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To avoid the chance, Rand moved to the blanketless bed and sat on the linen sheet, the feather mattresses yielding under him as he studied the spear.

The Fires of Heaven Jordan, Robert, 1948- 1993

We, who were very tired, endeavoured to make ourselves comfortable -- we were then blanketless -- on the abhorrent surface of a narrow garden path.

Adventures of a Despatch Rider William Henry Lowe Watson

The men had flung away whatever was fling-away-able during the charge of the morning and the subsequent hot march -- as men always will, under like circumstances -- and now they found themselves blanketless, stockingless, overcoatless, -- in cold and damp trenches, and compelled by the steady firing to lie still, or adopt a horizontal, crawling mode of locomotion, which did not admit of speed enough to quicken the circulation of the blood.

The County Regiment A Sketch of the Second Regiment of Connecticut Volunteer Heavy Artillery, Originally the Nineteenth Volunteer Infantry, in the Civil War Dudley Landon Vaill

It had proved that a badly-provided army of less than 50,000 Confederates -- barefooted, blanketless and half-fed, but properly led -- could, even when surrounded and out-flanked, defeat and set at naught 120,000 of the best-appointed troops ever sent against them.

Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death T. C. DeLeon

It is not cheery, but dreary, to be left in pathlessness, blanketless, guideless, and with breadths of lake and mountain and Nature, shaggy and bearish, between man and man.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 62, December, 1862 Various

In her thoughts she could see this stalwart woodsman of hers camping somewhere in the snowdrifts, blanketless, staying awake through the bitter night to mend the fire, and perhaps in trouble.

The Snowshoe Trail Edison Marshall 1930

I confess also to a feeling of sorrow for the poor blanketless prisoners who passed a night of suffering, though we did the best we could for them by furnishing them with fires.

Reminiscences of a soldier of the Orphan brigade, 1918

It was the laugh of the red, of bastardy, of blanketless nights in the hedgerows, and boot soles worn through to the macadam, with the dust of speeding automobiles blown in the gaunt face of hunger.

The Last Shot Frederick Palmer 1915

The horses of a drunkard, blanketless, hungry, shivering, outside of the village tavern, do they not proclaim the poor, despised owner within?

Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 10 Little Journeys To The Homes Of Great Teachers Elbert Hubbard 1885

At night there came on a cold rain, drenched by which the blanketless wanderer was forced to seek sleep in the open wood.

Historic Tales, Vol. 1 (of 15) The Romance of Reality Charles Morris 1877