In an adjoining room Evadne could see a bed with its gay patchwork quilt of Dyce's making, and in the little kitchen beyond she heard her singing as she trod to and fro.

" The laugh which followed brought the keeper out of the office in his carpet slippers, a patchwork quilt over his shoulders.

When Mrs Null reached the cabin of Aunt Patsy, after about fifteen minutes' walk, she entered without ceremony, and found the old woman sitting on a very low chair by the window, with the much-talked-of, many-colored quilt in her lap.

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

Above them are "temporales," fields of grain, resting like a patch-work quilt on slopes so steep it seems incredible they could be cultivated.

When Andy and his followers had removed this cover, to substitute the frail one of slender sticks, quilted with dead leaves and a scattering of soil to deceive the eye, they could not have taken the boards far away.

When Aunt Henshaw died, which was just about the time that I was grown up, she left the quilt to me in her will; because, as she said.

Didn't have nothin' to make no quilts out of.

I was put to sleep that night on a pallet on the floor in the dining room, using an old quilt as a covering.

She embroiders, crochets, knits and quilts without the aid of glasses.

Through the upper pane of the station window Police-constable Bennett, who felt that his senses at the moment were abnormally keen, recognised with a sinking heart such reds and yellows as bedecked the best patchwork quilt at home.

Laurella lay all day and far into the night on her pallet of quilts before the big fire in the front room, spent, inert, staring at the ceiling, entertaining God knows what guests of terror and remorse.

Fire was kindled in the new chimney; it drew perfectly; and Pap himself carried Laurella in his arms and laid her on some quilts beside the hearthstone, demanding eagerly, "Thar nowdon't that make you feel better?"

Poor Dymock, therefore, was not disturbed in his attempts at authorship, and there he used to sit in his study with slip-shod feet, an embroidered dressing gown, which Mrs. Margaret had quilted from an old curtain, and a sort of turban twisted about his head, paying no manner of attention to hours or seasons.

Couldn't you take my best checkers for 'em, now, with fifty dollars quilted into the waistband,s-a-ay?" "My name's Walker,Peter Walker," was the reply.

De fus' thing you know some udder culled pusson'll be dyin' wrop up in a quilt like dis, and git dar fus'.