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They looked at the home-made quilt of goosedown Polly's handiwork that lay on Hubert's bed; at the clusters of faded photographs and coloured prints that hung on the old uneven walls; at the vast meal-ark in Polly's room that held the family store of meal and oatcake for the year.
Mrs. Humphry Ward - Helbeck of Bannisdale — Volume I

It don't surprise me, that it don't, for them bees have been buzzin' for a stranger these four days or more; but I come to tell you, thinking as though you might like to go and meet her. I made a bit o' plum bread this very morning that rose as light as goosedown, and that'll just come in handy for your tea "
Mrs. Hubert Barclay - East of the Shadows
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