"Pillowy" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... company began to assemble. Mrs. Deacon Twitchel arrived, soft, pillowy, and plaintive as ever, accompanied by Cerinthy Ann, a comely damsel, tall and trim, with a bright black eye and a most vigorous and determined style of movement. Good Mrs. Jones, broad, expansive, and solid, having vegetated tranquilly on in the cabbage ...
— Quilts - Their Story and How to Make Them • Marie D. Webster
... Sessions, of Panama, had gone to New York. Mr. Sessions was in machinery. They liked New York. They lived in a flat and went to theaters. Mrs. Sessions was a pillowy soul whom Una trusted. ...
— The Job - An American Novel • Sinclair Lewis
... the changeless snow amidst it; but down from that cloudy head The scars of fires that have been show grim and dusky-red; And lower yet are the hollows striped down by the scanty green, And lingering flecks of the cloud-host are tangled there-between, White, pillowy, lit by the sun, unchanged by the ...
— The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs • William Morris
... as in a former discourse—Reynolds had laid down that they should—sympathize with the subject; then, as to the substance of the cloud, he is right—it is not voluminous, it is mere vapour. In the received adoption of clouds as supporting figures, they are, at least, pillowy, capacious, and round—here it is quite otherwise; and Sir Joshua might well call it a little Apollo, with that immense cloud above him, which is in fact too much a portrait of a cloud, too peculiar, too edgy, for any subject where the sky is not to be all ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXVIII. February, 1843. Vol. LIII. • Various
... woman should not be trained for this self-denying office as a duty owed to God? We can not better close this chapter than by one more quotation from the same intelligent and attractive writer: "The good nurse is an artist. O the pillowy, soothing softness of her touch, the neatness of her simple, unrustling dress, the music of her assured yet gentle voice and tread, the sense of security and rest inspired by her kind and hopeful face, the promptness and attention to every want, the repose that like an atmosphere ...
— The American Woman's Home • Catherine E. Beecher and Harriet Beecher Stowe |
