Word: pillow
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...This will make at least four versions of this tragedy which have been seen on the French stage since that of Duci's, in which Frederick Lamaitre played the Moor, in London, some fifty years since. In this, Iago was entirely suppressed, and the dagger was substituted for the pillow in the murder scene. De Vigny's translation which, on the contrary, adhered to the text pretty closely, was in existence at that time, but was only in favor with the advanced romantic school...
This room is furnished in imitation black walnut and is kept in the stiffest, most inhospitable good order. There are stiff white pillow-shams pinned on enormous pillows standing up endwise at the head of the bed, and each "sham" has two creases, so that the "sham" may be folded in four and laid on a chair when one goes to bed. A stiff white bed-cover (a wedding gift to Mrs. Butterfield from her mother) is on the bed, with three creases, one from end to end and two across, so that it too may be folded...
...Pillow my weary head till I have heard...
...certainly was - open, ever so little. I crept near the bed. I could distinguish a faint sound, like the soughing of the wind through the pines. And then - then the poet stirred uneasily; then did he start up, and fell me to the ground with a pillow; and, before I could make good my retreat, he had discovered my identity. I almost felt embarrassed. I assured him that it was all a mistake; and he said he thought...
...earth's last pillow prest...