matrass

Betwixt the canes and the infant is a kind of matrass of the tufted herb called Spanish Beard, and under its head is a little skin cushion, stuffed with the same herb.

History of Louisisana Or of the Western Parts of Virginia and Carolina: Containing -1775 Le Page du Pratz

Something in the matrass goes twoing! when I move; I hope it doesn't go snap! anytime soon.

Day 5 random holiday thoughts nathreee 2010

Something in the matrass goes twoing! when I move; I hope it doesn't go snap! anytime soon.

Day 5 random holiday thoughts nathreee 2010

On recovering I found myself on my matrass, attended by a sister, who

A Sicilian Romance 2004

Each building is denominated a block and numbered accordingly from 1 to 13 these are divided into rooms which are also numbered, each room being furnished with a stove and bunks for the accommodation of five & six men on each bunk a straw matrass [sic] and one blanket.

Tales from a Civil War Prison: Q&A 1999

Quicklime is an alkali that operates in this much like the salt of tartar in the other operation; you must not leave the matrass open, because the force of this water doth consist in a volatile.

Forty Centuries of Ink 1904

The mixture is put into a glass globe or large matrass, with a wide neck, over which a glass globe is inverted, and heat is applied, which causes the iodine to sublime copiously, and to condense in the upper

Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs 1863

Then take them out of th matrass and hang them in mercurial water, where they will moisten, swell, and assume their Oriental beauty; after which shift them into a matrass hermitically closed to prevent any water coming to them, and let it down into a well, to continue there about eight days.

Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

After they are thoroughly dry, put them in a glass matrass into a stream of running water and leave them there twenty days; by that time they will contract the natural hardness and solidity of pearls.

Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

Jenny, the servant-maid, was overwhelmed with her terrors, and screamed, and continued to scream, until the enraged Burke, throwing her to the ground, crammed her distended jaws with moss enough to make an infant's matrass.

The Sword and the Distaff: Or, "Fair, Fat, and Forty." A Story of the South, at the Close of the Revolution by the Author of "The Partisan," "Mellichampe," "Katharine Walton," Etc. Etc. 1852