I then routed out an old screen, and ran it across the room, dividing it into two, thereby enabling the amo to charge me for bedroom and sitting-room In the bedroom half I ran two straw paillasses together for a bed; two little primitive washstands, capable of containing a pint of water; and two tiny tables of like dimensions for our toilet. ❋ Unknown (2006)
It was filthy, and contained two small paillasses full of fleas, two hard kitchen chairs, and a small kitchen table. ❋ Unknown (2006)
The pods and stalks are used for fuel: and the leaves are much preferable to common straw, for making paillasses. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Vol. 6: Oeuvres anonymes du XVIIIe siècle (IV): célèbre libertine Décrets des sens sanctionnés par la volupté Requête et décret en faveur des putains, des fouteuses, des maquerelles et des branleuses contre les bougres, les bardaches et les brûleurs de paillasses Ordonnance de police de Messieurs les officiers et gouverneurs du Palais Royal Le Degré des âges du plaisir ou jouissances voluptueuses de deux personnes de sexes différents, aux différentes époques de la vie ❋ Darnton, Robert (1994)
I had to drive as far as Zakopane and Rabka [Both these places are on the Polish-Slovak border, some sixty miles from Auschwitz.] to acquire cooking utensils for the prisoners 'kitchen, and to the Sudetenland for bedsteads and paillasses. ❋ Hoess, Rudolf (1951)
A zealous surgeon pointed out to the proper officer that this bedding consisted in fact of double ticking, evidently intended as _paillasses_, to be stuffed with straw. ❋ Various (N/A)
As there seemed to be innumerable _paillasses_, laid side by side at intervals of perhaps a foot with their heads to the wall on three sides of me, I was wondering why the vulture had stopped at six. ❋ Unknown (1928)
Three or four _paillasses_ away, a subdued conversation was proceeding. ❋ Unknown (1928)
Arriving at our beds he paused, seemed to consider a moment, then, not touching our _paillasses_ proper, proceeded to open our duffle bags and hunt half-heartedly, remarking that "somebody might have put it in;" and so passed on. ❋ Unknown (1928)
They even slept in them, for, in the absence of berths, women had to sleep on the floor of the saloons and in the library each night on straw _paillasses_, and here it was not possible to undress properly. ❋ Lawrence Beesley (1922)
Alas, I had nothing else to offer him, unless I gave him the uncut straw that was stitched into our paillasses. ❋ Morrison, George Ernest, 1862-1920 (1895)
Then piling up all the rest of the furniture, the mattresses, paillasses, and chairs, he stopped up the windows as men do when assailed by an enemy. ❋ Unknown (1883)
At table the portions, and in the dormitory the paillasses, are identical. ❋ Unknown (1877)
My bed is clean and soft -- bah! ten times softer than these paillasses. ❋ Hesba Stretton (1871)
(with the exception, that is, of the nearer end, which boasted the sole door) were laid, with their lengths at right angles to the wall, at intervals of three or four feet, something like forty _paillasses_. ❋ Unknown (1928)
_paillasses_ about, tumbling _sacs_ and boxes inside out; his face somewhat paler than usual but otherwise immaculate and expressionless. ❋ Unknown (1928)
