| That night, they fell asleep in Victoria's living room, lounged against each other and wrapped in an eiderdown quilt. |
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| I shivered in the folds of the eiderdown wrapped around my shoulders and drew it tighter, trying to foil an errant draught. |
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| We would set out to warm her up by driving two miles in second gear with an old eiderdown over her bonnet. |
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| The father of the house where Teddy is staying at the outbreak of war throws a white eiderdown out of a window in a rage. |
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| A couple of fancy shirts, several pair of dress trousers, and other garments were neatly spread out on the eiderdown coverlet. |
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| The searchers had ripped apart the mattress, the eiderdown, and the pillows. |
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| I pulled the eiderdown over my head and hugged myself, but my own arms gave me no comfort. |
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| They went upstairs, undressed and climbed between the cool sheets covered with the heavy eiderdown. |
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| It was always such a relief to get back to Auntie Lizzie's so we could use her eiderdown quilts to slide down the stairs. |
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| The title track tries to deflate its portentous musical backing of crashing cymbals and thunderous pianos with daft lyrics about needing a new eiderdown and some binoculars. |
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| The Queen had her doubts about the girl being a princess, and is determined to find out the truth by placing a pea under the mattress and eiderdown of the princess's bed. |
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| As with many luxury items occupying a very narrow market niche, eiderdown demand varies according to overall economic conditions. |
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| Nobody in his right mind would these days prefer a handful of crumpled roubles to a teapot, eiderdown or even a gravestone. |
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| When we sleep with eiderdown pillows and duvets, we are using feathers in their original guise: for heat insulation. |
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| The room is crowded and snug, with an armchair covered in pink silk, a pink silk eiderdown, fringed lampshades. |
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| In 1994, a total of 806 kg of raw eiderdown was harvested, which is equal to approximately 130 kg of commercial down. |
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| Common Eiders provide the famous eiderdown, still the best insulation material for filling parkas and sleeping bags. |
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| The eiderdown in supplied with its cotton bag to put it back at the end of the season. |
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| In theory the eiderdown is spread on bed flat sheet, for example for a 90 X 190 bed the eiderdown measures 90 X 160 finished. |
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| Precious pastrycooks declared it needed to rest on an eiderdown before it went in the oven, after which baking took place in an atmosphere of maternity. |
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| The Common Eider is faring well in Iceland, where eiderdown has been harvested for nine centuries. |
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| She drank a glass of wine mixed with water, took off her felt toque and her shoes, and slid beneath the red eiderdown. |
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| The central Alumhurst Hotel has newly opened retro rooms, featuring Teasmades, eiderdown quilts and vintage wallpaper. |
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| Depending on the frequency of use loose seat and back cushions must be regularly fluffed, tapped and smoothed, they have the so-called pillow and eiderdown effect. |
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| The low yield of down from wild eiders and therefore the extreme rarity of this product compared to commercial mixtures of duck and goose feathers and down leave no doubt: eiderdown is in a class by itself. |
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| Simple accessories such as a pair of trousers or an eiderdown manipulated with precision and a richness of movement, create an air of ritual apt to Philippe Tréhet and add to the poeticness of the message. |
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| And most importantly, make sure that when you make my bed you shake the eiderdown so well that the feathers fly, for then it will be snowing on Earth. |
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| So it was all right for her to curl up under her eiderdown, hugging a hot-water bottle to her stomach, reading her Chalet School books and looking up from time to time at the rain running down the window. |
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| With the body being too big to fit in the boot of the car, the body was wrapped in an eiderdown and put in the back seat of a car. |
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| Eiderdown is exceptionally soft and has insulating properties superior to any other down. |
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