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We also had to fit draw-strings to our wind-proof blouses and adjust our headgear according to our individual fancy, and finally, tobacco and smokers' requisites would be added to the little bundle, which all packed up neatly in a pillow-slip. This personal bag served also as a pillow.
The shadow had fallen on her linen. She gazed with open, incredulous lips at the uncouth figure framed in the window. A broad smile wreathed the big face. "Go on, Marka," he said. He nodded encouragement. She looked down at the pillow-slip in her hands, and back again to the face in the window. The linen slip was plaited uncertainly in her fingers. "Go on," said Schubert peremptorily.
No clock was mentioned. The the clock has puzzled me." "The towel?" "Yes. I said no murder was complete without blood, but he kicked on that said he didn't mind the rest, but he'd be hanged if he was going to slash himself. But, as it happened, he cut his wrist while cutting the boat loose, and so we had the towel." "Pillow-slip?" asked Mr. Holcombe. "Well, no.
When he arose in the dawn of the day with which the tale begins and unwound a towel from his jowls for the new Magnetic Hair Restorer had an ambitious way of touching up the pillow-slip with color he beheld a memento, composed of assembled objects, "sacred to the memory of Mehitable."
We have seen even apparently hopeless cases recover under proper treatment. In its essence the trouble is a failure of power in the nervous centres upon which health of the bowels depends. To supply this needed power, take a small bag of cotton cloth, like a little pillow-slip, of just the size to cover the patient's whole back.
There's a bit of cooked beef and some bread and cake there, if you want it!" "Thanks," said Mitchell, sweeping the broken victuals into an old pillow-slip which he carried on his person for such an emergency. "I s'pose you find it dull round here." "Yes, pretty dull." "No one to talk to much?" "No, not many." "Tongue gets rusty?" "Ye es, sometimes." "Well, so long, and thank yer."
We were now to windward of the Snark, and the squall was howling. In came the jib, and down came the mainsail, all but a patch of it the size of a pillow-slip. By an accident we missed the Snark, which was riding it out to two anchors, and drove aground upon the inshore coral.
Butterby and the maids leave the room a-tiptoe, closing the door behind them as if 'twere of gingerbread; and no sooner are they gone than Moll, big with her mad design, nips out of bed, strips off her nightgown, and finding nothing more convenient for her purpose, puts the ham, pasty, and partridges in a clean pillow-slip.
Seems little Jane 's quit her thumb, owin' to the quinine, 'n' took to bitin' holes 'n' chewin' 'n' suckin' everythin' that she can lay hands on. She's chewed her pillow-slip 'n' bit her sheet 'n' sucked right down to the brass on a number o' Gran'ma Mullins' solid silver things.
"When I came to, Miss Innes, sure as I'm sittin' here, I thought I'd die. Somethin' hit me on the face, and I set up, sudden. And then I seen the plaster drop, droppin' from a little hole in the wall. "I wisht you'd heard her scream," put in Mary Anne. "And her face as white as a pillow-slip when she tumbled down the stairs." "No doubt there is some natural explanation for it, Eliza," I said.
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