While the houses are of the American type, the interior arrangement of the living rooms remains that of the European Slavic peasantry-the bedcover is often fancy handiwork, the walls are profusely covered with family photographs, pictures of Polish heroes, and magazine illustrations.
"A Stake in the Land"
Peter Alexander Speek
While speaking he brought the hot bowl to Farnsworth and set it on the bedcover before him, then fetched a big horn spoon.
"Alice of Old Vincennes"
Maurice Thompson
But Heidi looked steadily at the woman, not at all as if in any uncertainty, and said, "I know quite well who wrapped me in my bedcover and brought me down in the sleigh: it was grandfather."
"Heidi"
Johanna Spyri