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  • I notice that Wada has given me heavier underclothes and heavier pyjamas, and that Possum, of nights, is no longer content with the top of the bed but must crawl underneath the bed-clothes.

    CHAPTER XXVIII 2010

  • She got a grip on the bed-clothes and tried to strip them down; but the boy, ceasing his punching, clung to them desperately.

    THE APOSTATE 2010

  • See that they sweep under the beds, and put clean sheets and pillow-cases on, and turn down one corner of the bed-clothes, just as you know it ought to be done; and have a can of hot water, and clean towels, and fresh cakes of soap, put in each room.

    Matchless Valour 2009

  • I was stiff and lame, and cried out with pain when the bed-clothes touched my poor finger-ends.

    Chapter 39 2010

  • See that they sweep under the beds, and put clean sheets and pillow-cases on, and turn down one corner of the bed-clothes, just as you know it ought to be done; and have a can of hot water, and clean towels, and fresh cakes of soap, put in each room.

    Archive 2009-06-01 2009

  • Charles was still soundly asleep beside me, his bed-clothes thrown off as usual.

    Exit the Actress Priya Parmar 2011

  • White as the bed-clothes into bed, and cold as snow,

    After Prayers, Lie Cold « Unknowing 2010

  • It must be the heat of the bed-clothes, I decided, that excited my hives.

    CHAPTER XI 2010

  • To combat this, every house had a drying room, where fires burned all day long, and where bed-clothes and garments were dried.

    The Season: Colonies & Commonwealths | Edwardian Promenade 2009

  • Charles was still soundly asleep beside me, his bed-clothes thrown off as usual.

    Exit the Actress Priya Parmar 2011

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