In a tribute that Sam published several weeks later, Henry escapes on a “mattrass to a raft or open wood boat,” but has suffered brain damage from “the concussion.” ❋ Ron Powers (2005)
We had to sleep all together in the cabin, packed pretty close; but they very civilly allowed me plenty of room for my mattrass, and we got on very well together. ❋ Unknown (2004)
No such circumstance appeared, but as her eyes glanced, with almost phrenzied eagerness, she perceived something shadowy in a remote corner of the floor; and on approaching, discovered what seemed a dreadful hieroglyphic, a mattrass of straw, in which she thought she beheld the death-bed of the miserable recluse; nay more, that the impression it still retained, was that which her form had left there. ❋ Unknown (2004)
I was delighted to see a four-post bed, with mosquito bars, and a clean pulu mattrass, with a linen sheet over it, covered with a beautiful quilt with a quaint arabesque pattern on a white ground running round it, and a wreath of green leaves in the centre. ❋ Isabella Lucy (2004)
We had sheets of our own, which were spread upon a mattrass, and here I took my repose wrapped in a greatcoat, if that could be called repose which was interrupted by the innumerable stings of vermin. ❋ Unknown (2004)
A man in good health may put up with any thing; but I would advise every valetudinarian who travels this way, to provide his own chaise, mattrass, and bedlinnen, otherwise he will pass his time very uncomfortably. ❋ Unknown (2004)
She assisted me to tie up the mattrass; I discovering, at the same time, that one blanket would serve me till winter, could I persuade my sister, who slept with me, to keep my secret. ❋ Unknown (2002)
We got the mattrass down the back stairs, unperceived, and I helped to carry it, taking with me all the money I had, and what I could borrow from my sister. ❋ Unknown (2002)
And now poor Stubb goes to bed upon a mattrass that is all too soft; would it were stuffed with brushwood! ❋ Unknown (2002)
A police spokesman said that the body of a man was found at 8am on Monday on a mattrass in a room in a Sebokeng house. ❋ Unknown (1993)
The fair girl knelt by the side of the mattrass, sobbing bitterly -- she herself scarcely knew why. ❋ Various (N/A)
The Duke of Orleans was stretched upon the floor, lying on a mattrass, in his shirt. ❋ Various (N/A)
The jailer, at my request, readily put the room in as nice order as was possible, and permitted me to substitute for the bedstead and mattrass on which the murderer had slept, fresh and clean ones from my own house and Mr. Benson's. ❋ George Washington Williams (N/A)
In the article of beds, with a very few exceptions, the French inns exceed the English: if a traveller carry his sheets with him, he is always secure of an excellent hair mattrass, or if he prefer it, a clean feather-bed. ❋ Lt-Col. Pinkney (N/A)
She combed her hair with modest neatness, then opened the draw with much precaution, lest she should disturb poor Myra, who still slumbered on the hard mattrass -- drew out a shawl and began to fold it as if to put it on. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
She regarded it as a criminal indulgence, if sickness obliged her to use a mattrass or _straw_ pillow. ❋ Anonymous (N/A)
The room was inundated with blood, which was trickling from the mattrass; there was a hoarse rattling in the wounded man's throat; the monk had disappeared. ❋ Various (N/A)
She lay upon a mattrass, propped up with a pile of cushions, in ❋ Various (N/A)
In conversation with West, I ascertained that at the village we fled from, my mattrass, and in it my dressing-case (bought on a Sunday at Weeks'72) with all my fortune, two Napoleons, had been left in the inn. ❋ Unknown (1903)
