 ... easiest mattresses in the world to lay under our quilts instead of straw ; because, besides their tenderness and loose lying together, they continue sweet for seven or eight years long, before which time straw becomes musty and hard.  Arboretum Et Fruticetum Britannicum - Page 1962by John Claudius Loudon - 1838Full view - About this book
 | English literature - 1818 - 600 pages
...leaves ' gathered about the fall, and somewhat before they are much frost-bitten, afford the best and easiest mattresses in the world to lay under our quilts instead of straw.' This he learnt in Dauphiny and Switzerland, where he had slept on them to his great refreshment; but... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1818 - 622 pages
...leaves ' gathered about the fall, and somewhat before they are much frost-bitten, afford the best and easiest mattresses in the world to lay under our quilts instead of straw.' This he learnt in Dauphiny and Switzerland, where he had slept on them to his great refreshment ; but... | |
 | 1819 - 630 pages
...leaves ' gathered about the fall, and somewhat before they are much frost-bitten, afford the best and easiest mattresses in the world to lay under our quilts instead of straw.' This he learnt in Dauphiny and Switzerland, where he had slept on them to his great refreshment ; but... | |
 | Education - 1825 - 422 pages
...being gathered about the fall, and somewhat before they are much frost-bitten, afford the best and easiest mattresses in the world to lay under our quilts...together, they continue sweet for seven or eight years, before which time straw becomes musty and hard : they are thus used by divers persons of quality in... | |
 | Education - 1825 - 406 pages
...being gathered about the fall, and somewhat before they are much frost-bitten, afford the best and easiest mattresses in the world to lay under our quilts...together, they continue sweet for seven or eight years, before which time straw becomes musty and hard : they are thus used by divers persons of quality in... | |
 | George Johnston - Berwick-upon-Tweed (England) - 1829 - 638 pages
...The leaves, gathered in autumn, and somewhat before they are much frost-bitten, " afford the best and easiest mattresses in the world, to lay under our...sweet for seven or eight years long, before which straw becomes musty and hard. They are thus used by diveis persons of quality in Dauphine ; and, in... | |
 | 1868 - 522 pages
...canopy all the summer, being gathered about the fall, and somewhat before they are much frost-bitten, afford the best and the easiest mattresses in the...which time straw becomes musty and hard. They are used by divers persons of quality in Dauphine; and in Switzerland I have sometimes lain on them, to... | |
 | William Gilpin - Forests and forestry - 1834 - 436 pages
...being gathered about the fall, and somewhat before they are much frost-bitten, afford the best and easiest mattresses in the world, to lay under our...long, before which time, straw becomes musty and hard. Thus they are used by divers persons of quality in Dauphine ; and in Switzerland I have sometimes lain... | |
 | John William Carleton - 1868 - 520 pages
...canopy all the summer, being gathered about the fall, and somewhat before they are much frost-bitten, afford the best and the easiest mattresses in the...which time straw becomes musty and hard. They are used by divers persons of quality in Dauphine; and in Switzerland I have sometimes lain on them, to... | |
 | George Barrell Emerson - Plants - 1846 - 614 pages
...canopy all the summer, being gathered about the fall, and somewhat before they are much frost-bitten, afford the best and the easiest mattresses in the...they are thus used by divers persons of quality in Dauphin^ ; and, in Switzerland, I have sometimes lain on them to my very great refreshment. So as,... | |
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