I never knew before what an uninteresting thing a featherbed is – when you are obliged to hold it in your arms.    From Wordnik.com.  [Melbourne House] Reference

The knight slept as a soldier would, to whom a featherbed is a rarity, and who wakes not till he hears the blast of the reveille.    From Wordnik.com.  [Burlesques] Reference

He was now going to a home provided by benevolent persons as a kind of featherbed to catch the falling workhouse boy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Essays in Rebellion] Reference

The giant sphere was being given a featherbed ride.    From Wordnik.com.  [Starchild Omnibus]

Though he does craft a lovely featherbed for himself.    From Wordnik.com.  [WEBSITE OF THE DAY: Girls Gone Wildcat! | Best Week Ever] Reference

Never, ever would she have needed the featherbed at home!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Serpent's Shadow]

The knight slept as a soldier would, to whom a featherbed is.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Legend of the Rhine] Reference

A leap for Lucille and a featherbed landing for Gene Markey.    From Wordnik.com.  [Celebrities] Reference

It had a featherbed, and a window overlooking the south parterre.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dragonfly in Amber]

She lost a featherbed, a few sticks of furniture, and some clothes.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Shadow of the Torturer]

The unions, of course, want a system that will featherbed them forever.    From Wordnik.com.  [McCain’s Health Care Plan - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com] Reference

‘Rough!’ cried Miss La Creevy, ‘a porcupine’s a featherbed to him!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nicholas Nickleby] Reference

HUMPHRIES: Any sort of featherbed, feather down, Cuddle Down is a good brand.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 19, 2005] Reference

We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Since Change is THE Issue, What is Change?] Reference

After sitting in that cube for hours, the car seat felt as luxurious as a featherbed.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Chrome Borne]

“We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed”.    From Wordnik.com.  [How about those Navy Seals on the Bainbridge sniping the pirates and saving Capt. Roberts?] Reference

Russ Schnell likens the effects of CO2, along with the other greenhouse gases, to a featherbed.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Apr 23, 2006] Reference

Duff took to sharing Sean's tent up on the ridge and Candy had her featherbed to herself again.    From Wordnik.com.  [When the Lion Feeds]

Get a cart ready so we can bring him home, and put a featherbed in it and everything he will need.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Red Queen] Reference

"When I was a boy," he begins, and I roll off and settle into the featherbed to hear another story.    From Wordnik.com.  [El colibri] Reference

And it'll feel even better once I put the featherbed on it I'm buying tonight at Bed, Bath & Beyond.    From Wordnik.com.  [misspinkkate Diary Entry] Reference

One night while I lay sleeping upon my featherbed an angel came before me and said my mother was dead.    From Wordnik.com.  [Apollo's Daughter :: September 16th, 2008] Reference

She was sprawled on the floor of Kethry's room on her featherbed (which the maids had not dared move.).    From Wordnik.com.  [Oathbreaker]

Organisation negotiations while continuing to featherbed their own farmers, is sheer hypocrisy, he said.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

She looked like a child in the enormous expanse of featherbed-and she looked uncomfortable and unhappy as well.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oathbreaker]

I covered myself with a great depth of featherbed, and looked at the stars, and the shadowy upper world, and went to sleep.    From Wordnik.com.  [Twilight in Italy] Reference

You do not know if it will be a featherbed, or a dog, or a slow - and low-bouncing pitch dispiriting equally to batsman and bowler.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Dying, Gorgeous Pastime] Reference

Glencree dinner coming back that long joult over the featherbed mountain after the lord Mayor looking at me with his dirty eyes Val.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ulysses] Reference

He slept in the common room on a greasy featherbed piled high with blankets that were stored during the day in the unused staircase.    From Wordnik.com.  [Take A Thief]

Two large companies with extensive experience of Africa, but coming up after the break, forget the comfort of the corporate featherbed.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Aug 10, 2003] Reference

What a wonderful spell of fast bowling on a supposed featherbed.    From Wordnik.com.  [BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition] Reference

Compared to that, our Israeli "guests" had a featherbed incarceration.    From Wordnik.com.  [Signs of the Times] Reference

"To change anything in the N-a-a-v-y", he drawled, "is like punching a featherbed!".    From Wordnik.com.  [open Democracy News Analysis - Comments] Reference

A bit of straw matting, laid over a featherbed, and covered with the under sheet, makes.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Treatise on Domestic Economy For the Use of Young Ladies at Home and at School] Reference