7 Verbs to Use for the Word bolster
The pillows were stuffed with valuable furs; fine linen and embroideries filled the bolsters.
She would climb the bedpost, and hang head downwards from the top; wave the sheets and covers all over the room; dress the bolster up in Miss Ophelia's nightgown and act scenes with it, singing, whistling, and making faces at herself in the looking-glass all the time.
Presently out from the doors by which our conductors had entered there came tumbling a crowd of men and women, some carrying straw bolsters and wisps of hay, others bearing cooking utensils, and all in various dishabille.
The Moor, seizing a bolster, full of rage and jealousy, smothered Desdemona.
Hiram! jest slip off that saddle and bridle, and carry 'em up to the Institoot, and bring down a pair of pinchers and a file,andstopfetch a pair of shears, too; there's hoss-hair enough in that mane and tail to stuff a bolster with.
Blows fell fast and thick; there was a rushing about of half-clad figures swaying bolsters, and each one intent on the same objectnamely, that of overcoming his antagonist for the time being.
I can assure you, mon ami, he would be a veritable Othello, if there were any scandal, and would infinitely prefer the bolster to the divorce-court.