counterpane

Example Sentences

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Then she jumped down from the sill, onto the bed, where she wrapped herself into a curl of fur and went back to sleep, a circle of cat upon the old counterpane.

From Literature

But Queenie’s bed was empty and unruffled, the counterpane smooth and straight.

From Literature

Farder Coram leaned forward and gently pulled back the counterpane, and there protruding from Jacob’s shoulder was the feathered end of an arrow in a mass of clotted blood.

From Literature

There were of course all sorts of colored things in the bedroom; the colored counterpane on the bed, the wallpaper, the sunlight from the window, and Mother’s pretty, pale blue dressing jacket.

From Literature

According to his sister-in-law Alice, “sometimes his hand moves over the counterpane as if writing.”

From The New Yorker