 | Truman Jay Backus - American literature - 1897 - 508 pages
...under coverlets made of dogswaine, and a good round log under their heads instead of a bolster." ... As for servants, if they had any sheet above them...pricking straws that ran oft through the canvass and rased their hardened Houses were built upon improved plans. The national mind became interested in... | |
 | Marquise de Fontenoy (pseud.) - Beauty, Personal - 1897 - 334 pages
...of straw covered by a sheet, with a good round log I instead of a pillow. An old chronicler says : " As for servants, if they had any sheet above them...bodies to keep them from the pricking straws that ran through the canvas of the pallet, and raised their hardened hides." Thes improvements did not, seemingly,... | |
 | 1902 - 618 pages
...pallets of straw covered by a sheet, and with a round log for a pillow. An old chronicler says : " As for servants, if they had any sheet above them it was well, for seldom had they any below their Ixtdies, to keep them, from the pricking straws that ran through the canvas pallet and... | |
 | Jean Mary Stone - Bible - 1904 - 526 pages
...lord of the town, so well were they contented. Pillows were thought meet only for women in childbed. As for servants, if they had any sheet above them...from the pricking straws that ran oft through the canvas and raced their hardened hides." l On the other hand the state and magnificence kept up by the... | |
 | Public health - 1884 - 762 pages
...That the stn bedding was never changed. Hollinshed describes this hard lodging with seldom an; sheets under their bodies to keep them from the pricking straws that ran oft through tr canvas, and raze their hardened hides. Add to these factors of disease the crowded tew ments in... | |
 | N. Hudson Moore - Antiques - 1906 - 518 pages
...further off from our southern parts. Pillows, (they said) were thought meet only for women in childbed. As for servants, if they had any sheet above them,...the pricking straws that ran oft through the canvass of the pallett and rased their hardened hides." I have given the Elizabethan era as the earliest one... | |
 | Jean Froissart, William Harrison, Thomas Malory - England - 1910 - 420 pages
...further off from our southern parts. Pillows (said they) were thought meet only for women in childbed. As for servants, if they had any sheet above them,...from the pricking straws that ran oft through the canvas of the pallet and rased their hardened hides. The third thing they tell of is the exchange of... | |
 | Jean Froissart, Sir Thomas Malory, William Harrison - England - 1910 - 446 pages
...further off from our southern parts. Pillows (said they) were thought meet only for women in childbed. As for servants, if they had any sheet above them,...from the pricking straws that ran oft through the canvas of the pallet and rased their hardened hides. The third thing they tell of is the exchange of... | |
 | Peter Hampson Ditchfield - Dramatists, English - 1917 - 398 pages
...log for a pillow. Servants did well if they had a sheet above them, as they seldom had any below them to keep them from the pricking straws that ran oft through the canvas of the pallet and rased their hardened hides. All that was altered. As regards furniture, pewter... | |
 | Robert Burns Morgan - Great Britain - 1923 - 696 pages
...contented and with such bare kind of furniture. Pillows (said they) were thought meet only for women. ... As for servants, if they had any sheet above them...from the pricking straws that ran oft through the canvas of the pallet and rased their hardened hides. The third thing they tell of is the exchange of... | |
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... as well lodged as the lord of the town : So well were they contented. Pillows, said they, were thought meet only for women in childbed : As for servants, if they had any sheet above them it was well : For seldom had they any under their bodies to... 
