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"Coverlet" Quotes from Famous Books

... it'll need some sort of coverlet to make it look decent. I've seen them at Robinson's in the High Street for ...

— Sally Bishop - A Romance • E. Temple Thurston

... now,' just touching the little hand lying outside the coverlet with his great fingers as gently as ...

— Penshurst Castle - In the Days of Sir Philip Sidney • Emma Marshall

... occasionally lighting up the wall whenever the closely drawn curtains were lightly blown aside by the freshening breeze. The whole events of the night might have been a dream but for the insupportable languor which numbed his senses, and the torpor of his arm, that, swollen and discolored, lay outside the coverlet on a pillow before him. Cloths that had been wrung out in iced water were replaced upon it from time to time by Sophy, Miss Dows' housekeeper, who, seated near his bedhead, was lazily fanning ...

— Sally Dows and Other Stories • Bret Harte

... her room, where the afternoon sun fell slantwise upon the coverlet of her bed, picturing there the small window frame, she had had a wonderful feeling of peace and contentment. It seemed to her that there was not the least need of thinking about serious things or of reading, either. She felt that the simplest and most natural ...

— Lisbeth Longfrock • Hans Aanrud

... it freezing cold," she cried. "Let's put the puff cover around us," and rolled up in the big down coverlet the girls dove into their bumpy stockings, exclaiming or laughing over the contents, for evidently the boys had been in the secret, for out of Peggy's came a little bronze cow and calf labeled ...

— Peggy Stewart: Navy Girl at Home • Gabrielle E. Jackson

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