eiderdown

How To Use eiderdown In A Sentence

• She put the photographs on the table, located the spare eiderdown, and draped it over him. THE IMAGE OF LAURA
• Precious pastrycooks declared it needed to rest on an eiderdown before it went in the oven, after which baking took place in an atmosphere of maternity.
• The father of the house where Teddy is staying at the outbreak of war throws a white eiderdown out of a window in a rage.
• She was spectacular, ... bourréing across the stage as if eiderdown in the wind or traveling weightlessly in arabesques voyagées.
• The searchers had ripped apart the mattress, the eiderdown, and the pillows.
• Nomith lost the top spot after he was unable to spell "eiderdown," the down of the eider duck, used as stuffing for quilts and pillows. Azcentral.com | news
• We would set out to warm her up by driving two miles in second gear with an old eiderdown over her bonnet.
• Beside the car Sophie their nurse was lying on a Li-Lo on the oil-stained floor, covered with an eiderdown, sleeping with her mouth open and snoring a little. What Happened to the Corbetts
• Each man was to go on a different food scale, eiderdown sleeping-bags were to be carried inside the reindeer ones, and a new kind of crampon and a double tent were to be tried. The Voyages of Captain Scott : Retold from the Voyage of the Discovery and Scott's Last Expedition
• I pulled the eiderdown over my head and hugged myself, but my own arms gave me no comfort.