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  • Monastery with that beautiful boy sitting on the queer coverleted couch.

    Through Finland in Carts

  • Her mistress disrobed, head among pillows, slippered, coverleted, eau - de-Cologne on temples, with closed eyes inviting sleep to lull the tumults of the day.

    Once Aboard the Lugger 1925

  • Kinney stood erect, dwarfing the room, and looked round on the pink chintzing, and soft carpet, and white coverleted bed, and lace-hooded dressing-mirror, with meek veneration.

    A Modern Instance William Dean Howells 1878

  • So, through month on month, she read, rocking slowly in the small, wooden rocker, or lying on the coarse-coverleted bed, while round her the hotel room was still and stale-smelling and fixed, and outside the window passed the procession of life -- trucks laden with crates of garments consigned to Kansas City and Bangor and Seattle and Bemidji; taxicabs with passengers for the mammoth hotels; office-girls and policemen and salesmen and all the lusty crew that had conquered the city or were well content to be conquered by it.

    The Job An American Novel Sinclair Lewis 1918

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