paillasse
palliasse

They lie in straw-lofts, in woody brakes; rudest paillasse on the floor of a secret friend is luxury.

Once or twice she sat up on her hard paillasse, hardly able to smother a scream which would have aroused her room-mates from their sleep.

Fleurette shared her wretched paillasse with Claire de Châtelard.

La fille de Paillasse (1894 Paris)

And Johanna, pitifully thin, lay exhausted on Hendrik's paillasse, blaming no one, but obviously near death from having had to do all the work.

She lay on a paillasse of pine needles, gasping for breath, her face knocked awry but the grandeur of her dark eyes undimmed.

"When the children had gone, they brought you in here, mon enfant, and laid you on the paillasse where Felicite used to sleep.

He thought of his mother, lying on the old paillasse, with a ragged shawl to cover her body, and all around her the ruins of her home.

Without warning, he slammed the incandescent metal against the corrupt shoulder, pinning McKeag to the paillasse as he did so.

When the four chairs appeared fairly steady, and in comparatively little danger of toppling, he dragged the paillasse forward and propped it up against the chairs.

There was some bread and cheese and a large mug of ale waiting for him in the wheel-house and a clean straw paillasse in a corner.

She sat up on the paillasse, then put her feet to the ground and presently walked up to the improvised dressing-room and bathed her face and hands.

Capitaine Paillasse, commandez des feux de peloton.

It was horrible, and Fleurette would run out into the corridor, or back to her miserable paillasse, anywhere where she could shut her ears to that gruesome mockery.

Fleurette slipped out of her kirtle which she laid tidily across the foot of the paillasse; then she took off her muslin kerchief.

Clovis Crawfish and Paillasse Poule D'Eau (1997)

The brutal Malicorne abuses Suzanne one time too many, and she escapes with Paillasse, Grand-Pingouin, and Marion.

Her hair is firmly held in ringlets, which all move together in formation when her head turns; there is a moment's delay as the rear of the paillasse catches up with the vanguard.

She had finished her toilet as well as she could, had shaken up and tidied the paillasse, and was now sitting on the edge of it, her hands clasped between her knees.

He was neither tired nor cramped; he served the Republic in comfort and ease, and had slept soundly on his paillasse in the little garret allotted to him in the Town Hall.

Suspicious Municipality snatches from us all implements; all money and possession, of means or metal, is ruthlessly searched for, in pocket, in pillow and paillasse, and snatched away; red-capped Commissaries entering every cell!

The investigator, Robert Paillasse, told the French radio station RTL: "The probable traces of an explosion have been localized in one of the cargo compartments, in the hold in the front of the plane.

A tallow candle placed upon a chair threw its feeble light upon the squalid abode, the white-washed walls, the primitive bedstead in the corner made up of deal planks and covered with a paillasse and a thin blanket.

He regarded her for a moment, where she lay on the rough paillasse on her narrow cot which for four nights now had been her solitary bed, her coarse dark hair hang- 326 Barbara Humbly ing over the whiteness of her shift.

She seemed to be lying on her back, and her fingers wandering restlessly around felt a hard paillasse, beneath their touch, then a rough pillow, and her own cloak laid over her: thought had not yet returned, only the sensation of great suffering and of infinite fatigue.

Already it was almost on a level with my straw palliasse.

Gabrielle threw herself down on the palliasse, closed her eyes and went to sleep.

Lying on what felt like a thin straw palliasse.

He sat up abruptly on his palliasse, and the sleep was gone from his eyes.

The straw-filled mattress, also known as palliasse, is still used in many parts of the world.

Mole had once more turned over on his palliasse and, apparently, had gone to sleep.

The mattress, the palliasse, whatever was there, was soft beneath my weight.

Some pickers built themselves basic beds of scrap timber with a palliasse.

Sexton laid her on the palliasse, straightened up and looked down at her with interest.

Now look...' His finger traced imaginary lines on the palliasse.

A palliasse had been laid for me and in a corner were the rolled palliasses of others.

It was seven hours since Sexton had carried her into the cell, Angel following with a palliasse.

His finger moved on the palliasse.

The man on the palliasse sat up and put a hand on the cudgel that lay beside him.

He had followed his chief into the cell, and now stood beside the palliasse, holding a small dark lantern in his hand.

Cold water dripped slowly onto the palliasse.

He lay down on the palliasse, shifted the rough, straw-filled pillow and pulled the blanket round him.

Modesty was asleep on the palliasse.

Quinn rose from his palliasse.

She returned the pressure, watching Willie, who sat staring down at the palliasse as if visualizing once again the set-up in the gym.

Long, narrow, the straw palliasse inviting.

The men poked about everywhere, struck great, spiked sticks through the poor bits of bedding, and ripped up the palliasse.

He squatted beside the palliasse where Yina lay.

Ryshad wasn't about to sleep on some lumpy palliasse or a box bed folded out of a settle.

Sixty-one Gilhaelith had spent the previous day lying on his damp palliasse, brooding.