What is "pallets"

Usage examples of "pallets".

He led them through the house, to a smaller room with sleeping pallets and cushions.

Her four attendants slept soundly on pallets lined up along the far wall, and Ilona lay naked on her stomach among the tangled bedclothes.

Four pallets lay along one wall, three neatly made with feather bedding and one heaped up untidily.

The remains of habitation littered it: four crude pallets, a table and bench, several chests and amphorae.

She crept between the pallets and sleeping figures to reach them, shaking them awake.

Still, he ate as much as he could stuff into his stomach and suffered for it later when he bedded down with the servants on hard pallets on the floor.

Her guards crept out from the stable, rubbing sweat from their foreheads, and after a time every soul in that tiny hamlettwenty or more, half of them childrenstaggered from their pallets to stand on the dusty track and stare up at the uncanny lights that played across the stars and the lightning flaring in sheets and chains across a cloudless sky.

The fleece-stuffed pallets the Caydish sleep on in winter were stacked under the benches, and as Xalan brought mine out I waited dozing near the fire.

Directly ahead, two pallets heaped with more furs lay to either side and slightly to the front of a hearth which looked as if it was heaped with dead ash.

The stronger of the children lay wasted and listless on their pallets while the ones not so strong died each day.

People in muddy overalls worked at the riverbanks with pallets, shoveling wet clay into barrows, which were hustled off to the molds and ovens.

While they waited for workers to set up a platform and move aside the debris and piled pallets of bricks waiting for shipment on the next mag-lev train, Kalliana and Sardili were treated to a small but delicious meal of barley soup and a fresh salad of ripe tomatoes and cucumbers.

Stacked cylinders of compressed air and containers of filtered water lay on pallets, providing islands of cover for Troy and Kalliana.

Both remained quiet and withdrawn as they sat on their individual sleeping pallets, until Kalliana finally broke the silence.

She retreated with her ladies into the chamber where they had been playing chess, and where beds and pallets were now being set up for their comfort.