Looking for sentences and phrases with the word counterpane? Here are some examples.
Sentence Examples
We talk in his room with its single bed, bumpily spread with a candlewick counterpane in a cosy shade of plum.
They furnished it with family antiques, wicker chairs with counterpane cushions made of boys pants and family portraits adorning the walls.
A counterpane of red sendal, lined with green sendal for Edward's bed.
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.
A cupid with feathery wings rises on his knees from the heaped folds of a gold counterpane, arms raised in delight at the miraculous golden downpour.
She took him to a room above-stairs, and introduced him to a bed on which a magnified bolster, in yellow calico, figured as a counterpane.
My arm hung over the counterpane, and the nameless, unimaginable, silent form or phantom, to which the hand belonged, seemed closely seated by my bed-side.
Examples from Classical Literature
Capt. George Corwin of Salem who died in 1684, had a calico counterpane in the Red Chamber in his house.
Mr. cruncher reposed under a patchwork counterpane, like a Harlequin at home.
She would wash a counterpane if pettitoes, the most dainty of cats, happened but to set one of his snowy paws upon it.
The white night-dress was by the bedside, the night-cap was buried in the counterpane.
She twisted the fringe of the counterpane in her slender, white fingers, and she did not look at him.
Edward was kneeling beside his bed with his head hidden in the counterpane.
His fingers showed that the waltzing teetotums had spun over the edge of the counterpane and fallen off the bed into infinity.
Mrs Lupin and the young lady gazed in silence at the counterpane.
Throwing aside the counterpane, there lay the tomahawk sleeping by the savage's side, as if it were a hatchet-faced baby.
This mark on the counterpane appears to bear out that theory.
Then Linda knelt down, and hid her face upon the counterpane.
A disregarded doll lay with inverted head on the counterpane.
Some dog's-eared books in paper covers lay on the counterpane of the bed.
Miranda's pale, sharp face, framed in its nightcap, looked haggard on the pillow, and her body was pitifully still under the counterpane.
She was in her night-dress, and a counterpane half over her.
I flopped on the bed, stretched my arm out against the counterpane.
The walls were whitewashed as white as milk, and the patchwork counterpane made my eyes quite ache with its brightness.
One of the little sleeper's hands was thrown outside the counterpane.
Out of these deep surrounding shades rose high, and glared white, the piled-up mattresses and pillows of the bed, spread with a snowy Marseilles counterpane.
Against the dark background of the kitchen she stood up tall and angular, one hand drawing a quilted counterpane to her flat breast, while the other held a lamp.
