Meaning of bed-clothes | Babel Free

Definitions

Noun. [C1]

Examples

“Æruginous vomiting, ſpitting at the bye-ſtanders, gnaſhing or grinding of the teeth, or ſnatching at the bed-clothes, are the fore-runners of a diſſolution.”

“This fidgettineſs, to uſe a vulgar expreſſion for want⟳ of a better, is occaſioned wholly by an uneaſineſs in the ſkin, owing to the retenſion of the perſpirable matter⟳—the bed-clothes having received their quantity, and, being ſaturated, refuſing to take⟳ any more.”

“Most fortunately the exigence of despair prompted Georgiana to instant action—she seized the letter and thrust it under the bed-clothes, […]”

“[…] comparatively speaking, few are convinced of, or perhaps acquainted with the fact, that not only do the bed-clothes intercept and retain⟳ a large proportion of this offthrow, but that it penetrates both beds and mattresses, which actually absorb a large proportion of it, […]”

“A few days afterwards the coroner’s jury sat on a coffinful of old brickbats and fragments of bed-clothes and boots and brace buttons and bits of Eli, and after a long discussion, came to the only conclusion possible, viz., that the deceased’s death was attributable to a general breaking up of the system.”

“His flexible wings, wrapped round him, serve⟳ him as bed-clothes, and his mate carries the batling clinging to her breast even when she flies out to forage.”

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