"Bedquilt" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... visit. Aunt Katrina was down also staying with her son, as the two old ladies found it rather lonesome now that there were no active duties demanding their attention. And Grandmother Underhill had sent the little girl her Irish chain bedquilt, ...
— A Little Girl in Old New York • Amanda Millie Douglas
... stan' on that side the quilt, whiles I stir my foot to the flo' where it won't slip—an' Dicey—where's that nigger Dicey? You Dicey, come on here, an' tromp on the other side o' this bedquilt till I h'ist yo' young marster ...
— Sonny, A Christmas Guest • Ruth McEnery Stuart
... Ned hurried to the room where the unfortunate chemist had been put to bed, to find him out in the hall, wrapped in a bedquilt, and with Mrs. Baggert vainly trying to quiet him. Mr. Baxter stared at Tom and Ned without seeing them, for he was in a delirium ...
— Tom Swift among the Fire Fighters - or, Battling with Flames from the Air • Victor Appleton
... auctioneer—"sold to madame the widow Dupuis of Hirondelette," who was now elbowing her broad way through the crowd to her bargain which she struggled out with, red and perspiring, to the mud-smeared lawn, where her eldest daughter shrewdly examined the bedquilt for holes. ...
— A Village of Vagabonds • F. Berkeley Smith
... gravely; "but as long as there's no help for it, lay them on—don't slight the job a bit because of my feelings. I can stand pretty well having my jean clothes darned and mended, but I do object to dressing up on Sundays in a bedquilt." ...
— The Deliverance; A Romance of the Virginia Tobacco Fields • Ellen Glasgow |
