mattrass

In a tribute that Sam published several weeks later, Henry escapes on a “mattrass to a raft or open wood boat,” but has suffered brain damage from “the concussion.”

Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005

In a tribute that Sam published several weeks later, Henry escapes on a “mattrass to a raft or open wood boat,” but has suffered brain damage from “the concussion.”

Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005

No such circumstance appeared, but as her eyes glanced, with almost phrenzied eagerness, she perceived something shadowy in a remote corner of the floor; and on approaching, discovered what seemed a dreadful hieroglyphic, a mattrass of straw, in which she thought she beheld the death-bed of the miserable recluse; nay more, that the impression it still retained, was that which her form had left there.

The Italian 2004

I was delighted to see a four-post bed, with mosquito bars, and a clean pulu mattrass, with a linen sheet over it, covered with a beautiful quilt with a quaint arabesque pattern on a white ground running round it, and a wreath of green leaves in the centre.

The Hawaiian Archipelago Isabella Lucy 2004

We had sheets of our own, which were spread upon a mattrass, and here I took my repose wrapped in a greatcoat, if that could be called repose which was interrupted by the innumerable stings of vermin.

Travels through France and Italy 2004

We had to sleep all together in the cabin, packed pretty close; but they very civilly allowed me plenty of room for my mattrass, and we got on very well together.

The Malay Archipelago 2004

A man in good health may put up with any thing; but I would advise every valetudinarian who travels this way, to provide his own chaise, mattrass, and bedlinnen, otherwise he will pass his time very uncomfortably.

Travels through France and Italy 2004

And now poor Stubb goes to bed upon a mattrass that is all too soft; would it were stuffed with brushwood!

Moby Dick; or the Whale 2002

She assisted me to tie up the mattrass; I discovering, at the same time, that one blanket would serve me till winter, could I persuade my sister, who slept with me, to keep my secret.

Maria; or The Wrongs of Woman 2002

We got the mattrass down the back stairs, unperceived, and I helped to carry it, taking with me all the money I had, and what I could borrow from my sister.

Maria; or The Wrongs of Woman 2002