How To Use Counterpane In A Sentence
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Under the eiderdown was a snowy light counterpane.
Hollyhock A Spirit of Mischief
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On the stretched white counterpane of the bed was an overnight bag.
INSTRUMENTS OF DARKNESS
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All the rugs and tablecloths the stores of the town contained were requisitioned for this purpose; green baize and crimson baize, repp curtains and plush, anything, everything remotely suitable, was claimed and cut up to serve as quilts and counterpanes, with the result that the beds looked picturesquely, if not grotesquely, gay.
With the Guards' Brigade from Bloemfontein to Koomati Poort and Back
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On the counterpane was the box of papers she had removed from her home after Jamie's death, just before the police had raided her.
Maura's Game
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Sarah moved her body into his as the counterpane was wrapped back over her.
THE SCAR
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Then, in the manner described below, put on the bottom sheet, the top sheet, a blanket or comforter or other warm cover, and finally the bedspread also called a counterpane, quilt, or other day cover.
HOME COMFORTS
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On the counterpane was a mess of blood, and the sheet had been torn.
The Invisible Man
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The replica beds with their counterpanes, striped canopy wall direction and curtains together with the warm glow from the twin overbed lamps provide an interior of great style.
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September 24th, in the _Boston News Letter_, the word counterpane first appears.
Customs and Fashions in Old New England
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The roomy double bedroom suites were originally plainly decorated, their walls covered with sea grass, the beds under light-colored candlewick counterpanes, and pale Wilton wall-to-wall carpeting.
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Therese found somewhere and used for a counterpane was a magnificent combination of white and crimson between the gleaming surfaces of dark wood; and the whole room had an air of splendour with marble consoles, gilt carvings, long mirrors and a sumptuous
The Arrow of Gold
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The narrow bed had no counterpane and no eiderdown and the top blanket looked as if it had come from an army surplus store.
ABSOLUTE TRUTHS
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Perdita cried unashamedly after they left, fleeing to her bare room and hurling herself down on the pink counterpane.
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I got loose, tied a blanket and a counterpane together, fastened it to the bedstead, and let myself out of the window, and did not go home that night, but met my two pals and dossed in a haystack.
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The treaty usually took place in the dishevelled drawing-room, after a round of the widely parted chambers, where frowzy beds, covered with frowzy white counterpanes, stood on frowzy carpets or yet frowzier mattings, and dusty windows peered into purblind courts.
London Films
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Now look, look at the counterpane world, project yourself into it, look beside that bijou signal box.
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She wasn't a prude but she was a girl who hadn't until now allowed any man the privilege of such an intimacy, which the ruby-shaded lamps intensified, casting a rubescent glow over the turned-back sheets and lace counterpane of the big bed.
A Girl Possessed
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He lay under the thick counterpane in the large bed, his body sinking into the mattress, the mass of pillows holding his head so he could see out through the windows.
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He set the alarm for ten o'clock and stretched out on the counterpane, unshaven and fully clothed.
COMPULSION
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I perform the office of a maid and help fasten her townswoman 's dress, then I take the counterpane and wrap it around the velvet gown.
LOOKING FOR THE SPARK
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A mean window with a dingy cretonne curtain, a single bed still made-up with sheets and blankets but with the counterpane pulled taut over the single lumpy pillow; books lining two walls; a small bedside table with a shoddy lamp; a Bible; a cumber - some and gaudily decorated china ashtray bearing an advertisement for beer.
She Closed Her Eyes
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The roomy double bedroom suites were originally plainly decorated, their walls covered with sea grass, the beds under light-colored candlewick counterpanes, and pale Wilton wall-to-wall carpeting.
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A thin counterpane of blue check gave a rather pleasing finish.
Prisons and Prisoners: Some Personal Experiences
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We talk in his room with its single bed, bumpily spread with a candlewick counterpane in a cosy shade of plum.
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He ensured there were Tudor roses on the gowns of the staff and on the Tudor coloured counterpanes of the beds; the roof and stained glass windows were also of royal quality.
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He ensured there were Tudor roses on the gowns of the staff and on the Tudor coloured counterpanes of the beds; the roof and stained glass windows were also of royal quality.
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She awoke to find herself lying curled on the bed beneath a light counterpane.
COMPULSION
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The heavy cotton impervious counterpane is bad, for the very reason that it keeps in the emanations from the sick person, while the blanket allows them to pass through.
Notes on Nursing: What It Is, and What It Is Not
