dormeuse

The marriage took place at the Kremlin in the Court church, and immediately after it the newly married couple drove away in a dormeuse to Yasnaya Polyana, where they were met by Tolstoy's brother and his aunt tatyana Aleksandrovna.

Leo Tolstoy: Childhood and Early Manhood 1906

On a tapestry-covered dormeuse, by the open window, and carefully protected with gauze curtains from the glare of the coming noon, reclined a handsome woman of middle age, so like, and yet so strangely unlike 'Lora Delcor, that my dusky blooms quivered and fretted with emotion, as the contadina closed the door behind us.

Dreams and Dream Stories Anna Bonus Kingsford 1867

No one was in the breakfast-parlour when Fleda came down, so she took her book and the dormeuse, and had an hour of luxurious quiet before anybody appeared.

Queechy 1854

Then appeared Mrs. Evelyn in her morning wrapper, and only stopping at the bell-handle, came up to the dormeuse, and stooping down, kissed Fleda's forehead with so much tenderness that it won a look of most affectionate gratitude in reply.

Queechy 1854

"No, Mamma," said Constance, arching her eyebrows – "we are to taste the sweets of domestic life – you, as head of the family, will go to sleep in the dormeuse, and Florence and I shall take turns in yawning by your side."

Queechy 1854

But it was not in a light mood that she put on her bonnet after dinner, and set out to pay a visit to her uncle at the library; she had resolved that she would not be near the dormeuse in whatsoever relative position that evening.

Queechy 1854

My dearest Mamma, will you consent to have the dormeuse wheeled round with its back to the fire?

Queechy 1854

"Your eyes are only to look at," said Mr. Linden with a laughing endorsement of _his_ thoughts, and putting her back in the dormeuse.

Say and Seal, Volume II Susan Warner 1852

No one was in the breakfast parlour when Fleda came down, so she took her book and the dormeuse and had an hour of luxurious quiet before anybody appeared.

Queechy Susan Warner 1852

"No mamma," said Constance arching her eyebrows, -- "we are to taste the sweets of domestic life -- you as head of the family will go to sleep in the dormeuse, and Florence and I shall take turns in yawning by your side."

Queechy Susan Warner 1852