travelling rug BrE
travelling clock BrE

They found that Mackie had left behind a thick travelling rug.

He had brought along a travelling rug, he told her, in case they took a picnic with them.

They sat on the back seat with an angora wool travelling rug spread over their knees.

Then she took the travelling rug from the boot and spread it under a tree on the edge of the wide grassy strip.

They had with them travelling rugs and knitted scarves and quite an assortment of guide books.

The travelling rug followed the string bag, and then the driver came round the bus to release Laura's other luggage from the boot.

And he takes a travelling rug with him - another of those fussy bag-and-baggage objects which assert the novel's tonality.

Blankets and travelling rugs of synthetic fibres, knitted or crocheted (excl.

Brown was dressed in pyjamas and a dressing gown and was covered with a plaid travelling rug.

She wore an apron made from a railway travelling rug whenever she could, in case the chance arose to wield a trowel or pull a weed.

Mark glanced in the mirror and saw that Sean Courtney was asleep, a travelling rug about his shoulders and his black beard on his chest.

She also had a tattered travelling rug -'Purest cashmere, darling, just feel, adorable little goat's tums'- and a string bag full of books and apples.

Blankets and travelling rugs of cotton, knitted or crocheted (excl electric, table covers, bedspreads, and articles of bedding and similar furnishings of heading 9404).

There was a pillow, a car travelling rug and a clean sheet awaiting me, and although the sofa was a bit short for comfort it was envelopingly soft.

She was vaguely aware of Curtis covering her with a travelling rug, then she was fast asleep, lulled by the steady drone of the engine and the comfortable warmth of the car's interior.

Their heads were held forward, staring together at the policemen and hundreds of spectators like two minor royalties at a lev£e. A policeman pulled away the travelling rug that covered their legs and waists.

The Travelling Rug (2005, a previously unpublished short detective story, probably written in the early to middle 1930s, planned as the first in a series to be called The Situations of Judkins.

Loafing and roaming cohere into a larger whole, together with such imaginative furniture as hats and travelling rugs and passports and foreign restaurant bills and trashy pamphlets printed abroad and incompetently circulated.

This request presented no difficulty to Mr Menzies and in a couple of minutes the nurse and a gangly youth called Shaw met Fizz in the hallway with a choice of travelling rugs.

A few groups of punters were already staking their plots with travelling rugs and hampers, sitting under wide-brimmed hats on collapsible chairs reading the Guardian as 'The Lark in the Morning' dripped from the speakers.

She found a travelling rug and wrapped it around her and settled down to spend the night in an armchair by her grandmother's bedside, chilled and uncomfortable, dozing off now and then and waking again with the cold.

It took some considerable time to hoist everything into the boot, and even then poor Pretty, sitting in front with Best, had a conglomeration of umbrellas, travelling rugs and the awkward box, as well as her own modest luggage.

My mother had more stories of India than the war: my mother dancing with young men at the club, the cobra she saw on the veranda, the retired doctor in the Indian army who sent her his travelling rug before he died.

There was, for a start, the manner of his arrival - a few hours after the call to the Provost, late on a snowy night, swaddled in a travelling rug, in the back of a cavernous official Rover driven by a young chauffeuse in the dark blue uniform of the Women's Royal Navy.

"I'll be making routine inquiries to- "The leather travelling clock.

It was seven o'clock by his travelling clock, and broad daylight.

At a quarter to four by the little travelling clock at his bedside he got out of bed and went to the window.

Blore looked over his shoulder at a small travelling clock by his bedside.

Hardcastle nodded and picked up the small travelling clock with "Rosemary" written across the corner.

She felt it over carefully "It seems an ordinary travelling clock,' she said, "the leather folding kind.

A little travelling clock ticked purringly at her elbow, and a log broke in two and sent up a shower of sparks.

'So has my little travelling clock,' groaned Julian.

As she replaced the telephone, Miranda, prim in a high-necked grey flannel suit, checked the Cartier travelling clock on her white desk.

Last year when one of them had left after only a fortnight she had given Nurse Rose a travelling clock and a nearly full bottle of Rochas' Femme.

The silver-framed travelling clock which had stood on the table by her father's bed, writing paper and pens, the cat basket from the attic--for of course Puss would go with her.

Following the second divorce of Corll's parents, his mother married a travelling clock salesman named Jake West and the family moved to the small town of Vidor, where Corll's half-sister, Joyce, was born in 1955.

The last few days flashed by, her friends gave her a party in the nurses' home and she went back to the flat with an armful of presents and on the last day of all the nurses on her ward presented her with a little travelling clock.

He was awarded the Pollock Gold Medal and Memoir as a Cadet Senior Under Officer for distinguished proficiency; the Regulation Sword for exemplary conduct; a travelling clock, aneroid barometer, thermometer and compass for maths and mechanics.