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eiderdown
1. Papa Dante waited until her breathing was deep and regular and then he laid her out on the sofa, covered her with a feather eiderdown, closed the shutters and left her to rest
2. But suddenly Mungo's hardship seems nothing; the hard plank of wood on which he leans is as soft as eiderdown; the ship's biscuit he eats is gateau; the water is wine; his crewmen, so far below, suddenly seem close by, reassuring him that he is not alone
3. I slept under a thick, feather eiderdown which felt damp, heavy and made me sweat profusely
4. Never again could Scarlett lie down, as a child, secure The long road from Atlanta to Tara had ended, ended in a blank wall, the road that beneath her father’s roof with the protection of her mother’s love wrapped about her like an eiderdown quilt
5. Above their heads a flock of chimney swallows whirled suddenly on swift wings and now and then a rabbit scurried startled across the road, his white tail bobbing like an eiderdown powder puff
6. have the Yankees on your neck every minute to see if you’re giving them chicken three times a day and tucking them to sleep under eiderdown quilts