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I would fain have pillowed her head upon my breast, but the presence of D’Hauteville restrained me.

From The Quadroon Adventures in the Far West by Reid, Mayne

She would have pillowed his solid head upon her breast in a moment if that had been possible.

From Jennie Gerhardt A Novel by Dreiser, Theodore

No higher tribute could be paid him than by the words spoken with equal truth of another: 'With him the assured guardian of my children, I could have pillowed my head in peace.'

From Something of Men I Have Known With Some Papers of a General Nature, Political, Historical, and Retrospective by Stevenson, Adlai E. (Adlai Ewing)