coverlid

The ground was his bed, and the storm of clouds his coverlid.

Frost lay on the land thick as a coverlid.

The inspection ended with general satisfaction, when each returned to watch space through the side windows and the lower glass coverlid.

A coverlet (earlier coverlid) is a fabric covering spread, usually for a bed.

"Take these to the loft and bring the miniver coverlid from my husband's carven chest."

Before the doctor picked up the baby, he put a yellow paper bag down on Thea's coverlid and winked at her.

I could hear her breathe, and see one white arm lying on the coverlid like a streak of snow on the dry grass.

His arm was outside the coverlid, and Curdie gave his hand a hurried grasp as he went by.

Scowling in concentration, Jamie raised the poker, reached out with his free hand, and flipped the hanging coverlid out of the way.

Kivrin took the sheets and coverlid to Eliwys, then offered to take bedding out to the barn.

A large oval bed stood in the middle, with a coverlid of rose colour, and velvet curtains all round it of a lovely pale blue.

Five minutes did not elapse between the moment of enclosing the animals and that of unscrewing the coverlid of their prison.

"Michael," I said, taking the long thin white hand that lay so listlessly on the coverlid, "I am sorry to see you so ill."

But here, in this Whirlpool of Words, sleep falls not; the Night spreads her coverlid of Darkness over it in vain.

This contained the Emperor's bedding, which included 'a bed of fine Merino' with 'cotton coverlid of very beautiful fabric.'

She lay at his feet, across the two casks, and did her best so to arrange her huge tail that it should be a warm coverlid for her master.

Hastily he drew the coverlid from his bed, fastened it to the casement bars, and by its aid dropped (at a distance of several feet) into the balcony below.

A woven coverlet or coverlid is a type of bed covering with a woven design in colored wool yarn on a background of natural linen or cotton.

IV Sir Henry Morgan lay in an enormous bed; a bed so wide that his body, under the coverlid, seemed a snow-covered mountain range dividing two great plains.

Hasten to the bridal bed-- Underneath the grave 'tis spread: In darkness may our love be hid, Oblivion be our coverlid-- We may rest, and none forbid.

And she almost forgot that her real pillows had scarcely any feathers in them at all, and smelled musty, and that her blankets and coverlid were thin and full of holes.

She was bending eagerly over the woman to hear her reply; but drew back, instinctively, as she once again rose, slowly and stiffly, into a sitting posture; then, clutching the coverlid with both hands, muttered some indistinct sounds in her throat, and fell lifeless on the bed.

After half an hour or so, a warm wave crept over her body and round, sturdy legs; she glowed like a little stove with the warmth of her own blood, and the heavy quilts and red blankets grew warm wherever they touched her, though her breath sometimes froze on the coverlid.

For the rest, it was simply furnished, having white walls, some chests for garments, an ancient chair, what I took to be a tiring table, on which were combs, perfumes, and all the frippery that pertains to woman, and a white bed with a broidered coverlid, over which was hung a gnat-gauze.

A rollicking north wind and occasional snow storm would have been more to my taste, for the one would have braced and refreshed tired body and soul, the other have purified the air, and spread a clean coverlid over the bed, wherein the capital of these United States appeared to be dozing pretty soundly just then.