A thin counterpane of blue check gave a rather pleasing finish. From Wordnik.com. [Prisons and Prisoners: Some Personal Experiences] Reference
On the counterpane was a mess of blood, and the sheet had been torn. From Wordnik.com. [The Invisible Man] Reference
On the counterpane was the box of papers she had removed from her home after Jamie's death, just before the police had raided her. From Wordnik.com. [Maura's Game]
MY counterpane is soft as silk. From Wordnik.com. [The Drift of Pinions] Reference
What did I do when I encountered the word 'counterpane'?. From Wordnik.com. [Bisaya Bloggers] Reference
Then he stooped to inspect Trevelyan's counterpane. From Wordnik.com. [Jack of Both Sides The Story of a School War] Reference
An old shawl was thrown on the bed for a counterpane. From Wordnik.com. [Little Ferns For Fanny's Little Friends] Reference
These 2 stripes form a beautiful pattern for a counterpane. From Wordnik.com. [Exercises in Knitting] Reference
Nan let her armful of gifts fall on her counterpane in a heap. From Wordnik.com. [The Governess] Reference
You know you wouldn't sleep under such a counterpane as that. '. From Wordnik.com. [Aunt Jane of Kentucky] Reference
I flopped on the bed, stretched my arm out against the counterpane. From Wordnik.com. [Vigorish] Reference
On the man's coat, spread for extra warmth over the thin counterpane, lay. From Wordnik.com. [A Sheaf of Corn] Reference
Turn down the counterpane, and let the air have free course through the blankets. From Wordnik.com. [Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And Marriage] Reference
Several of these sacks, cut open and stitched together, served for a counterpane. From Wordnik.com. [The Making Of A Novelist An Experiment In Autobiography] Reference
The moon was casting long bars of silver across the rag carpet and white counterpane. From Wordnik.com. [Marcia Schuyler] Reference
This is accomplished by rolling a fellow up in a counterpane, here properly called a rug. From Wordnik.com. [Confessions of an Etonian] Reference
Panpan himself lay with rigid features, and his wiry hands spread out upon the counterpane. From Wordnik.com. [A Tramp's Wallet stored by an English goldsmith during his wanderings in Germany and France] Reference
She found Beth robed in the old counterpane, with her hair dishevelled, and the room darkened. From Wordnik.com. [The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius] Reference
I could see nothing but the dull gray gleam of the white counterpane and the hangings of the bed. From Wordnik.com. [In Direst Peril] Reference
Mrs. Lorton stared at the counterpane with a half-sly, half-speculative expression in her faded eyes. From Wordnik.com. [Nell, of Shorne Mills or, One Heart's Burden] Reference
The bed is covered with a lace counterpane over a blue silk quilt, and downy pillows invite to slumber. From Wordnik.com. [Etiquette] Reference
Janet spoke first, and she laid her hand timidly on the withered one that lay on the white counterpane. From Wordnik.com. [Phyllis A Twin] Reference
The sheets of Rennes cloth and also fine fustians; the counterpane, cloth of gold, furred with ermines. From Wordnik.com. [Christmas: Its Origin and Associations Together with Its Historical Events and Festive Celebrations During Nineteen Centuries] Reference
Ruth went up stairs and carefully spread the counterpane and arranged the pillows, but she did it mechanically. From Wordnik.com. ['Our Guy' or, The elder brother] Reference
In front of the window with the blue curtain is a worn bed, the hard mattress neatly covered with a counterpane. From Wordnik.com. [Secret Armies The New Technique of Nazi Warfare] Reference
And says I to Janie, 'You can hang your great-grandmother's counterpane up in your parlor door if you want to, but,' says I. From Wordnik.com. [Aunt Jane of Kentucky] Reference
Now the flour was sifted on the pastry board, and the dough rolled until it was as smooth and flat as a sheet or counterpane. From Wordnik.com. [Half-Past Seven Stories] Reference
So saying, he drew, from underneath the bed-clothes, the two little shoes; and placed them side by side upon the counterpane. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Shoemaker or 'Cobbler' Horn] Reference
Why, I've got a blue and white counterpane that my mother's mother spun and wove, and there ain't a sign o 'givin' out in it yet. From Wordnik.com. [Aunt Jane of Kentucky] Reference
In the little cabin the old servants gave him the best room, cleanly and sweet with an old-fashioned feather-bed and counterpane. From Wordnik.com. [The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills] Reference
Barbara, as the eldest, has two pillows and an eiderdown coverlet; the rest of us have only one pillow and a woollen counterpane. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 1, July, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
We did not mind if the snow blew in at the cracks in the roof, and nestled in little drifts on the counterpane, for we were used to it. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 122, December, 1867] Reference
A third door, which was also open, showed me a bed in an alcove, with a blue velvet dais and a fringed counterpane of the same material. From Wordnik.com. [Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851] Reference
With the conviction of absolute certainty, Elizabeth buried her face in the counterpane of her bridal couch and sobbed in desolate abandon. From Wordnik.com. [The Wind Before the Dawn] Reference
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