Palliasse

Double tier wooden bunks have been placed in the various rooms, with a palliasse and two blankets per man. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The double tiered wooden bunks have a palliasse and one blanket per man. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Of course, this man Rubashov had his merits and a great past; but it was one thing to see him on the platform at a congress and another, on a palliasse in a cell. ❋ Thomas Plastino Martin (2010)

Now he could ask himself which was better: two decades of dreams on a palliasse in a dark cell or two weeks 'reality in the light of day. ❋ Thomas Plastino Martin (2010)

Elis ground angry fists in the rustling straw of their palliasse, and heaved himself round in the bed. ❋ Unknown (2010)

He hid the wallet with the sigil under his palliasse, which was closest to the outer door so he could sneak out easily at night, then went down the corridor to the necessarium. ❋ May, Julian (2003)

He felt beneath his palliasse, finding the wrapped book and the sigil inside his wallet just as he had left them. ❋ May, Julian (2003)

He lay tossing restlessly on a dirty old straw palliasse, and was in great pain; but greeted his friend with a dash of the old brio. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Barely stretched on his palliasse he had been routed out to attend to Long Jim, who had missed his footing and pitched into a shaft. ❋ Unknown (2003)

They pushed Sharpe into the wall, laying him on a thin, lumpy straw palliasse, and his head was in the low space where the brick arch met the floor. ❋ Cornwell, Bernard (1983)

Teresa was there, but he did not remember that dream, and he did not know that he dreamed of La Marquesa, and the dusk turned to darkness, night in Salamanca, and it should have been his last night in the wide black-curtained bed and he moaned on the palliasse and Connelley, half drunk, called in his sing-song voice for him to die well. ❋ Cornwell, Bernard (1983)

On a straw palliasse along the rear wall his cloak lay sprawled, and on an iron stand beside, a quenched candle sagged in folds of tallow. ❋ Peters, Ellis, 1913- (1981)

He looked at the bunk longingly, picked up a grass-filled palliasse and climbed the gangway. ❋ Clavell, James (1966)

Wung pulled the trigger as Struan instinctively lifted up the palliasse and hurtled to one side of the gangway. ❋ Clavell, James (1966)

He felt the ball crease his neck and he lunged up on deck, his face stung by the gunpowder, the palliasse a pathetic shield. ❋ Clavell, James (1966)

He soon left off sweeping his room, and never tried to move the palliasse off his bed. ❋ Anonymous (N/A)

The ground was hard, and it got very cold about 2 A.M. I could hear the sergeant-major snoring comfortably on the straw palliasse he had managed to "commandeer" for himself. ❋ George Herbert Fosdike Nichols (N/A)