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"Unpressed" Quotes from Famous Books

... capable or incapable of affording a retreat to humanity; but discovered nobody. All he observed was that a light stood on the low table by her bedside; that on the bed lay an open Prayer-Book, the counterpane being unpressed, except into a little pit beside the Prayer Book, apparently where her head ...

— Two on a Tower • Thomas Hardy

... trying to feel out his master's will in his face. The evening was clear and the moon shining. As Dick sat at his chamber-window, looking at the mountain-side, he saw a gray-dressed figure flit between the trees and steal along the narrow path which led upward. Elsie's pillow was unpressed that night, but she had not been missed by the household,—for Dick knew enough to keep his own counsel. The next morning she avoided him and went off early to school. It was the same morning that the young master found the flower between ...

— Elsie Venner • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

... Ellis's couch remained unpressed, and the rising sun shone in at the window upon her glossy hair where she crouched ...

— A Life's Eclipse • George Manville Fenn

Words linked to "Unpressed" : unironed, wrinkled