Tullia was very fond of this gift from the Duc de Rhetore; but one day, five years after her marriage, she played with her cat to such purpose that the coverlet--furbelows, flounces, and all--was torn to shreds, and replaced by a sensible quilt, a quilt that was a quilt, and not a symptom of the peculiar form of insanity which drives these women to make up by an insensate luxury for the childish days when they lived on raw apples, to quote the expression of a journalist. The day when the bed-spread was torn to tatters marked a new epoch in her married life.英文原著 · 《A Prince of Bohemia》
Another trial confronted me in the shape of an ideal but impossible patchwork quilt. We learned to sew patchwork at school, while we were learning the alphabet; and almost every girl, large or small, had a bed-quilt of her own begun, with an eye to future house furnishing. I was not over fond of sewing, but I thought it best to begin mine early.英文原著 · 《A New England Girlhood》
Glaive. See on iv. 274 above. The jack was "a horseman's defensive upper garment, quilted and covered with strong leather" (Nares). It was sometimes also strengthened with iron rings, plates, or bosses. Lyly, Euphues: "jackes quilted, and covered over with leather, fustian, or canvas, over thick plates of yron that are sowed to the same." Scott, in the Eve of St. John, speaks of "his plate-jack." For spear the 1st ed. has "lance."英文原著 · 《The Lady of the Lake》
Balsam is practically unknown in the high hills, and the rocks are especially hard. Therefore you will take, in addition to your gray army-blanket, a thick quilt or comforter to save your bones. This, with your saddle-blankets and pads as foundation, should give you ease--if you are tough. Otherwise take a second quilt.英文原著 · 《The Mountains》
I went in to see my brother. He was sitting up in bed with a quilt over his legs; he had grown older, fatter, wrinkled; his cheeks, his nose, and his mouth all stuck out -- he looked as though he might begin grunting into the quilt at any moment.英文原著 · 《The Wife and Other Stories》
[539] -- I think that the second C in this name is an error for E, and that "Comarberea" represents Kumara Virayya of Mysore (above, p. Later on Nuniz spells the name "Comarberya" (below, p. [540] -- Above, pp. 40, 60, 122. [541] -- LADES, for LAUDEIS, quilted tunics, doublets. The word is spelt in other places LAYDES, LAMDES, LANDYS, LAMDYS, and LANDEIS. See note, p. 276, above.英文原著 · 《A Forgotten Empire-Vijayanagar》
Quilts on the beds, needlepoints on the walls, healing crystals in every window.美剧 · 《Billions》
Her ass-print is still on your grandmother's quilt.美剧 · 《Friends》
To help get her mind off of Andy, Haley and I have been making a quilt out of all her old clothes... and some stuff I need Phil to stop wearing.美剧 · 《Modern Family》