poor bed

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A group of nuns was watching at the door of a cell, as one of their companions was giving the last touches to the poor bed which she was making.

From The Marquis of Pe?alta (Marta y Mar?a) A Realistic Social Novel by Palacio Vald?s, Armando

In a darkened apartment of that same town sat Nora Jones, the very personification of despair, on a low stool, with her head resting on the side of a poor bed.

From The Floating Light of the Goodwin Sands by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)

I came up in the morning to make his poor bed, and found him sitting up in his clothes before that great canvas he keeps there. 

From The Madonna of the Future by James, Henry

Grass from a strong bed grown in twenty-four hours is much more tender and better in every way than grass grown in forty-eight hours from a poor bed.

From Asparagus, its culture for home use and for market: a practical treatise on the planting, cultivation, harvesting, marketing, and preserving of asparagus, with notes on its history by Hexamer, F. M.

So saying, he felt his way among the throng of weary-hearted sleepers, and crept into his poor bed.

From Nicholas Nickleby by Dickens, Charles