Pillows

Examples

• Do you hate your boy, and want to fire pillows at him? Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• Simmons sat propped up by the pillows and smoked. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• In the presence of the two witnesses, I gave him the dose, and shook up his pillows, and told him to lie down again quietly and wait. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• The child lay panting on her pillows, as one exhausted,--the large clear eyes rolled up and fixed. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• The jingling piano at last is silent, and the Harmonic friends rally round their pillows. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Lily, leaning back among her pillows, gazed musingly at his letter. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• My aunt, the best and most cheerful of nurses, would trudge after us, a moving mass of shawls and pillows. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Mrs. Pryor raised her, and arranged her pillows. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• I approached the bed; I opened the curtains and leant over the high-piled pillows. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Lily tossed aside the note and subsided on her pillows with a sigh. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• The bed was in the centre of the room, and in it, propped up with pillows, was the owner of the house. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• He moved his head gently, smiled, and said, Jesus can make a dying-bed Feel soft as down pillows are. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• The cousin, who has been casting sofa-pillows on his head, in a prostration of boredom yawns, Vayli, being the used-up for very likely. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Figure 40 illustrates by a pile of pillows how the pressure of the air varies from level to level. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• It's one of them Pillows of Herkewls, I should say--and there's the ultimate one alongside of it. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• I reached this one, said my friend, by sitting upon five pillows and consuming an ounce of shag. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• How well I remember the pleasant afternoon when I was raised in bed with pillows for the first time to enjoy a great tea-drinking with Charley! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Look under your pillows Christmas morning, and you will find your guidebook, replied Mrs. March. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• Margaret flew to adjust the pillows. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.

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