How To Use counterpane In A Sentence
- 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
- 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
- She awoke to find herself lying curled on the bed beneath a light counterpane. COMPULSION
- 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.
- 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.
- We talk in his room with its single bed, bumpily spread with a candlewick counterpane in a cosy shade of plum.
- A thin counterpane of blue check gave a rather pleasing finish. Prisons and Prisoners: Some Personal Experiences
- 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.
- 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
- 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
