bed-hangings

Glasses, glasses is the only drinking: and for thy walls, a pretty slight drollery, or the story of the Prodigal, or the German hunting in water-work, is worth a thousand of these bed-hangings and these fly-bitten tapestries.

The second part of King Henry the Fourth 2004

The beautiful Brussels carpets were eaten into holes, as were also curtains and bed-hangings, table-covers and the backs of wool-worked chairs.

The Way Home 2003

The velvet covering the window-seat was old and faded, like the curtains and the bed-hangings, but it still had a richness, a softness, an air of luxury about it that no modern fabric could match.

Unwanted Wedding Jordan, Penny 1995

A set of bed-hangings, forming six curtains, made of Italian lace and linen 40 0 0

Chats on Old Lace and Needlework Emily Leigh Lowes

Hampton Court there is mention of 230 bed-hangings of English embroidery.

Chats on Old Lace and Needlework Emily Leigh Lowes

The inventories of household furniture belonging to Reginald de la Pole, after enumerating some bed-hangings of costly stuff, describe: "Item, a pane" (piece of cloth which we now call counterpane) "and head-shete for y'e cradell, of same sute, bothe furred with mynever," -- giving us a comfortable idea of the nursery establishment in the De la Pole family.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 107, September, 1866 Various

In the first night of a febrile attack, and often in the progress of fever, the bed-hangings appear to the patient swarming with human faces, generally of a disagreeable and menacing expression.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847 Various

It now seldom leaves him for a moment; but even when exhausted nature seizes a small portion of sleep, the motion becomes so violent as not only to shake the bed-hangings, but even the floor and sashes of the room.

An Essay on the Shaking Palsy James Parkinson

I can't stop a minute; I must see Major Lester before our quarterly meeting about church expenses, which takes place this afternoon at two o'clock; and I have just remembered that the bed-hangings of the spare room bed are at the laundry, and if Alick is to sleep there to night I must superintend the cleaning of the room myself! '

The Carved Cupboard Amy le Feuvre

He remained for some seconds immovable, his expression lost in the shadow of the bed-hangings; then walked slowly across the chamber.

The French Immortals Series — Complete Various