"Padded" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... and his wife both seemed glad of somebody to talk with; but the good woman availed herself of the privilege far more copiously than the veteran himself, insomuch that he felt it expedient to give her an occasional nudge with his elbow in her well-padded ribs. "Don't you be so talkative!" quoth he; and, indeed, he could hardly find space for a word, and quite as little after his admonition as before. Her nimble tongue ran over the whole system of life in the hospital. The brethren, she said, had ...
— Our Old Home - A Series of English Sketches • Nathaniel Hawthorne
... at diamonds, a fan by Watteau, A fine water spaniel,—so great was his zeal,— A chatelaine watch, or a full set of Poe, And then at the end sent a padded Lucile. ...
— Cap and Gown - A Treasury of College Verse • Selected by Frederic Knowles
... us, O Great Beneficence, a paradise indeed! Entranced, we all but forgot our landing which would require the utmost skill. Brunoj, our greatest navigator, was at the controls, padded and cushioned beyond the possibility of injury. The rest of us retired to ...
— Walls of Acid • Henry Hasse
... fashion. The other players creep up and say "Chic-a-dee" as near his ear as possible. He tries to hit said player before he can get beyond his reach, using a salt bag stuffed with leaves, or some type of padded stick. Should he succeed, the one he hits is blindfolded and the ...
— School, Church, and Home Games • George O. Draper
... Inspector said, "but by far the greatest amount of fraud was due to the desire on the part of the inhabitants of a town or city to make the place appear larger and more important. Tacoma, Washington, was the most flagrant example of this, why, they padded 32,527 names there, and even when the Census had made a recount they tried to repeat the same performance, complaining of the results and ...
— The Boy With the U.S. Census • Francis Rolt-Wheeler
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