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Likewise, just a hundred years ago, the average American family spent six hours each week during cold months shoveling six tons of coal into the furnace (not to mention cleaning the coal dust from carpets, furniture, curtains, and bedclothes).
Then, throwing her legs from under the bedclothes, she felt about, at last struck a match and lighted the candle.
He put the matches ready, the candlestick, a book, arranged her nightgown, turned back the bedclothes.
The painter even seemed to misunderstand why K. remained at the edge of the bed and urged K. to make himself comfortable, and as he hesitated he went over to the bed himself and pressed K. deep down into the bedclothes and pillows.
He covered his head with the bedclothes and waited in a horror of suspense for his doom; for he had not the shadow of a doubt that all this hubbub was about him.
With the bedclothes to her chin, her face half concealed by the pillow, she made herself quite small, anxiously listening to all that was said around her.And, amidst the reddish gleam that passed beneath her closed lids, she could still see Camille and Laurent struggling at the side of the boat.
When he was in the warmth beneath the bedclothes, he again thought of Therese, whom fright had driven from his mind.
He pulled the bedclothes over his eyes, swearing and getting into a rage with himself.
Therese with her head under the bedclothes, was uttering smothered groans.
Don Quixote wrapped the bedclothes round him and covered himself up completely, leaving nothing but his face visible, and as soon as they had both regained their composure he broke silence, saying, "Now, Senora Dona Rodriguez, you may unbosom yourself and out with everything you have in your sorrowful heart and afflicted bowels; and by me you shall be listened to with chaste ears, and aided by compassionate exertions."
He remembered how often he had buried his trembling head beneath the bedclothes, and heard the harsh word, and the hard stripe, and his mother's wailing; and though the man sobbed aloud with agony of mind as he left the spot, his fist was clenched, and his teeth were set, in a fierce and deadly passion.
"'I may as well see one real chair, as two or three complete sets of false ones," said Tom, bringing out his head from under the bedclothes.
The bedclothes had not been turned down, but there was an indentation upon the counterpane which showed that some one had lain there.
The roughnesses with which the staple of wool is naturally filled were so thoroughly entangled and interlaced together that a material was formed equally suitable either for garments or bedclothes.
The colonists had now warm garments and thick bedclothes, and they could without fear await the approach of the winter of 1866-67.
They have come again, why don't they go away?...Oh, take these furs off me!'The doctor moved her arms and carefully drew the bedclothes over her shoulders.
"What did you say, Miss?""Nothing: I covered my face with the bedclothes, and turned from her to the wall."
Turning restlessly, she drew the bedclothes round her; my elbow, resting on a corner of the quilt, fixed it down: she was at once irritated.
I renewed the fuel, re-arranged the bedclothes, gazed awhile on her who could not now gaze on me, and then I moved away to the window.