Generally these are provided with two tier bunks having palliasses and two blankets issued by the company for which they are working. ❋ Unknown (2010)
The men have stopped using palliasses with wood shavings because of the vermin in them, and they now sleep directly on the boards. ❋ Unknown (2010)
The bunks are of the ordinary double-tier wooden type, with palliasses and 2 good blankets. ❋ Unknown (2010)
The interior arrangements of the cubicles usually consist of beds of the double tier wooden slatted type, palliasses and two or three blankets supplied by the Retaining Power. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Each barrack has three rooms with 20 beds each, of the double tier wooden type, palliasses and two good blankets. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Only by the tunnel mouth where I lay were there signs of human occupation: a rough stone fireplace and utensils, palliasses and camp-beds, plain chairs and table, a couple of packing-cases, and a litter of stores and gear. ❋ Unknown (2010)
I saw Denstones forbidding face and the dormitories with their straw palliasses where my father had slept. ❋ Richard Madeley (2008)
Bunks in the stucco buildings had filthy vermin-infested burlap palliasses on the beds. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Snudge and Coxus took Hiblesk by the arms and legs and dumped him on one of the narrow raised palliasses. ❋ May, Julian (2003)
The boy made his way to the area where the armigers had laid their straw-stuffed palliasses. ❋ May, Julian (2003)
Even when it rained, and it seemed impossible to keep the mud from their uniforms, or from the tarpaulins that formed the groundsheets of their tents, they learned to scrape and wash the mud entirely away, and even though the cleaning water, that was blessedly abundant in the low, marshy land, soaked their thin straw palliasses, it was better to sleep shivering and damp than to incur the wrath of Lieutenant Colonel Girdwood's inspection. ❋ Cornwell, Bernard (1986)
We returned to our palliasses, removed our equipment, and set out to sleep through the little that was left of the night. ❋ Peter, Ustinov (1977)
In palliasses, in cupboards and crannies, in every hold and corner they patter — everywhere mice. ❋ Rudel, Hans-Ulrich (1973)
Every bed now had about three boards missing, and the palliasses, which were never very comfortable, sagged in the gaps. ❋ BRICKHILL, PAUL (1951)
Wangling his way on to a working party, he had drifted into one of the half-built huts and hidden in some palliasses. ❋ BRICKHILL, PAUL (1951)
Every second day a gang of about thirty ferrets and guards poured into the compound after morning appell threw everyone out of one of the blocks, put a screen of tommy-gun men round it and searched the thing front top to bottom, turning everything upside down, sticking their dirty fingers into the sugar and barley to see nothing was hidden in them and emptying palliasses on the floor. ❋ BRICKHILL, PAUL (1951)
It took a good while to stuff the palliasses with straw and unpack. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
