What is "pillowcase"

Usage examples of "pillowcase".

He put the pillowcase on the table, walked to the clothespress, and picked up a battered carpetbag.

Nylan knelt beside the small bed, his fingers going out past the silklike pillowcase with the green and purple embroidered edging to the forehead of the fevered child.

There were five of them, three carrying bags that looked like pillowcases stuffed with random items, the other two taking turns balancing a bottle of what was probably the native liquor on the ends of their rifles.

He remembered butterscotch curls spilled across the light blue pillowcase like ribbons of honey trailing over the sky.

Most of what she saw was small and demeaning stuff—masturbating boys peeking through knotholes at their undressed sisters, wives going through husbands' pockets, looking for extra money or tobacco, Sheb the piano-player licking the seat of the chair where his favorite whore had sat for awhile, a maid at Seafront spitting into Kimba Rimer's pillowcase after the Chancellor had kicked her for being slow in getting out of his way.

She sat upon the reliable lid of an old army footlocker, reflecting upon bath towels and pillowcases and water carafes and coat hangers and extension cords-she understood the boys were bringing some sort of computer with them.

I ended up having to use a doubled-over pillowcase as well as the compresses: I could not afford to bleed in public tomorrow.

Tom took the baby cooters out of the tank one at a time and placed them in a linen pillowcase, which he knotted loosely at the neck.

The last remark was elicited by the fact that, in spite of being well and truly on fire, the cot was disgorging marauders, half a dozen of them, casting away loot bundled into pillowcases in order to draw their blades.

Her own lipstick stayed on, as if it were not merely a 1940s color but a 1940s formula-that glossless, cakey substance that used to cling to pillowcases, napkins, and the rims of coffee cups.

Reaching to smooth the intricate drawnwork and hemstitching of a pillowcase border, she said to Renold’s mother, “You have some wonderful pieces.

There were big stacks of neatly folded sheets on pallets, Dandux laundry baskets full of fluffy bathtowels, pillowcases piled on shelves.

Reenie enjoyed reciting the details of this—the nightgowns, the peignoirs, the kinds of lace on them, the pillowcases embroidered with monograms, the sheets and petticoats.

Holding the reincarnated claustrophobia at bay took energy, akin to carrying a pit viper in a cotton pillowcase, ever vigilant, ever careful not to let it get too close.

Twenty minutes later they reconvened in Argrow's suite, and they brought with them their collection of files wrapped neatly in a pillowcase.