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They let me and another prisoner stay in the dormitory, simply left us there in our sleeping-bags as if by oversight, when it was plain that we could not stand up on our feet.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin

We carried tents and groundsheets and sleeping-bags and saucepans and food and axes and everything else one needs in the interior of an unmapped, uninhabitable and inhospitable country.

From "Boy: Tales of a Childhood" by Roald Dahl

Our sleeping-bags, coats, and hoods were lined with that same fur, an unsurpassed insulator and very beautiful to see.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin

Mills said he could get them real Indian snow-shoes in the Park, and elk skin sleeping-bags.

From Boy Scouts in Glacier Park The Adventures of Two Young Easterners in the Heart of the High Rockies by Eaton, Walter Prichard

Blankets, cap comforters, fur gloves and warm clothing were issued to all of them, and for those who had to sleep at the highest camps, eiderdown sleeping-bags were also taken.

From Mount Everest the Reconnaissance, 1921 by Howard-Bury, Charles Kenneth