Nevertheless one sometimes comes across a "rising sun" or a "setting sun" bedquilt which is remarkable for skillful shading, and was an inspiration in the house where it was born, and where the needlework comes quite within the pale of ornamental stitchery. ❋ Candace Wheeler (1875)
In describing how William Driver first gave this banner the name "Old Glory", the speaker digressed from his prepared script, and explained how Captain Driver had hidden the first "Old Glory" from searching Confederate troops by stitching it inside his bedquilt. ❋ Grouse (2002)
A child's bedquilt was found mentioned in an inventory of furniture at the Priory of Durham, in 1446, which was embroidered in the four corners with the Evangelistic symbols. ❋ Julia De Wolf Gibbs Addison (N/A)
Leander huddled on the barrel that was farthest from Mrs. Yellett, and wrapped himself in the soaked red bedquilt. ❋ Marie Manning (N/A)
"Many a time while I was piecin 'that," she said, "I thought about the man that laid the pavement in that old church, and wondered what his name was, and how he looked, and what he'd think if he knew there was a old woman down here in Kentucky usin 'his patterns to make a bedquilt." ❋ Eliza Calvert Hall (N/A)
Tom and Ned hurried to the room where the unfortunate chemist had been put to bed, to find him out in the hall, wrapped in a bedquilt, and with Mrs. Baggert vainly trying to quiet him. ❋ Victor [pseud.] Appleton (N/A)
I sleep under a pink silk bedquilt, and I have all new clothes. ❋ F. Graham [Illustrator] Cootes (N/A)
It was quite different from the warm jungle where he could sleep out of doors with only his own fur for a bedquilt. ❋ Richard Barnum (N/A)
This, the eternal activity of the peasant or labourer, whatever his trade, and the worked-over little farm-holdings, with their varied crops, all planted in little bedquilt patches, are the chief characteristics of the French countryside for the observant stranger. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
I sat in the back room that I had made into a temporary kitchen, with a candle, and with a bedquilt around my shoulders. ❋ Mary Roberts Rinehart (1917)
Then Night came down like the feathery soot of a smoky lamp, and smutted first the bedquilt, then the hearth-rug, then the window-seat, and then at last the great, stormy, faraway outside world. ❋ Eleanor Hallowell Abbott (1915)
Here am I, made from an old bedquilt and intended to be a slave to Margolotte, rendered free as air by an accident that none of you could foresee. ❋ Baum, L. Frank (1913)
Page 43 of the bed was comparatively dry, and she waked up just enough to pull the cotton bedquilt that was our only covering, over her head, and then went stolidly to sleep again. ❋ Unknown (1908)
Gus had a coop of rare fowls, who clucked wildly all the way, while Ralph, with the bust in his arms, stood up in front, and Jill and Molly bore the precious bedquilt, as they sat behind. ❋ Alcott, Louisa May, 1832-1888 (1902)
This morning he had put some large books under the bedquilt, and smoothed it over them so as to make a flat plane, and was amusing himself setting the circus out, and arranging his soldiers in a long procession as if they were the audience coming to see it. ❋ Katharine Pyle (1900)
There is also a bedquilt, the pieces sewed together with the fine “over-and-over” stitch, and there are ruffles hemmed with stitches so tiny they scarcely can be distinguished. ❋ Harper, Ida H (1899)
The house had been but recently vacated, for there was still a "slab" smoldering on the hearth of the wide fireplace in the outer kitchen, and something that looked almost human, wrapped in a ragged bedquilt, was lying much too near it for safety. ❋ Unknown (1898)
Well, Nance had to stuff the bedquilt in her mouth right thar to keep from hollerin 'out loud, fer Polly Ann's hand was a-hangin' down by the cheer, jes a-waitin 'fer a job, and Nance seed the fingers a-twitchin'. ❋ Unknown (1897)
Sometimes when we camped where the grass was not just to his liking he would put his head into the wagon and help himself to a mouthful of bedquilt or a bite of pillow. ❋ Hayden Carruth (1897)
