coverlids

Destiny lies buried under seven coverlids, and can hear nothing?

The Pink Fairy Book 2003

In her bedchamber the bed was covered with very costly coverlids of silk: at no great distance from this room we were shown a bed, the tester of which was worked by Anne Boleyn, and presented by her to her husband Henry VIII.

Travels in England during the reign of Queen Elizabeth 2003

In one chamber were several excessively rich tapestries, which are hung up when the Queen gives audience to foreign ambassadors; there were numbers of cushions ornamented with gold and silver; many counterpanes and coverlids of beds lined with ermine: in short, all the walls of the palace shine with gold and silver.

Travels in England during the reign of Queen Elizabeth 2003

Two stout porters came up the mountain, each carrying a bed on his shoulders with bedding of all kinds and two beautiful new white coverlids.

Heidi 2000

If there were three, the worthiest lay in the middle, the next above him, and the third below him; that is, at the coverlids of his feet.

From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979

We also wove coverlids and jeans to make mens suits out of.

Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Oklahoma Narratives Work Projects Administration

So she kissed them good-night and tucked them under the coverlids as they had covered the tiny seeds in their brown beds.

Seven O'Clock Stories Robert Gordon Anderson

To slip the bright-colored sleeping robe from her and toss it to the heaped-up coverlids, don an undergarment of thin white linen and a scant petticoat of blue crepe, draw over them a day robe of blue and white cotton, and tie all in with a sash of brocaded blue and gold, -- that was the sum of it.

The Dragon Painter Mary McNeil Fenollosa

The bed linen, the coverlids, the quilts, the blankets were packed in trunks, the table-linen and china in drawers and closets.

In Her Own Right John Reed Scott

While the bride was changing to her infare dress, older hands quickly took down the bedsteads, tied up the flock ticks and shuck ticks in coverlids and quilts, shoved them back into the corners so as to make room for the frolic and dancing.

Blue Ridge Country Jean Thomas 1945