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Word: couches (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1890-1899
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...book pretends only to amuse and it does not fail to do this. The characters are unique and the situations anything but commonplace. The last chapters are written by Mr. Quiller-Couch, after Stevenson's notes, and the stirring adventure of the balloon escape is well managed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Book Notice. | 11/9/1897 | See Source »

...boiled it. We made our bed and sleepingbag of bearskin. To keep warmer we both slept in one bag, and, taken altogether, we were quite comfortable in our low hut. By the help of our lamps we succeeded in keeping the temperature inside at about freezing point. Our couch was formed of rough stones; we never quite succeeded in getting it even tolerably even, and our most important business throughout the winter was, therefore, to bend the body into the various positions in order to discover the one in which the pressure of the stones was least felt...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FARTHEST NORTH. | 4/28/1897 | See Source »

...boiled it. We made our bed and sleepingbag of bearskin. To keep warmer we both slept in one bag, and, taken altogether, we were quite comfortable in our low hut. By the help of our lamps we succeeded in keeping the temperature inside at about freezing point. Our couch was formed of rough stones; we never quite succeeded in getting it even tolerably even, and our most important business throughout the winter was, therefore, to bend the body into the various positions in order to discover the one in which the pressure of the stones was least felt...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FARTHEST NORTH. | 4/27/1897 | See Source »

...boiled it. We made our bed and sleeping-bag of bearskin. To keep warmer we both slept in one bag, and, taken altogether, we were quite comfortable in our low hut. By the help of our lamps we succeeded in keeping the temperature inside at about freezing point. Our couch was formed of rough stones; we never quite succeeded in getting it even tolerably even, and our most important business throughout the winter was, therefore, to bend the body into the various positions in order to discover the one in which the pressure of the stones was least felt...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FARTHEST NORTH. | 4/26/1897 | See Source »

...boiled it. We made our bed and sleepingbag of bearskin. To keep warmer we both slept in one bag, and, taken altogether, we were quite comfortable in our low hut. By the help of our lamps we succeeded in keeping the temperature inside at about freezing point. Our couch was formed of rough stones; we never quite succeeded in getting it even tolerably even, and our most important business throughout the winter was, therefore, to bend the body into the various positions in order to discover the one in which the pressure of the stones was least felt...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FARTHEST NORTH. | 4/17/1897 | See Source »

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