need the refreshment of sleep: but if we do, we cannot desire a softer bed than the air, where we may repose ourselves firmly and safely as in our chambers"!
They are nearly to the large canopied bed between the open windows, when Jones, who is nearest, discovers a startled apparition half rising from the bed.
" "Oh, baby, don't say that!" "Ime and LesterLester and me were talking, mamawhen the engagement's announced next weeka reception" "We can clear out this room, move the bed out of gramaw's room into ours, and serve the ice-cream and cake in" "Oh, mama, I don't meanthat!"
In the cool early mornings, when the heavy night dews still lie glittering on the grass, when the cobwebs seem strung with pearls, and faint lines of soft fleecy mist lie in the hollows by the watercourses; long ere the hot, fiery sun has left his crimson bed behind the cold grey horizon, we are out on our favourite horse, the wiry, long-limbed syce or groom trotting along behind us.
"Now," quoth Robin to himself, "I wonder how this thing hath dropped into my bed during the night."
She and other children Mary had saved and adopted were watching beside Mary's bed through the night.
If there was any land near, from which mud and sand were washed down, we might have layers on layers of sediment deposited, with live shells, etc., living in them, which would be converted into fossils when they died; and so we should have fossiliferous beds over the ashes and lavas.