"Creature comforts" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Not that John objects to this. He wishes she would do it oftener, for the cook gets used to Mr. Brown's second-hand version of his wife's language. He simply cannot bring himself to hint at Mrs. Brown's robust objurgations. She can express herself when it comes to a question of her creature comforts! ...
— The Daughters of Danaus • Mona Caird
... brotherly part of a foil. There were several stray visitors, young men and maidens, there were always stray visitors in those days at Ridinghanger, and your grandmother, rosy and bright-eyed, maintained a gentle flow of creature comforts and kindly but humorous observations. I do not remember your grandfather on this ...
— The Passionate Friends • Herbert George Wells
... ideas, however, was nothing averse to the thought of getting back to the creature comforts of the permanent camp in ...
— The Girl Aviators on Golden Wings • Margaret Burnham
... drawing-room in winter what a whiff of salt air is in summer to a sun-baked hillside; and this proved almost too much for the self-possession, already tottering, of young Nisbet. He had always been accustomed to have the things he desired, had young Nisbet, but these, until now, had been either creature comforts, readily obtainable when one's father is a multi-millionaire, or athletic honors, equally easy of attainment when one measures forty-two around the chest, and can do one's quarter in something under fifty. Again, the Nisbets lived on a ranch, and when one does ...
— The Lieutenant-Governor • Guy Wetmore Carryl
... with a certain sense of guilt upon him, for depriving her of all the creature comforts she had known, sought by tenderness and love to make her forget the insults her father ...
— Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 5 (of 14) • Elbert Hubbard
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