"Feather bed" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... road, and tossed about as they were in the wagon, the Bobbsey twins were not hurt a bit, as the blankets spread over the spicy-smelling pine branches made a couch almost as soft as a feather bed for them. ...
— The Bobbsey Twins in the Great West • Laura Lee Hope
... the burning block, Whence all but him had fled; He smashed the china on a rock, But saved the feather bed. ...
— Cap and Gown - A Treasury of College Verse • Selected by Frederic Knowles
... I. I must store my plunder at this inn, since the hostess is an honest woman. Hola! ma cherie, I wish to leave with you my gold-work, my velvet, my silk, my feather bed, my incense-boat, my ewer, my naping linen, and all the rest of it. I take only the money in a linen bag, and the box of rose colored sugar which is a gift from my captain to the Lady Loring. Wilt ...
— The White Company • Arthur Conan Doyle
... the feather bed had taken her into its arms and she almost instantly fell asleep. Occasionally through the night she was roused by unfamiliar sounds. There was a fog coming in from the sea and the siren at the lighthouse on the Neck began to bellow like a ...
— Cap'n Abe, Storekeeper • James A. Cooper
... labor. Some of my friends, pitying my trials, copied and sent a number of little sketches from my pen to certain liberally paying annuals, with my name. With the first money that I earned in this way I bought a feather bed! for as I had married into poverty and without a dowry, and as my husband had only a large library of books and a good deal of learning, the bed and pillows were thought the most profitable investment. After this I thought that I had discovered the philosopher's stone. So when ...
— Daughters of the Puritans - A Group of Brief Biographies • Seth Curtis Beach
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