It was for him that the best and newest featherbed, weighing thirty pounds and a half to a feather, was aired and sunned three days upon the kitchen roof, the good woman little dreaming that if the thirty-pounder was used at all, it would do duty under the hair mattress Ethelyn meant to have.
"Ethelyn's Mistake"
Mary Jane Holmes
Aggie hates woods and gnats, has no eye for Nature, and for almost half a century has pampered her body in a featherbed poultice, with the windows closed, until the first of June each year.
"More Tish"
Mary Roberts Rinehart
Coming home it was a gorgeous winter's night on the featherbed Mountain.
"Ulysses"
James Joyce