poor bed
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And up into her dark chamber, where she lay on her poor bed, came great and little, young and old, to ask after the good creature.
From Life Without and Life Within or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and poems. by Margaret Fuller
He might be lying bound on the bare ground, or some poor bed of straw.
From John the Baptist by F. B. (Frederick Brotherton) Meyer
Up two flights of rickety stairs they carried the wasted form of Mary Gough, and laid her tenderly upon a clean but very poor bed.
From Sowing and Reaping by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
The furniture could not have been simpler—a rickety chair, a poor bed, and a broken-down table.
From Pinocchio The Tale of a Puppet by Alice Carsey
He did not have even this poor bed to himself, but shared it with another boy in the store.
From Captains of Industry or, Men of Business Who Did Something Besides Making Money by James Parton
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