In the very heart of the marsh is a semi-permanent lake where many square kilometres of lily pads, hyacinths and other hydrophytic plants spread out like an enormous green quilt.

For example, while many 19th-century quilts were made to benefit the suffragette cause, today a strain of green quilts relates to the environment.

Starts to pull the dark green quilt over her, then lets it drop.

Later, as we lay entwined in the green quilt, I stroked her forehead.

In the end he stretched out on the floor, using the single green quilt of shimmering silk as a pillow.

He moved sideways, toward the door, the rich green quilt of his tunic making a shock of color against the gray stone.

Winkler sat by him on the bed, making the ashtray tip to an angle that came close to tipping out its contents onto the pink and green quilt.

They put him to bed between clean sheets, under a heavy blue and green quilt.

"So am I." Eleanor took the green quilt and threw it around Theodora, and took up Theodora's warm dressing gown and put it on.

Sylvia was lying on the plump green quilt overlooked by leafy wallpaper, and for an instant Heather imagined her sister prostrate on a grassy bank in a wood.