1 Get ye to Gretna Green; couch on the wet grass and breed vipers.
2 She reclined, propped up, from mere habit, on a couch: as nearly in her old usual attitude, as anything so helpless could be kept in.
3 He did what he could in its adjustment on the couch, but the best that he could do was to cover it.
4 The inmate was lying in troubled slumber upon a couch similar to that on which the Palmer himself had passed the night.
5 I claim," said Athelstane, "an honourable imprisonment, with due care of my board and of my couch, as becomes my rank, and as is due to one who is in treaty for ransom.
6 An effort to draw aside the curtain of his couch was in some degree successful, although rendered difficult by the pain of his wound.
7 She then looked towards the couch of the wounded knight.
8 She already tastes them," said Ulrica, stepping before the couch of Front-de-Boeuf; "she hath long drunken of this cup, and its bitterness is now sweetened to see that thou dost partake it.
9 Unable to evict the somewhat man-handled Venus from his couch, he beat a retreat and retired, it is said, to his mother's house in Tevershall.
10 This done, he led the way into the apartment; which was destitute of all movables save a broken arm-chair, and an old couch or sofa without covering, which stood behind the door.
11 He lit the fire, Eustacia dreamily observing him from her couch.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 5: 4 The Ministrations of a Half-forgotten One 12 The lamps had been lit, but the blinds had not been drawn, so that I could see Holmes as he lay upon the couch.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In I. A Scandal in Bohemia 13 Holmes had sat up upon the couch, and I saw him motion like a man who is in need of air.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In I. A Scandal in Bohemia 14 They laid me on a couch, I motioned for air, they were compelled to open the window, and you had your chance.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In I. A Scandal in Bohemia 15 Sherlock Holmes sat down beside him on the couch and patted him kindly on the shoulder.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In VI. THE MAN WITH THE TWISTED LIP