1 The room had now been set in order, the sumptuous feather bed removed, and a table set before the sofa.
2 Upon this the good lady expressed her readiness to send for feather beds and cushions, but her husband expressed a preference for slumbering in an armchair, and she therefore departed.
3 Also, when seated, he continued to peep between his neighbours' backs and shoulders, until at last he discovered her sitting beside her mother, who was wearing a sort of Oriental turban and feather.
4 If anyone of them happens to be valiant about something, he need not be comforted nor carried away by that; he would show the white feather just the same before something else.
5 Natasha wept, sitting on the blue-striped feather bed and hugging her friend.
6 Sonya could not continue, and again hid her face in her hands and in the feather bed.
7 The quilt of a high, white feather bed was just visible behind a screen.
8 A woman with an unweaned baby, an old woman, and a healthy German girl with bright red cheeks were sitting on some feather beds.
9 She sat in an armchair in her dressing jacket and nightcap and Katie, sleepy and disheveled, beat and turned the heavy feather bed for the third time, muttering to herself.
10 The wet nurse supported the coverlet with her chin, while the priest with a goose feather anointed the boy's little red and wrinkled soles and palms.
11 This couch was high, with a feather bed and five pillows each smaller than the one below.
12 This final feather broke the camel's back.
13 I felt easy and happy and light as a feather right off.
14 Why, it was astonishing, the way I felt as light as a feather right straight off, and my troubles all gone.
15 She then laid twenty mattresses one upon another over the three peas, and put twenty feather beds over the mattresses.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian AndersenContext Highlight In THE REAL PRINCESS