It was Mr. Brinsmade who was everywhere that day, answering the questions of distracted mothers and fathers and sisters who thronged the place; consulting with the surgeons; helping the few who knew how to work in placing Mattresses under the worst cases; or again he might have been seen seated on the bare floor with a pad on his knee, taking down the names of dear ones in distant states,-that he might spend his night writing to them.
"The Crisis, Volume 6"
Winston Churchill
Before long, therefore, the groups on the Mattresses and the groups on the chairs were all in communication with each other, and Mary Datchet, who had begun to darn stockings again, stooped down and remarked to Ralph: "That was what I call a first-rate paper."
"Night and Day"
Virginia Woolf
But instead of plunging his sword into them, the man began to stick it into the Mattresses and to rip them up; while others pulled open the drawers of the bureau and pitched the things on the floor.
"Two Little Confederates"
Thomas Nelson Page