"Oh, yes," she said, and she flung herself back against the cushioning and began to cry.
"The Quality of Mercy"
W. D. Howells
When, fifteen years before, the oversight of the hospital was entrusted to Frau Christine, she had found the condition of affairs still worse, and the idea of procuring beds for the injured persons to be cured here was as far from her thoughts, or those of the rest of the world, as cushioning the stable.
"In The Fire Of The Forge, Volume 7."
Georg Ebers
The world which she must now face was an absolutely changed world from which, as from dismantled furniture, all the easy cushioning and draperies had been ripped away, leaving sharp and uncovered angles of contact.
"The Tempering"
Charles Neville Buck