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Beside the bolster lay a small wooden box, a round tin kettle, an iron tea-kettle, two tin mugs, a hatchet, and a large bundle tied up in a green blanket.
The two brothers sat up on their bolster and stared into the darkness. The room was full of water, and by a misty moonbeam, which found its way through a hole in the shutter, they could see in the midst of it an enormous foam globe, spinning round and bobbing up and down like a cork, on which, as on a most luxurious cushion, reclined the little old gentleman, cap and all.
The night wore on, and Castell, who was very weary, sank back upon the bolster and began to doze, when suddenly the chair that was set upon the trap-door fell over with a great clatter, and he sprang up, asking what that noise might be. "Only a rat," answered Peter, who saw no good in telling him the truth namely, that thieves or murderers had tried to open the trap-door.
He ate and ate till school began, and after school was over he ate again; at night, too, it was the same thing till bedtime nay, a little fellow that Henry had for a playmate told me that he put the cake upon his bolster when he went to bed, and waked and waked a dozen times, that he might take a bit.
"I'll not let them take me," he shouted, as if to bolster up courage by the sound of his own voice. "I'll never leave this place alive." Sheriff Scannell, summoned by a deputy, looked over his shoulder. "Oh, yes, you will," he muttered. In his tone were pity and disdain. Early Tuesday afternoon Benito and Broderick met in front of the Montgomery Block.
"But is the overseas airmail so crowded you wouldn't trust a parcel to the regular mail system?" Scotty shook his head. "I doubt it. What are you getting at?" But Rick had an even better argument to bolster the case he was developing. "Christmas mail is to and from Christians, isn't it? Sure! Egypt is a Moslem country.
“How are your finances, my son?” he asked, turning to Daniel with an air of marked affability. “Would you not like to bolster up your income by taking a position in the conservatory? You would have time for it; your work as organist at St. Ægydius does not take up all your time. Herold is going to be retired, you know. He is seventy-five and no longer able to meet the requirements.
They found her doing the week's washing, and hanging out before a scanty fire part of the little that the week had been suffered to soil. Her arms were bare, her face and eyes red; the steam of soapsuds had congealed on them. Attached to the bolster by a towel, under his father's bayonet and the oleograph depicting the Nativity, sat the baby.
The man Kenneby I have not yet seen; but from what I understand he is less likely to prove a willing witness than Mrs. Bolster." "I cannot go along with you there, Mr. Round," said Dockwrath. "Excuse me, sir, but I am only stating my opinion.
Do you know, neighbours, you put me in mind of an old story which, besides applying to the parish, all who are married, and all who intend to marry, will do well to recollect. A worthy couple, named John and Joan, had lived happily together many a long year, till one unlucky day they bought a new bolster. Joan said the bolster was too hard, and John that it was too soft.
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