And as she snuggled comfortably beneath the eiderdown a sense of restfulness invaded her, such as she had not known before.

There was a large wooden bedstead on which was a billowing red eiderdown, and there was a large wardrobe, a round table, a very small washstand, and two stuffed chairs covered with red rep.

Beside the pallet was a window, whose panes broken like a spider's web upon which rain has fallen, allowed a view, through its rent meshes, of a corner of the sky, and the moon lying far away on an eiderdown bed of soft clouds.

Nevertheless, vixenly as she looks, many people are seeking at this very moment to shelter themselves under the wing of the federal eagle; imagining, I presume, that her bosom has all the softness and snugness of an eiderdown pillow.

In this unique curio cabinet of a book, Posnett discusses seven little-known natural wonders: eiderdown, edible bird's nests, civet coffee, sea silk, vicuna fiber, tagua and guano.

After resting under the eiderdown, wearing my famous coat for a couple of hours, I washed myself and went down for breakfast.

Churchill woke at 7.30am each day but stayed under the eiderdown until 11.00am, chatting with his staff, eating breakfast, reading the newspaper and presumably masterminding Britain's strategic path through the Second World War.

The eider hen is commercially farmed for its rare "eiderdown" in Iceland.

I stopped studying altogether, rolled under an eiderdown with a book in my hand, or escaped to the beach with the occasional boy.

Or you could opt to pay PS10,500 for an emperor size eiderdown duvet from the White Company - John Lewis has something similar for PS10,000.

Or you could opt to pay PS10,500 for an emperor-size eiderdown duvet from the White Company - John Lewis has something similar for PS10,000.

Apart from the unplayable nut which castled Mark Stoneman on his debut, it behaved more eiderdown fluff than a flaming