bed-quilt

Polly sat on her trunk by the splashboard; and Tilly, crowded out, rode in on one of the cart-horses, a coloured bed-quilt pinned round her waist to protect her skirts.

Australia Felix 2003

"I beg your pardon; there wasn't the hair of a camel, or even a cat, in the shawl that I mean; it was just sewed together on the wrong side like a bed-quilt."

Harper's Young People, January 6, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly Various

Then when they've bought a chance on a pieced bed-quilt, or paid for chicken-pie at a church supper, they go home feelin 'real religious, believin' that if there's any obligation between them and heaven, it isn't on their side, anyway.

Hepsey Burke

"What's this?" he asked, thinking it was a bed-quilt or something.

The Rilloby Fair Mystery Blyton, Enid, 1898?-1968 1950

Others carried a couple of red wooden boxes filled with the clothes and personal belongings of the bride, also a wadded bed-quilt, a bed-curtain, and two embroidered pillows, etc. The whole procession made an imposing show, and the relatives of

Everlasting Pearl One of China's Women Anna Magdalena Johannsen

The boys helped the wounded man into his wagon and made him as comfortable as they could with some pillows and a bed-quilt, and went on with their work.

The Hero of Hill House Mabel Hale

The best bed-quilt had been quilted, and Jamie and I had been helping "roll over," all the afternoon.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 79, May, 1864 Various

Not only were the shutters closed, and the shades drawn, but a patch-work bed-quilt had been tacked over the window that no obtrusive ray of light should work havoc with his health.

Other People's Business The Romantic Career of the Practical Miss Dale Harriet L. Smith

She had tied up in a gorgeous bed-quilt her feather-bed and pillows with, -- nobody knows how many things besides.

Memories A Record of Personal Experience and Adventure During Four Years of War Fannie A. Beers

She had come in from Wisconsin, and brought with her a patchwork bed-quilt for her son, thinking he might have lost his blanket; and there he laid all covered up in his quilt, looking so homelike, and feeling so, too, no doubt, with his good old mother close at his side.

Woman's Work in the Civil War A Record of Heroism, Patriotism, and Patience Mary C. Vaughan