"Headboard" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... into the room on hurried feet, her eyes dilated, her hair in anxious disorder. But the invalid made no signal. She lay with closed eyelids, the contraction of her nostrils a faint proclamation of life. Again the niece took her place at the headboard, and with folded fingers watched the whispering indications of speedy flight. The maid soon beckoned her from a narrowed door. Aline ...
— Visionaries • James Huneker
... knowing the right name, by what happy inspiration did you find the right grave? The man who told me what the name was said it had been cut on the headboard." ...
— Can Such Things Be? • Ambrose Bierce |
