 | Marcus Noll - Dreams in literature - 1994 - 184 pages
...the house had within seven years after his marriage purchased a mattress or flock bed, and thereto a sack of chaff to rest his head upon, he thought himself to be äs well lodged äs the lord of the town, that peradventure lay seldom in a bed of down or whole... | |
 | John E. Crowley - Design - 2001 - 386 pages
...the house had within seven years after his marriage purchased a mattress or flock-bed, and thereto a sack of chaff to rest his head upon, he thought himself to be as well lodged as the lord of the town, that peradventure lay seldom in a bed of down or whole... | |
 | American literature - 1832 - 564 pages
...bolster. If it were so that the father or good man of the house had a mattress or flock bed, and thereon a sack of chaff to rest his head upon, he thought himself as well lodged as the lord of the town. Pillows, said they, are thought fit only for sick women ; as for servants, if they had any sheet above... | |
 | North American review and miscellaneous journal - 1831 - 578 pages
...bolster. If it were So, that the father or good man of the house had a mattress or flock-bed, and thereto a sack of chaff to rest his head upon, he thought himself to be as well lodged as the lord of the town, so well were they contented. Pillows, said they, were... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1839 - 776 pages
...his marriage, purchased a mattrass or a flock-bed, and thereto a sack of chaff to rest his head on, he thought himself as well lodged as the Lord of the town.' —p. 881. Certainly, light does break in upon us very unexpectedly sometimes, we never thought of... | |
 | THE REV. THOMAS MILNER - 1853 - 886 pages
...the house had within seven years after his marriage, purchased a mattress or flock bed, and thereto a sack of chaff to rest his head upon, he thought himself to be as well lodged as the lord of the town, who, peradventure, lay seldom on a bed of down or whole... | |
 | John Dover Wilson - England - 1913 - 334 pages
...the house had within seven years after his marriage purchased a mattress or flock bed, and thereto a sack of chaff to rest his head upon, he thought himself to be as well lodged as the lord of the town, that peradventure lay seldom in a bed of down or whole... | |
 | Joseph Emerson Worcester - Geography - 1823 - 478 pages
...it were so that our fathers, or the good man of the house, had a mattress or stock bed, and thereto a sack of chaff to rest his head upon, he thought himself to be as well lodged as the lord of the town, so well were they contented. Pillows, said they, were... | |
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... and thereto a sack of chaff to rest his head upon, he thought himself to be as well lodged as the lord of the lown, so well were they contented. Pillows, said they, were thought meet only for women in child-bed. 
