(1) Any intelligent foam mattress and polyurethane paillasse is available in separate thickness and, additionally, denseness.

(2) Then piling up all the rest of the furniture, the mattresses, palliasses and chairs, he stopped up the windows as one does when assailed by an enemy.

(3) The ground in our particular spot is very hard & after our palliasses in Trentham & on the boat we all find it rather uncomfortable at present.

(4) Howard Adams has recalled: u2018In all the twenty years I spent in my halfbreed home, a bed was known as a paillasse .

(5) There were two chamber pots between 1000 men and there were 4 kilometres of corridors along which the wounded, sick and dying lay on straw palliasses , their filthy greatcoats their only blanket.