"Piller" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... cried, and held out her arms wide. "Solomon, my King!" and then fell back on the piller, dead. ...
— Hildegarde's Holiday - a story for girls • Laura E. Richards
... that's all right. Don't you want Mrs. Snow to fix your piller? P'raps you'd lay a little easier, then. Now, Mrs. Snow, if you'll jest turn it while I lift him. So; that's better now, ain't it, shipmate, hey?" But the sick man muttered an unintelligible something, and relapsed ...
— Cap'n Eri • Joseph Crosby Lincoln
... sight of the Saratoga water, and well she may, if that is what has brung her up, for she wuz always sick in Jonesville, kinder bedrid. And when she sot out for Saratoga she had to have a piller to put on the seat behind her to sort a prop her up ...
— Samantha at Saratoga • Marietta Holley
... comin' to my wife. She writ to 'em that I was comin' to collect an' they writ back it would be all right, only I would have to be identified. Jest as if everybody in Haydown Center don't know I'm Josiah Bean an' a piller in the Union Church down there, an' a cousin to ...
— Joe The Hotel Boy • Horatio Alger Jr.
... the Walke: be circumspect and wary what piller you come in at, and take heed in any case (as you love the reputation of your honour) that you avoide the serving-man's dogg; but bend your course directly in the middle line, that the whole body of ...
— Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 11 • Various
... as I understand it," said Bishop, "except a silver watch. That was all snug under the old man's piller." ...
— The Stillwater Tragedy • Thomas Bailey Aldrich
... Britain, and victorie: then of all his Conquest, either against [Fol. xv.v] [Sidenote: A sente[n]ce gra[-] uen of Bri- taine, in the commendaci- on of Cesar.] Pompey, or with any other nacion. For in a Piller at Rome this sentence was engrauen: Of all the dominions, Citees, and Regions, subdued by Cesar, his warre atte[m]pted against the fearce Britaines, passeth all other. After this sort Cesar entred our Islande ...
— A booke called the Foundacion of Rhetorike • Richard Rainolde |
