They went into the adjoining corridor, the jailer took up the mattresses, threw a few buckets of water on the floor, wiped it up anyhow, replaced the mattresses on the damp stones, and said to them, "Go back again.

They put in a fragrant mattress of spring moss, and on that made up a bed of blankets and furs.

When he came back to consciousness he found himself lying on a mattress in a little space surrounded by canvas.

The old woman came towards the mattress with a candle, and whispered to us, showing us her fist, "If you could only see the hole that that has made!

Down pillows, soft eiderdown quilts for painful broken legs; mattresses for pain-racked bodies.

"Reconciliation," said Chamiot, while offering the half of his mattress to the Duc de Luynes.

Looking up, I see that all the windows are closed, with the exception of one, where two old women are busy putting a mattress between the window and the shutter.

The bedclothes are laid on, beginning with an under blanket and sheet, which are tucked under the mattress at the bottom.

"Just so," said he, "only better still"; whereupon the bed galloped away as if six horses pulled it up and down steps and stairs, until at last, all at once, it overset, bottom upward, and lay upon him like a mountain; but up he got, threw pillows and mattresses into the air, and saying, "Now he who wishes may travel," laid himself down by the fire and slept till day broke.

It was not until he rolled over and saw Roy lying stretched on another mattress beside him, and Gill a little beyond, that any sort of recollection came back to him.

On the far mattress against the wall lay a little pale German with his legs gone below the knees, who smiled upward at the ceiling and was quite chipper.

" "And dost thou think he will pardon all thy care of one so unworthy?" Ghita bowed her head to the mattress over which she leaned, and buried her face in her hands.

Suddenly I found myself lying awake, peering from my sandy mattress through the door of the tent.

One started at the slamming of a door, took every dull thump for a distant explosion; and when we finally turned in I carried the mattress from my room, which faced the south, over to the other side of the building, and laid it on the floor beside another man's bed.

Then I had to help the doctor and the mistress carry the poor master on the mattress up to his room, and lay him on his bed; and the doctor saw to Miss Clare a little, then he went away and said he'd send round a woman for the laying out.... Poor Miss Clare, I was sorry for her.

It was Petheridge Jukesbury, then, who stalked into Mrs. Haggage's apartments and appropriated her mattress as the first at hand, and afterward waddled through the gardens bearing it on his fat shoulders, and still later lifted Billy upon it as gently as a woman could have.