So Akela curled up on someone's palliasse, and silence fell. From Wordnik.com. [Stories of the Saints by Candle-Light] Reference
Akela is sitting on a palliasse already occupied by two people. From Wordnik.com. [Stories of the Saints by Candle-Light] Reference
The double tiered wooden bunks have a palliasse and one blanket per man. From Wordnik.com. [Work Camp 10030 GW, Lavamund] Reference
He soon left off sweeping his room, and never tried to move the palliasse off his bed. From Wordnik.com. [Celebrated Claimants from Perkin Warbeck to Arthur Orton] Reference
Elis ground angry fists in the rustling straw of their palliasse, and heaved himself round in the bed. From Wordnik.com. [A Caregiver's Homage To The Very Old] Reference
The Stable having been duly invited, its eight occupants come in, and each finds a place on a palliasse. From Wordnik.com. [Stories of the Saints by Candle-Light] Reference
Double tier wooden bunks have been placed in the various rooms, with a palliasse and two blankets per man. From Wordnik.com. [Work Camp 10049 GW] Reference
Wung pulled the trigger as Struan instinctively lifted up the palliasse and hurtled to one side of the gangway. From Wordnik.com. [Tai-Pan]
Soon everyone in the coach-house is settled on his palliasse, and has invited a Stable Cub to share it with him. From Wordnik.com. [Stories of the Saints by Candle-Light] Reference
He felt beneath his palliasse, finding the wrapped book and the sigil inside his wallet just as he had left them. From Wordnik.com. [Conqueror's Moon]
Barely stretched on his palliasse he had been routed out to attend to Long Jim, who had missed his footing and pitched into a shaft. From Wordnik.com. [Australia Felix] Reference
He lay tossing restlessly on a dirty old straw palliasse, and was in great pain; but greeted his friend with a dash of the old brio. From Wordnik.com. [Australia Felix] Reference
Now he could ask himself which was better: two decades of dreams on a palliasse in a dark cell or two weeks 'reality in the light of day. From Wordnik.com. [Autumn] Reference
On a straw palliasse along the rear wall his cloak lay sprawled, and on an iron stand beside, a quenched candle sagged in folds of tallow. From Wordnik.com. [St. Peter's Fair]
I'll let her have no more of that villainous palliasse. From Wordnik.com. [The Chaplet of Pearls] Reference
He had flung up a barrier of straw palliasse before him. From Wordnik.com. [The Forfeit] Reference
Brotteaux stretched himself on the palliasse and blew out the candle. From Wordnik.com. [Dieux ont soif. English] Reference
Mole had once more turned over on his palliasse and, apparently, had gone to sleep. From Wordnik.com. [The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel] Reference
'See,' she said, 'one must put down a palliasse, or there will be no room left by the wall.'. From Wordnik.com. [Pied Piper]
Straw, well knitted or plaited together, forms a good mattress, commonly called a palliasse. From Wordnik.com. [The Art of Travel Shifts and Contrivances Available in Wild Countries] Reference
He lay down on the palliasse, shifted the rough, straw-filled pillow and pulled the blanket round him. From Wordnik.com. [Pied Piper]
Then, in the midst of the tumult, a great tongue of flame leaped up from the heart of the straw palliasse. From Wordnik.com. [The Forfeit] Reference
I agreed to her proposal, and she took me to a small closet where I found a straw palliasse on four pieces of wood. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova] Reference
He got up stiffly and led her, still practically asleep, to the palliasse, made her lie down, and put a blanket over her. From Wordnik.com. [Pied Piper]
The men poked about everywhere, struck great, spiked sticks through the poor bits of bedding, and ripped up the palliasse. From Wordnik.com. [The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel] Reference
Out I sallied and spent sixteen shillings of it upon a new palliasse which should go under the straw mattress upon my bed. From Wordnik.com. [The Stark Munro Letters] Reference
Elbows on knees and head on fist, she sat buried in thought; then turning to her old lover sitting on the palliasse, she asked. From Wordnik.com. [Dieux ont soif. English] Reference
Then he flung himself down and crawled to his retreat behind the palliasse, convinced that the cry was in the voice of Sikkem Bruce. From Wordnik.com. [The Forfeit] Reference
We have already related that M. le Coq gave her a sleeping outfit, consisting of a mattress, palliasse, two comforters, and a pillow. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Venerable Sister Margaret Bourgeois]
There was Jerry to feed and send off, with the warmest of hugs, to share Tom Ocock’s palliasse. From Wordnik.com. [Australia Felix] Reference
"Last time you people went through my room you pinched half the wood shavings out of my palliasse and it was spread all over the floor. From Wordnik.com. [THE GREAT ESCAPE]
Cold water dripped slowly onto the palliasse. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Sword]
It came from behind the straw palliasse. From Wordnik.com. [The Forfeit] Reference
A mattress, palliasse, two comforters, and a pillow. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Venerable Sister Margaret Bourgeois] Reference
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