bedquilt
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of bedquilt
Example Sentences
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Leander huddled on the barrel that was farthest from Mrs. Yellett, and wrapped himself in the soaked red bedquilt.
From Judith of the Plains by Marie Manning
I sat in the back room that I had made into a temporary kitchen, with a candle, and with a bedquilt around my shoulders.
From The Case of Jennie Brice by M. Leone Bracker
It was quite different from the warm jungle where he could sleep out of doors with only his own fur for a bedquilt.
From Mappo, the Merry Monkey by Richard Barnum
Polly hopped off the bed in her liveliest fashion, while from under Mamsie's wrapper scuttled a black object over the bedquilt in the opposite direction.
From The Adventures of Joel Pepper by Margaret Sidney
"Oh! why did I speak—why did I?" she cried, over and over in her distress, as she buried her face deeper yet in Mrs. Higby's gay patch bedquilt.
From Five Little Peppers Grown Up by Margaret Sidney
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