Usa "feather bed" in una frase
feather bed frasi di esempio
feather bed
1. • Lying in the grass or on a feather bed is also up there
2. Those were the days when we slept in feather beds and read by the light of a kerosene lamp and our milk came in a five-gallon can
3. balmy nights in a great feather bed
4. It was one of the best holidays I've ever had, despite having to share a large feather bed in a warm, double-glazed room in the local shoemaker’s house with a Canadian and a South African
5. To his surprise his media player popped up and ‘John Denver’s Grandma’s Feather Bed’ grated at his ears
6. "I suppose, then, as many of her belongings as will go into the coffin will be buried too, in order to still further impress the neighbours?" I asked--"her feather bed, for instance, and anything else of use and value?"
7. It was like a feather bed all over me
8. He now felt as rested as after the best night’s sleep on a feather bed, as full as if he had just enjoyed a banquet, and as happy as if he had just lost his virginity – until he thought about it
9. Cherish woke with the warmth and comfort of the soft feather bed even
10. Shut that gate! Barricade those ladders! Here with your stink-pots of pitch and resin, and kettles of boiling oil! Block the streets with feather beds!" In short, in his ardour he mentioned every little thing, and every implement and engine of war by means of which an assault upon a city is warded off, while the bruised and battered Sancho, who heard and suffered all, was saying to himself, "O if it would only please the Lord to let the island be lost at once, and I could see myself either dead or out of this torture!" Heaven heard his prayer, and when he least expected it he heard voices exclaiming, "Victory, victory! The enemy retreats beaten! Come, senor governor, get up, and come and enjoy the victory, and divide the spoils that have been won from the foe by the might of that invincible arm
11. There were two feather beds, a bolster and two pillows: they were such good things that Sawkins secretly resolved that instead of taking them to the Destructor he would take them to a second-hand dealer and sell
12. It’s almost too small to hold all of you get the smallest feather bed in the house and put it in the wagon
13. thirst, aching and cramped and filled with wonder that she, Scarlett O’Hara, who could never rest well except between linen sheets and on the softest of feather beds, had
14. were ripping open mattresses and feather beds until the air in the hall was thick with
15. paper, the ceilings were high and the house was always dim, for the windows were All in all it was an establishment to take one’s breath away and Scarlett, stepping on the soft carpets and sinking into the embrace of the deep feather beds, remembered the cold floors and the strawstuffed bedticks of Tara and was satisfied
16. on foods and fine wine, to deck herself in silks and satins, to wallow on soft feather beds tolerance, freed now from the restraints of her childhood, freed even from that last fear and fine upholstery
17. The feather bed was covered with soft cushions, and an iron brazier burned perfumed incense
18. As for Ben’s defense attorney, he might as well have wrapped me in tissue paper and set me on a feather bed, he was so delicate with me (Might you be a little confused about what you saw, Libby? Are you positive, positive it was your brother, Libby? Are you maybe telling us what you think we want to hear? To which I replied No Yes No
19. And there in fact was Sonya lying face downward on Nurse’s dirty feather bed on the top of the chest, crumpling her gauzy pink dress under her, hiding her face with her slender fingers, and sobbing so convulsively that her bare little shoulders shook
20. Sonya could not continue, and again hid her face in her hands and in the feather bed
21. This couch was high, with a feather bed and five pillows each smaller than the one below
22. Natasha jumped on it, sank into the feather bed, rolled over to the wall, and began snuggling up the bedclothes as she settled down, raising her knees to her chin, kicking out and laughing almost inaudibly, now covering
23. All the other inhabitants of the house slept on the floor side by side on feather beds, for the most part in bad condition and stuffy, anything but presentable in fact, and even of these the supply was insufficient; there was not one to spare
24. Where could the invalid be put? A feather bed might perhaps have been found—it might in the last resort have been pulled from under some one, but where and on what could a bed have been made up? It seemed that the bed must be made up in the drawing-room, for that room was the furthest from the bosom of the family and had a door into the passage
25. Even the cook was there, and the German lady who told stories, whose own feather bed, the best in the house, and her only property, had been forcibly dragged from under her for the young couple, trailed in together with the others
26. The chairs supporting the broad feather bed only at the sides had parted under the weight, and the feather bed had fallen between them on the floor
27. At last, when the air was growing cool with the chill of early morning, he got up, frozen and spiritually numb, crawled to the feather bed that was lying between the chairs, and without rearranging anything, without putting out the candle end, without even laying the pillow under his head, fell into a leaden, deathlike sleep, such as the sleep of men condemned to flogging on the morrow must be
28. The inhabitants, fully expecting the fire to reach their houses, were hauling out their belongings, but had not yet left their dwellings, and were waiting meanwhile sitting on their boxes and feather beds under their windows
29. But she had not been forgotten; she had gone back to the burning house while it was still possible, with the insane idea of rescuing her feather bed from a corner room which was still untouched
30. Choking with the smoke and screaming with the heat, for the room was on fire by the time she reached it, she was still trying with her decrepit hands to squeeze her feather bed through a broken window pane
31. Every one saw him run up to the window, catch hold of one corner of the feather bed and try with all his might to pull it out
32. (It was here that the chief of police had gone while Lembke was rescuing the feather bed
33. In the first (which Olenin entered by the steep flight of steps) feather beds, rugs, blankets, and cushions were tastefully and handsomely arranged, Cossack fashion, along the main wall
34. Near the front wall lay a pile of brightly coloured feather beds, on the side walls hung rich rugs with rifles and pistols and swords fastened to them, all inlaid in silver
35. And there in fact was Sónya lying face downward on Nurse’s dirty feather bed on the top of the chest, crumpling her gauzy pink dress under her, hiding her face with her slender fingers, and sobbing so convulsively that her bare little shoulders shook
36. Natásha wept, sitting on the blue-striped feather bed and hugging her friend
37. Sónya could not continue, and again hid her face in her hands and in the feather bed
38. Natásha jumped on it, sank into the feather bed, rolled over to the wall, and began snuggling up the bedclothes as she settled down, raising her knees to her chin, kicking out and laughing almost inaudibly, now covering herself up head and all, and now peeping at her mother
39. We are not content with sleeping, if we please, every day in our seats, unless we can sleep also every night of the session in our feather beds
