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  • There, beneath the warm August sun, we fished in vain for the wily bonito at the Jetties, then drove back to Pocha Pond, where Zee lay on the old bed-spread that we use for a beach blanket while I waded out and raked a basket of chowder quahogs before coming in and lying down beside her.

    Death on a Vineyard Beach Philip R.Craig 1996

  • I showed her my shelf of books, my alarm clock, my clear plastic coin purse, and, after emptying it out onto the bed-spread, each of the different shapes of the money we here in America used.

    Hoopi Shoopi Donna Suzanne Strempek Shea 1996

  • I showed her my shelf of books, my alarm clock, my clear plastic coin purse, and, after emptying it out onto the bed-spread, each of the different shapes of the money we here in America used.

    Hoopi Shoopi Donna Suzanne Strempek Shea 1996

  • I showed her my shelf of books, my alarm clock, my clear plastic coin purse, and, after emptying it out onto the bed-spread, each of the different shapes of the money we here in America used.

    Hoopi Shoopi Donna Suzanne Strempek Shea 1996

  • There, on a bed covered with a blue cotton bed-spread, he removed her clothing.

    Shrink Dreams WAYNE A. MYERS 1992

  • There, on a bed covered with a blue cotton bed-spread, he removed her clothing.

    Shrink Dreams WAYNE A. MYERS 1992

  • There, on a bed covered with a blue cotton bed-spread, he removed her clothing.

    Shrink Dreams WAYNE A. MYERS 1992

  • We just got up in the mornings, splashed water on our faces, cleaned our teeth with plain water, drank a little water, moved about a little, then lay down to watch TV, or to read, and the devil to pay if she came in and caught us rumpling a bed-spread.

    Flowers in the Attic V.C. Andrews 1979

  • We just got up in the mornings, splashed water on our faces, cleaned our teeth with plain water, drank a little water, moved about a little, then lay down to watch TV, or to read, and the devil to pay if she came in and caught us rumpling a bed-spread.

    Flowers in the Attic V.C. Andrews 1979

  • Her shock of red hair was almost as bright as it had been in her youth; though the coarse freckled skin had picked up additional splotches from age, for a woman of sixty-five she had few wrinkles, rather a fine network of tiny diamond-shaped cushions like a quilted bed-spread.

    The Thorn Birds McCullough, Colleen 1977

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