"Pillow" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... over him with a very white face, and a tall man dressed in black stood beside her, holding some kind of shining instrument in his fingers. A little behind them he saw Nixie, shading a lamp with her hand. Then the white face came close over the pillow, and a voice full of tenderness whispered, "My darling boy, don't you know me? It's mother! No one will hurt you. Speak to me, ...
— Jimbo - A Fantasy • Algernon Blackwood
... he was tilted backward or forward, and when the pillow rolled him over and over, he cried, ...
— Raggedy Andy Stories • Johnny Gruelle
... in her Bible is she, Her language is artless and free, Imparting pure joy, That never can cloy, And smoothing the pillow of death. ...
— Cottage Poems • Patrick Bronte
... wondering what his haughty mother-in-law could have to say to such a man when to his amazement Bisbee planted his elbow in the pillow of flesh just below Madame ...
— The Avalanche • Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
... all was dark and dreamy: how long he remained in this condition it was for another to tell. When he awoke, he found himself stretched upon the sofa, with his boots off, his neckerchief removed, shirt collar unbuttoned, and his head resting upon a pillow. By his side sat the old man, with the smelling bottle in the one hand, and a glass of water in the other, and the little boy standing at the foot of the sofa. As soon as Mr. Green had so far recovered as to be able to speak, he said, "Where am I, and what does this mean?" "Wait a while," replied ...
— Clotel; or, The President's Daughter • William Wells Brown
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