bedquilts

The farmers 'wives brought samples of their needlework, such as bedquilts, lace or embroidery, and samples of their cooking and preserving.

The Bobbsey Twins at the County Fair Laura Lee Hope

The fat lady had brought her own bedding — an apoplectic roll of bedquilts — and these she insisted on making a bed of, despite the protests of the ranch-woman, who seemed to detect a covert insinuation against her accommodations in the precedent.

Judith of the Plains Marie Manning

Many other gifts were also showered upon them, -- from medical cases, cameras, clocks, and bedquilts, to books and dainty handkerchiefs.

Notable Women of Modern China Margaret E. Burton

Then they both put their curls under the bedquilts.

The Bobbsey Twins in the Country Laura Lee Hope

Carriages containing negroes and their "things," piano covers and curtains thrown over horses, bedquilts, looking-glasses, even chairs, on the wagons; negro women dressed in their mistresse's clothes.

Documenting the American South, or, the American Experience in 19-th Century America 1910

We take everything that comes in -- pies and pickles and bedquilts and pumpkins and everything; putty triflin 'stuff, some of it, but they take it.

Uncle William: the man who was shif'less Jennette Barbour Perry Lee 1905

Upon this occasion they ranged from bedquilts to hams and sides of bacon; from jam and watermelon rind preserves to flour, meal and chair tidies.

A Circuit Rider's Wife Corra Harris 1902

'N' no giddy, gaudy bedquilts make a circus of the 'orses.

'Hello, Soldier!' Khaki Verse Edward Dyson 1898

It rained so hard her address was deferred till the next day, as it had to be delivered out of doors, so she visited the "art" and "culinary" departments of the fair, and records in her diary: "I have just put an extra paragraph in my speech on bedquilts and bad cooking."

The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years Ida Husted Harper 1891

Maw's specs when you meet her on the road represents only the mark of the bedquilts, where the colors were not too proud to run.

Maw's Vacation The Story of a Human Being in the Yellowstone Emerson Hough 1890