Nestlike

I smiled, stretching across the bed and its cozy, nestlike arrangement of pillows. ❋ Molly Harper (2011)

A 36-foot-tall drum — half faced with concrete and half in bark-colored poplar strips that give it a vast nestlike character — the Cradle is actually the cantilevered roof ' s main support, allowing the rest of the space to flow openly around the theaters and toward the glass walls. ❋ Julie V. Iovine (2010)

We scooped together a nestlike wallow of pine needles and blankets and huddled close together for warmth, covered by Jamie's plaid and blanket. ❋ Unknown (2010)

It was dusk, a somnolent hour for the Anthropophagi, when they burrowed into their bowers of straw, nestlike beds that, the captain informed us, the creatures had spent hours carefully constructing and hours more maintaining. ❋ William James Henry (2009)

Eventually, Tarlac did; Dave made sure he was covered snugly, then turned down the lamp and arranged the remaining blankets into a nestlike bed for himself. ❋ Ann Wilson (N/A)

The reader may, if he likes, begin with the first of the book, build his way through it, and graduate by building the log houses; in doing this he will be closely following the history of the human race, because ever since our arboreal ancestors with prehensile toes scampered among the branches of the pre-glacial forests and built nestlike shelters in the trees, men have made themselves shacks for a temporary refuge. ❋ Daniel Carter Beard (1895)

The cottages were indeed nestlike: they were so small, so compact, so cosy, so overrun with vines and flowering foliage. ❋ Charles Warren Stoddard (1876)

They were growing in a small, nestlike opening between the rock and the bushes, and both the erythronium and the fritillaria were in full flower. ❋ John Muir (1876)

exit interview on the Walker's website, they reflect on the piece, in which they lay naked and moved slowly in a darkened and heated nestlike environment as gallerygoers came and went. ❋ Unknown (2010)

"Suddenly," to use Mr. Daniell's words, "she reversed her position, and attached herself by her anterior limbs to a cross wire of the cage, stretching her hind limbs to their utmost extent, curving the tail upwards, and expanding the interfemoral membrane, so as to form a perfect nestlike cavity for the reception of the young ... which was born on its back, perfectly destitute of hair, and blind. ❋ Various (1891)